I'd imagine the prevelence of drinking crap-filled beverages over water is a factor too

Expect his next book to be "A Litany of Fucks".

Don't mix that up with your Fleshlight!

I agree with you there - the punching of scallops out of stingrays is probably more urban legend than common practice.

Except that it's been proven that about 1/5 of all fish sold is not what the sellers say it is. Since when did something being illegal stop anyone from making a buck?

Beeyah!!!

Snowden, is that you?

Brazil.

Wonder if Georgia's answer to "butt implants" is "Hometown Buffet"?

Always found this little exchange from "Hackers" particularly painful:

Boom. I was coming here to say he's been living under Singer's house....

Also in the book, it's the whole planet that lives this way, not just a surviving domed city. Come to think of it, the book explains quite a bit - it was about a political dystopia, not a post-apocalyptic one.

The one in Moscow looks like you'd have to watch out for Carousel come your 30th birthday...

And JG Ballard's "Wind from Nowhere" comes true.

I think Rosemead is the hometown of the Sriracha Factory. They expanded to a second facility in Irwindale to meet growing demand. So all is not lost! They're still making Sriracha (just not quite as much)....

I got all excited from the headline to see Spider Man partying with Sid Haig and Lon Chaney...

Weinstein is doing the same thing with the film, "Grace of Monaco". He's pulled it from the release schedule, even though it's set to be the opening film of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, because the director doesn't want to make the cuts he's demanding. I'll never understand this guy - back in the early 2000s,…

Wasn't Hashima Island where they shot "Battle Royale 2"?

It is - I forget which one though. There as a really creepy audio play of it that was done back in the 80s, which you had to listen to with headphones - it was recorded in "3-D sound" by acting out the play around a model human head with stereo mics in the ears, so when you listened, it sounded like it was happening…

Clive Barker already wrote it - it's a short story called "The Body Politic".