In this original essay, Phil West talks about why he's got issues with the 2005 movie Crash, which also segues into weariness over the whole "If you show a gun in Act 1, you have to use it by the end of the play" school of scriptwriting.

In this original essay, Phil West explains why the eighth largest city in America flocks to its minor league ballpark to see an anthropomorhic jalapeno and a barely-anthropomorphic puffy taco frolic. There's also a tangent about the joys of white bread and gravy, and some fretting over the baseball free agency system.