In 1969, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan talked his way into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Impressed by the kid’s chutzpah, Lennon obliged him with a five-minute chat that covered war, peace, and the newly arrived Bee Gees.
Levitan teamed up with filmmaker Josh Raskin in 2007 to make […]

We here at Pensito Review pride ourselves on our ability to toss about the well-worn cliché with the best of them, but even we have a limit to what we can stomach in polite conversation or, worse yet, everyday basic communicative writing that is intended to convey meaning and emotion. Hence our joy at seeing […]

Click on “MORE” to generate a random Barackism from Slate’s Encyclopedia Baracktannica, a handy reference for the next eight years even though some of the terms were added during the primary.

I’m crying foul, whether Obama’s team is or not, over Saturday Night Live’s just announced guest this week which, if anyone’s counting, happens to be the Saturday before Election Day. Yes, the winner for the spot is…John McCain.
It’s long been known that SNL producer Lorne Michaels is a fan of McCain’s, having maxed out campaign […]

If the election were decided by numbers of endorsements from newspaper dailies, Barack Obama would win in a landslide. Editor & Publisher counts 194 papers casting editorial votes for Obama, including, as Jon noted, the Anchorage Daily News, while only 82 make the case for McCain.
The Roswell Daily Record, read by 11,700 New Mexicans as […]

The endorsement from the Anchorage Daily News skewers John McCain, goes easier on Sarah Palin:
“[McCain] declared that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’ at 9 a.m. one day and by 11 a.m. was describing an economy in crisis … His behavior in this crisis — erratic is a kind description — shows him to […]

OMG. You have to watch this. I laughed, I cried, you know the rest.

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
Video: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler and North Carolina’s favorite son, Andy Griffith, revise their classic TV roles in support of Barack Obama.
Hey Tar Heels: Show this video to your McCain-leaning grandparents. If Andy Griffith can’t sell them on Obama, nobody can.

Famous white people who endorse John McCain. Obviously, this is simply because he’s white and they are too.

Stephen Baldwin
Wilford Brimley
G. Gordon Liddy
Tom Selleck
Jon Voight
Karl Rove
Burt Bacharach
Sen. Joe Lieberman
Fmr. Sen. Phil Gramm
Fmr. Sen. George Allen
Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney
Fmr. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
Pastor Rod Parsley (isn’t he a porn star?)
Pastor John Hagee
Pat Boone
Kelsey Grammer
Patricia Heath
Robert Duvall
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
Joan Rivers
Sylvester […]