December 2008
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There are people who like things and dislike things.
And then there are people who consider another crazy, incompetent, and Sloth-ish for liking or disliking certain things.
I fear that the latter group not only has overrun the internet but this generation as a whole.
The Lucas levels of stupid cold outside did not stop me from enjoying an oversized White Castle’s chocolate shake though the fact that the temperature will rise all the way to 11 did make the plane laugh yesterday. A temperature so low as to seem farcical.
Until you go outside and freeze your boogers off.
"And none of these people are an extra. . ."
“I just wish,” she added, “a good review meant something these days.” I understand what she means, but she was talking as a publicist, as someone for whom the value of a review comes down to whether it can help sell a movie in a fearsomely overcrowded market. But selling movies isn’t the job of the reviewer…
Manohla Dargis
The suburbs are hell on earth. Richard Nixon was a monster....
WatchIronically, the whole ring-putting endeavor goes disastrously wrong for Beyonce in Obsessed, a movie where Stringer Bell is so hot he has not only wed Ms. Knowles (once again in color) but has a crazy white woman after him (a very white Ali Larter) until it devolves into the mother of all interracial catfights.
Obsessed: For anyone who wondered, “What would Catwoman be like if there were no...
“It stands to reason that to be a great teacher you have to have withitness. But...”
– The great conundrum facing all our schools (and as a former member, Teach for America specifically): what indicates if someone will be a good teacher? Malcolm Gladwell, as he does so well, attacks the quandry by linking two seemingly disparate fields, here football and teacher scouting. The article...
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WatchAn outstanding tidbit today, the quite comical Duplass Brothers (perhaps the most mainstream of the Mumblecore militia) have signed on to direct John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and a possibly clothed Marisa Tomei in a film that finds Hill jealous about his dad’s (Reilly) new girlfriend (Tomei). If any duo can really draw out the pathos of that pitch while still keeping the comedy, it’s...
Buying eight bottles of cheap .5L Hungarian beer and two cans of cat food at 8:45 A.M. does not bode well for your Tuesday.
Geez, it feels like Top Ten lists come earlier and earlier every year. It seems you dab the last bits of pumpkin pie off your sweater and already some bozo’s preaching how great that Mad Men is or reminding me that Castro’s still alive.
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The time is 4:06 P.M.
And Joseph just realized he put his shirt on inside-out this morning.
Yet another reason I should have worn a collared shirt today: they always have a tag sticking out to communicate proper orientation in a tactile manner.
WatchAs great as the Prop 8 musical is (and it’s pretty nifty), doesn’t this all feel a day late and a dollar short? Speaking of.
The Hungarian paper attempts to save space in their movie times section by listing two movies on one line separated by a “/” (Siskel knows what happens when Frost/Nixon hits). This fortunately leads to bon mots such as Mirrors/Disaster Movie.
“When the top story is “Obama Tells Governors To ‘Chill...”
– Whitney
Today is the type of day where I stand and look out the window at another starless night not to avoid work, but to give my body and eyes something to do while waiting for the closing bell.
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Uncomfortable Mourning
What happens at the funeral of someone who is well-known for being disliked? What do you say to a family member when a shocking number of people have said that everyone should cut off communication with the deceased before fate took its eventual turn? How does one not sound disingenuous when passing on words of sympathy following years of words ranging from dislike to bitter hatred?
Just...
Po-tae-toe, Po-tem-kin
Since when does Secretary of State immediately fall under “defense team?” Has the word “diplomacy” become hopelessly warped, or disappeared entirely from the American political discourse?