February 2009
50 posts
Head in the Clouds
During my life, from boring lectures to interminable meetings, I have stared at tiled ceilings, wondering what they conceal.
Having spent the last two days running wire through the ceiling to three offices, I can tell you no type of portal to a magical world lies above those tiles. You ceiling only holds ducts and dust. It’s an un-kooky Brazil up there.
Michel Gondry to direct Seth Rogen's "Green... →
This film just jumped from possibly hilarious to mind-blowing.
Back in LA
Driver who picked me up from airport: So have you looked in Playboy before?
Me: Um sorry, what?
Driver: Have you ever seen a Playboy?
Me: Um yeah.
(Driver shoves his iPhone with a picture of a naked lady in my face.)
Driver: That's Ms. September. I was in the barbershop looking through it. They say if you like something take a picture. I thought she had nice boobs.
“This Time Tomorrow” - The Kinks
"unusually gradual and prolonged"
When the Fed describes the recovery from Economic Follies with the above term, not only are things officially bad (again), it causes me to wonder if any office at the Federal Reserve has a window or a TV/computer monitor. Do employees at the Fed ever look out the window? Do employees at the Fed know how to turn on a TV/computer?
Do they read any newspaper besides the WSJ?
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“Languages are conservative, they always carry their archives with them and hate...”
– Jose Saramago, Seeing
Wow, even for Aqua Teen, Markula is a left turn out of nowhere.
WatchTransformers 2 trailer… on Vimeo? Going big time, lil’ startup boys.
This movie looks like the most absurdly loud and large Michael Bay picture ever. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but I am saying that’s something for the man who has made a lot of absurd, loud, large movies with the sun somehow always in the shot. I am glad all the characters had a chance to...
Short-Circuiting Bipartisanship Is Nothing New for... →
But the Medicare drug plan passed anyway in 2003 when Republicans controlled the White House and Congress. So it was hardly novel this week when Republicans protested vigorously that their legislative rights had been violated as the Democratic-led Congress pushed through the $787 billion economic stimulus bill with just three Republican votes in the Senate. Only the party labels had changed.
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“Ooh La La” - Faces
Kevin James is "The Zookeeper." →
He will begin shooting as soon as production on The Stapler winds down.
WatchGigantic Trailer.
When a film historian finally writes a book about the Melancholia Wave, all these indies in the ’00s inspired by Wes Anderson that look at the existential angst of white 20-something males, one chapter will be devoted to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl and will open examining Zooey D.’s character in this movie as she displays all the now-archetypes.
At the least, Ed...
On more than one, but less than five, occasions, I have entered the bathroom at work and actually uttered, “Man, it smells like something died in here.”
I have yet to mean that figuratively.
For Future Reference #57
When making a sarcastic quip, do not lean back in a chair with wheels.
“I wonder if you wonder.”
– Double Indemnity (1944)
“The richer they are, the more they steal.”
– Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987)
Congress Is Divided Over Competing Stimulus Bills →
But the competing bills now reflect substantially different approaches. The House puts greater emphasis on helping states and localities avoid wide-scale cuts in services and layoffs of public employees. The Senate cut $40 billion of that aid from its bill, which is expected to be approved Tuesday.
The Senate plan, reached in an agreement late Friday between Democrats and three moderate...
“Evidently, [Bishop Williamson] believes there’s enough proof that 2,000...”
– Stephen Colbert
Barney Stinson's Video Resume →
Literally an (upon further inspection by M. Lambert) avalanche of awesome.
“We are not going to have to go out there and find him. This is not a Sam...”
– Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
If Christian Bale flips out like this on the DP of...
Watchazizisbored:
PARKS AND RECREATION
The show I’m doing on NBC with the producers from “The Office” finally has a title - PARKS AND RECREATION.
Here’s the first promo. The show premieres April 9th at 8:30 on NBC!
A Tucson television station says its broadcast of... →
WatchParamount spent so much money trying to own summer 2009. I fear it may not have been in monetary vain. (via paulscheer)
