December 2008
Crump
In this article about the currently ongoing Israel/Gaza Strip conflict (and say what you will about the NY Times, but at least they’re bringing some balance to what I find is a somewhat bewilderingly overwhelming anti-Israel slant in news coverage and popular opinion), I came across the following sentence:
Israeli warplanes bombed tunnels along Gaza’s border with Egypt which provide crucial...
Listening to Nick Drake on Your iPod While...
Especially when it’s New Year’s Eve Day and there’s pretty much nobody else on the subways at 8am. It puts you in a deceptively lulled, contented, slightly melancholy ameliorated by peacefulness mood that gets ruined as soon as you step into your office and there are emails from overseas asking for things now, now, now.
I should’ve taken this week off.
I should also only...
Amanda F.'s Birthday Sounds Like It's Going to Be...
Sunday dim-sum brunch in Chinatown and a movie. In snowy, wintry January. I’m going to suggest the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Or maybe one of the Preston Sturges movies playing at Film Forum.
In related news, I’m also excited about Amy’s and Peter’s traditional New Year’s Day party. I’d get the recipe for my mother’s homemade pasta e fagioli and...
I'm Full
I love Grand Szechuan, but I don’t think I can eat again until Saturday. And I didn’t even have that much. But I loved every glorious bite. I had a vodka-and-tonic at the Half King, and then at GS I had a glass of wine, an egg roll, scallion pancakes, General Tso’s chicken, an orange slice and a fortune cookie.
I’m also very sleepy right now.
Grand Szechuan
I’m very excited for dinner tonight. I love this place.
claytoncubitt:
“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to...
What a Dick
Remember that heartwarming story from about a month or two ago, about the young boy in Auschwitz who survived because some girl on the other side of a fence tossed him apples? And how they met on a blind date in New York City many years later, realized that they had met during the Holocaust and fell in love? And how the couple was on Oprah twice?
Many people called it the greatest love story...
lilyna:
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon ( revisited )
Downturn Ends Building Boom in New York →
caro:
Um, can’t they see the totally easy solution? Throw wild parties in unfinished buildings! Charge $20 admission, make everyone sign a waiver (“IF YOU FALL OFF, YOUR DEAD BODY CAN’T SUE US”) and get the conspicuously healthy liquor industry to sponsor open bars! It’ll absolutely pay for itself by the end of ‘09.
Kind of hard to feel sorry for the real estate developers portrayed in this...
CNN: 23% of Americans Clinically Retarded →
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“Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and...”
– Charles M. Schulz
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My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) Regina...
IMDB Can Suck It
Why have they not updated their submission procedures in about 10 years? It’s such a pain in the ass updating, changing and adding things. And their rules are more arcane than… I don’t know.
But they’re annoying.
Why this is considered any kind of industry standard, or even used for anything remotely professional, is beyond me. Even IMDB Pro (which I can access through...
New Year’s Day (live from the Rosemont...
eec:
The Free Design - Love You
Give a little...
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The Free Design - Kites Are Fun
Kites ARE...
eec:
By popular demand (ok, two people, but...
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The Free Design - Close Your Mouth (It’s...
I'm Outta Here
Off to my family’s Christmas Eve celebration and a long weekend in New Jersey. Have a great holiday, everybody.
And if you’ve never had a five-course traditional Italian Christmas Eve dinner, you have my deepest sympathies.
Price of Lax Gun Laws
For years, the gun lobby has defeated new gun control laws partly by arguing that stronger laws do not deter crime. A study prepared by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a bipartisan group headed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, should finally put that myth to rest.
Read the rest here.
Bizarre
So, last night when I got home I found this really strange email waiting for me in my inbox. I have no idea who it’s from, since it wasn’t signed and comes from an email address that begins with “anon” (as in, anonymous). There’s no website to click on for more info. Nothing. But it’s certainly curious:
Yep, I’ve just finished my 300th movie....
It's Kind of Lonely Without Oliver Here
Even if he is a big white shag rug who just sleeps for 23 hours a day. It’s now nearly midnight, and I still have to pack for the long weekend away in NJ and wrap all of the presents I got for everybody.
I probably won’t put a bow on that Lexus I bought for my mother and George, just to save a few minutes.
The One Thing INXS
The song playing on my iTunes...
Laying Awake at Night Worrying About Filmmakers’... →
karinalongworth:
Scott Macaulay asked me to contribute some year-end thoughts to the FILMMAKER Magazine blog, and I did, and they’re up now. Personally, in memorializing the year that’s about to end while…
