Ok, so. I’m no longer as apoplectic about James Franco playing Allen Ginsberg as I used to be, mostly because he looks so dashing in these new photos:
Still not quite realistic, but I guess we can always count on Hollywood to make every actor in a bio pic a 9 or a 10 when [...]
Oh noes the youngs are tweeting on their ipods and can’t write shit down (or read much of any one thing) cause they ain’t got time! It’s the AGE OF DISTRACTION and it’s fucking us all up, well, according author/scientist Winifred Gallagher:
There is no such thing as multi-tasking…People don’t understand that attention is a finite resource, [...]
I’m in a magenta-haze about Meghan McCain. Dizzy and delighted by her presence on the national radar, I’ve let my emotions get the better of me. I find Megs to be affable and independent-minded. Her politics are shit but her moxy is magnetic. She’s also trying to make a gig in the media scene [...]
As Tiny Ewell comes to see it, people with tattoos fall under two broad headings. First there are the younger scrofulous boneheaded black-t-shirt-and-spiked-bracelet types who do not have the sense to regret the impulsive permanency of their tatts, and will show them off to you with the dame fake-quiet pride with which someone more of [...]
A lot of people traffic this site because for our unique brand of parenting tips (Tip #482 one should never yell directly at a child. Simply waving the gun around their face should do the trick). We feel passionate about child-rearing and we’re especially concerned with the rearing techniques of the vapidly wealthy. So imagine [...]
It had been ages since I read anything new, opting to re-read some old favorites (graphic novels count as “reading”!), but I recently picked this up on the advice of several fellow bloggers. Bill Bryson is the also the author of The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, which I remember reading [...]
Natasha asks: Ughhhhh Why do major media sites (Vanity fair, Entertainment Weekly etc) create paginated lists? I end up clicking through 25 times for the “top 25 American photographs.” The whole thing takes twice as it should (because of the flash loading?). Is it for ad revenue? Now I refuse to click [...]
Have you been reading Ebert’s blog by the way? Its fantastic.
Kael on Newman in ‘77 Slapshot
“Newman imparts a simplicity and boyish eagerness to his characters… He can play what he’s not — a dumb lout. But you don’t believe it when he plays some one perverse or vicious, and the older he gets the better [...]
Awwwww what up guys? Kind of sucks to be living through the death spiral of an Empire huh? You know who went through this shit in a bad way? The original bacchanalian, corrupt as fuck, orgy-lovin, oligarchs: The motherfuckin’ Romans! But there was a little pudgy dude who put those fuckers in their place. Join [...]