May 2011
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WatchWatch
Trailer for Eric Khoo’s animated Yoshihiro Tatsumi biography, debuting at Cannes this year. News of this project had gotten by me before, and so was a pleasant surprise.
May 8th
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These Goddamn Direct-TV Ads
Oh wow, you mean I can pause my TV in one room and then start watching again in any other room in my manse that also happens to have a big-screen plasma television in it?  Thank you!  So many of the problems I face in my life have finally been solved.  I’m an aging bachelor in a one bedroom apartment, my pajamas are made out of old newspapers, and I drink out of a shoe, so I figure...
May 8th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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“[In 1957, Sean Connery] was making Another Time, Another Place (1958) in London...”
– Sean Connery versus LA Confidential supporting characters.
May 6th
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“As the local opinion makers revived and shuffled through the exits, I bumped...”
– Woody Allen — “This Germ of an Idea Calls for an Antibiotic.”
May 5th
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“Earlier in the evening, when [Fred] Armisen had asked Prince if he was okay with...”
May 4th
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“It is the most tightly plotted, even though it still reads like he was creating...”
– When Words Collide: Secret Warriors Part 3: Consciousness Arises - Comic Book Resources (via iamdavidbrothers) I’ve enjoyed this series of essays.
May 3rd
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May 2nd
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Look at the Crowds in Front of the White House
If Kobe Bryant had killed Bin Laden, the White House would be on fire by now.   I had Pakistani family friends tell me about 4-5 years ago— “Why would he be in a cave?  He’s probably in a mansion in Pakistan somewhere.”  But better late than never… None of the network TV shows have gotten pre-empted by this.  Remember that?  When world events would be more...
May 2nd
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