May 2011
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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.
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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...
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[In 1957, Sean Connery] was making Another Time, Another Place (1958) in London...
– Sean Connery versus LA Confidential supporting characters.
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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.”
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Earlier in the evening, when [Fred] Armisen had asked Prince if he was okay with...
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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.
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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...