I will leave it to others to provide lengthy reactions to Barack Obama’s speech on race, delivered today in Pennsylvania. However, I highly urge you to view it in its entirety–as it may become the stuff of future text books–and I will offer this one thought: For several decades, our leaders and media have dumbed [...]
Jason Segel, star of How I Met Your Mother, is going to be writing the next muppets movie. Having been in both of Judd Apatow’s early, failed-but-excellent TV shows, playing opposite Alyson Hannigan (let’s just call her Willow) on a successful show, and now writing a muppet film? He has officially done all things that [...]
Drive, vote, graduate, drink, graduate some more, rent a car without an extra fee. After that, there’s marriage, kids, retirement, but the milestones are more individualized and less age-related. Today, however, I hit one that is definitely age-related. This morning I found my first grey hair. It was in my beard, extra long, and while [...]
I’ve been feeling this weird sensation in my lower left abdomen lately. Always happy to substitute a web site for consultation with a trained professional, I described my symptoms to WebMD. The closest match seems to be “Irritable Bowel Syndrome.” While I’m not impressed by the lack of details of why or what the condition [...]
Gary Gygax, father of the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, died today. I have always made fun of people like myself who grew up geeking out in the basement talking about armor class, saving throws and hit points. (And I always will.) Still, the honest truth is that I owe a lot to that [...]
When I leave my apartment in the morning, I will be taking with me food, contracts, a bunch of gear–all the normal videomaking necessities. I also need to bring with me an 8-foot American flag and a twinkie.
The Hottie and the Nottie, a vehicle for Paris Hilton, performed horribly last weekend. On Friday they had less than a dozen people per screen for all the showings that entire day. This is proof she’s not a star. Perhaps we will see less of her. Barack Obama won everything and finally leads in delegates [...]
In my youth, I was patriotic. I remember the feeling. Whatever might have been America’s sins as a collective, I believed our balance scale still tipped toward greatness, that we had things figured out at least as well as any government on this planet so far, and that our future offered sincere promise for ever [...]
J.K. Rowling created seven copies of a hand-written, hand-illustrated collection of five original fairy tales. The leather-bound , silver-ornamented books were sold at Sotheby’s to raise money for charity. It would be quite the extravagance, of course, but how cool would it be to own one of the seven copies of that book?
Sadly, it’s a leap year, so there are still 366 days. However, at noon, a year from now, we get someone new. It can’t happen soon enough.
It’s the small victories that count best, right? In the months since I bought a cheap laptop to use as a second computer, I have been frustrated with Microsoft Vista and its… well, it’s everything. I don’t like to be one of those people who sits around complaining about things like operating systems. How cool [...]
My blog and I hit milestones together. Yesterday was my birthday, and a few hours into the next day I’m writing this, my 200th blog entry. Thanks to those out there who check in. I’d love to hear what brings people to this site. Are you a fan of reviews? TV talk? My take on [...]
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