Some hipster friends want me to tutor their son and some of his friends in the ways of manhood. Actually, the way they explained it, their son (friend to my son, same age) is studying chemistry, and they are looking to make the subject a bit more interesting. They would like me to develop a [...]
Archive for the ‘Whatever’ category
The Day My Office Stood Still
I don’t really like my job. I know that this doesn’t make me a unique American (or human being), but I will say that the majority of my friends seem to be getting something out of their daily worklife, or at the very least have coworkers at the office with whom they can commiserate. There [...]
A life described by magazine subscriptions
I love magazines. I have a few current favorites. Over the years I have had many favorites. They change year to year–or sometimes even by month. I especially love when magazines arrive by mail. Buying them from a newsstand or grocery store just doesn’t feel as special. I have [...]
Made on my phone.
Jorge Colombo has produced a number of covers for The New Yorker using an iPhone app called Brushes. Brushes is a painting program that uses the iPhone’s touch screen as a finger painting canvas. The tool sets for the program are limited — you get five layers, a limited palette of sizable brush styles that [...]
A Text Message Conversation Between Myself and My Friend Kate When I Had Already Given Up on Trying to Follow the Season Six Premiere of Lost
Alright so I was planning on writing about the Oscars, but then everyone wrote about the Oscars and I didn’t want to turn this into an Oscar blog (P.S. I’m going to start an Oscar blog), so this is kind of last minute and thrown together.
The other day, I attempted to watch the season six [...]
How not to walk out of your Oscar party in disgust
This was going to be a comment to Parrish’s post, but it got too long. And I should know better than to challenge Parrish’s views on filmic issues, since not only does she live much closer than I do to the heart of the country’s movie industry, she apparently even has screeners in her house. [...]
Who’s gonna win?
Oscar nominations are out. Who’s gonna win? Here are my picks: Bold for who I think will win, italics for who I think should win.
Best picture:
- Avatar
- The Blind Side
- District 9
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglorious Basterds
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- Up in the Air
Avatar will win, which is not a travesty. [...]
Hypocrisy at CBS
A lot of people feel that CBS shouldn’t have agreed to run an anti-abortion ad starring Tim Tebow during the Super Bowl. While I don’t necessarily agree with the ad’s message, and don’t love the evangelical zeal Tebow regularly displays, I didn’t see a problem with CBS running it.
But now, CBS has refused to run [...]
