Oh, this video is really good! (thank you Bryan Waterman for the link–our BW who has a fun tumblr blog now): If that wasn’t your moment of bliss for the day, and you can stop yourself from replaying it, I recommend following this link to a tumblr page called Shallow Rewards written by another 33 [...]
Archive for the ‘Whatever’ category
How to tell a story, or not to tell a story
Yesterday I went to a not-so-good play that was, somewhat incidentally, about a novelist who has run out of novel and realizes the most interesting thing she has to write about is her own life. (This ruins everybody’s life, because it’s one of those plays. The guy who wrote it also wrote tv weepie Brothers [...]
The Story of 420
As today is 4/20, I decided that I either need to write about Adolf Hitler, as today is his birthday, or marijuana. Other than being the number one, all-time most wanted target in time-travel related murders, I don’t know a whole lot about Adolf Hitler. I think I got Mein Kampf out of the library [...]
All Together Now
Last night the hubs and I took a brief respite from our ongoing 30-Rock marathon to watch “Commune”, a 2005 documentary about Black Bear Ranch, a commune that was started in the late-60′s in Northern California. While the film touches on the political and social upheaval of the time, most of the focus is on [...]
“See you soon!”
It is probably strange to do this in semi-public blogspace. R and I met in 1992, my sophomore year of college. I am writing a little remembrance knowing that he will soon be gone. We haven’t stayed close the last five years or so, and this isn’t meant to elicit an outpouring of sympathy, but [...]
A process, an end, a beginning
The college search and decision process represents, for some kids, a significant threshold. They begin to move from the present emotion of adolescence to the future rationale of adulthood. They have to consider their own identity in an attempt to find a cultural and academic match. They must take a sobering account of their performance and [...]
Thursday playlist: TV and Music we’re digging lately
A few of our favorite things: 1.) Adventure Time. It’s now in its 3rd season on Cartoon Network. There’s a little 7 year old we know who started watching it recently. And suddenly his parents were as eager as he was to catch up on all the old episodes. A lovely 21 year old house [...]
Let’s Be The First Ones To Discuss The Hunger Games On The Internet
The Hunger Games film adaptation is coming out in theaters today. Fans of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark* will finally get to see the story play out on the big screen. Advance tickets are selling out across the world. Millions will crowd into movie theaters and buy popcorn and candy to munch on while watching [...]
Thursday playlist: Genius or just a really hard worker?
Nick Denton Andy Borowitz David Guetta Merrill Garbus Tara Donovan This is a small list. But what do you think? I’m going with 3 out of 5, geniuses. I’ll post my three picks later. And while we’re at it, any one else not on this list who you kind of wonder about? Please don’t be [...]
This Year’s Oscar Menu
Okay. The Oscars are on Sunday night. Billy Crystal has already finished polishing off his best impersonations of Howard Cosell and Sammy Davis, Jr. (you know, for the kids). Your friends have expressed zero interest in the Oscars (to quote one of my friends: “oh, they’re having that again this year?”), but you continue to [...]
