Archive for October, 2007

Sometimes I need to be convinced

I had this conversation recently with another TGWer:
    “But I don’t want to go.”
    “Why not?”
    “Because I just don’t.”
    “You have no reason not to.”
    “Yes I do. I want to stay home. Isn’t [...]

What we can conceal

I don’t own a pet, but my roommate has a cat who pesters me when I’m home and a coworker has a chocolate Lab who pesters me when I’m at work. It’s now to the point where any smallish, annoying thing, including a child, gets marked in my mind with the dog’s name. We’ll call [...]

Moving train: Observations on a Wes Anderson soundtrack

I can’t decide whether or not to tell you to watch Wes Anderson’s iTunes-only short, Hotel Chevalier, before you watch his new feature-length, The Darjeeling Limited. But I can tell you to watch both, in whichever order you choose. (I could also tell you that in the short Jason Schwartzman gets Princess Leia’s ma real [...]