January 2009
66 posts
“If they take this into the late 60s, I can picture Draper growing sideburns and...”
– My dad just finished Season 1 of Mad Men! He has worked in advertising for many years and I’ve gotten several long emails from him about how people on the show remind him of guys he used to work with.
“He once parked in my private parking space on purpose and Mike Click and I put...”
– From Charna’s blog about the elaborate pranks she has pulled on Joe Canale. The most recent one is impressive and includes two videos.
Thomas McGuane reads James Salter’s short story... →
There are a few podcasts I like to listen to when I’m at work. NPR Science Friday, Battlestar commentary, Radio Lab, the Museum of the Moving Image Pinewood dialogs and the New Yorker fiction podcast to name a few. The New Yorker offers one per month, they invite a writer to pick a short story from the New Yorker archives to read and discuss. So far the current one is one of my favorites.
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Annoyance Fundraiser for Tony HighHorse
sweatydeath:
At the annoyance. They’re auctioning off the walk one role in curb your enthusiasm. There is a bidding war between a guy here and a guy on the phone and the guy on the phone is taking like 5 minutes with every increase. The good news: we’re at $13,000. All going to the military veteran from a previous post.
This was pretty crazy. They ended up going to 13,700 and the mysterious man...
“I’d say my style (or what I would like it to be) has changed quite a bit...”
– No offense to any fans of this blog supposedly written by the 12 year old pictured below:
Tavi (or your ghostwriter) knock it off and go be a goddamn kid for crying out loud. Do you want to end up like Cory Kennedy? DO YOU? No. I didn’t think so. Please tell me I’m not the only one...
There are two epic battles going on. 1: Uriah and...
me: what's your page count
Uriah: 252
me: you've read 252 pages already?
Uriah: yeah, no
me: I believed it and felt sad because I knew I lost already
Uriah: where are you at?
me: I asked you first
I posted a couple weeks ago about how I was getting rid of some books and I had some queries about which books were up for grabs. Here’s a list, if anyone wants any of these leave a comment or send me an email.
Shakespeare - 12th Night - Signet Classics
Shakespeare - Richard III - Signet Classics
Gilgamesh - Steven Mitchell New English translation - Hardcover (I wasn’t that crazy...
“Adama finishes this speech and then says, ‘So say we all,’ and I...”
– Sci Fi Wire has a piece on the cast’s favorite moments from the series. There are spoilers if you aren’t caught up (why wouldn’t you be? step it up).
From the creation of the show to its execution the entire process seems like an ideal experience. If I am allowed to jealously sit...
“Former French president Jacques Chirac was rushed to hospital after being mauled...”
– From The Daily Mail who has one of the best headlines I’ve ever seen. Think Sumo (the dog) will follow Chirac’s tradition of building apologetic monuments all over France? Also, I love that the British press is unafraid of alliteration. Would you ever see ‘frenzied fits’ and...
Annoyance Fundraiser - REPOST IF YOU CAN!
I got two emails from the Annoyance (the theater where Chasing Dumb opens tomorrow night!) about a fundraiser they are holding on Monday. These emails show what a great, great organization this place is. I’m really proud to be apart of things over there.
If you can’t go to the fundraiser but want to donate here’s the link: http://www.annoyanceproductions.com/tony/
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“He froze salaries for top White House staff members and had aides circulate a...”
– Day One
This is amazing.
Each astronaut gets to select about four different... →
Variety has a page devoted to Battlestar Galactica. There are some articles and pictures and then essays written by fans of the show. The essays are written by people are an astronaut, an anthropologist, a defense analyst, a soldier, Rabbi, comedy writer and others.
Click above to get it.
I finally watched the new episode last night. HOLY. MOLY. That thing was great. I’m very happy.
From: asunder
Jorge Ben - Magnólia
“On ratemyprofessor.com he’s a fucking chili pepper”
– Vicki, on her religion professor who can pronounce the shhhhhh out of Slavov Zizek’s name. According to the documentary I saw on him he’s pronouncing it wrong, but who cares. Chili pepper. Now that we’re done talking about the hotness of Vicki’s religion professor we are...
“Disney exists outside the law of the United States. It’s a sovereign...”
– Joe
“SO SAY WE ALL”
Our show is between previews now and we are all...
me: this show is going to become a woman before our very eyes
Lauren: hahaha
“I have to go with Mickey Rourke’s win and acceptance speech, Dustin...”
– my dad on what he liked about the Golden Globes
Go further go harder
I found a shortened list of my goals for 2008 and realized I had accomplished a lot of them. Let’s review:
2008
Take a vacation with Griffen - we are doing this in May!
Stop using hyperbole as much – I fail at this EVERY SECOND
Write more - This year I was apart of 3 shows that I had a hand in writing
Take a dance class - Success!
Keep practicing my French - I’m not regimented...
Wowzers
Anyone heard of this movie Stephanie Daley? Holy moly, Tilda Swinton and Amber Tamlyn act their butts off - but not in that ‘look at me I’m acting’ way. Why didn’t I hear about this? As far as those former late-teenaged Disney stars turning into ‘real’ actresses go, Amber Tamlyn is the real deal. Sorry Doug. My girl Amber also dates David Cross and is a...
Rolling Stones - Memo From Turner
via Aquarium...
“actor of life and an apostle of a new philosophy...
Forgerers, imposters and people who lead double lives are fascinating. I just read a really sad, interesting article about Frédéric Bourdin a Frenchman in his 30s who has been impersonating children since the early 90s.
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He doesn’t gain anything financially and a psychiatric evaluation found him sane. His con is always the same, he poses as an abused runaway or abandoned teenager until...