June 2008
18 posts
Jun 23rd
Jun 20th
“To say that the movie is not funny is merely to affirm the obvious. The word...”
– Hrm. So bad it’s VERY BAD.  A.O. Scott’s review of “The Love Guru.” (via marklisanti)
Jun 20th
SFO to ATX: Things I will and will not miss about...
+the proximity of the ocean -wind tunnels +walkable streets -impossibly steep hills +buena vistas +easy access to public transportation -MUNI delays +easy access to fresh produce -the brown apple moth +friends and family -the douche quotient +San Francisco (and California’s) progressive government -California’s extreme budget deficit +absence of giant tree roaches, mosquitos -city rats...
Jun 19th
Ben Brown vs. The Zohan →
Jun 17th
Observation from Chess Champion Josh Waitzkin
rickyv: Over the course of a riveting 75-minute discussion of the birth of Gandhian non-violent activism, I found myself becoming increasingly distressed as I watched students cruising Facebook, checking out the NY Times, editing photo collections, texting, reading People Magazine, shopping for jeans, dresses, sweaters, and shoes on Ebay, Urban Outfitters and J. Crew, reorganizing their social...
Jun 16th
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Fight the smear →
“Powered by truth.”
Jun 12th
The Feminine Mistake →
Jun 12th
WatchWatch
Kristen Schaal on The Daily Show. I heart her. [via Goldenfiddlr]
Jun 10th
Jun 8th
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“I WOULD ARGUE that each day that she attempts to horde her supporters at the...”
– John Hodgeman on HRC’s non-concession speech.
Jun 5th
“If you were to film a guy with food poisoning who was vomiting and crapping...”
– Joel McHale, host of “The Soup,” on “My Super Sweet 16” in an AV Club interview. It’s true. That show makes its viewers angry. MTV recently announced that they’ve made a spin-off of ths show that takes its spoiled-rotten former subjects and flies them to a...
Jun 5th
Jun 4th
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“We’ve all seen they’ve had one baby, Shiloh, and it is the coolest,...”
– -Sarah Ivens, editor in chief of OK! magazine, sounding an awful lot like Kelly Kapoor. The coolest baby? Clearly Sarah Ivens has never met Eleanor Mann.
Jun 3rd
Jun 3rd
Jun 3rd
Jun 3rd
“The characters are slaves to their own fetishization of commodities. This...”
– - Drunk e-mail from my little sister: Will watching Sex and the City make you into a communist? Maybe!  Anthony Lane in the New Yorker name checks Marx in his review of the film. 
Jun 1st