Browsing all 8 posts in Movies.
07/10/09
There’s a scene in “Away We Go” that opens to a softly-lit, wide-angle view of John Krasinski (Burt) and Maya Rudolph (Verona) standing, feet unmoving, on an airport walkway. As everyone around them in the airport hustles and bustles through the terminal, the pair stands still and lets the walkway slowly carry them through the [...]
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04/30/09
Someone managed to swipe the cable box from my apartment’s workout complex, so when I go to work out, the only channel the TV can get is CBS. From careful monitoring of the network during prime-time hours, I have concluded that this is the extent of CBS programming.
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01/13/09
You don’t see this every day.
“Florida State defensive back Myron Rolle will not enter the 2009 NFL draft and instead will head for Oxford, England to study medical anthropology for a year.
Earlier this year Rolle was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He graduated from FSU in 2 1/2 years with a pre-med degree.
Rolle e-mailed Pete Thamel [...]
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10/02/08
Edit: 9:31 p.m., Thursday night
Well, Game 1. That sucked.
But amazingly, and contrary to the popular opinion of hackish media types and ledge-jumping fans, the Cubs only lost one game last night. Not three.
Not that you would know it from reading the local papers this morning.
The Cubs spent six months working and hitting and pitching and [...]
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09/10/08
While my topics on this blog are generally all over the map, I try to keep most political-type things off here, unless they’re simply amusing or interesting. But this, I can’t let go.
This is a new ad from the McCain campaign, criticizing Barack Obama’s record on education. In it, McCain says that the [...]
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09/09/08
Last weekend, I moseyed down to a little arts theater (I’m so cultured) and saw “Man on Wire,” a documentary about Philippe Petit. If you don’t know who that is, and you didn’t get some idea from the above photo, he’s a French performance artist who strung a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974 [...]
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07/09/08
The greatest day of my life was when I got my MacBook.
Nothing has ever topped the feeling of walking into the Apple store, plopping down $2,450 and strolling out with a brand-new MacBook Air. Oh, the things that my MacBook and I do together!
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07/03/08
Julie brought this to my attention yesterday, but it seems like plans are starting to come together for an Arrested Development movie. Granted, we’ve heard this for a while now, and it’s been a tease, but this would be awesome. Keep your fingers crossed.
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