February 2010
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January 2010
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Whenever you find yourself hunting for a bunch of adverbs to characterize something, you’ve lost the scent.
“Barack Obama, then, is not the agent of change; he’s the fulfillment of a...”
– Tom Junod for Esquire [thanks, s]
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Extraordinary Measures
Brendan Fraser: I was in a horrible rip-off of the Indiana Jones movies.
Harrison Ford: So was I.
Brendan Fraser: You gonna finish that doughnut?
Remember when you were a wee Game Boy and an afternoon of Tetris or Super Mario Land meant after-hours of phantom tetrominoes and fire flowers dancing before your closed eyes?
I’m getting comparable burn-in from watching the carrier ID in the upper-left corner of my iPhone’s display cycle between “Searching…” and “No Service.” AT&T ought to trademark those...
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The rain clocks out and the stars clock in like a celestial version of Chuck Jones’ Wolf and Sheepdog.
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Product placement
ABC ought to exploit NBC’s current Sturm und Drang as an opportunity to clandestinely relocate the productions of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters to The Grove. It’ll be May Sweeps before viewers realize that Calista Flockhart’s chemo is being administered at Pottery Barn Kids and Teri Hatcher keeps getting locked outside Chico’s in her altogether.
“Know this: When I objectify you, I’ll objectify you completely—and...”
– Daniel Day-Lewis to Madeleine Stowe in The Last of the Mohicans. (Kidding; but basically.)
Of all our effacements, the adverb just may be the most disingenuous, with the greatest potential for mischief.
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Ordinary miracles
The way some people have of ashing a cigarette or applying a Band-Aid.
(1998: Bondi Blue. 2009: Na’vi Blue.)
It takes skill and grace to describe something that “isn’t for you” in terms that don’t also make it sound like it isn’t for anyone else.
Careers Sharon Stone can probably no longer have:
Meryl Streep’s
Careers Sharon Stone can probably still have:
Andie MacDowell’s
Geena Davis’
Rene Russo’s
Barbara Hershey’s
Anne Archer’s
Joan Collins’
Gloria Stuart’s
I prefer to think of myself as “emotionally unavoidable.”
Fruits of coastal conversation
NY: Be somebody.
LA: Be anybody.
A list of fictional people I sometimes think about...
sarahb:
bigstar:
Lorelei Gilmore
The family from “Swingtown”
Lindsay from “Freaks & Geeks”
Susannah from “O, Susannah”
The women in Whitney Otto’s A Collection of Beauties At the Height of Their Popularity
Vickie Milner
Rolf from The Sound of Music
Wallace from Season 1 of The Wire, even though he died
grown up Susan Pevensie
I’m about to incriminate myself big-time:...
You know how DirecTV’s been raping the shit out of old movies in its advertising? I don’t see why Bounty can’t hawk paper towels via the same tactic. Psycho, Carrie, The Shining … The Banger Sisters—they’re all practically screaming for a Quicker Picker Upper.
I have a curfew
It’s whenever my iPhone’s charge zeroes out.
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I would gladly let you axe me any question you’d like, but I don’t see that option.
Sooner or later Ben Foster and Giovanni Ribisi will have to square off Highlander-style to determine who gets to play the retarded brother in some Ellen Page movie.
My father was an MD and an MBA. I’m OCD, PTSD and ADD … so I win.
