What have I done lately?

The answer is sadly: not much. I think having a cat makes me more of a homebody. Danton seems to be so excited when we come home and so upset when we leave that we seem to be staying in a lot more. On the other hand, it’s really nice to get a proper weekend [...]

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Nine to Five

This is a really fabulous trailer. Piques your interest but doesn’t give too much away. Happily, my job is nothing like this and I have been super busy of late hence the spotty posts. I’m doing a lot of web programming and learning javascript. All my web programming in the past has involved posting back [...]

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My review of Avatar

Don’t see it. Sorry, I hated it and I probably should have never gone. It’s extremely depressing in a colonial sort of way, and the feel-good ending doesn’t really change that. I would include details but I don’t want to depress anyone who liked the film. If you care to comment though, I will respond. [...]

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Are we savages when we’re alone?

I have only now finished season 3 of Mad Men. I don’t have cable and a friend gave me his recordings a couple of weeks ago. I was very intrigued by the episode where Pete is left alone for a week by his wife who is vacationing with her family. Spoilers after the jump.

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Quote for the day

I’m often interrogated about being vegetarian (e.g., “What if you find out that carrots feel pain, too? Then what’ll you eat?”). I’ve also been afraid to feel as if I know better than someone else — a historically dangerous stance (I’m often reminded that “Hitler was a vegetarian, too, you know”). But this book reminded [...]

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Sextette week begins

What movie stars Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper, Regis Philbin and George Raft? There’s no movie that could possibly have all those people in it? Well, yes there is. I’ll be posting videos this week until they run out.

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My review of Start Trek

The Implied Observer apologizes for being offline for so many days. I was moving this weekend and then unpacking. Just about the only thing I managed to do that was fun was see the new Star Trek movie. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, then please do not read on. There will be spoilers [...]

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Have you all got amnesia?

Yesterday I was talking to my friend Tom about the new Star Trek movie. Tom won’t be watching the movie because as he put it, the whole dynamic of the original series has been thrown out the window with story revision. Spock and Kirk did not know each other before working together on the Enterprise. [...]

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Spandau Ballet: It’s True

And apparently it’s true that they are reuniting.

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Star Trek Fragrances

Hoping to profit from the May 8 release of J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film, chronicling the beginnings of Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise, Maryland-based Genki Wear will release three Star Trek-themed scents on April 24. John McGonigle, president of Genki, said the two men’s colognes and one women’s perfume will retail [...]

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MIA: Paper planes

Looks like M.I.A. did not win a grammy and she’s not even nominated for an Oscar. Pity. Update: According to Wikipedia she did collaborate on Oh Saya which is nominated for an Academy Award.

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Another food movie: Sleeping Beauty

For whatever reason I was thinking about the making of the birthday cake in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.

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Zsa Zsa a victim of Madoff

Is it bad to enjoy this? Fraudulent investor Bernie Madoff may have made his worst enemy of all when he stiffed screen legend Zsa Zsa Gabor in his $50 billion ‘Ponzi’ scam. The National Enquirer is reporting in its new issue that the 91 year-old Gabor and her husband, 65 year-old Prince Frederic Von Anhalt, [...]

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I don’t think Benjamin Button has a chance

Given this clever video, I don’t think Benjamin Button has a chance of winning the Best Picture oscar. more about "I don’t think Benjamin Button has a c…", posted with vodpod

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Neil Patrick Harris Old Spice Commercial

I get a lot of hits for Neil Patrick Harris. Maybe it’s because he’s got excellent comic timing. more about “Neil Patrick Harris Old Spice Commercial“, posted with vodpod

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This Slate article makes me want to rent Risky Business

I don’t think I’ve ever watched the movie through from start to finish, but Stephen Metcalf makes me think that I should. Is Risky Business a hidden gem? I resisted the urge to post the underwear scene. Update:  Dan Savage apparently had the same feeling. Perhaps this means it’s time for a Criterion Collection reissue?

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The joy of mispronunciation

Previously I posted about attending the Dina Martina Christmas Show. One of the shticks of Dina Martina is mispronounce words on purpose. Gifts are “jifts” for instance. Dina admits that giving “jifts” is so much more fun than giving “gifts.” Here also is a quote from an interview in today’s Seattle Times where she gets [...]

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Quantum of Solace

I went to see the new James Bond movie Quantum of Solace this weekend. Did you know that there is now such thing as an AM matinee. I’m not sure if it’s everywhere, but we paid $6 a piece to see the show at 10:30 in the morning. The drawbacks are: who can eat popcorn [...]

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The Simpsons Parody Mad Men

Mad Men has entered the popular consciousness.

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Depeche Mode: Just Can’t Get Enough

This weekend I was reminded how much I preferred Depeche Mode before they got all serious.

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If Sarah Palin bows out of the race…

…it will be the media’s fault. I’m sensing something like how the media was at fault for the end of Paul McCartney’s marriage to Heather Mills, and how it had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Mills was bat shit crazy. Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney, said [...]

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Christian Siriano’s debut collection

For those of you watching Project Runway, here’s an article about last season’s winner Christian Siriano’s debut collection. I’m glad to hear he’s doing more than maternity wear. Here’s a link to view the photographs of the collection. Interesting quote from the article: “I just think there are so many reality shows that people become [...]

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Famed movie critic Roger Ebert attacked

This is the age we live in. Disabled people being attacked by assholes. The audience at the Toronto Film Festival press screening of “Slumdog Millionaire” didn’t know they were also going to get live entertainment Saturday. There’d been lots of Oscar buzz about Danny (“Trainspotting”) Boyle’s flick, about a poor Mumbai guy who wins a [...]

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The problem with narratives

So let me first get this out of the way: I apologize for referencing Britney Spears in this post. Now that that is done… Lynne Spears has just written a tell-book that reveals that Britney Spears lost her virginity at age 13 to some high school football player. Why do I care? Because from 1997 [...]

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Rediscovering the old: Shoe Salesmen

Here is the second part of the “Rediscovering the old series” where I highlight items and notions of that past that have received new vitality in the current day. While we appear to be modernizing as a species and value those things that are new, we inevitably find that the things of the past still [...]

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