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Daily Archives: July 18, 2011
10 posts
I’m beginning to think Steven Soderbergh and Matt Damon have a very Johnny Depp and Tim Burton type of relationship…this is disturbing. No, seriously, they usually work pretty well together and produce decent films, Matt Damon with his steely angst, his smart man’s smart man acting, and Soderbergh’s penchant for getting most every A-list actor in recent memory to sign on for one of his grand sprawling opuses usually dealing with polarizing topics such as drugs, espionage, government secrets, or making Andy Garcia’s veins protrude from his forehead as he runs a casino. Ensembles that come together for one common cause is kind of Soderbergh’s thing. And Contagion is no exception.
The fifth episode of this highly dysfunctional reality/competition singstravaganza on Oxygen certainly wouldn’t dare deviate from the set-in-stone format of the show. Mini Challenge, Let’s Make A Video, Sing For Your Life, Time To Go. Beware, there are spoilers inside! Continue reading
Comic-Con how-to guides for what to see and where to go abound. A lot of them will give you great advice for food, clothing, sights and sounds. This is not that kind of guide.
You see, one of the things people never address is the behavior of some of the convention goers. The vast majority of the people at Comic-Con are excited fans and are genuinely enthusiastic about the presentations given. Continue reading
Now, I’m sure the love of my two favorite people in all the world, the ridiculous bubble-speaking, national monument crashing, patriotism-blathering, hair monster, Sarah Palin, and her partner in a Bellevue Psych-ward, racist, slavery endorser, homosexuality-fixer, Crazy-Eyes-McGee, Michele Bachmann, is pretty evident, wouldn’t you say? Continue reading
It’s not easy to buy a case of Westvleteren 12, the world’s most prized beer (and according to many experts, the world’s best-tasting). It costs only 28 Euros but it doesn’t matter how much money you have. You could have your own oil-rich principality in Middle East or a few million shares of Google stock and the brewers of Westvleteren wouldn’t ship any to you.
The brewers of Westvleteren are actually a group of Trappist monks from the St. Sixtus Abbey in Westvleteren, Belgium. And they don’t give a shit how bad you want their beer.
Apparently Hitler drives a Prius.
The 405 freeway is an important artery in Los Angeles, and is one of the main ways of connecting the Westside to the Valley. There isn’t a train or bus route that effectively duplicates the route that the 405 takes, so shutting down the freeway for a weekend to demolish the Mulholland Drive Bridge as part of a highway widening project was considered a big deal for the residents of those neighborhoods. The build-up to the closing of the 405 was heralded by a massive public information campaign that could basically be summed up as “do not drive to the Westside on the weekend of July 16-17, because it will literally be hell on earth.” Granted, if Los Angeles, and particularly the Westside, were more multi-modal, the need for mass panic probably wouldn’t exist. It still would be a big deal but people wouldn’t be urged to just hide in their homes and barricade their doors. However, the information still needed to be disseminated. Continue reading
Are you thinking what I am thinking?
Huge transformations brought about by makeovers are pretty common in television and movies. Take off the glasses, straighten the hair, walk down the staircase: poof, you’re a certifiable hottie.
In real life, it’s not always so successful (unless the puberty gods were nice to you.) Continue reading
This happens to me far to often:
“Hey, Newsbunny! Want to come out tonight?”
“I can’t. I have to work early.”
“Oh, C’mon. How early could you possibly have to work?”
“Four AM.” Continue reading
Gooooood morning, crasstalk! Continue reading