Who are the red hots for this year? Are you on Team Sad or Team Gay? Or must we make room for a new team altogether? It’s time, Crassholes, time to watch a whole new cast of pastry chefs become unhinged at the drop of a spatula. I hope you doubled your insulin tonight, Wilford Brimley, because this bitch is about to get sweeeeeeeeeeeet. Check out the contestant bios on Bravo’s site to make some snap judgments and rate who you think is the cutest (I’ll take a slice of Nelson Paz, thankyewverymuch). Picture of him after the jump. My snap judgment crush may change. Okay, are you ready? I’m ready. Pour yourself a drink–something sweet, natch. Continue reading
Daily Archives: August 24, 2011
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Steve Jobs has submitted his resignation as CEO of Apple this afternoon. His letter reads:
Good evening. Ready to be done with the week? Me too. Continue reading
People think that a great actors’ director is a guy that comes in every time and gives you an insight… it’s the guy that knows when to stay the fuck out of there if he’s not needed, and directors make the mistake of thinking that after every take they need to go in and really have an Elia Kazan moment with their actor. It’s about stay the fuck away until they need you, you know? And that’s it.
That’s Guillermo del Toro talking to Movieline about directing children specifically, and what good child actors are capable of. Head over there to read the full piece; Katie Holmes was also part of the interview. Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (scripted and produced by del Toro) hits theaters this Friday. Do you plan to see Dark? What do you make of the MPAA’s decision to slap it with an R rating for “pervasive scariness?”
Children are constantly in the process of learning. They need to ask “Why?” to learn things. However, sometimes, a child can “Why?” you until you completely lose your patience and end up on the floor weeping because you simply cannot answer any more questions. Continue reading
Newsrooms are not constantly bubbling cauldrons of activity, contrary to what you may have seen in the movies and TV. Most of the time, us news types are sitting around bitching about how nothing is going on.
Then the alarms start going off. Continue reading
There’s nothing like the salt.
Every August since 1949 the Southern California Timing Association has gathered on a dried salt lake bed on the Utah-Nevada border for Bonneville Speedweek. Every year thousands of hot rodders, motorcyclists and general speed demons descend on the salt flats to go fast and hopefully break new land speed records. Anyone who shows up with a vehicle, pays a small entrance fee and passes a safety inspection can run all-out on one of the salt flat’s legendary 7-mile course. Continue reading
The ones who travel many miles, hours and hours on an airplane, even, and when they arrive they have no clue what they want to go see? Don’t get me wrong, I love to see friends and (pretty much) family show up to stay for a few days. Evenings are great, good food and booze and conversation.
But why do they sit there like bumps on lumps waiting for me to decide what we’re doing during the day? Continue reading
I started my career on July 1, 1995, with a big multinational company. On July 1, 2009, I was given the old heave-ho. What had started out as a very promising upward trajectory landed with a thud, and the reason I was being shown the door had nothing to do with me or how well I did my work.
The circumstances of my job’s demise were simple: I was only working on one account, and that customer had been sold to a company that in-sourced their IT functions. While my group was in the process of transitioning our work to our customer’s new owner, my employer was in the process of laying off tens of thousands of Americans and shipping their jobs to various Asian countries. Even though my work record had been exemplary, and I had received the highest possible rating on my annual review more than once, there was no room at the inn for me. I tried to find a new position with the company starting in mid 2008 up until my last day, but there were none to be had. Continue reading
I’ve watched this video three times and it got funnier with each play. Continue reading