Now that BaldwinP wants to know our Hollywood movie pitches, let’s take a second to discuss one of the reasons why the studios need our ideas. Continue reading
Daily Archives: September 10, 2012
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Oh, Mitt. What would you do if you didn’t have staunch supporters like Clint Eastwood, chair-grousing, grizzled old looney bear, and Pat Robertson, crazy, evil, soul-destroying chaos wizard, to make your campaign fun! and exciting!? Well, we just don’t know. Maybe instead you could hitch your campaign to a crap wagon and throw it off a cliff into a ditch of empirically plummeting poll numbers? Yes, that’s the ticket. Continue reading
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is scheduled to come out in January 2013 (trailer after the jump). You can see how the pitch went- “It’s a monster-killing movie! Only with Hansel & Gretel! Everyone’s heard of Hansel & Gretel!” Continue reading
Chicago Teachers on strike, Crazy Uncle Joe, Krugstradamus, Rand Paul learns something, the beatings will continue until morale improves, Waiting for Godot in Texas, Joe Walsh: Terrible Person, and Wells Fargo: Terrible Person. Continue reading
Today’s installment in our series on abandoned places takes us to macabre sites and the sociopaths who once inhabited them. Find a puppy to hug. Continue reading
I love summer, all sultry nights and sunshine and steamy rains, changes of scene and no coats and time to spend with friends you don’t see enough of during the year. My summer was working out fine, until the week-end before Labor Day. Continue reading
The drug-maker Abbot Laboratories is constantly running commercials for a drug called Humira, which is supposed to treat “moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis” as well as psoriasis. The other day one of their spots came on and I noticed that holy shit the list of side effects is terrifying. Continue reading
The 8 1/2 hours of sleep on a horizontal hotel mattress was pure bliss. You see, I just spent the last four days riding one bus after another for 5,000 kilometers– down the entire length of Chile. I planned on waking up early so that I could walk around the town of Punta Arenas and take pictures of cars, but I am still tired and it’s windy outside.
On my hotel room TV, CNN is doing a story about how Unilever is profiting in Kenya by selling consumer goods like soap in single servings. This reminds me of my friend’s parents’ liquor store in Los Angeles, which sells individual cigarettes to the poor because they don’t have the money to buy an entire pack.
Good day and welcome to Crasstalk. Continue reading