May 2010
29 posts
“[Sex and the City 2] takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a...”
– Lindy West’s review of SATC2 (via The Stranger)
“There is a perception that Twain spent his final years basking in the adoration...”
– After instructions not to publish it until 100 years after his death, Mark Twain’s 5,000 page autobiography is finally going to be released. (via The Independent)
“I felt the wind, the wind of the future.”
– Akio Toyoda, Toyota and Tesla Partnering to Make Electric Cars (via WSJ)
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Every time Glenn Beck says something MLK-like, he moves away from being a rodeo clown towards the mountaintop with Martin Luther King.
Steve jobs and a Gawker editor get in a drunk,... →
“A long-awaited international study has found no evidence of increased risk of...”
– This article should have been called “Useless, Biased Cell Phone Study Finds Useless, Biased Results”
“The Onion News Network, consistent producer of excellent fake news videos...”
– “The Onion News Network Is Coming To IFC”, NYMag
WatchIf you know me at all, you know that I love this.
““My family call me all the time and say, ‘Come here, you’re...”
– “Afghanistan’s last Jew vows to stay put”, CNN
““It would be called ‘Old Fink,’” Joel said.
“We...”
– EXCLUSIVE: Coen Brothers Want John Turturro To Get Old For ‘Barton Fink’ Sequel, ‘Old Fink’, MTV Movies Blog
Times Square Terrorism: Timeline →
This is really well put-together. And gives me a surprising amount of faith in the FBI.
WatchNew trailer for Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void. Still the most disturbing film I’ve ever seen.
The glass armonica rendition of Bach’s “Air on the G String” haunts me to this day.
WatchRon Howard’s Cocoon includes both a Don Ameche breakdancing sequence and a Riefenstahl-inspired Wilford Brimley slow-motion diving montage.
In honor of the mustachioed latter, here is my favorite (sadly discontinued) segment from “Wilford Brimley’s” calls to Stephen Colbert.
“Obama dinged Leno as ‘the only person whose ratings fell more than...”
– The Hollywood Reporter
