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Me, I love Paul Newman like everyone else. Saw a TON of his movies. We already know all the great ones and there are many, as well as a huge number of really good, solid, B-plus flicks, too. But what about the bad ones? Here now, your guide to Ten Paul Newman Movies To Avoid ( Read more... )

I was in Atlanta for a few days for a conference, which was based at this unholy conference center called America's Mart. Seriously. It's at least three buildings huge with various parking lots and rooms and floors and...very confusing. Kinda like a capitalist Vatican, a country within a country. Me being me, I was generally late-arriving in the ( Read more... )

Item I saw on an FSU banquet menu:

Roasted Vegetarian Sandwich

I got 8 hours of sleep last night. It's hard to describe how good that felt. It has been months, literally, since I slept 8 hours straight in a single night.  I've got this enormously stressful opening event tomorrow night, a million loose-ends to tie before then...and I feel fine. Great, even. I'm tying the ends, and it'll all be fine. Thanks to ( Read more... )

George Saunders' "Pastoralia" and "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" are two of the great funny stories of our time. And this week, Saunders wrote a short piece about Sarah Palin in the New Yorker and it is -- to put in decidedly non-New-Yorker terms -- funny as shit. Please read it. The first few paragraphs alone are worth the click.... Leave a comment  3 

I need to put together a pretty lengthy mix of songs about 'the road' and 'traveling' and such for an upcoming event. They need to be PG-rated and not to downbeat. Any ideas?

What's up with Meg Ryan's face?

I just cannot seem to get on top of my job. It's gonna kill me. I'll be up until 2 again tonight, won't sleep, will get up at 6:30, go through another endless work day, do more work at home until 2 a.m.....ugh. I've got at least another 10 days of this shit ( Read more... )

Clearly, I am so partisan that it distorts my view completely, I watched Sarah Palin's speech and found it pretty underwhelming, a litany of easy lines presented in that flat, grating voice. Difficult to get through. And then afterwards, EVERYONE on TV is raving about it, as if they'd just seen MLK speak for the first time. Fox, naturally, called ( Read more... )