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and this is the full thing:

http://news.spreadit.org/bush-press-conferencebush-last-press-conference-video/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2009/01/12/BL2009011201584.htmlRead more... )

Difficult to watch at times, but DZAMN!!!! That is a Golden Glob win and an Oscar win for best actor. Amazing performance by Mickey Rourke.

http://www.mult.ru/projects/mas/mults/mult_199.html?PHPSESSID=cfe3cdcc453c98c867342c0218c82a50

The Out-of-Towners by A.A. Gill (Jan issue of Vanity Fair)

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/sex_and_the_city200901

I saw those girls from the bus - very pathetic-looking. Glad I sort of did "the tour" on my own.

Опять снег выпал, но я иду завтра на работу, come rain or come shine, even if I have to crawl all the way to Redmond. Но отпуск все же вышел наикласснейший. :)

The year of the OX! According to my little horoscopes book (bought back in Moscow in 1990), everyone this year should be overloaded with work and responsibilities. Here's hoping!!! But I hope we all also find time to have lots of fun! Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year! May 2009 be a lucky and prosperous year! Hugs to everyone!!!

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Microsoft’s Zune plagued by freeze (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28449091/)

Словно мухи, тут и там,
Ходят слухи по домам,
А беззубые старухи
Их разносят по умам.

:)

I finally went to see Frost/Nixon and Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Both very good movies. I bet Benjamin Button will win the best makeup Oscar. Frost/Nixon is a great screen adaptation of a play. I don't understand why the New Yorker gave it such a terrible review.