I guess if you win an Oscar and the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year, the presidency might be kind of a step down.

Very funny Bill Maher commentary on Jerry Falwell's life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz5T1EEo8ws&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eafterelton%2Ecom%2Fblog%2Fchristiekeith%2Fmaher%

Since it is in bad taste for the living to speak ill of the dead, I am going to allow the dead to speak ill of himself instead ( Read more... )

I got back yesterday from New Orleans, where five of my co-workers and I attended the big annual university presses meeting. It was my first one, and I'm glad I went; I attended some good seminars and discussions, and met a lot of other people who do what I do. However, being in New Orleans was odd. We didn't have a lot of free time; unfortunately ( Read more... )

Well, the church burnings in rural Alabama turned out to be the work of three bored, rich, spoiled idiots--basically soulless Brookies who did it as a PRANK. What is WRONG with them and anyone whose idea of funny is so warped that they think that qualifies? I am not of the Baptist persuasion, but I also didn't have to get special training to know ( Read more... )

Wow, it has been a long time since I updated this thing. A whole lot has happened since. Since I have neither the time nor the inclination either to 'splain or to sum up, I'll list my top 10 movies of 2005 instead ( Read more... )

Stephanie called me yesterday to say that she was passing a movie shoot in Brooklyn for "Munich," which is being directed by Esteban Spielbergo's American, Union equivalent. I asked her to ask him if he would come speak at the Jewish Film Festival in town, but no luck. What, is he busy or something ( Read more... )

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I finished Harry Potter ATH-BP yesterday, apparently later than most everyone else in the world. Without giving anything away for those even farther behind the times than I, I will say that I found the events that transpired in the last fourth of the book to be terribly sad and terrifically engrossing, but not overwhelmingly surprising. I've been ( Read more... )

The porn store near my house closed, and I'm peculiarly sorry about it. I'm not a consumer of porn, but I have to say that just knowing a porn store was in the neighborhood (in a swanky strip of stores that also included a yoga studio and folk art gallery) was oddly reassuring. It's as if just knowing that there was a place I could walk down to get ( Read more... )