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Small indie film or Hollywood behemoth?
Avatar versus The Hurt Locker. I guess, if you read the press and the blogs and Twitter feeds and the like leading up to Sunday's Academy Awards, that is what the Best Picture category for the 82nd Oscars is coming down to. Even after the Academy expanded the field to 10, the race is still down to only two films (grants, there are a number of ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year 2010
I never really understood the whole “out with the old, in with the new” philosophy when it came to celebrating a New Year ( Read more... ) -
They Are Heaven Sent
I remember the first time that I heard about Brand New like it was just yesterday (fucking cliches), and I thought, "what kind of assholes names themselves Brand New?"
I was watching Much Music in the winter of 2002 and saw their video for Jude Law and a Semester Abroad. The opening credits came up and I wasn't impressed. But I watched all of the ( Read more... ) -
The last of the Once and Future Kings
I remember when I was sitting in my U.S. history class in high school, before the class started, and I and another student were talking about who we would rate as the best Presidents in American history ( Read more... ) -
23 and invincible
I now work just a few minutes walk from where my parents first lived when they arrive in San Diego ( Read more... ) -
Getting that Fix
Last Thursday I get a phone call from an old friend, asking me to do a favor. I thought he was kidding at first, but he was as serious as the mild-mannered, witty kid can be. The favor? Covering the Cal women's basketball team playing at the NCAA tournament in Los Angeles. My response? Of course.
There are a few things that I miss from college and ( Read more... ) -
How Does It All End?
I remember the day after George Bush was elected President back in 2000. I was having a discussion about the election with one of my teachers when he says, in a not-so unbiased way, that I and the rest of my peers were going to be screwed because the economy will tank eventually, college will be more expensive and that we won't have any jobs to ( Read more... ) -
Will the Oscars Play 'Millionaire'?
I have to brag. Last year, I got nine of the 10 categories that I picked correct. My only mistake was that I never thought that the Academy would give an Oscar to an ex-stripper. But hey, there's a first time for everything.
So, everyone's been talking about Slumdog Millionaire, the rags to riches story this year that wasn't done in a Disney-over- ( Read more... ) -
A Lack of Confidence
I guess I have, since graduating from college, held on to the dream of one day becoming a real sports writer by a lone finger.
Well, last Friday, something came down and crushed my finger.
I still go to my high school's home basketball games. In fact, I'm the public address announcer for the games. It's fun. I like the way and the style of how my ( Read more... ) -
Is That Really Change?
This feels odd. It feels strange. It doesn't seem right.
The country is alive...again and in just nine short hours, the United States of America will have a new President, the 44th.
First, I'd like to preface this by saying that of course I am excited. I am probably overwhelmed, and this is probably the reason why I am thinking the way that I am ( Read more... )