This past weekend, "An Inconvenient Truth" made $91,800 per screen (on only four screens). Now the real test will be when it goes wide release, but that's still a huge total, vastly outstripping any other movie so far this year, including other movies in small numbers of theaters on their first weekend ( Read more... )

You know what I enjoy? Studying for the bar.

Just kidding.

Well, at least the lecturers at Barbri are usually pretty good.

Had the 'rents over for dinner last night. Dinner being a big cheese plate. I've been wanting to do this for ages. Unfortunately my brother and his family couldn't make it because they were getting ready for my nephew's birthday party the next day.

( Served my parents a Spanish cheese plate: )

In twenty years, George W. Bush will still say we won the Iraqi war. Assuming we're not still fighting it.

You'll probably have a more fulfilling life for having watched this video clip. It's only 14 seconds long.

It's "Fun With Real Audio" on Saturday Night Live's "TV Funhouse". This week's target? Highlights of George Bush's version of truthiness. Really damning actually. Of course, it's easy to demonstrate Bush's total awfulness. But they did a very good job here. Very funny. Very sad.

"The name's Mr. T. First name Mister. Middle name is that period. Last name is T."

-Mr. T in "Mr. T and The Mystery of the Golden Medallions."

Went to the Cheese Store again on the way to get groceries. Again, a wonderful cheese plate dinner:

Lincolnshire Poacher > Great british cheddar that we've gotten before. queersolitude loves this ( Read more... )

I just learned that ADA Jack McCoy got his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago! I already knew that She-Hulk went to UCLA Law School. Does this mean that I'm a mix of Jack McCoy and She-Hulk?

Clearly it does. Raarrggghh.

A 73 year old lady who lived in an apartment across the street from me was arrested today in connection with at least two murders. She and an accomplice, also a lady in her 70s, would (allegedly) take out life insurance policies on homeless men, and then kill them in hit-and-run accidents. While I was walking back from my car, I heard the story ( Read more... )