Over on the Twitter, I have been posting facts ( Read more... )

It's been something like a month since the last one, but there's a new Wasted Words podcast:

Show 33 - The Thriving Performing Arts Scene Of Downtown Tuscaloosa

Join me and panelists Leonard Pierce (ludickid>), Aaron Bleyaert (<lj user=), Tony Zaret (mrkevincostner) and Olivia Todd (007donuts) as awful family memories are dredged up, musicals are discussed and Alabama is well-represented well. Fun for ( Read more... )

From a couple of years ago, over at Supermasterpiece- "A Catholic's Guide to Passover," by me (RJ White).

Two new pieces up at Get Off The Internet-

The Gone with the Wind producers pulled almost the same trick with an audience in 1939.
- There was a special surprise screening last evening of the new Star Trek film and nerds are weird and awful people.

“Huh. This turned ugly quick.”
- A guy killed himself at a screening of Watchmen Sunday night and ( Read more... )

New piece of mine @ Get Off the Internet: “i’m sure there’s a star trek re-run on for you to watch”

FRIDAY INTERNET CHALLENEGE: What's the saddest thing you've seen today ( Read more... )

Currently, I'm reading Hard Times, Studs Terkel's oral history of the Great Depression ( Read more... )

Okay, in the Detroit News article about this morning's announcement by the president of strict new policies for GM and Chrysler, was this [emphasis mine]-
"What we are asking is difficult. It will require hard choices by companies," Obama said in the Grand Foyer reading from a television monitor as dozens of photographers snapped.

Now, am I reading ( Read more... )

Via brandawg, INSANITY-MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for "The Three Stooges ( Read more... )

How do you while away those last couple of Friday hours? Why, by reading a new item over at Get Off the Internet, that's how!

Philly.com commenters react to the tale of a couple of salesmen who chased down a purse snatcher.