Very few people know that I love watching the French Open. Again, 2 observations (in the form of questions):

(1) Why doesn't he just wear pants?

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Three weeks of no school and no work is plenty. Luckily, I start work here on Wednesday. But I've read a few books and watched lots of movies, which has been nice. Two observations: (1) Virginia Quarterly Review is an amazingly good publication, even if it is far too heavy on poetry. (2) Godard's Alphaville is overrated. I got it from Netflix ( Read more... )

1. Perhaps understandably, the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl is getting woefully little attention. I don't usually go in for the pornography of tragedy (and it's hard to avoid on this story), but I did come across two fantastic pieces. One's here (an incredible multimedia slideshow) and the other is a BBC Documentary Archive podcast (I don't know ( Read more... )

I meant to say something about this a few weeks ago, but the delay doesn't matter since I'm already hopelessly late to the party. "Weeds" is an amazing show. Like I said, this is hardly an unpopular opinion, and probably doesn't merit acknowledgement. But I guess I was just surprised - not that it was "good," but that I liked it. Before it ( Read more... )

definitely not separated at birth, but maybe long lost cousins? in my head they looked a lot more similar than when i looked at them side by side. so maybe, at the lest, this will dispel the beltway rumours (started by me) of their common parentage. they're definitely close enough to be one of those couples that look alike ( Read more... )

I just got back from seeing the Fiery Furnaces. Now, I've never claimed to love them, and I'm not saying that now. But I do like them, especially after tonight. Part of the reason I was a late-adopter is that I was put off by their general art-fagginess. Eventually, that didn't bother me as much and I just focused on the parts I liked. Tonight ( Read more... )

So I'm waaaay late on this, but a quick thought on Katrina. It seems like the biggest danger now is that people will start to think that every storm will do that kind of damage. We've already seen small-scale evidence of why that's a bad thing - all of the deaths from Rita were people attempting to evacuate. On a larger scale, money and effort ( Read more... )

i'm watching the repeat of last week's episode of real time with bill maher. some notes ( Read more... )

While i don't agree with Mr. Hitchens often, i think kudos are in order for this article. being in law school, the confirmation hearings have been pretty hot topics, but i haven't heard anyone bring this up, although maybe everyone is just resigned to it. another excellent article by hitchens on this theme can be found here. why is it that the ( Read more... )

i would have just posted this in a comments section, but since a couple people have written about the subject, it was easier to just put it here. by "it" i mean the following poem by future governor roy moore ( Read more... )