As is to be expected, both candidates come across much better at the roast-cum-political-dinner last night than they do when they're sniping back and forth at each other.

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Although I have to say, something about McCain when he's "enjoying" Obama's jokes still seems remarkably inhuman...

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I guess I've come late to this...but there may be some of you who haven't seen this. I've watched it 4 times in the past 24 hours:

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I'm not super impressed by the song, although it is fairly catchy. What I do love, though, is the self-deprecating conceit and how many of the cast members from the original movie show up. As an added bonus, William ( Read more... )

...there is a parallel planet Earth. One where Star Wars was made with Burt Reynolds playing Han Solo (and thus, Harrison Ford was never discovered; Warren Beatty goes on to invent the role of Indiana Jones). Burt Reynolds doesn't make the Smokey and the Bandit movies and instead follows in Reagan's footsteps as governor of California, then ( Read more... )

Man oh man.

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How come I can never find a Foam Rubber Wholesalers' Convention when my helicopter is in trouble?

Reading this article in the New York Times makes me think that it won't be long before the White House shuts its eyes real tight, puts its fingers in its ears, and starts shouting LA LA LA LA LA LA LA ( Read more... )

I had suspected that my avian nemesis was a mockingbird, and in talking to a friend of mine who, it turns out, has the exact same problem, my suspicions were confirmed ( Read more... )

Yesterday I talked to ahansen on the phone and he asked me how it was going with the bird. I replied, truthfully if naïvely, that since the day I had posted I had not heard from him. I hoped, perhaps, that my hatred of it had manifested a physical form and pushed it somewhere far away ( Read more... )

The Kids in the Hall are back and touring. As I recall, they last toured about 8 years ago (because it was right around the time I graduated from college).



They look pretty old. I hope they're still funny.

I saw Be Kind Rewind tonight, which is a charming and funny valentine to getting back to enjoying movies for movies' sake. I don't know why the story had to be so convoluted to get to this point, but for decidedly implausible reasons Jack Black and Mos Def find themselves obligated to remake hit movies with no budget, minimal cast, and one camera ( Read more... )

This is a very special entry just for the ladies. That's right: I'm talking to you. Oh, yeah ( Read more... )