December 2007
88 posts
Some movie math -or- lay off Lindsay
2.2 million votes (58% of 3.8 million) in Moviefone’s online poll about the year’s worst performance in a film went to Lindsay Lohan in I Know Who Killed Me. The film has made $8.5 million. At $10/ticket (matinees are for chumps), that means 850,000 people saw that movie. So who the hell are the other 1.4 million people to judge? They didn’t see it.
The Pats big win last night had a 75 share in... →
“Best pinot noir upstate New York has to offer in a box.”
– “Dan Rather”/Harry Shearer, from Le Show
Mike Bloomberg, Gary Hart, Chuck Hagel and others... →
Honestly, this has to be an MSNBC editor's last... →
Pats go for Perfection
Patrick McCarthy: Regarding the game, seeing as how they've won the superbowl recently without a perfect record, is it any different than being excited when the clock turns to 12:34?
TBS's A Christmas Story marathon wins the entire... →
via Greg “the cat” White
“Groucho was lunching with the late John Guedel, whose name you’ve seen as...”
– Dick Cavett relating a Marx anecdote in his New York Times Blog
“There’s no point in being more than 15 minutes ahead of your time.”
– Supposedly David Bowie, via Brett Wickens, found on creativepro.com (Google found someone else quoting Bowie as “There’s no point in being more than 15 minutes ahead of your time if the audience can’t keep up.”)
An example of how Greg White flits in and out of...
Meebo Message: Greg White is online
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Greg White: my stomach hurts from eating and drinking
Greg White: this is bad/good
Meebo Message: Greg White is offline
BREAKING: Dave does a deal with the WGA; back on... →
“It’s a great life. I wouldn’t trade it with anybody. Except maybe...”
– Chris Rock, quoted in the New York Times
WatchPixar’s latest short, “Lifted” (via Smashing)
“Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something...”
– Steve Martin, Born Standing Up, pg. 104
“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with...”
– Steve Martin, Born Standing Up, pg. 80
Thoughts on Born Standing Up
38 pages into Steve Martin’s stand-up memoir, Born Standing Up, I’m struck by how self-analytical he is of his childhood and how many later-in-life troubles he traces back to isolated childhood incidents. This includes hypochondria, introversion, fear of singing, bad relationships and so on.
It would be self-indulgent on my part to want to do the same (at least in book form), but my...
“Doing comedy onstage is the ego’s last stand.”
– Steve Martin, Born Standing Up
The One Mexican Border-Crossing Immigrant Family... →
Study: 59% Of Teens Create Content Online →
“Putin goes to a restaurant with [his handpicked successor] Medvedev and orders a...”
– Another Russian joke (yes, it has taken me 3 hours to read this article)
“Stalin’s ghost appears to Putin in a dream, and Putin asks for him help...”
– Common joke in Russia, quoted in Time’s Man of the Year cover story on Vlad Putin.
“Franken hasn’t really been in the laugh-making game for quite some time, um,...”
– Greg Wassterstrom, Wonkette intern
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups... →
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups
NBC's The Office Three Seasons or Whatever In →
“To this day, Huckabee regards [televangelist James] Robison as one of his role...”
– Zev Chafets, regarding Mike Huckabee, New York Times
What do Steve Martin and Eddie Izzard have in... →
Die Hard is on TV
Saurabh: Wouldn't it would be cool if Bruce Willis and Carl Winslow switched roles in this movie?
“Nothing speaks louder than code”
– Axiom of Google engineers, from “Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft”, New York Times
Strike Beard War! The Fur Flies →
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Rob Turbovsky: look, Jeff, if you're offended by the implication that every black guy who ever did drugs was probably at some point a drug dealer, maybe you're too thin-skinned for politics
NY police train citizens to be bad samaritans →
Will Arnett is voicing KITT in the new Knight... →
Analysis: Bebo Snubs Google With Facebook Platform... →