February 2008
52 posts
McCain Donated To Schilling Charity After... →
January 2008
56 posts
A new GI Bill: serious economic stimulus →
Catchword: page 75 Filed Under: English, Movies, Slang Part of Speech: n. Quotation: In a typical Hollywood screenplay, there comes a moment just before the third act when the protagonist is faced with certain defeat. It is the part of the film in which the bad guys gain crucial ground after a series of valiant efforts to the contrary have proved futile. The dark heart of the narrative arc,...
At Preservation Hall, a Jazz recording venue,...
Between sets people buy recordings of the band and ask the musicians for autographs, including Woody, who of course does not play on the albums. He would rather duck out and catch a few minutes of the World Series. Instead, he finds himself in the path of a young man about five feet five inches tall; Woody is five-six. “If I’m shorter than you, I’m committing suicide,”...
“Clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of...”
– Edward Tufte on the iPhone
WGA takes reality and animation off the table →
Designing at the speed of news →
Fox Business Network was the only of the financial... →
FBN scoops market crash
News: Jonny Greenwood's Blood Score Denied Oscar... →
“If the Pats should lose on February 3, then history is up a stump. There is no...”
– Michael Gee
“Moviemaking. You go to all this trouble so a critic can give it three...”
– Woody Allen, after a frustrating day with film printing, quoted in Conversations with Woody Allen (pg 204)
“I thought: Wow, this cool, interesting character is having this midlife crisis...”
– Bryan Cranston on his new role as an antihero in AMC’s Breaking Bad.
“The war in Iraq is in a minstrel show!”
– Tracy Morgan as Harry Belafonte in a great SNL Hardball sketch featuring John McCain doing a John Ashcroft impersonation. I’m linking to a transcript, but it really doesn’t do it justice.
Josh has second thoughts about his impending Eee...
Joshua Gee: I wish the Asus Web site didn't have so many pictures of little girls using it
Joshua Gee: I would feel more secure about my purchase
“We’re not just the Internet. We’re flesh and blood.”
– Ron Paul supporters out on the Vegas strip. Reminds me of when I went to Something Awful’s GoonCon in Vegas, and everyone walked up and down the strip yelling “INTERNETS” (via techPresident)
“Back in the day, we had real men who could do five 90-minute shows a week.”
– Dick Cavett thinks you and your talk show hosts are wusses
Glimpses of madness
Greg White: JARF-F-F
Greg White: CARPET SAMPLES ARE RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT!
jeffgreco: GLORY GLORY HALLELUJAH!
Greg White: hiya pal
jeffgreco: whose child is this?
Greg White: mark's
Greg White: from mail box etc.
jeffgreco: well, tell him to pick him up
jeffgreco: we're sick of the kid's bullshit
Greg White: he can't
Greg White: he works late
jeffgreco: seems to think Ron Paul is fit to run our country
Greg White: oh, no, mark just got hit by a car
Greg White: now you have to take care of the baby
jeffgreco: where's the nearest mailbox?
Greg White: "Bringing Up Jeff" this fall on cbs sundays
“They couldn’t be green — they would have vanished in the vegetation. Red...”
– Nine Culliford, wife of Smurfs creator Peyo Culliford, in TIME (via Vulture)
The Macbook Air is Not a Sub-Notebook →
Striking writers: start boning up on your Spanish →
“To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.”
– Winston Churchill
Joshua Gee: dude
Joshua Gee: I am using my dad's laptop
Joshua Gee: which he never uses
Joshua Gee: check how old this is
Joshua Gee: the taskbar has all my previous favicons
Joshua Gee: vintage favicons for flickr and facebook
Joshua Gee: and Pandora listed
Joshua Gee: awesome
A Daily Show's John Oliver is apparently not... →
BREAKING: Black Friday at ABC Studios as writers... →
A delightful, occasionally wistful, look back at... →
How to Read The New Yorker in 10 Easy Steps →
“Tragically, duped Facebook members never did get to learn out which people on...”
– Great line from Webware’s article “Facebook dumps Secret Crush application over spyware claim”
fet·tle (fĕt’l) n. Proper or sound condition. This post inspired by Kissing Suzy Kolber’s line, “Are you in fine fettle, my frisky Favre?”
Globes may proceed without telecast →
Tony: guy bucket list is same as about schmitt xcept kathy bates is black and has a beard
“Last season the A’s tarped off the upper deck of the Coliseum so nobody...”
– Scott Ostler, “Fun is gone with departure of Swisher”
SHOCKER! Striking WGA Will Announce Side Deal With... →
New Year text messages overwhelm system [Holiday... →
“It srsly was a great speech, exciting and timely and pretty. I’m looking forward...”
– Wonkette (not to spoil the mood)
Fox Business Network flops. →
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