October 6th, 2009
Did conservatives take pleasure in Chicago being snubbed for the Olympics?
Probably. But at least they weren’t rooting for their country to lose a war.
0 commentsE.A. Conspiracy Buster
October 5th, 2009
The FBI always gets its man!
0 commentsBrief Political Aside
October 2nd, 2009
A number of friends chided me this week for wondering aloud how the Olympics decision might undermine the entire central premise of the Obama theory of foreign policy. My friends assured me that Obama would never put the prestige of his office (not merely the presidency but his personage) on the line unless he had a prior guarantee that the decision had already been made to move forward with Chicago.
In any event, I await Jimmy Carter’s indictment of the IOC for their opposition to President Obama’s plan.
0 commentsHow Many Takes?
October 1st, 2009
From FilmDrunk: Kind of annoying, but awfully impressive for the pure show-off mastery of choreography on the camera work. That’s a single five-minute tracking shot with really interesting transitions. As a sign of how effing hard this is, note that there are only three hand-offs where the new subject shows that they’re waiting for a cue. Everything else is butter-smooth.
Hate them if you want; but that’s serious work.
0 commentsInstant Classic?
October 1st, 2009
Lorenzo Lamas . . . Debbie Gibson . . . Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus!
The trailer kind of gives it away.
Look, you can make fun of Michael Bay all you want, but you would have lined up to see this if he’d directed it with a $150M budget.
0 commentsFringe Watch
October 1st, 2009
Galley Friend P.G. suggested to me last season that Fringe could be evolving from a mildly-interesting-X-Files-spawn to a seriously interesting and original sci-fi story. The inflection point P.G. was intrigued by was the moment when Fringe opened up the the multiverse and introduced the idea of a war brewing between the (so far) two universes. Since then, the series has only gotten more engaging.
Two minor questions:
(1) Leonard Nimoy plays William Bell in the show. But in the Fringe world, we’ve seen that Star Trek exists. Spock-Nimoy-Bell . . . who is real? Who is pretend? Head hurts now.
(2) What do we call the other earth? Hercules refers to it as Earth 2. I’ve been calling it Earth Prime. Maybe we need to consult Marv Wolfman.
Bonus nerd question: Is the Observer something like the Monitor? Only time will tell!
0 commentsSports Economics
September 30th, 2009
Why rent a stadium seat when you could own one?
Is there any way this makes economic sense? (For the buyers, I mean.)
0 commentsProof That Precogs Exist
September 30th, 2009
Via the Czabe we get this 2008 instant-analysis of the Jim Zorn hiring from Tim Tawakami.
So dead-on that it’s a little terrifying. Read all the way to the end for the really scary stuff.
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