December 19th, 2008
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Courtesy of Valeria D’Orazio.
0 commentsWatchmen Watch
December 19th, 2008
I’m not exactly anti-Watchman, only vaguely so. But this report has to be disturbing even to the faithful:
Despite getting 22 minutes in (of what I keep hearing will end up a 150-some odd minute theatrical release) we got exactly 13 pages into the first issue of the comic.
Hurm.
0 commentsSlate Justifies Its Existence
December 19th, 2008
By having Mick Foley write about The Wrestler.
0 commentsBlockbuster Does It Again!
December 19th, 2008
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece elsewhere about how Blockbuster mismanaged itself into a death spiral. Today comes the not-astonishing news that, surveying the wreckage of its business model, Blockbuster has decided to raise the price of rentals instead of chasing digital downloads.
Remember, this is a company that was worth $8.4 billion dollars in 1994 (which is just about $12 billion in 2008 dollars) and now has a total market capitalization of $227 million.
Go ahead and read that again.
Is it any wonder this company is dying?
0 commentsNewsweek and Fundamentalism
December 19th, 2008
Without getting caught up in the substance of Newsweek’s “religious case” for gay marriage, there’s a side note which caught my eye. In an intro to the piece, editor Jon Meacham writes that, “This conservative resort to biblical authority [to oppose gay marriage] is the worst kind of fundamentalism.”
Which is funny. I might have thought that the “worst sort of fundamentalism” would be the kind of fundamentalism that called for the execution of homosexuals.
Or, I don’t know, maybe the kind of fundamentalism that routinely kills homosexuals as a matter of religious law.
This guy gets to run a giant national magazine? Seriously?
0 commentsDrum Porn
December 18th, 2008
Galley Friend L.B. and I were talking about Primus, Les Claypool, and other mad scientist-type musicians and he sent me this video of Joe Morello, from back in the day. If you’re a drum-line junkie, this is absolute pornography. His solo begins around the 2:05 mark and then goes insane around the 3:30 mark.
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Note also the points at which Morello switches to snare rolls with one hand so that he can use his free hand to (1) push up his glasses and then (2) pull the bass drum back toward him because it’s started to walk away.
Morello is just sick.
0 commentsThe Top Grossing Films of 2009
December 18th, 2008
Dustin has an inspired look-ahead.
0 commentsIdle Political Speculation
December 18th, 2008
If Hillary Clinton had been the Democratic nominee, would Colin Powell have endorsed her?
Just wondering.
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