May 15th, 2008
From owning 15 houses to homeless in just 2 years.
What’s the word I’m looking for?
Oh, that’s right: Awesome!
0 commentsThe Final Cylon
May 15th, 2008
A giant, very sophisticated, very smart bit of speculation. Courtesy of Galley Friend B.W.
0 commentsBlu-Ray, Hitch, etc.
May 15th, 2008
Galley Friend Santino has a couple of interesting posts up. One notes that Criterion is switching to Blu-Ray, which is about the first good news in hi-def DVD since Toshiba threw in the towel. If you want to get all hot and bothered, Criterion is doing a Blu-Ray release of The 400 Blows for October.
Also, Santino points us to the great Pete Suderman, who notes an eerie similarity between Chris Hitchens and a Speed Racer villain. Sonny then “>digs up the pics.
0 commentsAthlete of the Year?
May 14th, 2008
Check out Bonnie Richardson, who just won Texas’ state 1A track and field team championship by herself. By which I mean, she was the only person from her school at the competition, she entered five events, and placed high enough to take home the team title on her own.
Richardson’s title march began with field events on Friday when she won the high jump (5 feet, 5 inches), placed second in the long jump (18-7) and was third in the discus (121-0).
On Saturday, she won the 200 meters in 25.03 seconds and nearly pulled off a huge upset in the 100 before finishing second (12.19) to defending champion Kendra Coleman of Santa Anna. Richardson, a junior, earned a total of 42 team points to edge team runner-up Chilton (36).
That’s hard core.
0 commentsMobs of the World
May 14th, 2008
This forthcoming book on the Yakuza sounds pretty good. But it does get one wondering: Which international crime syndicate is the scariest? The Mafia, the Russian mob, or the Yakuza? (I won’t even count welterweights like MS-13 or the Aryans.)
On first blush, I’d guess the Russians because they’re stocked full of ex-professional spooks and soldiers, who are probably a cut above career criminals in intelligence and training. Plus, Stalingrad.
0 commentsGreatest Casting Ever?
May 13th, 2008
For Stone’s Bush movie: Scott Glenn as Donald Rumsfeld.
Perfect.
Any chance Stone could get Michael Hogan to do a cameo as John McCain?
0 commentsJimmy Fallon is the new Conan
May 13th, 2008
I’ve never been a consumer of late-night TV product (other than Law & Order re-runs and West coast baseball) and to be honest, when I have dropped in on Leno, Letterman, Conan, Arsenio, Magic, Sajak, McEnroe, Chevy, etc. over the years, I’ve never found any of them even vaguely interesting. I’m not capping on the performers, mind you–I just don’t get much out of the format, which feels uncomfortably like TV Guide Channel promotional filler.
That said, millions of people can’t be wrong! I’d be curious to know what others think of Fallon in this new vehicle.
0 commentsThe Greatest Piece of Furniture, Ever
May 13th, 2008
That’s right. I know what you’re thinking: Ooooo, a giant NES controller being used as a coffee table. BFD.
Except for two things:
(1) This dude built it himself, from scratch, using nothing but a scan of a normal controller.
(2) This coffee table is fully functional! For reals!
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