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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Could I have any higher regard for "Studio 60" before it even airs?

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You wouldn't think so, given its cast and crew. But apparently, I can, because I just read in the selfsame EW that the writing staff inc...
Friday, September 08, 2006

Oh boy, "Girls."

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So I'm flipping through the Entertainment Weekly TV Fall Preview issue. In the writeup on the new, Sherman-Palladinoless season of Gilm...

Cruelty, thy name is theatre

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Sideways was one of the movies I loved most in the past couple of years; I was pleased when it was nominated for and/or won all those award...
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Oh, Mr. Varkentine...come now!

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I've been noticed by the web page for The Jack Benny 39 cent stamp campaign . I share space on the page with (among others) a couple of ...
Wednesday, September 06, 2006

"I don’t want to be the person I will be if I stay here.”

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Harry Anderson is leaving New Orleans . Harry Anderson, the illusionist, comic and former star of sitcoms like “Night Court” and “Dave’s Wor...

Okay...I freely admit this is a cheap shot...but come on...

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Via A Socialite's Life : Justin Timberlake...who will be voicing King Arthur in animated feature "Shrek The Third," You know....
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Now that, my friends, is comedy

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Guerrilla artist Banksy hijacked a shipment of Paris Hilton cds and replaced the cd with a disc of his own music ... he also replaced the in...
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Monday, September 04, 2006

Labo(u)r day address

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I refuse to believe that the hardworking people of these United States would not have wanted me to get my mail on this, their day. That said...
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Sunday, September 03, 2006

Convergence

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There was a month or so there, around 1984, when if you asked me who I would want to be if I could be anybody besides myself I would have sa...

The lord taketh away, and the lord giveth.

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As my friends and fans know, this season I expect to be saying "no, thank you" to Gilmore Girls after the departure of creator Am...

Random Flickr-Blogging: IMG_6074

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Today I seem to be in the mood for a few romantic locales... This is very much the kind of place I liked to play as a child when given the c...
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Saturday, September 02, 2006

“I’m still hopeful,” he said, “but it’s an act of will now..."

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Michael Tolkin is the author of the book The Player , a sexy Hollywood satire which he adapted into the screenplay for the Robert Altman fil...
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Friday, September 01, 2006

I admit the irony of this song was never really lost on me...

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It's just in 1989, I never knew it was gonna be so ironic so quickly. Sometimes I feel so alive Sometimes I see so clear Just like the w...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Poetry corner

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I don't know what I'm doing Anymore If I ever did Noises from the outside world Fill me with Paralysis There is nothing There is no ...

I'm stealing this picture just because I like it

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I stole it from Tom, on whose blog it's part of a post about climate change. This is an important topic...but I just like the picture.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

The rule of threes...

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Things that scare me Three ideas: -The idea that the current administration really has FUBAR'd things so badly it'll take 20 years t...
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Well it hasn't been your day, your week, your month...

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Thanks to Jen , who sent me the School Reunion: The '80s set from my Amazon.com wish list for my birthday (not that the rest of you sho...
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Monday, August 28, 2006

Katrina and the Waves

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Just go read Krugman. Via the TG Women : Last September President Bush stood in New Orleans, where the lights had just come on for the first...

New stuff from our man Mariano!

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"...the unofficial official 'mystery artist' of Dictionopolis in Digitopolis." You can see more of his recently-posted wor...

You have to get used to losing things in life, or you’re done for

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John Kander & Fred Ebb were so linked that the name of one was once a crossword puzzle clue for that of the other. As I've said befo...
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"...a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice."
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