actually, I think this is probably closer to what the White House's private reaction was.

The second one holds up better than the first, but I agree. Then again, I never thought Burton was much of a director. Strong production designer and visual conceptualist, but lousy storyteller, the exception being "Ed Wood".

I really liked the Dark Knight, but it's far from perfect. It had a lot of the same problems that Nolan has in his other movies: weak female character, lots of on the nose dialogue, and, in DK's case, it didn't know where to end. The last 40 minutes is pretty interminable and all but ruined by the terrible Two Face…

I knew when I saw this movie on opening weekend in 1997, it was going to be huge (no, I didn't realize how huge) because I hadn't seen a full audience in the afternoon SO QUIET through an entire movie. And it wasn't a bored silence. It was a silence of rapt emotions. Then, around the time Kate Winslet climbs back on…

I think I read him give an interview a few years back where he said having kids made him rethink all those dark roles he used to do, the Scorsese stuff that he made his bones on, basically. He said he didn't want to play bad guys anymore. That and all the Tribeca stuff seems to have changed his perspective on acting.…

Right? Since everyone knows which teams are going to the post season anyway, the regular season seems rather meaningless. Even Charles Barkely once said so.

I was laughing at stuff like this on the radio today. A bunch of freshmen saying "Penn State or life' or something like that. Dude, you're a freshmen. Even your own upper classmates hate you.

"Who knew Penn State stood for Penitentiary State?" - Albert Brooks

Bill Plaschke had a good point in LA Times (summarizing): For all those people defending Paterno by saying he did what he was suppose to do, other people dropped the ball, consider this hypothetical situation: If Paterno had gone to the admnistration and asked to change the colors of the football uniforms, and the…

Pretty much the reaction of people I know who tried G+. "I hate Facebook. See you over at G+. Wait. Nobody's here. Guess I'm back on Fb. What's G+ again?" It's like the stages of dying, or something. When will people realize that FB is now as integral a form of communication as the telephone. It's basically how we…

Michael Ian Black. Depends on which phase of Jobs's life they intend to focus on, but Black could transition well from the founding Apple to getting Apple back on its feet days.

Yeah, that's the only part that I don't like. It doesn't make any sense to me and just seems buggy. Otherwise, the bigger picture icon is good and the real time ticker was something they had 2 years ago, but it was integrated into the actual news feed. Funny, people bitched when it was taken away, now they're bitching…

I think it was all the pre-freaking out by everyone - drivers, media, city officials - that probably resulted in things being smooth, so far. Unless you're one of those conspiracy theorists and think this is just a way for the government to clear the roads while they move Jimmy Hoffa's body from one the 310 to the 818.

WTF is an online acting class?

Her face looks odd. And frozen.

And I get pulled over for tinted windows.

Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby approve of this CIA outing.

While bashing Bay is fashionable, fun, and well earned, the real loser in this is the guy who had time to put this together.

There are Asian people in Georgia?

My favorite are the occasional posts on my FB news feed from people who say "Goodbye, all. I'm going off the internet for awhile: No FB, no tweeting, no blogging. Nothing for awhile." Then they proceed to update their FB page and accept friend requests for the next week.