Agreed — Crank 2 is way over the top, even compared to the original, but I found I enjoyed it more after listening to the How Did This Get Made podcast episode on it. http://www.earwolf.com/episode/crank-…
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Not active in the Academy myself, but I have a son who is and he told me the biggest perceived impact within the Academy is knocking all of the folks without recent credits off the voting lists. That will immediately skew the voting much younger, though again, that is a relative term within the Academy — 55 year olds…
Thank you for living the dream of all us Top Chef fans.
Oh yeah —definitely watching. Just finished Jeffrey Toobin’s The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson, which is a pretty good, and gossipy account of the murder and trial. I was practicing law in LA at the time, and knew some of the players in the legal community, so I followed the case closely at the time.…
I recall that post, but I’m not certain “closer collaboration” between Gizmodo and I09 is the same as elimination of one site or absorption by another. And the post expressly stated: “But the sites will also retain separate identities, with separate commenter communities.”
So, nothing about the fact I09 is apparently going away?
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Forrest MacNeil could have used this....
A great, and somewhat chilling story. Not quite the “kids do the darndest things” picture you get from the Our Gang films of the era. (Spanky and Alfalfa Wreck A Train!) I grew up in the early 60’s and often played on the tracks that ran behind the concrete wall in our back yard. The most we ever put on the tracks…
Excellent insight and advice. Interestingly enough, Comic book and television writer Mark Evanier just posted the initial installment of a series on the same topic — I guess rejection is never far from an author’s mind. http://www.newsfromme.com/2015/09/13/rej…
Yup. Old timer here who was in LA for the 84 Olympics, and despite the prediction of overwhelming traffic, the fact was that most folks left town or stayed home. Traffic was much lighter during the Olympics than anytime I can recall. (Except for during the Rodney King riots, when the freeways were like race tracks,…
I just re-read a bunch of these Alfred-writing-about-things-that-might-happen, in a collection and they were a lot of fun, albeit a bit repetitive plot wise (Batman marries Batwoman and eventually retires. Robin becomes Batman II. Batman and Batwoman’s son becomes the new Robin. Batman and Batwoman have to come out of…
Nicely drafted.
My Samsung Galaxy II, as I am about to throw it out a 12 story window, because of all of the weird crap it has been doing the last several weeks.
I appreciate the list because it has several books I wasn’t aware of and will now put on my reading list. (Dhalgren, The Long Tomorrow, First and Last Men and Starmaker.) Some of the others I have tried to read, but just couldn’t get through — Cryptonomicon, Infinite Jest and Gravity’s Rainbow. I think they have a…
Tried it once. Disgusting in flavor and texture. Probably the reason Aquavit was invented —to wash out the taste of it.
Love cilantro, and red peppers as well (green peppers, meh) but I cannot abide cooked carrots. Raw carrots —okay. But I find that cooked carrots taste overwhelmingly sweet to me, even without the brown sugar, honey, or maple glaze that some folks put on them. Plus the texture of cooked carrots (generally overcooked)…
Maybe not the worst, but oddest things I’ve seen/experienced.
Thanks — I will be laughing at that image in my head all day.
A law school classmate of mine actually tried the reverse ploy —having his girlfriend take the bar exam for him. The consequences were pretty severe for both of them —criminal charges. The Bar Examiners take that stuff seriously. http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-27/loc…