Winning!
This pretty much sums up what is occupying the attention of Americans these days. Sorry, Libya.
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The President’s Speech
Is it possible that Charlie Sheen has plunged so far into the depths of celebripravity that there isn’t enough crazy mojo left out in the ether for Mike Tyson anymore? This is a potentially transformative time for Iron Mike.
Waxing Philosophically with Eddie Lauter
Went to the park last weekend to catch up on some reading. One of my little known habits is that I prefer to sit on the bleachers, in view of an empty baseball field. For some reason, I’ve always found baseball fields to be a very calming presence, and good for doing serious thinking. I was sitting there pouring through Joseph Campbell’s Occidental Mythology, when an older man in a tracksuit walked over, glanced up at me, and said, “They got any chinning bars around here?” Continue reading “Waxing Philosophically with Eddie Lauter” »
Cinderella Story
Kudos to Bill Murray who just won his first official Pro-Am golf tournament this weekend. Does it matter? You tell us, Bill.
We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Otherwise known as, we probably have no genuinely new ideas. Ever.
Keys to the Zebra
Another dubbing masterpiece from DJO.. Welp, I’ve got to skedaddle. I’m having a tattoo of Jesus waterboarding on my shoulder…
A Honky Tonk in Cloud City
Kick ass mashup of the Coasters song, “Down in Mexico”, set to The Empire Strikes Back. via Milk and Cookies.
A Pink Odyssey
For those of you who may or may not enjoy quasi-legal forms of entertainment, this may enhance your own internal odyssey. It’s the final sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with the soundtrack replaced by Pink Floyd: Echoes. This is the lesser known version of playing Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, to a sequence in the Wizard of Oz. And the payoff is quite good.
Hobbes as Tyler Durden
Pretty great mashup here, even if you’re not the Sunday comic reading-type.
A Latter-Day Prophet/Pundit
Been staying up past my bedtime and re-watching Network. If you’re not familiar, the Paddy Chayefsky creation is one of the finest screenplays ever written. It also eerily predicts the rise of pundit-driven entertainment/news. Many commentators have noted that NewsCorp’s Glenn Beck is a rather transparent re-creation of Howard Beale…