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and I never let the mic magnetize me no more

First: c/o IMDb: Jackie Chan and Jet Li team up together for the first time ever in The Forbidden Kingdom, filmed on location in China and featuring the martial arts choreography of Woo-Ping Yuen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). While hunting down bootleg kung-fu DVDs in a Chinatown pawnshop, Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) makes a discovery [...]

I still had two strong legs and even wings to fly

In lieu of actual content, here are some entertaining links: #: I pick on the kid a lot, but really, Ezra Klein does not strike me as very bright. In talking about using carbon taxes to fund government programs, he says the following (emphasis mine): This is the problem when people talk about replacing, say, [...]

I'll take on any man here that says that's not the way it should be

The clauses in this media blow expire in twenty-four hours; take it or leave it. Michael Clayton: What separates this film from others in the legal thriller genre – and a crowded little genre it’s become – is the focus on characters. You have to be broken in some fundamental way to devote sixty hours [...]

dollars and cents and no accidents, not in the name of democracy

Time to rant about economics again. First, some stupid journalism about housing: After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February. But the median home price tumbled by the largest amount on record. How did journalists meet deadlines before they could just hit CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V on a [...]

why you at the bar if you ain't popping the bottles?

So what did this past weekend hold? I finished up some revisions for a Neutrino video project on Friday. Then, at the last minute, I drove to Central Square to catch an IB Show. Serpico, Michelle McN., Manny R., Paul K. and others did a series of Boston-related sketches. They hit all the important notes [...]

everybody told her it was sweet and good

Some stuff about writing: #: I’m maybe ten to fifteen thousand words shy of the first section (of three) of The Levittown Barbecue Club. Already I’m much more excited about this novel than I am my last one. So much so, in fact, that I think I might pass around this first draft to readers [...]

insane in the membrane; insane in the brain

“Hey Professor,” you asked, “what are the four craziest things John McCain has said in the last month? Not just goofy or indicative of a radical political bent, but out and out deranged?” And here I am to tell you: #4: “Al-Qaeda Would Be Taking A Country.” Responding to a statement by Obama on February [...]

now she's with one of my good time buddies, drinking in some cross town bar

#: Unless something changes, I may end up doing karaoke on three consecutive nights this week. I may have a Problem that needs Care. #: I’m almost done with Scrabble Scrabulous on Facebook. The idea seemed cool enough – play a low-pressure game of Scrabble Letter Tiles with your friends. Let the computer do the [...]

don't give heed to temptation

I’m offering points off this media blow, but only if you give me your corners: The Plot Against America: An odd little novel. Roth gives an excellent depiction of a country’s slow descent into fascism, starting with an alternate history where Charles Lindbergh is elected President in 1940. He keeps America out of the war [...]

don't worry, be happy was the number one jam

Sorry to disagree with you, everyone on the Internet, but I wasn’t impressed with Barack Obama’s big speech on Tuesday. Obama took the pulpit today to denounce some speeches made by his pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, over the last six years. Apparently, Rev. Wright suggested that “the United States brought the Sept. 11 terrorist [...]

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