February 2010
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George is such a technician, and Vera is like a gymnast. Watching them work was...
– Actress Anna Kendrick, on how working with George Clooney and Vera Farmiga was like watching a technician and a gymnast perform an opera.
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Question Time
MUSIC: HAIL TO THE CHIEF
AVO: Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
BARACK OBAMA: Thank you. My fellow Americans. As you may have heard, I have been getting a lot of positive attention for a Q and A session I conducted last week with members of the Republican congress. I spent over an hour with those dingbats, and basically took them to school. It went so well, I tried...
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January 2010
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This is downright Hedbergian →
(elaboration here, if you need it)
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Black Ice →
Here’s a piece I wrote recently for American Hockey Fan, online home of comedy writer and werewolf expert Ritch Duncan. I’m technically a regular contributor to the site, if by “regular” you mean “infrequent.”
At any rate, I recently had the pleasure of attending a hockey game that took three days to finish, so making jokes about seemed like the thing to do. ...
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Joining the Writers Guild means becoming a part of the larger community of...
– A guy with my name who works on a site with the same name as this one, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.
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December 2009
13 posts
I am celebrating the birth of Jesus
by not posting so much at the moment. See you in 2010!
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Ben and Jerry's New "Cormac McCarthy" Line
Orchard Keeper Apple
Outer Dark Chocolate
Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West Sorbet
All the Pretty Heath Bar
Cities of the Plain Vanilla
No Country for Old Mint
The Rocky Road
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Hit him where it hurts →
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Local Woman Designs Sweater For Russell Crowe Film →
Is there anything in this world better than local news?
November 2009
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Ways Your Mom is Preparing for Thanksgiving
Tossing the salad
Makin’ gravy
Stuffing the Butterball
Having sex with your dad
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Other New Exhibits at the National Gallery
According to Reuters, the National Gallery in London has put on display a seedy reconstruction of Amsterdam’s Red Light District including life-like models of scantily clad women displaying themselves in windows. On display elsewhere in the gallery:
Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks Having Sex at the Diner
Pablo Picasso’s Old Naked Guitarist
Edgar Degas’ Girl With a Hat and Nothing Else
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Just like you
I am busy making my selections for the People’s Choice Awards. But “Favorite Comedy Movie” has me stumped this year. If only one of these films somehow stood out from the other four…
I give up. This is tougher than Carrie Underwood vs. Rascal Flatts!
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Not-quite-liveblog: Carrie Prejean on the Today...
In case you don’t know, or were lucky enough to forget, Carrie Prejean is the Miss USA contestant who famously revealed herself to be against same-sex marriage (or, as she put it, in favor of “opposite marriage”) in response to gossip blogger Perez Hilton’s question on the subject in the course of the pageant’s Q&A section.
Now she’s written a book (I...
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One Letter Off Movies
OK, so it was a Twitter meme…it still counts as humor:
The Wizard of AZ
O Brother, Where Art Thor?
Ratman
Ghostbasters
Pee Wee’s Bog Adventure
Barton Funk
You Don’t Mess with the Lohan
And in the adult section, behind the beaded curtain:
Revenge of the Nards
Midnight Rub
Superbed
Reservoir Dongs
The Boondock Taints