My all-time favorite online time waster? Easy: FilmWise‘s Invisible Quizzes. Can you identify your favorite actor or actress by posture only? Did you pay close enough attention to spot your favorite movie by the costumes and sets alone?
I’ve lost weeks on this site.
The LA Weekly claims something called Eddie Brandt’s Saturday Matinee is the best video store in LA? Talk about East Side snobbery! Everyone knows that Vidiots rules. Totally worth the forty minute drive on the 10.
After snapping up some staff picks, drive the two blocks (15 minutes) to Cha-Cha-Chicken for spinach quesadillas with dirty rice and beans.
Quick! Which photo is an official promotional image of FOX’s new Joe Millionaire and which one did I find by going to images.google.com and typing gay+cowboy?
Answer: Joe Millionaire is on the left, like it matters.
John Kenneth Galbraith, 95 years young today.
Why is he in the shallow column? Because he told Esquire in 2002: “I’ve always thought that true good sense requires one to see and comment upon the ridiculous,” which is a pretty good motto for the left side of this page (right in the UK). Then again, he could just as easily go in the grave column for inadvertently writing the epitaph for the Bush administration when he said “If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” Tonight, he will be saying something else: “More cake, please.”
Good news! Rupert Murdoch will never die: Murdoch delays retirement ‘forever’. And neither will this guy.
[via Mediabistro]
Dear Mom:
All I want for Christmas this year is a Don Zimmer doll with soft, pinchable cheeks and kung-fu grip. Pleeeeeeeeease! I promise that I will clean my room, walk the dog, and never, ever pick fights on my blog if you get me a Zimmer. Pretty, pretty please! With sugar on top!
Love, Matty
Anyone else get a real Capricorn One feeling from this quote:
The launching took place about 9 a.m., according to the state-run television network, CCTV. At about 9:30, the network showed a videotape of the rocket soaring to the heavens. China Sends Man Into Orbit, Entering U.S.-Russian Club by Jim Yardley
Can this guy be any more of a hypocrite? First Bush condemns sex tourism at the United Nations, and now he’s going on a sex tour!
Buried in the piece is one un-named official’s description of the trip as “the trip from Al Qaeda hell”: isn’t that what N.W.A. called their reunion tour?
What Bush will be reading on the plane: Platform, by Michel Houellebecq.
“Coupling,” NBC’s great hope to become a hit comedy for its soon-to-be “Friends”-less Thursday-night lineup, received a vote of no-confidence yesterday when the network announced that it was pre-empting tomorrow’s night’s episode.
NBC executives had no official comment, but they said the network wanted to give some extra attention to another new comedy, “Whoopi,” which has been just holding its own against difficult competition on Tuesday nights.”
NBC’s Affection for ‘Coupling’ Cools as Thursday Night Viewers Wander by Bill Carter
Earlier thoughts on Coupling from low culture
From The New York Post Sports Section, page 97:
Fox has been cutting it mighty close throughout the postseason, returning from half-inning commercial breaks with the pitcher in mid-windup. This squeeze-in-every-moment commerce finally caught up with all of us in yesterday’s ALCS Game 5.
From The New York Post Television Section, page 107:
THE Boston Red Sox-New York Yankees duel for supremacy in the American League Championship Series kept Fox on top of the primetime pack Monday… Reliable estimates for Fox’s live game coverage weren’t available, but the network was projecting that the game would lead the network to its highest-rated Monday since the “Joe Millionaire” finale in February.
[Thanks, Dave]