Category: Shallow

There is still something gawky and virginal about [Quentin] Tarantino. There’s almost no sex in his movies. He says that’s because he can’t deal with becoming yet another sleazy Hollywood director talking a girl into taking her top off…
From The Movie Lover by Larissa MacFarquhar in this week’s New Yorker (article, sadly, not online).
You mean like “Q.T.,” the character Tarantino played in Spike Lee’s Girl 6 in 1996?

The New York Times‘ John Markoff tells Online Journalism Review that “it’s not clear yet whether blogging is anything more than CB radio.”
If his quip sounds familiar, that’s because professional friend-loser Toby Young said the same thing about the Internet (in general) in Vanity Fair way back in 1995.
[OJR link via Romenesko]

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.”

A reader alerted us to the existence of MacUpdate: Macintosh Software & Games and, well, we laughed.
The lesson to be learned here is that if you know, when using cliched design cues like arrows and such, that they are in fact just that, i.e. outdated cliches, you’re better off not using them. But we like to think our more runic (and almost donkey-esque!) logo is a lot less elephant-like than theirs. Something about partisan politics, perhaps.
Although, the whole left-right, blue-and-orange thing is so, so weird. Our lawyer agrees.

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