January 2010
53 posts
Nine Books You Should Buy From Not Amazon →
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“The Court’s blinkered and aphoristic approach to the First Amendment may...”
– UNDERNEWS: JUSTICE STEVENS’ DISSENT
9 Books that I Can't Wait to Read →
Haiti TV coverage: Reporters saving lives is good,... →
(via mikehudack)
“The promotion of those stories, which is a separate media business issue, still can emit an uncomfortable vibration. But in the end, we’d rather have Robin Roberts find that orphan.”
Agree. It feels dirty, until you realize that these people are down there for their jobs. And they see where they can help…just like any of us. Maybe I’m drinking the...
Sunday Sighs...The West Wing, Josh & Donna →
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If you are flamable and have legs you are never...
amandaisinfant:
-mitch hedberg.
Aaron Sorkin Writes Bartlet Meets Obama
I know it’s old…but it’s so good.
Aaron Sorkin writes a meeting of Barack Obama and Jed Bartlet:
OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.
BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.
OBAMA Which was?
BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.
OBAMA And?
BARTLET I...
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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) on Vimeo
Joe Nicolosi has a friend called Amanda, whom had never seen a whole Star Wars film.
When he asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she said that she would, but that she already knew what happens. So Joe took out my voice recorder and asked her to start from...
“[THE KNAVE’s house. THE KNAVE is in his bath]
THE KNAVE I am conducted to a...”
– Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
I survived 2009 →
“Vladimir Nabokov’s final work — an unfinished manuscript scholars call The...”
– Nabokov Novel to Be Published, Against Dying Wish : NPR
Sunday Awesome: Gail the Goldfish! →
Gail the Goldfish
I just discovered this awesome easter egg in The West Wing…then discovered that someone awesome has created an entire website as an homage to Gail the Goldfish!
Gail first appeared on The West Wing early on in Season 1…Since that episode, Gail has become more than a prop on a set, she’s become the focus of private jokes between the West Wing production team and eagle eyed fans of the...
Dream Occupation: Romance Novelist →
“It’s undeniable that Avatar is emphatically a fantasy about race....”
– When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like “Avatar”? - Avatar - io9