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Archive for April, 2009

“The Soloist” will be a test t…

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

“The Soloist” will be a test to see which bloggers know how to spell “JUILLIARD.”

All parents who homeschool the…

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

All parents who homeschool their kids are aware of the stereotypes. They all just think they’re the exception.

Plus: Landscapers beautifying …

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Plus: Landscapers beautifying the lawn and rosebushes outside my apartment. Minus: SHUT THOSE MACHINES OFF!! I’M TRYING TO WORK IN HERE!!!

@DrewAtHitFix Your wife would …

Monday, April 20th, 2009

@DrewAtHitFix Your wife would probably understand it better if you were wearing pants.

The Norwegians never do any wo…

Monday, April 20th, 2009

The Norwegians never do any work. What a bunch of Scandilazians.

Outdoor Starbucks tables need …

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Outdoor Starbucks tables need 1) nearby electrical outlets and 2) to not be positioned downwind from smokers. But the weather is beautiful!

@devincf Some people just don’…

Monday, April 20th, 2009

@devincf Some people just don’t know what the words mean. “Blog” isn’t defined narrowly enough to make it obvious when something is one.

@devincf Because for many peop…

Monday, April 20th, 2009

@devincf Because for many people, “blog” is what they call anything online that isn’t also a newspaper or magazine.

Various items for your amusement

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Happy April 20 to you! For some of you, 4/20 means celebrating marijuana. For others, it means celebrating Hitler’s birthday. For still others, it means celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Whatever your celebration of choice, I hope you are able to spend it with friends and loved ones, stoned.

Speaking of Columbine, one of the movies that got blamed for it was “The Basketball Diaries” — which, coincidentally was released April 21, 1995, and is the subject of this week’s edition of Eric’s Time Capsule at Film.com.

Last week’s Time Capsule was “James and the Giant Peach.” You may recall that this film was blamed when a disturbed youth hijacked a giant peach and rolled over his aunts with it.

Filling in for the ailing Mike Russell, I appeared on KUFO’s Cort & Fatboy program Friday to discuss “State of Play” and “Crank: High Voltage.” You can hear it in the C&F podcast, available here. I show up about two-thirds of the way in. (If you download it, I’m at 38:45.)

My late reviews of “Crank: High Voltage” and “17 Again” are also online, for your approval.

Elsewhere, Eugene Novikov summarizes the weekend box office in the style of H.P. Lovecraft.

Here’s FX’s safe-for-TV edit of Samuel L. Jackson’s famous line from “Snakes on a Plane.”

At Post Modern Barney, there is a list of uncomfortable plot summaries (some of them involving adult language). For example, “The Empire Strikes Back”: Boy is abused by midget, kisses sister, attempts patricide.

Finally, my 2-year-old nephew Logan says: “Wait, what?”

Those monkey-fighting snakes. …

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Those monkey-fighting snakes. http://tinyurl.com/c5sv5s


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