December 2008
25 posts
The Most Liminal Message Ever
Watching It’s A Wonderful Life last night with my family:
Me: “See? This movie is actually very dark and complicated and deep!”
My Mom: “Yes! The conflict of the movie is: “Do I want to just do whatever I want to do? Or do I want to settle down and get married.”
Perfect.
Nothing has ever better articulated how TRUE It’s A Wonderful Life Superfans really feel about the movie than this: It’s A Wonderful Life? It’s A Miserable Life!
IAWL is more Kaufman than Capra. I’ve always been confused by people who call the movie corny or cheesy. For a funnier take on some of the same themes, and I go back to this EVERY YEAR: Nick: What Went Wrong by...
“People should be able to name their kids “Adolf,” but not if...”
– Whoopi Goldberg on The View yesterday, confounding logic. (Paraphrased but I think verbatim, too tired to go watch it again just for a Tumblr post.)
Pretty Sure This Is On The Menu At WD50
a hot jello of baking brick fretted with awful straw.
peoplewhodeserveit.com
Me: Should be called “Give me my boring book deal please. Thank you.”
Gabe: “People white people hate.”
Coke Vs Pepsi. Lauren Vs Spencer.
Gabe Delahaye vs Verne Troyer.
Two Hollywood Lies That Everyone Sees Through
1. On late night talk shows when asked to set up their movie clip, they always know how to set up their movie clip but pretend to not know.
2. On the morning of an awards announcement, nobody nominated for an award ever sleeps through the nominations, until finally awakened by frantic calls from their manager.
Is Maddox Jolie-Pitt Stockpiling Weapons With...
From the new Brad Pitt cover story in Rolling Stone:
“Our seven-year-old was searching the word ‘weapons’ on Google the other day and ended up on some white-supremacist site. I’m sure now we’re on all kinds of watch lists.”
From Entertainment Weekly:
“For Mother’s Day, [Maddox] drew a machine gun, and Brad had it made into a necklace, which is...
Remember When
“THERE once was a time when big news events had the power to stun and, sometimes, to cause a certain amount of anxiety. Wars, earthquakes, airplane crashes, stock market busts, mass-murder sprees, kidnappings, duplicity in positions of public trust, political assassinations. These things could upset daily routine. They were reminders of the precariousness of the existence we tend to take for...
Lou Lumenick "Spoils" Seven Pounds For Morons →
The movie’s premise can be easily guessed by anyone who’s ever taken intro to philosophy: it’s the standard utilitarian thought experiment.
Book Deal of the Day
doree:
Crescent Dragonwagon’s FEARLESS WRITING: WRITE NOW, WRITE WELL, based on her successful workshops, this is a hands-on guide to working through fears and discomforts of writing by integrating process, craft and habit, to Brie Mazurek at Ten Speed Press, for publication in 2011 (world).
(This one’s for Lindsay)
Crescent Dragonwagon and Diablo Cody need to be friends.
Did Christians Cripple Our Economy?
That’s the provocative title someone out there, a real journalist, should give to his or her investigative piece on the rise of the “prosperity gospel” movement (“God wants us to have nice things,” basically) and the part it HAD to have played in the subprime mortgage crisis. Surely there are a lot of articles on this being worked on right now. Joel Osteen must be the...
Ugh, Maureen Dowd. Ugh.
“Given her frumpy start in comedy and her wooden start on 30 Rock, it was a dazzling Cinderella moment… She got her own slipper, writing and willing herself into the role, and the shoe wasn’t glass. It was a silver Manolo Blahnik.”
Noooooooooooooo. No SATC shoe metaphors in a Tina Fey article. Tina Fey represents the exact opposite of all that shit. Why is a good 89% of this...