January 2012
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December 2011
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October 2011
8 posts
“It also further illustrates how new distribution systems are providing premium...”
– This is a real quote from a real network CEO, who is explaining the Netflix-CW deal and giving me a new H-ween costume idea (monetization window)
September 2011
2 posts
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August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
3 posts
Watch
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If you plan to be around me this summer, I hope...
April 2011
2 posts
Certified good movie
If the name Kiarostami makes you think “boring part of sophomore-year film class,” let me tell you something: either you have gotten wiser since college (possible) or he has gotten less boring (very possible). Either way: GO SEE CERTIFIED COPY. Especially if you like it when movies are taut and masterful.
March 2011
4 posts
WatchThis train seems fast and cool.
(thx Eitan)
This 4-year-old gets it →
What do you think about the world?
I think it’s pretty good, but not if you’re alone or scared or dead or something like that.
Wild Flag Wild Flag →
That stupid cat
Liz: i have a theory that anyone who likes to travel a lot is someone who is comfortable with change.
Lesley: [...]
Liz: it's not that great of a theory
Lesley: it's a reasonable theory! i wouldn't call it genius.
Liz: it's no e=mc2
Lesley: but it's definitely better than schrodinger's cat.
February 2011
3 posts
How to Ask Rich People for Money - wikiHow →
January 2011
6 posts
“This is like Iggy Pop singing “My Funny Valentine,” which he does very well.”
– Roger Ebert on the Coen Bros making a straight (OR IS IT?) genre film
Some Wikipedia Facts about Michael Crichton
1. By his own account, he was approximately 6 feet 9 inches (2.06 meters) tall in 1997
2. At Harvard he developed the belief that all diseases, including heart attacks, are direct effects of a patient’s state of mind. He later wrote: “We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.” Eventually he came to believe in auras, spoon bending,...
As featured in John Sayles’s The Return of...
December 2010
4 posts
WatchCELERY IS NOT A PIG-OUT FOOD YOU MONSTER WOMAN
Which is funnier: the fact that Michele Bachmann’s favorite song is “Taking Care of Business,” or the fact that she was so quick to the draw with that answer?
“I definitely have a favorite song, and it’s definitely ‘Taking Care of Business’.”
November 2010
6 posts
I don't understand Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan's...
Compare this, from last April:
In a pretty genuinely touching moment, Tracy Morgan lost his composure when asked about his 30 Rock boss Tina Fey on the Oprah Winfrey Show today. “She’s my friend. I love her,” he said. “She understood that I knew who I was. Where everybody else [said]: ‘Oh, he don’t know. His whole career is chance.’ And she understood that I was making choices. I...
andrewjay:
“Basically, if you take Lisa Murkowski’s name and make an anagram out of it, we’ve seen it.”
Heh heh. REALLY?
I accidentally voted for “Sit on a potato pan, Otis.” I hope it counts!!
October 2010
8 posts
Women be eating salad
Me: I’ll have the “homestyle breakfast.”
16-year-old Waiter: The salad breakfast?
That was the peak of my experience at the @Union cafe in Allston (don’t go there).
This is one of my favorite new songs
