January 2010
25 posts
“His wife, a police officer, was five months pregnant at the time. Krassimir (the...”
– For Bulgarian Writer, Death Imitates Art - NYTimes.com
“Those of us who patiently, day after day, explain to a child or colleague that...”
– Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock. So very true — and most interesting take on the iPad I’ve seen.
“The Twilight Saga: New Moon” (PG-13, 130 minutes). The characters in this...”
– ‘The Your Movie Sucks™ files’ — Roger Ebert’s Journal
When calling a private school about admissions today, I had an experience equivalent to Patrick Bateman’s trying to get a table at Dorsia.
“It was really exciting to see some of the technologies that Adobe has...”
– Apple’s iPad — a broken link? (Adobe Flash Platform Blog). Putting on a brave face, are we?
“Apart from telling the film-makers what I don’t want to see in Tesco, then...”
– ‘Tesco sets up film studio to adapt hit novels’ — The Observer. OK, “that’s it”, then. Not interfering, you’re doing it wrong. Anyway, hilarious. Will probably go as amazingly well as Starbuck’s record label did. Via @ldn.
Japanese business men next to me at bar drinking whiskey. I thought that was a movie thing.
“Just tried the new Dominos pizza. It sucked. Could be because mine was...”
– CONTENT POSTED BY USERS IS NOT NECESSARILY SANCTIONED, ENDORSED OR SUPPORTED BY DOMINO’S PIZZA AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF DOMINO’S PIZZA AND THE DOMINO’S PIZZA SYSTEM. How sinister does “The Domino’s Pizza System” sound?
"Push the Envelope"
“This phrase came into general use following the publication Tom Wolfe’s book about the space programme - The Right Stuff, 1979.”
Really?
Cultural insight: America seems to enjoy the television of grownups playing with a ball.
Off to San Francisco for the first time in months. Sure hope they still have burritos. And beer. Enough for 5 days, too.
