December 2009
32 posts
“A cockroach doesn’t think much about running, it just runs.”
– RW Daily: Your New Running Role Model: the Cockroach
“He assassinated gay Lincoln—this time, at the movies.”
– How Larry Kramer’s Boundless Outrage Has Changed the Course of AIDS — New York Magazine
“Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the...”
– Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck (Kalle Anka) cartoons on Christmas Eve. - By Jeremy Stahl - Slate Magazine
“I guess I refine my work to a degree, but I think the naïveness comes from the...”
– Ray Davies | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club
“If you visit the Louvre or The Art Institute Of Chicago, you will find nothing...”
– Commemorative Keepsake Yuletide Case File #152: Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage | Film | My Year Of Flops | The A.V. Club
Morpheus Babies
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“Now 46 years old, he’d spent much of his adult life trying to make a single...”
– Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine
The Explainer Questions We Never Answered in 2009.... →
“My son plays drums in a band, they play 6 hours, he wears a black derby, his face is blood-red, heat escapes from the scalp, is he loosing his hair because of this? He is 33.”
“He painted a quick Fuji watercolor image over his BFA diploma and sold it for...”
– Comics Comics: A Little on Makoto Aida
River Country - The DIS Discussion Forums -... →
River Country in Bad Decline. This whole thread is full of amazing shots of Disney’s abandoned, decaying waterpark.
“In that spirit, Baldwin ushers Wired through his greatest flops, leading by...”
– Stay in the Game: The Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin | Magazine
20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade -... →
I’ve been thinking about reading more sci-fi lately as a kind of brain-massage after all the anxieties and deep thinking of late.
The Unlikely Moviegoer
myyearofeverything:
Like Kevin Roose in “The Unlikely Disciple,” last night, I infiltrated a foreign land. In my case, the AMC Burbank 16, where they were simulcasting Glenn Beck’s live one-man show “The Christmas Sweater: A Return To Redemption.” Here is my account, which is also posted at my other blog:
I went with my hilarious friend Brendan McLoughlin, who bought the crucial pre-show...
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