2046
Over last weekend I saw 2046 from my Netflix queue. It's strange that it's already been to Cannes etc. and I can actually see it on DVD, but it's only being released in US theaters this weekend. I...
View ArticleKurt Andersen's Friends Live Among the Wolves, in Finland
"The Wire is a remarkably excellent drama about drugs and corruption in Baltimore, but in the three years since it premiered, no one has ever mentioned it to me." -From Andersen's bizarre attempt to...
View ArticleLonger Form Review of 2046 (UPDATED)
Last night I did a synopsis. Today, in the time for the weekend, I'm going to do a somewhat longer review.2046 picks up the character that Tony Leung played in In the Mood for Love a few years down the...
View ArticleAnd Another Thing About That Weird Kurt Andersen Piece
His whole argument comes down to this one disingenuous paragraph, which I'll quote at greater length than I did below here:Deadwood is great, yet it has not yet achieved a critical mass of buzz, maybe...
View ArticleSome Blog Posts (Like You Need Them)
KatrinaI'd always been fascinated by New Orleans - the culture, the architecture, the food, the history, and had always wanted to take a trip there. I finally got around to taking that trip last summer...
View ArticleThe Flight that Fought Back
Last night I saw on the Discovery Channel the premiere of The Flight that Fought Back, the new documentary about the heroes of United Flight 93, the "average" citizens who won the first battle in the...
View ArticleBut Nothing Went Wrong I Tell You, Nothing!!!!
Well, I just heard on CNN and then verified by checking Fox that Bush says he accepts responsibility for things that the federal government did wrong in the response to Katrina. This puts his more...
View ArticleQuotes of the Day
"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government"."To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility.""Are we capable of...
View ArticleEverything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
If posts and exchanges like this and this tell me nothing else, it's that I need to stop doing this. I'll still be blogging though, just in a completely different register about completely different...
View ArticleThe 2,000th Death
(Note: I will still occasionally blog on political/controversial stuff here, but primarily I will be blogging on pop culture at Blatherist)A few days ago virtually every newspaper put something on the...
View ArticleImpressions From the Open Source Media Launch Event
Yesterday was an amazing day and it was a great privilege to be a part of it. I don't mean that it was a historic day in the development of media or anything like that. I still, like Jeff Jarvis, don't...
View ArticleThe Political Panel
The political panel included John Podhoretz, Richard Fernandez of the blog "The Belmont Club", David Corn, Claudia Rosett, and Larry Kudlow as the moderator. For most of the panel Fernandez closed his...
View ArticleJudith Miller/Senator John Cornyn at OSM Launch
And now we move on to the most star-studded part of the day. Lisa Ramaci, Judith and I were all seated one table away from the table of "luminaries" which included John Podhoretz, David Corn, Roger L....
View ArticleThe Party
Now we're finally onto the party, the final installment of this epic four-part saga. First of all, everyone should read Karol's account of the party. She does the best write-ups of parties, really...
View ArticleBig Roundup Post on OSM/Open Source Media/Open Sores Media/Pajamas Media/Name...
Woooh doggies! So that whole have-a-splashy-launch-to-create-good-buzz-early thing didn't go too well, huh? Unless you've been living under a rock, or getting your news entirely from Roger L. Simon,...
View ArticleFurther Roundup of OSM stuff
The Name ControversyA complete explanation of this, from the person whose blog and radio show they tried to steal the name from, can be found here. Brendan also responds nicely to the bizarrely...
View ArticleBREAKING: OSM to be PJM Again (UPDATED)
Roger L. Simon and Charles Johnson have relented and given the name back to Christopher Lydon. Their note about it makes them sound unserious and like they don't know what they're doing. It also...
View ArticleOh Yeah, I Have a Blog
Content goes here right?I told everyone at the Pajamas Media/Open Source Media/Open Sores Media/Flannels Media/whatever it's called party that I was going to be back to regular blogging here. I figured...
View ArticleAm I Blogger?
Evidence Against: I don't really have time to post anything anymore.Evidence For: However, I am going to the big blogger ChristmaHanuKwanzaa/Eid/Festivus/Winter Solstice/whatever party.
View ArticleBack from the Dead . . .Maybe
Well, life continues even if you don't blog. Here's the update: The crazy, high stress, long hours job I obliquely referred to the last time I posted lo six months ago was being a New York City rental...
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