Author Archives: AaronOOF

I mentioned this the other day, but I’m tired. Tired of the whole damn thing. I can’t wait for Tuesday to get here. I’ll go to my little elementary school polling place, walk right by the bake sale the parents always seem to hold on election day, try to remember my precinct number, wait foreverContinue reading “FOUR DAYS UNTIL THE BIG ONE: HERE’S SOME HOMEWORK”

In case there’s anyone out there who still hasn’t seen the new video for Eminem’s song “Mosh,” you should definitely check it out. Even leaving aside the quality of the song, this is an absolutely remarkable video. Yes, it is in many ways a campaign commercial, but more importantly it’s a get-out-the-vote commercial. While itContinue reading “IT’S NOT EXACTLY THE “I-FEEL-LIKE-I’M-FIXIN’-TO-DIE-RAG,” BUT THIS ISN’T THE ’60S EITHER”

Did Willard Scott send his Smuckers birthday greetings to the NYC Subway? I wasn’t watching Today this morning, but he should have. The subways turned 100, and I’m sure it likes strawberry jelly as much as the next elderly person. As someone who lived in Los Angeles for eight years, four of them (gasp) withoutContinue reading “HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY MTA!!”

Back at the beginning of September, I wrote a post about IFC and Sundance Channel, praising them for cultivating their individual, and differing, personalities while both servicing the indie film audience. My premise was that while both channels showed any number of independent cinema both foreign and domestic, Sundance has become more real-world driven withContinue reading “THERE GOES THAT THEORY (FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!)”

I’m a huge fan of Errol Morris, and his last film The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara was in my opinion the third best film of 2003 while in other ways being by far the most important. Well today, Ben Chappel posted a long discussion with Morris overContinue reading ““I’M AN OBSESSIONAL CHARACTER TO BEGIN WITH …” — ME TOO, ERROL. MAYBE NOT QUITE LIKE YOU, BUT ME TOO!”

Conservative writer Andrew Sullivan has become one of my favorite daily reads. I disagree with him on many issues, but he never seems to be towing the party line. Maybe that’s just because he finds himself in a gray area that extends over the right and left: internationally hawkish and fiscally conservative yet socially liberal.Continue reading “ACTUALLY FAIR AND BALANCED”

Or something like that. I think that’s what I may be in. All funked up. Is it the weather? Is it a dearth of anything interesting actually going on? Certainly the blogosophere doesn’t need me to comment on Ashlee Simpson, although I do take offense to the Pepcid-AC excuse. Acid Reflux is a very seriousContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: IT’S CALLED A FUNK”

I apologize for my absence most of this week. A combination of a nasty head cold and a brief utter lack of motivation and inspiration – damn you wicked –ations – helped produce a basically empty week. I know I’ve become even more of a Daily Show/Jon Stewart fan site recently, but dammit if theContinue reading “MY LAST WORD ON STEWART? THAT DEPENDS ON SUNDAY’S 60 MINUTES“

Yeah, I’m sick. That’s why there was a lack of a post yesterday and, for all intents and purposes, there’s not one today. My head is too heavy and stuffy to actually think coherently about anything. For instance, I could have sworn that I read somewhere that Tucker Carlson said that Jon Stewart made aContinue reading “IT’S LIKE SOMEONE MANAGED TO FILL MY HEAD WITH COTTON BALLS SOAKED WITH WATER”

Jon Stewart is on CNN’s Crossfire right now and he’s laying the hatchet down on the show, on both Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala who both deserve it. He’s trying to be serious, and they’re trying to be funny, thinking he’s joking. I don’t know if CNN will replay this show, but I hope someoneContinue reading “JON STEWART TAKES CNN’S CROSSFIRE TO TASK: ONE OF THE BEST MOMENTS IN TV HISTORY?”