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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?”

Maybe it’s because it’s Friday, but that should make me happy, right? Maybe it’s the gloom and grey of the rainy day, but I’m still a San Franciscan at heart and have an affinity for grey skies. Whatever the case, I’m not all that inspired today, even though I’m incredibly excited to see Todd Solondz’sContinue reading “MISCELLANEOUS MISCELLANY: THE UNINSPIRED WEEKEND EDITION“

Last night at the Walter Reade I saw two of the “Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan – 1948-1953” programs which are a one of the special events of the New York Film Festival. When my girlfriend asked me how they were, I really couldn’t come up with anything to say other than, “TheyContinue reading ““SELLING DEMOCRACY” — IT’S NOT QUITE DEJA VU, BUT IMPORTANT NONETHELESS“

Just two days ago I bemoaned Gil Cates’ hiring to produce the Academy Awards yet again. But one of, if not the, most important jobs of the Oscar-broadcast producer is the choice of host. Well today, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced that they’ve hired Chris Rock to host next February’s Oscar-cast.Continue reading “OK, I (MOSTLY) TAKE IT BACK”

I came home last night to find the new “Revivals & Repertory” circular from Film Forum in my mailbox. Aside from being one of the few places anywhere to see small indie and foreign films that may not get a larger release, their other programming is often fantastic. From great revivals such as Billy Wilder’sContinue reading “ALLOW ME TO (FILM) GEEK OUT FOR A MOMENT WHILE I THANK GOD FOR FILM FORUM”

I have a couple tickets to the New York Film Festival which I can’t use. Unfortunately, it’s literaly “a couple” tickets, and the two aren’t for the same film. The first ticket is for tonight’s 9 PM screening of Lodge Kerrigan’s latest film Keane which I’ve heard is fantastic. The second is for Friday’s 6Continue reading “NYFF TIX FOR SALE: KEANE AND SARABAND“