Monthly Archives: January 2009

Inauguration Day at My Son’s Kindergarten

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Thoughts

1.  ”Slumdog Millionaire” is the best damn movie I have seen this year.  Okay, it’s still January.  Let’s say “in a year.”  ”Years.”  Yeah, that’s good.  Go see it and if you’re SAG vote for it before Friday. 2.  Because … Continue reading

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Frost/Nixon

My goal this week is to see each of the five films nominated for “Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture” by the SAG union cabal which decides such things.  I’d like to see all the films featuring … Continue reading

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Worst News I’ve Read All Day

The idea of “Mad Men” without Matthew Weiner scares me. I foresee cute puppies, catchphrases and weddings. Let the nickel-iron asteroid come first. Pony up AMC!

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Why I am Not Visiting the Arctic Circle Anytime in the Next 250,000 Years

Vandalized Soviet Nuclear Lighthouses. I’m going to start billing my bed-linen laundry costs to Warren Ellis.

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2009

The way things are going up here on my vacation I may never have time to post a proper “out with the old, in with the new” type blog, but I certainly have time to share this gem of a … Continue reading

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