Top 20 Films Since 1992

According to Quentin Tarantino: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz4K-Rxx2Bk[/youtube] This is an interesting list -- most of his picks (that I've seen) are fairly kinetic and/or atmospheric movies that seem to be reflective of…

Friday Open Thread — Halloween Movies Edition

This week, The Daily Beast is featuring the Top 11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time as selected by the total film geek Martin Scorsese. What is cool about this list is that they also provide some clips of each of the movies Scorsese has selected.

Banned Books Week

This past week has been Banned Books Week, the week the ALA and American booklovers shine a light on the effort to censor or remove books from public libraries or…

Newsweek Takes On Oprah

As much as we complain in the blogosphere about how the media covers issues, sometimes the media gets things right. The latest issue of Newsweek decides to examine some of…

Scrubs is back

Scrubs is coming back but not on NBC, on ABC Jan 6th. I have no idea if they can keep their chemistry being over ABC. They aren't exactly known for…

30 Rock Is Awesome & Other Stuff

Even the reruns that just aired like two weeks ago sparkle like a blanket of fresh snow in the moonlight. Anyway.... NBC keeps teasing a story about Chase Utley's F-bomb…

What I’m Reading

Reading is good, it is one of those things more people, like the host of idiots that come over here and try to spin each and every post that points out the irony, hypocrisy, recklessness, and out right bullshit of the GOP and it’s supporters.  People like them don’t read books, because they get all they need to know from reading the NRO, watching FOX news.  They are told not to read papers and books written by NYTimes pulitzer prize winning journalist, nobel prize winning economists etc.  Those people are dumb and biased.    Here is another book they won’t read.  It would educate them about the citizens of Afghanistan and Iraq.  It would tell them what they need to know about how those people (yes I said those) view Americans, how they view war, how they view each other in battle and how they view Americans in their country on their soil.  Sort of important things to know really, so when you are watching/listening a blonde bobblehead read a telemprompter and are dazzled by her insane reading ability and uncomparable brilliance you will stop yourself and say, “Hey, what she just said is complete bullshit”. But alas, why bother to read and learn on your own.  Support the war, put a magnet on your car and talk down people against it. 

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins: Book Cover

Pick up “THE FOREVER WAR”. Believe it or not daughter #2 had it on her summer reading list, she never finished it because she didn’t like the violence in it. Unbeknowst to me it was on the NY Times 10 best books of the year.