Getting at the truth of ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ Heading into Sunday’s Academy Awards, “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is undoubtedly the most buzzed-about film in the documentary feature category. But the uncomfortable question persists: Is it real?
An excellent article by Paul Ford: When it arrived the web seemed to fill all of those niches at once. The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a radio. Which meant that people expected it to answer the questions of each medium, and with the promise of advertising revenue as … Read more
The media re-gifts cliche holiday stories Isn’t it remarkable how every December there are always 10 Most Dangerous Toys to stay away from? And that there is always a War on Christmas flaring up somewhere? Unfortunately, ’tis the season for the media to put its collective brain on layaway and re-gift the same tired old … Read more
A Chinese man and his Jewish friend are walking along one day when the Jewish man suddenly slugs the Chinese man in the mouth. “What was that for?” the Chinese man asks. “That was for Pearl Harbor!” “Pearl Harbor? That was the Japanese. I’m Chinese.” “Chinese, Japanese, what’s the difference?” They continue walking in silence, … Read more
I bought two items online on Black Friday. Both are about the same size and weight and both shipped from the same place. The one that shipped via UPS is out for delivery. The package shipped via FedExGround has an earliest arrival date of 7 Dec. How does FedExGround manage to be so consistently awful … Read more
Tonight we tried to go to dinner at Ken Oringer’s Coppa. We arrived at 6:00 (they open at 5:30) and were told we’d need to wait until 7:00. Fine. So we put our name on the list and went to grab a drink. When we came back at 6:50, they said they couldn’t possibly have … Read more
Not only is the “art” incredibly bad, the commentary is unintentionally hilarious. In true Tea Party form, he claims to be non-partisan. Well, except for hating Obama, liberals, and college professors. http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/
http://xkcd.com/802/
An excellent article on the Tea Party http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/210904 A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it. which … Read more