February 2009
42 posts
For Those Keeping Score
“Holy Night” is gaining fast on “Two Cathedrals” for the title of My Favorite West Wing Episode.
January 2009
55 posts
your World Capital Temperature Comparison for...
In which we say: Fuck it, it’s Friday, I just want to move.
New York: 34F
Los Angeles: 78F
London: 39F (current local time 9:30pm)
Paris: 34F (current local time 10:30pm)
Rome: 41F (current local time 10:30pm)
So I’ve given it a little distance, and after 36 hours, a single fact from that Obama White House habits story is still rankling me.
Although his presidency is barely a week old, some of Mr. Obama’s work habits are already becoming clear. He shows up at the Oval Office shortly before 9 in the morning, roughly two hours later than his early-to-bed, early-to-rise predecessor.
Um…Mr....
your World Capital Temperature Comparison for...
In which we remember that 4 degrees is a small price to pay for the privilege of protesting the financial crisis by…not working:
New York: 33F
Los Angeles: 78 F
London: 34F (current local time 9:30pm)
Paris: 30F (current local time 10:30pm)
Rome: 41F (current local time 10:30pm)
Note: I have a feeling that Los Angeles is going to be DQed soon just on principle.
American Royalty
Why are the Kennedys legitimately awesome and not just the inheritors of corrupt political and social power bought by their (great) grandfather/mobster, you ask?
Because they name their kids “Kick.” Kick Kennedy. THAT IS PLAIN FANTASTIC.
Oh my god, this movie. →
your World Capital Temperature Comparison for...
In which we learn that a sense of history or the perfect pain au raisin can affect one’s elemental experience (for the better):
New York: 35F, rain
Los Angeles: 71F, sunny*
London: 43F, light rain (current local time 9:30pm)
Paris: 32F (current local time 10:30pm)
Rome: 45F (current local time 10:30pm)
*oh come on.
the Obamas' $5 Jonas Brothers bet →
You guys, I can’t.
“I’m not going to take her money though.”
[Amanda falls dead of cute shock]
your World Capital* Temperature Comparison for...
In which the knowledge of our poor choices is reaffirmed:
New York: 30F
Los Angeles: 63F
London: 43F (please note: current local time 9:30pm)
Paris: 36 F (current local time 10:30pm)
Rome: 45 F (current local time 10:30pm)
*Please remember as always that this is a comparison of cultural (and not political) capitals. If you want to live in D.C., this exercise is lost on you...
Also this. →
Confidential to Darren Aronofsky
A Bruce Springsteen song is not a substitute for artistic decision.
secret
I’m going to see ‘The Wrestler,’ but I wish I were going to see ‘Little Women.’
Danny: I am
An 8th grade girl
Waiting for her aol ims from her crush.
And wondering if his personal quote applies to me.
Watch for the "hint" at the end. →
In case you wanted to buy me a present. →
I’d really, really like for Amanda Knox to be found innocent, not only for the sake of Italy’s legal system, but for, you know, my Google record.
Just sharing.
I would kill/maim for some Mellow Mushroom right... →
“People say, ‘How can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight...”
– I thought I had heard all the Bushisms; I’d definitely never heard this one, and I died.
Zooey Deschanel is better than me in yet another... →
“Once upon a couple of weeks ago …
I’m in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year’s. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelry: swinging doors, sweethearts falling in and out of the season’s blessings, family feuds subsumed or resumed. Malt joy and ginger despair are all in the queue to be served on this, the quarter-of-a-millennium mark since Arthur Guinness...
WatchNeil Patrick Harris kills me.