February 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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April 2011
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All advice is autobiographical
It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. This list is me talking to a previous version of myself.
from How to Steal Like an Artist
March 2011
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Oil Blues
Premium in the Bay Area is $4.45 a gallon. More Middle East instability, anyone?
February 2011
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December 2010
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★★★ Let the Right One In
★★★ Let the Right One In Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
Entertaining, spare, new take on the genre. Kind of puts the innocence back into vampirism.
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Mark your calendar: Jan 12 on PBS’ American Masters, Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides. In the documentary, Bridges talks about they hesitation and uncertainty he felt about accepting the role that spawned millions of cult followers.
Meeting writers and directors the Coen brothers at a party, the pair told Bridges they had written a role for him. He was excited, but flabbergasted when he...
November 2010
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★★★★★ Casino (1995) http://imdb.to/G5752
This tragedy takes place against the glittering facade of the Vegas machine erected to extract the money from the wallets of its visitors and plays out with its characters’ greed driving the story in every possible direction to fill their base needs. DeNiro plays a professional sports bettor turned Las Vegas casino executive with ties to organized crime. The film is based upon the true story...
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Moleskine Hand of the Architect Book
The Moleskine Hand of the Architect book is a collection of three hundred & seventy eight signed drawings by some of the greatest contemporary architects. As a tribute to Piero Portaluppi, the Milanese architect who designed Villa Necchi Campiglio in 1932, The Hand of the Architect has served as part of a three-year project to raise funds to restore Villa Necchi.
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Jack Donaghy Quotes
Alec Baldwin is awesome. “Never go with a hippie to a second location.” “The secret to a strong, healthy head of hair is dove…blood.” “Graduate students are the worst.” “We all have ways of coping. I use sex and awesomeness.” “Peacocks can live up to 40 years. Longer if they’re not part of Mike Tyson’s zoo.” “What...
October 2010
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Addicted to Pawn Stars
★★★★ I discounted this show as another bullshit attempt to fill airtime on extended cable but History Channel’s Pawn Stars is hugely educational, fascinating, and entertaining. This is Antiques Roadshow Vegas style and offers bite-sized cultural anthropological nuggets in every episode.
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The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content...
– Chinese proverb (via reluctantbuddha)
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Beautiful Day
I’m up in the San Juan Islands and today was incredible. Sunny and low 60’s. I spent the day on Lopez Island. I saw three bald eagles, two trying to get a dead rabbit off the road and into the nest, and the other just flying overhead. Three harbor seals were watching the ferry I was on go by Shaw. Mt. Baker was out in the background behind the islands.
A notable trait of Lopez...
Female Presidential Candidate Comparison
Dilma Rousseff, a Brazilian Presidential candidate was a key player in an armed militant group that resisted Brazil’s 1964-85 military dictatorship, and was imprisoned and tortured for it. She is a cancer survivor and a former minister of energy and chief of staff to the current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
And we have Sarah Palin.
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The Social Network
When I saw a preview for The Social Network about a month ago, I couldn’t believe anyone would spend the time and money to make a movie about Facebook. Now the reviews are out and it sounds very good. Written by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men) and directed by David Fincher (The Game, Fight Club, Panic Room), it sounds like a winner.
I’m with Bob Mondelo on Fincher as a director:
When...
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