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Entries from October 2008

Presidential Candidate Equivalency Test #2

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Presidential Candidate Equivalency Test #2

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Tags: politics

Presidential Candidate Equivalency Test #1

October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Presidential Candidate Equivalency Test #1

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Tags: politics

Chicken arms

October 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Chicken arms

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Tags: politics

The Ocean

October 12th, 2008 · No Comments

When I look at the ocean, I want to gargle,…

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Tags: writing

Capturing faces in the movies

October 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

It looks like a special effect, as if the prop man had tied fishing line to the end of his nose and was tugging at it from off-camera.

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Tags: film

Discussing Trends

October 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I received an e-mail from a daily reader of this blog. In it, the reader complained of this blog’s recent infusion of political content. The reader’s note referred to it as a “disgusting trend.”

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Tags: house · music · politics · self

So, where the heck is Bill Ayers?

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments

I once sat on a board that included among its members one Richard Scrushy. Does this make me a perpetrator of corporate fraud or a millionaire?

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Tags: film · politics

Sarah Silverman’s Great Schlep

October 8th, 2008 · No Comments

http://vimeo.com/moogaloo

Hot on the heels of her Emmy win for the music video “I’m F***ing Matt Damon,” Sarah Silverman makes a plea to young Jewish-American voters.

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Tags: politics

Roger Ebert branches out

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Roger Ebert’s “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” was generally prefaced by a thoughtful analysis. I favored his choices, as they tended to agree with mine most of the time. To this day, if I need an opinion about a movie, I go to rogerebert.com to see what ol’ Roger has to say.

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Tags: film · politics

John McPenguin

October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here is John McCain last Friday, the morning after the vice-presidential debate between his running mate Sarah Palin, and Democratic Senator Joe Biden (the clip is only 13 seconds long).

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Tags: politics · TV