Entries from January 2008

January 26, 2008

Big-Ups Movie: Half-Nelson

Just watched Half Nelson. Great movie.
To tell you the truth, the very premise of this movie involving a relationship between a teacher and his middle-school student struck me as a recipe for creepiness, but it turned out to be an utterly appropriate and highly believable one. I’ve gotta give the writers credit for [...]

January 23, 2008

Bush Lied! & Other Sad News …

This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but it appears Bush lied about Iraq. OK, more specifically, he and his cabal of schemers made 935 false statements about Iraq over a period of two years preceding the war, according to a study by two nonprofit journalism organizations. Well, we can [...]

January 15, 2008

Say It Ain’t So!

Wow, three posts in one day — this is more productive than I’ve been in over a month! Anyhoo … word has come down from on high (that is, espn.com) — our Golden boy DeSean is officially gonna try out his luck in the NFL. No surprise here, despite the suggestion he threw [...]

January 15, 2008

The Small-Mac Unveiled

And the race is back on in Sub-Notebook World. Steve Jobs unveiled a beauty that maxes out at less than 2 cm thick and 3 lb in weight … once again demonstrating that in one fell swoop, he is capable of both topping himself in product-launch style points — Who else would unveil the [...]

January 15, 2008

Inaugural Post

Of course, it’s past 3 a.m. — the perfect time of night for blog cherry-popping. Finding myself unemployed and running at less than maximum productivity, I’ve hit up the Internet and decided to give this blogging thing another shot. For the next few weeks, at least, I should have an abundance of time [...]