On Friday night, 800 of my closest friends and I watched Middle Distance Runner bring the house down at the 9:30 Club. I can say totally objectively that it was the most fun I’ve ever had in six years at that venue (full disclosure: I live with three members of the band). Saturday morning, I [...]
I spent part of a snow day last week watching Crash, the last of last year’s Best Picture nominees I had yet to see, and it was exactly as over-hyped and Hollywooden as everyone said it was. This year’s Oscars ceremony is on Sunday, and once again I haven’t seen nearly enough of the nominees [...]
Via Deadspin (of all places), I learned that Kurt Cobain would have been 40 years old today. I was never really that into Nirvana; my favorite song of theirs is “The Man Who Sold the World,” which is, as Cobain acknowledged after they played it during their acoustic set on MTV, “a David Bowie song.” [...]
If I weren’t such a dedicated professional, the top line in the image above would say “DELIVERED! YES!” instead of “Delivery exception.” I was at work this morning when the FedEx truck rolled by, and none of my federal-holidaying roommates were awake yet. Tonight: picking up my new computer at the FedEx place. Tomorrow and [...]
At a campaign event in Florida on Friday night, a heckler in the crowd called presidential candidate Mitt Romney “a pretender” because Romney is a Mormon and thus does “not know the Lord.” Romney responded thus: “One of the great things about this land is that we have people of different faiths and different religions, [...]