40. East/West College Bowl (Key and Peele, S02E02) Honourable Mention The new fall shows (30 Rock, S07E01) Emo "Teenage Dream" (Glee, S04E04) Stray Observations "He took me to Torrisi. That kinda showed me something." (Treme, S03E02) "It's like memory foam." (New Girl, S02E03) "My scar…
Date Archives October 2012
The tunnel vision sets and straight ahead has never looked this clear
Today is my 30th birthday. Once upon a time, I told people that I would cease to exist at age 30 – not kill myself, but…something would happen. I figured a deadline, however delusional, would push me to wring the most out of my 20s….
In the pipe, five by five
I saw this at a newsstand today and lolled: Last month, Eastern Poland launched a promotional campaign to encourage start-up business in the macroregion. The concept? Shame. As seen in The Economist: The child is less forgiving in the Polish version: Aaaaand the unintentionally comical…
Morgan Dixon
I didn't recognize the actor who played the rogue looper. "I flunked out of high school." Evidently, he didn't teach himself how to do a southern accent. "I have encountered a vergence in the Force." "Located around a person?" "A boy. His cells have the…
I'm just too much a coward to admit when I'm in need
Looper became partly financed by the Chinese production company DMG and went through some major changes to please the new investors happy. The script was rewritten to take place in China instead of France 60 years into the future when China has become the largest…
Thirsty work
U-S-A! U-S-A! Thirsty work