February 2009
15 posts
Mind Blown
Remember when DVDs were still pretty new, or farther back even LaserDiscs, and commentaries were routinely more interesting than the films themselves? I’m thinking of a VHS copy my friend used to have of the Chasing Amy commentary from the LaserDisc (classic) and also of the Armageddon commentary (where I first understood the Michael Bay joke). Well, I just recently purchased the...
January 2009
30 posts
“The song was featured in an episode of the The Simpsons entitled “Lisa the...”
– Thanks for clearing that up, Wikipedia. By the by, when this episode came out I was a junior in high school and I thought this joke was he most fantastic thing ever.
Curses!
All I wanted to do was stay in tonight and watch some BSG, and my TV is broken! I am ready to kill. Good thing my Roku player still works. (I know, get a life, but it’s cold out and I have leftovers and 3/5 of an afghan left to crochet and my fiancee is out of town and I can get drunk in public on a non B&T night.)
Lil Mama - I’m A Diva
- It ain’t no...
Best reason to leave the apartment in February so...
MONDAY MEATING
All You Can Eat at Hill Country
The best barbecue spots don’t have to sacrifice quantity for quality. Starting Monday, $25 at Hill Country will get you all the beef, chicken and pork ribs you can get through in one sitting, with an extra $2 for bottomless sides—in case you need a breather between briskets. 411: Mondays in February, 30 W. 26th St (between Broadway and...
Once again, I feel I have to take a stand.
DO NOT watch the Super Bowl at Monkeytown. This is the worst.
WatchLip Dub - TMBG
Weren’t we all in Jr. High/High School once?
“Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look...”
– NYT
Sometimes, when you act a bigot, you get outed as... →
“It’s hard to remember, but in 2000 Bush’s campaign plane was called...”
– Attackerman
“Dried beans. More economical, better tasting, space saving and available in far...”
– Mark Bittman’s white beans advice in this NY Times article makes me want to leave work this instant. When did I start absolutely loving beans?
Pseudo-science, perpetuated by scientists →
Jezebel just posted about a study claiming more intelligent men have a higher sperm count and are therefore more fertile.
Reasons why it is junk-science:
1. The study was done in Vietnam vets. The sperm counts were divided by intelligence. Except that the more intelligent guys, in general, worked as code breakers, accountants, desk-jobs basically. As in, far away from Agent Orange and whatever...
#1 in Netflix queue: A Blaffair to Rememblack
No more guest-stars! (Star-stars. Peter Dinklage-level is still okay.)
Veggie food
I have been tentatively working my way through Veganomicon. Usually I think vegan cookbooks are gross (for a group of people who talk a lot about whole foods and veggies, most vegan cookbooks I look at have more in common with Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee), but every time I looked at the book in the store I was interested, and finally I just bought it. And so far, everything has been awesome. I...
What type of Scotch makes the best Rob Roy?
I need to get a new bottle. Maybe I should drop into St. Andrews and ask them. I should go there anyway. Mmm, Belhaven Wee Heavy…
If Frank and April Wheeler were real and alive...
… their favorite movie would be Lost in Translation.
Not the most sapient thought, but every time I am reminded of how much that movie (LIT, I haven’t seen Revolutionary Road yet, just thinking book here) was wrong and awful I get angry at it taking my $11.50 all over again.
Watchdoree:
Undercover at the Atlantic Center Target. Needless to say, the shelves were bare—which is almost always my experience on the weekend, and ALWAYS my experience around holidays. If only I could always go at 9 a.m. on a Monday.
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One time at this Target I saw a checkout cashier START a fight with a customer, it escalated to punches thrown. I switched checkout lanes.