"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another." - Doctor Who

NYCSR has been doing some great little “Street Films” to promote discussion of how we use our streets. Some of them are up on YouTube, and my favorite is this one simply documenting pedestrian traffic in Times Herald Square — it’s just priceless, particularly the people lined up to cross the Avenue as buses [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2006 under Film, New York, Stuff I Like.
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It was inevitable: Evil Dead: The Musical. I can’t not see this!
Posted: July 20th, 2006 under Film, Theatre.
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Glad to hear I won’t be missing anything by not seeing A Prairie Home Companion, according to Matt Yglesias:
The obvious turns out to be correct here — if you don’t like the show, you’ll find the film kind of dull. My vague hope that because The Player is awesome, Robert Altman would pull something magical [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2006 under Film, Literature.
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Well that was annoying. This year’s ATS conference. I just wasn’t into it. Mostly because I was preoccupied the whole time with finishing my history class’s take-home exam, and then with trying to build a site for the local environmental group I’m helping start, Upper Green Side (and I mean “helping” in [...]
Posted: May 29th, 2006 under Damek, Film.
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I admit, I do like Colbert’s address to the White House Correspondents Dinner this weekend. (Available as video: part 1 and part 2; part 3 isn’t as good, containing a too-long pre-recorded sketch.)
…and the President’s thoughts during it are pretty enlightening.
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And finally, this [...]
Posted: May 3rd, 2006 under Film, Music, Politics, Tech.
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