December 2010
28 posts
TV & Death Penalty →
I remember a film ad many years ago that made a powerful case against the death penalty - on the usual liberal grounds of the irreversibility of decisions. It was powerful stuff. Now perhaps the best (relatively) new drama on US TV addresses the issue - pity I can’t link the full episode - CBS’s website sucks. In any event, a daring statement for television.
AA 955 - JFK-EZE →
J, courtesy of JR
Do you ever hold your breath when you write?
If I did, I'd never really breathe.
Kubrick, Somehow, in Kansas →
In keeping with the filmic theme, “Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy” was the first thing that came to mind.
“But for those who don’t share her idea of fun, she’s as appetising...”
– Eyre reviews “Ke$ha.” Ugh.
WatchOne great waste of money.
“If Berlusconi did not exist, we would have to invent him.”
– Fabrizzio Cicchitto, Italian PdL lawmaker.
“Those who fall under fire fall neither as whites nor as blacks. They fall as...”
– PM Clemenceau, 1917
WatchVladimir Putin, Legend - Part II
“The trouble is that though the wine (…) releases the imagination, it can...”
– I usually quote Brule’s reliably decadent Fast Lane, but this weekend’s Slow Lane really had something. Kudos to Eyres.
“If it takes a bed to make a marriage, it takes dinner table to make an empire.”
– CSM, the one and only. Courtesy of MJE
“You even work too hard at passive aggressiveness.”
– Jeff Wenger
“Sound Level: Conversational, leading into a late-evening Europop.”
– NYT Dining & Wine
Being More Like Jack
What makes a guy get bored in a dating situation?
Excellent question, Liz. Answer is: "questions like that." (...)
Have you ever been to a shrink?
No, I believe that when you have a problem you talk it over with your priest, or your tailor, or the mute elevator porter at your men's club. Then you take that problem and crush it with your mind device. But for lesser being, like curly haired men or people who need glasses, therapy can help. And Lemon, I want you to get better - and I mean this - because I am tired of talking this much to a woman I'm not having sex with.
“Tories are used to being hated, says a senior Conservative.”
– Bagehot, December 4th, 2010
Vladimir Putin, Legend →
‘Putin and the King’, who likes to be thought of as Batman. Which makes Medvedev Robin.
Best. Blog. Ever. →
Nothing else to say: it’s just perfect.