2008
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Things They Don’t Show You on "The Bachelor"
I don’t cook. Sure, earlier in my post-collegiate life, finances and a shorter commute (and perhaps youthful enthusiasm) had me attempting to prepare simple dinners: pasta, boneless chicken breasts, frozen hamburger patties, etc. That’s all fallen by the wayside. These days I eat out, or take out, or order in. But once or twice a […]
I’m Just Like J.D. Salinger!
The Los Angeles Times tackles the mystery of what happened to 80s icon John Hughes. He made some pretty good commercial films that evidently inspired some pretty good present-day commercial filmmakers before disappearing somewhere north of Chicago sometime around 1990. He is missed. Recently he briefly resurfaced as the source of the original story for […]
Oh the Cruel, Cruel Tease….
…of the “SiW Birthday List.”
Tony La Russa is a passive aggressive fuck
Anthony Reyes is not a great pitcher. But he has the potential to be a decent starter. If only his manager and pitching coach would stop clucking like a couple of hens. Yesterday, Reyes pitched six shutout innings in his latest audition for the St. Louis Cardinal rotation. But there were dark intimations the wind […]
UWink
A while ago, John took Isa and I to a new restaurant, UWink, in a Woodland Hills mall. It had touch screens at each table, for ordering food and playing games. Some were pong-like, others were those trivia games seen in bars.I wasn’t that impressed; pong-games aren’t going to do it for me anymore, and […]
Never Too Young for Mail Fraud
We get letters from kids where I work, and reading them is an extremely gratifying part of my job. But it wasn’t the contents of a recent letter from a San Diego 6th-grader that caught my attention—it was the envelope itself. “My, that’s an awfully large stamp,” I thought to myself. “Hmmm, stamps don’t usually […]
NY
Dianna and I spent a quick weekend in New York. We made no plans to look up friends due to lack of time, but we were walking down Broadway just as two of Dianna’s friends stepped outside for a cigarette. We’d heard they were paying thirty-thousand a month for their loft, so eagerly accepted their […]
Why would a grown man play fantasy baseball?
It hasn’t brought me closer to my wife and family. Or to the people I play fantasy baseball with. And yet it’s an absolute priority in my life. I’ve already gone on record that there was nothing funny about the scene in Knocked Up where they interrupt the fantasy baseball draft, because there’s nothing funny […]
Get Lamp
If you know what this documentary-in-progress refers to, your score has just gone up by 10 points.
Jack, Per Your Request…
I’m pretty decent at Photoshop. Enjoy your vision realized. I actually would’ve paid to see this movie, unlike the original.
Jack Silbert, curator