January 2010
7 posts
Angry email of the week
FEEDBACK: I am now closer to death because I wasted valuable time reading your article when I could have watched a WNBA game or an episode of Ninja Warrior on the G4 channel.
fun trivia question, courtesy of dad
“Name the four universities that graduated both a U.S. President and a Super Bowl-winning quarterback. Hints: one is really easy, one is reasonably easy with a little bit of thought, one is figure-out-able for avid readers of the WSJ editorial pages and one is impossible.”
Answer tomorrow.
UPDATE: Forgot to post yesterday. The answer:
Stanford: Herbert Hoover, John Elway/Jim...
The LD five-word movie review: Watchmen
So very, very, very long.
Meanwhile, I owe a bunch of these for flicks I saw during my late-December/early-January hibernation. So: Tyson (“As one-sided as Tyson/Bruno”), Charlie Wilson’s War (“Too glib for my taste”), Up In The Air (“Acceptably glib for my taste”) and Julie & Julia (“I seriously love my wife”). Three books you should...
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Freedy Johnston: The LD.com interview
So LD favorite Freedy Johnston has a new record, Rain On The City, coming out on Tuesday. And how better to celebrate than by serially harassing his publicist until he consents to a quick phone interview?
Freedy was kind enough to toss me a bone and graciously chatted for 25 minutes yesterday afternoon. The interview was almost certainly a hell of a lot more fun for me than it was for him. I...
Screw B.U., Kansas too →
Can a number-11 seed in the big-boy tourney be far behind?
