Things you should watch/hear/do/eat/paint/fire at, vol. 1,265,875
Louis C.K.’s new FX show, Louie, which debuts tomorrow night. I’ve seen the first four eps. They are mean, meticulously observed and intimidatingly funny. Watch them.
Alternately, they could strive for excellence.
You really ought to read "The Ask"
It’s a mule-kick of a novel, and I mean that in the best possible way. Loved this paragraph (and about 674 other ones):
“I was also one of those people who hadn’t caught up with the latest social networking site. Maura belonged to most of them. She passed most evenings befriending men who had tried to date-rape her in high school, but I was still stuck in the last virtual community, a sad place to be, like Europe, say, during the Black Death. Whenever I cruised this site, with its favorites lists and its paeans to somebody’s cousin’s gas station art gallery, I could not help but think of medieval corpses in the spring-thaw mud, buboes sprouted in every armpit and anus, black bile curling out of frozen mouths. Those of us still cursed with life wandered the blasted dales of this stricken network, wept and moaned and flogged ourselves with frayed AC adaptors, called out for God to strike us dead, or else let us find somebody who liked similar bands.”
Buy it here.
Finally, my neighborhood has arrived.
The LD Five-Word Movie Review: An Education
Too much cussing and CGI.
Yanks in a Sentence: Phillies 7, Yankees 1
Since when can Kyle Kendrick pitch worth a crap?
angry email of the week
In response to the Power Rankings, which are apparently an outlet for my inner torment:
FEEDBACK:
Larry, this is my second note to you this week. Now you go on to make mention that Manny Ramirez is washed up and troublesome. Do you watch baseball. Manny has to be in the top 3 of clutch hitters in all of MLB. He has singlehandedly turned the Dodger Clubhouse around. BTW…he had the winning run 2 nites ago, and, last nite, a 2 run dinger so solidify the win…again. Putting them into sole possession of firts in their division. Yet San Diego is still above them. Your comments about the Dodgers are clearly biased and based on some past emotional experience. [emphasis added] Now, stop. As a Die Hard Dodger fan, your comments are extremely naive, unintelligent, and hurtful. I’ll say it again, I guarantee the Dodgers win the World Series this year. You are a fool.
Buscemi as the bad guy - always a good thing.
to whoever signed me up for this: well-played
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Simultaneously angry and not-angry email of the week
In response to the Rankings of Powerness:
FEEDBACK:
Gotta say…your kind of a dick and you jump to extremely harsh conclusions…but with that said I know how it is is this line of work and you have to have strong opinions to stand out. I am a die hard braves fan, and I grit my teeth every week when you criticize my team and Jason Hayward but at the same time I appreciate it because it keeps me reading every week…hoping that you will be eating your words in some way. And even though you never do I respect for some reason, I respect your rankings and appreciate the results even if you do continue to be overly harsh on my amazing braves team. Keep up the overly judgmental yet riveting work.
The LD Five-Word Movie Review: Star Trek
Set phasers to “rather entertaining”
