Pudding Time! Archives: long form
Bush's turkey run is another one of his handlers' manufactured episodes that's troubling more in principle than in fact. On the face of it, he did a nice, even arguably brave thing, and anyway he did no harm, so criticizing it seems petty, paranoid, and, in any event, futile. But I'm going to criticize it anyway. (more)
Thanksgiving weekend brought "The Two Towers" video game into the house. Now I'm curious about which other video games have strong nods to cinematic narrative conventions. Especially ones that don't require the twitch reflexes of a fighter pilot.
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The New York Observer's Nicholas von Hoffman boils down a David Ignatius
Washington Post column lauding the Iraq War and one of its chief architects:
"Mr. Wolfowitz, you look great! What's your secret?"
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"The Matrix Revolutions" was an enervating, noisy mess that left me wondering whether any amount of improvement to the content could have overcome the trainwreck form. But only long enough to realize I was too disappointed to care.
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Ryan Adams is my last rock star. I've had it, and I'm not having any more. I'm so jealous of him I want to fucking kill myself.
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"Lost in Translation" gives us a better-and-better Bill Murray, and a great soundtrack, too.
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Surprise, surprise. Yahoo!'s hosed yet another customer. This time, though, it happens to be someone I know.
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If this season had an official motto, it would have to be "Damnit, Jim, I'm an editor/columnist/student, not a Unix sysadmin." Which gives me a...
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Six months into Alison's pregnancy, and I'm still in the grips of a "conserve hope" frame of mind. Putting anything on a page somewhere seemed like a really bad idea -- an expenditure of forebearance from the people upstairs.
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Sometimes blogging is like writing ex cathedra without the cathedral. It might be time to find another way to strike up conversations over the ether.
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I haven't had a lot to
say lately. Here's a rundown of some things o' note, though.
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Update: Rats! "In the Year 2525" is only available as a crappy techno remix! iTunes Music Store sucks! But it has "Ballad of the Green...
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Sam Rowe isn't too happy with Mozilla's latest change in direction, and I guess I'm not, either.
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Here's a lengthy screed regarding my wild, unseemly, and excessive disappointment with the "Dune" prequel series. If you aren't up for 3100 angry words...
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