A Law & Order Episode in the Making
Ever wonder where Law & Order episodes come from? If you’ve ever watched the show, you know that they often scrape the headlines, sometimes mix-and-match...
Media
The Other Thirty Percent
I’m watching the Cubs - Zambrano just had a nice 1-2-3 inning - and in between the top and bottom of the first inning is a commercial for a drug for genital ...
Real-World Slurm Meta-Parodoy
If Slurm is, as I believe, intended to be a scathing parody on the real soft-drinks we Americans consume so voraciously, despite all their horrible effects o...
It Depends On Your Definition of “Short”
From the Washington Post Corrections for October 12, 2007:
Reefer Madness
Hedda and I went to see Reefer Madness: The Musical Friday night. The musical was based on the original 1936 short film Tell Your Children, which consequenti...
Spamalot
Hedda surprised me with a trip to see Spamalot for my impending birthday. What an awesome gift!
Favorite Line in Spamalot
I almost forgot! Hedda took me to see Spamalot on July 9th, and the show happened to run smack dab in the middle of the final game of the 2006 World Cup. Her...
An Inconvenient Truth
Okay, this one is for my mom:
A Second Observation on An Inconvenient Truth
As an aside to my thoughts on seeing An Inconvenient Truth - a sort of secondary take-away from the film if you will - is how stunningly the act of campaigni...