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Jeremy Blachman's Brand New Weblog 
I had a weblog before. This is my new one. I went to law school. But now I've written a novel. It's based on this other blog I've been writing (click here). This blog is to talk about that process, and whatever else I feel like writing about. I'll try to make it worth your while. I'm sometimes funny. Sometimes. Thanks for stopping by.
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Scripts
Posted on November 17, 2009I read a fair number of scripts. Not as many as perhaps I should-- I tend to read them in bursts-- but I've probably read a hundred movie scripts this year and about the same number of TV scripts. Most...
Really Good Book I Just Read
Posted on November 14, 2009Sorry I forgot for the past week that I have a blog. Wasn't intentional. Anyway: I just finished reading a great book with a not-great title. "And Then There's This," by Bill Wasik. From the title, do you have any...
New piece on the WSJ Law Blog
Posted on November 05, 2009Just wrote a fun piece on law firm bonuses, on the Wall Street Journal law blog. Link here. I think it might be the first time I've used the words "whimsy" or "clawback" in anything I've written. (How's that for...
New Anonymous Lawyer Post
Posted on November 01, 2009New anonymous lawyer post about the $1.26 billion default judgment against PepsiCo because a legal secretary screwed up. I think it's funny, hence the link. Enjoy.
The World Series
Posted on November 01, 2009I have yet to watch a moment of the World Series, and I'm not entirely sure why. Part of it is that I haven't been home at the start of any of the games, and I've gone to sleep early...
No Impact Man: The Book
Posted on November 01, 2009Six weeks ago, I saw No Impact Man: The Documentary. (The link is to my blog post about the movie.) Mostly the film made me wonder why the man and woman were married to each other, and whether the whole...
Capitalism: A Love Story
Posted on November 01, 2009Saw Michael Moore's film about capitalism. I feel kind of the same way about this one as I felt about Sicko: Michael Moore is really good at making movies. They're entertaining, they're compelling... and it's only when thinking about it...
Content: Paid vs. Free
Posted on October 28, 2009I went to a conference yesterday, called DPAC4 -- about digital publishing and advertising. Part of me wants to write a post just listing the names of some of the sponsors and companies that the attendees work for, because reading...
Elizabeth Warren / Michael Moore Interview
Posted on October 25, 2009From the Huffington Post... seven minutes of terrific interview footage (broken up into three parts) of Elizabeth Warren talking to Michael Moore about TARP and credit cards and consumer protection. Worth watching. The money quote: "I teach contract law at...
White Collar
Posted on October 24, 2009USA knows what it's doing. They've found a formula, and it totally works. Just watched the White Collar pilot, and it's terrific. One flaw: the lead character's friend-- he did just a little too much of the work. If he's...
Fascinating / Sad article from ABA Journal
Posted on October 21, 2009About Mark Levy, an appellate lawyer who committed suicide earlier this year. Long piece, but very well done and worth reading. Makes growing an appellate practice sound very difficult. There's a book to be written -- and maybe it already...
SuperFreakonomics
Posted on October 19, 2009There seems to be some controversy about a chapter on global warming in SuperFreakonomics, the sequel to Freakonomics coming out this week. The publisher sent me a free copy of the book a couple of weeks ago, hoping I'd blog...
Why Aren't Amusement Parks Thriving In The New Economy?
Posted on October 10, 2009The easy answers to that question: the recession, tourism down generally, cost is too expensive. But putting all of that aside, it crossed my mind this morning (I don't know why) that I don't know why theme parks (seemingly) haven't...
Excuse, and a book review
Posted on October 10, 2009I haven't blogged in way too long because I've been fighting a cold that's been lingering for way too long... but is hopefully on its way out. I've been meaning to write a post recommending a book I read a...
Overheard in the elevator in my building
Posted on September 26, 2009A man and woman, mid-60s, get out of the elevator. Woman: "Are you sure your wife isn't home?" Man: "She better not be."
The Mentalist, plus a question
Posted on September 25, 2009I think The Mentalist is my favorite show on TV, and I don't think it's even close. Thing is, I don't watch crime procedurals. I've seen half an episode of CSI, I can't get through a Law and Order-- this...
Quick funny link
Posted on September 20, 2009The weirdest questions asked on Yahoo Answers. (via Ben Casnocha) Somehow I imagine they've only scratched the surface. I'll see what else I can dig up. Look for that later, if I find anything worth sharing. Also, shana tova (happy...
The Accidental Billionaires
Posted on September 15, 2009(Ben Mezrich's new book about Mark Zuckerberg and the founding of Facebook-- link in the Things I'm Reading sidebar) Ben Mezrich makes it look easy. Establish Mark Zuckerberg, computer genius, social outcast. Jealous of the popular kids. Steals an idea...
No Impact Man
Posted on September 14, 2009Yesterday my wife and I saw the documentary No Impact Man, about a guy who decided to spend a year giving up everything in his life that had a negative environmental impact-- no trains/planes/buses/cars, no food that wasn't grown locally,...
This article made me embarrassed to be a writer
Posted on September 10, 2009There's a piece in the Village Voice by screenwriter Josh Olson (The History of Violence, which I haven't seen, so I'm opinion-less about it) called "I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script" where he rants about friends who ask him...
Blogging, sort of.
Posted on September 09, 2009Ben Casnocha has a really neat post on his blog, the transcript of an Instant Message conversation between him and Penelope Trunk, who writes a career blog that I've seen a few times but don't read regularly (and who it...
quick further update
Posted on September 01, 2009Not sure if it was the quick administration of the clot-busting medication, but my mom's deficits seem to have completely resolved, and she's home from the hospital as of a couple hours ago-- the doctors aren't quite sure what caused...
my mom
Posted on August 31, 2009The post I wanted to write was about finishing up a book proposal on Thursday that I've been spending a whole bunch of the past few weeks working on, and now it's in my agent's inbox and hopefully will get...
quick update to previous post
Posted on August 31, 2009Things looking better and better with my mom as the day progressed today-- language and reading pretty much all back to normal, amazingly. What it's looking like is that the chemotherapy from her breast cancer treatments caused some damage to...
Anonymous Lawyer in Hebrew
Posted on August 23, 2009The Israeli edition of Anonymous Lawyer came out last week. A reporter for the newspaper Ha'aretz interviewed me for an article that came out today. Here's the link to the Google Translate version. It's not a perfect translation, but it's...
Another WSJ Law Blog Piece
Posted on August 12, 2009Another piece in the WSJ Law Blog, this time a response to Working Mother's list of the 50 Best Law Firms For Women. The real list is here. So if you need law firm-related satire, or have any other satire...
Crazy commercial
Posted on August 10, 2009I just saw a commercial for Nutella, where there's a mom and she says, "as a mom, I'm concerned about healthy foods for my kids. that's why I use Nutella to get my kids to eat healthy. I spread it...
WSJ Law Blog
Posted on August 06, 2009Check out a piece of mine just posted on the Wall Street Journal's law blog-- a mock layoff memo from a fictional law firm, inspired by all the start date deferrals and summer associate program canceling that seems to be...
A Few Wedding Pics
Posted on August 01, 2009Photos courtesy of Conrad Erb, whose pictures we were really happy with and you should totally use him if you're getting married.
Ten Things
Posted on July 28, 2009Sorry I have not been moved to post. Trying to write other stuff, and mostly not doing enough worth writing about or thinking about things worth posting about... But here goes: 1. I was watching ten minutes of the Today...
McCourt
Posted on July 20, 2009What a lovely NYT article about Frank McCourt's teaching career. I read Teacher Man, McCourt's memoir of his time spent teaching, a couple of years ago and really enjoyed. Sad that he died.
Michael and Michael Have Issues
Posted on July 16, 2009New show that premiered last night on Comedy Central. I liked it. Their last show, Stella, was a little too abstract for me. I wanted to like it but it wasn't grounded enough, I didn't feel like I really got...
500 Days of Summer
Posted on July 16, 2009I saw a screening last night. I'd read the script a few months ago and really enjoyed the script. The script was more enjoyable than the movie, unfortunately. Thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a great job, making a relatively bland character...
Terrible Recipes
Posted on July 13, 2009My wife's parents came over for brunch yesterday and brought us a copy of a cookbook Nina's grade school put together when she was young, with contributions from parents. There's apparently a couple of recipes in the book they've enjoyed...
Everything In My Head, In A Blog Post
Posted on July 10, 2009Okay, if I'm going to say I'm going to post more, I should post more. Here are the things currently floating around in my head: -- It's kind of hard to adjust to Nina's residency schedule. Basically she works from...
a couple of links
Posted on July 02, 2009Ben Casnocha has written an excellent essay about information culture on the Internet, over here. Worth all 4,000 words. and Dan Slater's piece about why law firm layoffs are a good thing (which will probably inspire an Anonymous Lawyer post...
Back To Blog
Posted on July 01, 2009My wife starts her medical residency today, which means this first month of marriage where we've been able to actually spend time together, unfortunately comes to an end with her 12-hour days / 6 days a week / every 4th...
Worst Excuse In The World...
Posted on June 26, 2009...but in fact the actual excuse for why I'm going to be five minutes late for lunch with a friend: "We just started using our new bath towels and even though we washed them first, there's still a lot of...
Books I Am Reading
Posted on June 19, 2009I don't know why married life has left me with nothing to blog about. I assume that will change. The public library near my apartment is sparkling clean and appears to be brand new. I have no idea why New...
St. Lucia Recap
Posted on June 10, 2009Have been back from St. Lucia since late late Sunday night, and finally have the chance to sit down and write about it. Or at least share some pictures: It's really a beautiful island, and it's fun to see animals...
St. Lucia: Blog Post #1
Posted on June 01, 2009I'm interrupting my blog-free honeymoon in St. Lucia because I felt compelled to post about a bizarre soda I just tried called Mauby Fizz. The label told me it was made from the bark of a tree (along with sugar,...
Off for honeymoon
Posted on May 26, 2009Wedding was great. Leaving for honeymoon on a 6AM flight this morning, which was not our first choice as far as flight times... but should be fun anyway. Probably won't be blogging until we're back on the 7th, but who...
Wedding Day...
Posted on May 24, 2009I should be sleeping, but I'm getting excited. Plus, I went to sleep at 9PM, so I've actually gotten 6 hours of sleep already. In 12 hours, I'll be married! Looks like we made it into the New York Times...
The Future of Publishing
Posted on May 22, 2009This post is long. The quick version: I think celebrities/thought leaders, major or minor, should start their own publishing imprints, taking print-on-demand and e-book technologies to pretty much eliminate all of the traditional costs involved in the model, and if...
Wedding Notes
Posted on May 17, 2009My wedding is a week from today! I haven't blogged about the planning nearly as much as I expected I would, partly because it's mostly not that dramatic, partly because I've been trying to write a play that mines a...
NYT Magazine Credit Crisis Article
Posted on May 15, 2009Interesting piece on the credit crisis, written by an economics reporter for the Times who ended up with a subprime mortgage and massive debt.
Happy Birthday, Grandma
Posted on May 10, 2009My grandma turned 93 today. It's been a tough year for her. Things haven't gotten a lot better since her stroke about a year ago. Fortunately, they haven't gotten worse either, and she's been pretty stable. But it's still awfully...
The New Yorker...
Posted on May 06, 2009...and why I have no sympathy for magazines that can't find a way to make money now that we have the Internet. ...And this story doesn't even really have anything to do with the Internet, it's just about running your...
Moving...
Posted on May 01, 2009Not the blog. This is staying in the same location. Tomorrow my fiancee and I move into an apartment in Manhattan. This way she can be close to the hospital for her 168-hour weeks as a resident. A lot of...
Citi Field
Posted on April 24, 2009Somehow I forgot to blog about the Mets game I saw this past Sunday at their brand new stadium, Citi Field. I never really understood all the hate for Shea Stadium, the previous ballpark -- sure, it was gray and...
eBooks / WSJ
Posted on April 21, 2009Steven Johnson has an article in the WSJ about the Amazon Kindle and why e-books are awesome. Here. It's hard not to agree that e-books are only going to grow in market share, and that the ability to buy instantly,...
Sworn In
Posted on April 16, 2009It's three and a half years since I passed the Bar Exam, but I was finally sworn in today as a member of the New York State Bar. (EDITED TO ADD: Not because of any character and fitness issues.) I...
Being Erica
Posted on April 16, 2009A Canadian friend insisted I check out the new CBC drama, "Being Erica," about a 32-year-old woman who's transported back in time to revisit the moments in her life where she regrets acting as she did, only to discover that...
Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show
Posted on April 16, 2009Watch this. It's Part 2 of Jon Stewart's interview last night with Elizabeth Warren on The Daily Show. She's head of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP and my favorite professor from law school. She talks about why the banking...
Anon Lawyer
Posted on April 16, 2009Three days, three new posts. I'm hoping that by posting about the posts, I put pressure on myself to continue the streak. So spread the word, Anonymous Lawyer is back and laying people off like it's 1929. Or 2009, I...
Interesting interview with literary agents re: fiction writing
Posted on April 16, 2009Really interesting, here. And an NPR piece about book deals, here.
Anonymous Lawyer Has A New Post???
Posted on April 13, 2009Indeed he does. Over here, inspired by today's NY Times article about Skadden throwing money at associates to get them to stay home. A bolder me would promise more to come. But let's see if I can get a few...
The Office
Posted on April 10, 2009On the second of last night's two episodes of The Office, there was a new receptionist introduced at Dunder-Mifflin -- played by Ellie Kemper, who I was in a theater group with at Princeton. Pretty cool to see -- Ellie's...
Happy Passover
Posted on April 08, 2009Tonight's the first night of Passover. I'll be spending tonight at my fiancee's parents' house, where we'll have an actual seder, and then tomorrow at my own relatives, where we'll have "seder-lite: brief highlights from the passover haggadah," and both...
Long-form journalism
Posted on April 03, 2009Here's a transcript of an interesting speech by NYT Magazine editor Gerry Marzorati, about long-form journalism and why he's worried about the future of it.
Jonah Lehrer's "How We Decide"
Posted on March 29, 2009Good book. Some cool insights about how we make decisions -- the simple decisions are better left to the rational parts of our brain, but as the amount of data gets too big for us to handle, it's better to...
New York, once more.
Posted on March 25, 2009Hooray for outside events forcing me to overcome the force of inertia. :) My fiancee, who's graduating from medical school this spring, found out last Thursday that she's matched for her residency at NYU. Which is awesome because it's a...
The Shortification of Content
Posted on March 21, 2009I've come up with a theory that's making me really excited, but I'm not sure whether what I'm about to describe is particular to me and I'm just finding a way to rationalize it, or whether this is real and...
Better off Ted
Posted on March 18, 2009A friend of mine is working on the new comedy Better Off Ted, which premiers tonight at 8:30 (right now on the East Coast) on ABC. I've read the pilot script (funny) but haven't seen the episode yet -- looking...
My Little Red Book, and more links.
Posted on March 16, 2009Well, not mine. But someone's. The New York Times reviews a book of stories of women's first periods. My initial reaction was: "ooh, if this is a success, maybe I could try and write (and sell) a parody book of...
Fantasy Baseball
Posted on March 11, 2009A bunch of spots left in the Anonymous Lawyer free Yahoo fantasy baseball league I've set up for the past few seasons. (Apparently not posting on the blog over there for the past year has slowed the traffic down a...
A couple of links
Posted on March 06, 2009Funny op-ed piece by Joe Queenan about the stock market.And a nice op-ed piece by former major league baseball player Doug Glanville about how ballplayers can get caught up in the lifestyle and all the money they make and lose...
Bad TV I Keep Watching, Part 1
Posted on February 25, 20091. Chopped, on the Food NetworkChopped is the Food Network's answer to Top Chef. Or, better yet, the answer to this question: "How can we make a show that sort of combines the premises of Top Chef and Iron Chef,...
Time Stands Still
Posted on February 16, 2009I saw this Donald Margulies play last night at the Geffen Theater. I've linked to the LA Times review, but don't read it if you're going to see the play, because it's got spoilers -- I'm glad I didn't read...
St. Lucia
Posted on February 16, 2009Quick question -- anyone ever been to St. Lucia? My fiancee and I are thinking about honeymoon ideas and have enough airline points to cover the Caribbean and places like that, but not Europe. Wondering if anyone's ever been to...
NY Times Magazine
Posted on February 14, 2009Michael Lewis's article about basketball player Shane Battier is really excellent. I don't really watch basketball, and have only barely heard of Shane Battier, but the article's still awesome.
Fantasy Baseball
Posted on February 12, 2009This really neat fantasy baseball league I'm in has an opening, and I figured I'd post and see if anyone reading this is interested in joining... it's an auction keeper league -- every year you get 4 one-year and 2...
Grandma update
Posted on February 06, 2009A couple of people have e-mailed to ask, since I haven't posted about her in a while.She's not really getting better, which sucks. She's not really getting worse, which is good. For those who don't read regularly: she's 92, she...
How Not To Run An Internet-Based Business
Posted on February 05, 2009My fiancee and I are looking for wedding invitations. She met with a local dealer yesterday, found a few she liked, wrote down the serial numbers and got the prices. I searched online and found a site with much lower...
Happy Almost Birthday To Me
Posted on February 03, 2009My birthday's on Wednesday. I'll be 30. That sounds so much older than I feel like I am. That's like really stop being able to pretend I'm not an adult age. I mean, the wedding in about a hundred days...
Demetri Martin
Posted on February 02, 2009These previews of his new Comedy Central show are very funny. I think he's really funny. I'm excited for his show.
"The Protestants"
Posted on February 01, 2009Just wanted to plug a new play written and directed by my friend Eric, called "The Protestants" playing at The Brick theater in Williamsburg (Brooklyn), Thurs-Sat each weekend until February 14th.It got a really terrific review at NYTheatre.com here, saying...
Any designers out there?
Posted on January 30, 2009A friend of mine is offering a $150 cash prize for someone to design the cover for her new book about how to conduct empirical social science research, called "Research Confidential." So if you like to play with graphics... more...
Gladwell
Posted on January 29, 2009Great piece from The New Republic explaining why Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers, is pretty weak. Gladwell tells great stories, but it's the leap from story to rule that bothers me. You can find lots of stories, but they don't...
Pudding
Posted on January 28, 2009More interesting post soon, I promise, but:Growing up, my mom often made pudding, using My-T-Fine powdered mix -- add milk, boil on the stove, eat some of it when it's nice and hot, refrigerate the rest for later. Better than...
Fire In The Toaster
Posted on January 23, 2009Tonight's the first time that's ever happened to me! I put half an eggplant parmesan hero (the other half was a delicious lunch) into the toaster to reheat it, and a few minutes later when I went to check on...
The Best They Can Do?
Posted on January 20, 2009OK, The New York Times has an op-ed by Roger Cohen rewriting Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire for the current generation and Obama's election. Honestly, I think it's pretty crappy. A lot of the rhymes don't rhyme (American...
Silly Headline
Posted on January 20, 2009"Obama Renovates WhiteHouse.gov"Really? He did that? So this morning, before the inauguration, Barack Obama was busy coding html? Something tells me that's not quite how it happened. I mean, if it is, then maybe Barack Obama is actually the reason...
Cake Tasting
Posted on January 19, 2009Been meaning to blog about this for the past couple of weeks. My fiancee and I did some wedding cake tasting when I was back in New York over the holidays. The caterer we're using can make the wedding cake...
Neat!
Posted on January 15, 2009I was just following a link to the list of the cast members on this season's Survivor, and turns out I worked with one of them at Trilogy, the software company I worked at before law school. Neat. I didn't...
A Quick Theory About Paying For Stuff On The Internet, Part 2
Posted on January 11, 2009Imagine the following two scenarios.A: "My Terrible Dentist" is an award-winning web series streaming online at TerribleDentist.com. I just watched it, it's really funny. It's fifteen six-minute episodes. It costs $2.50 to watch. You should check it out...
A Quick Theory About Paying For Stuff On The Internet, Part 1
Posted on January 11, 2009A friend and I were talking the other day about a series of web videos he's thinking about putting together, and whether it seems reasonable that anyone might pay to watch them, and whether a video is even the right...
Friday Night Lights
Posted on January 08, 2009I don't know how many people are watching this season on DirectTV. Not many, if I go by the number of comments at Television Without Pity. But, gosh, everyone should watch when the season premieres next week on NBC, because...
Million Dollar Password
Posted on January 05, 2009If you haven't caught this on CBS, go to CBS.com and check it out. It's seriously entertaining. Mostly because whoever books the celebrities realizes that the show is more fun when the celebrities are terrible at the game, so they...
Happy New Year
Posted on December 31, 2008Happy 2009. I just helped my mom clean out our coat closet, where we found an envelope of photos of people none of us recognize and are not sure if we actually know; nine pairs of gloves no one has...
Movies 2008
Posted on December 22, 2008Last year, I wrote: Being in LA has caused me to see a lot more movies and a lot less theater. That has remained true, although at least I've scaled the movie number back to where it was before coming...
Responding to the comments on the books post
Posted on December 21, 2008"Why the scarcity of fiction? Is there a particular reason? Care to post about that?"I don't know why the scarcity of fiction, except that I just find I'm not drawn to most fiction, and when I force myself to pick...
Books 2008
Posted on December 16, 2008As of today, I've read 102 books in 2008. I've sorted the books into pretty much the same categories as last year. The mix is about the same -- less fiction than last year (2, down from 6), fewer politics,...
Forks
Posted on December 10, 2008My fiancee and I spent two hours in Bed, Bath, and Beyond yesterday, contemplating the differences between seventy-five different sets of silverware for our registry, as if our satisfaction with every meal for the rest of our lives depends entirely...
Blagojevich
Posted on December 09, 2008Is today the day Blagojevich becomes a household name? I imagine news anchors are spending the morning learning how to say it.Also in the news: wow, Jay Leno at 10:00. That is not so good for people hoping more new...
Sleep Wins
Posted on December 03, 2008As a proponent of naps, and sleep in all forms, I recommend this article from today's NY Times.Seriously. My high school commute, from Brooklyn to Manhattan, was almost 2 hours each way, and I had to get up at 5:30...
Colbert Christmas Special
Posted on November 26, 2008Really funny. Just watched it. Really funny. Fun parody Christmas songs, neat musical guests, really really well done. Stephen Colbert can pretty much do anything. Seriously, they should just give him a network and let him parody every kind of...
Thanksgiving / And something amazing I am thankful for
Posted on November 26, 2008First, a brief Thanksgiving tale. My mom and stepdad are making Thanksgiving dinner for themselves and my grandma. They were planning to make a green bean casserole of some sort, using a can of mushroom soup. They were also going...
ABA Journal Holiday e-Card
Posted on November 26, 2008Check out the ABA Journal holiday e-card. I think I'm allowed to say I wrote the disclaimer for them, even though it's not credited on there. In any case, if you think it's funny, I wrote the disclaimer. If you...
Top Chef: New York
Posted on November 19, 2008Someone just left a comment asking if I had any thoughts on this season of Top Chef so far. Well, I'm looking forward to tonight's episode... thought last week's was solid, although I'd read an advance review that called it...
Slumdog Millionaire
Posted on November 18, 2008Sometimes movies can surprise me.I had the script for Slumdog Millionaire, but among a big pile of scripts I'm reading only for my own benefit, and without any outside guidance as to what's most worthwhile, any script that opens with...
Bar Exam
Posted on November 13, 2008I hear the New York bar exam results come out this week. Good luck to anyone who that's relevant to.Last month, when I was back in New York for a few weeks, I (finally) had my character and fitness interview...
Follow The Roar
Posted on November 11, 2008My friend Bob spent the past year watching every hole that Tiger Woods played. His experience is chronicled in "Follow The Roar: Tailing Tiger for All 604 Holes of his Most Spectacular Season" which just came out today from HarperCollins....
Ahead of the Curve
Posted on November 10, 2008Just read "Ahead of the Curve" by Philip Delves Broughton, an account of his two years at Harvard Business School. Good book, highly recommended. He was a journalist before deciding to go to business school, and ended up with mixed...
Movie Reviews: The Visitor and Role Models
Posted on November 10, 2008I saw two movies over the weekend. They were very different from each other, but I enjoyed them both.First, The Visitor, which is a small film about a lonely professor who, through a variation on the typical romantic comedy meet-cute,...
Sarah Palin Blame Day: Part II
Posted on November 06, 2008"Sarah Palin does not know how to spell her own name, aides reported on Thursday. In addition, one senior official revealed that while on the campaign trail, Palin had three secret abortions, and replaced John McCain's blood pressure medication with....
It's Sarah Palin Blame Day!
Posted on November 06, 2008I think this might be the most bizarre first paragraph of a news article I've ever read:Sarah Palin spent "tens of thousands" more than the quoted $150,000 on clothes for the Republican campaign, met McCain aides in her hotel room...
Election Day, Part 2
Posted on November 05, 2008Well, that was pretty cool. I am surprised and not entirely thrilled that the pollsters got pretty much everything right. I think pollsters getting things wrong would keep this world a little more interesting. But I suppose I can't complain...
Election Day
Posted on November 04, 2008I got an invite in my inbox, more than once, for a free election night gathering at the Hyatt in Century City out here. So far, OVER ELEVEN THOUSAND PEOPLE have RSVP'd. So while, on the one hand, I think...
Odds and Ends
Posted on October 29, 2008Reading a terrific book about Teach For America called Relentless Pursuit. It follows 4 teachers through a year in an L.A. public high school in Watts. If you read it in L.A., while sitting in your car, parked in a...
Weddings, Not Mine
Posted on October 20, 2008I went to a really neat Indian wedding over the weekend, in suburban Detroit. Had never been to an Indian wedding before. Food was really good. And it was really cool to see what a wedding ceremony looks like in...
Highlights From Last Night's Presidential Debate
Posted on October 16, 2008OBAMA: Look, as I travel around the country, this is the issue that will break your heart over and over again. Just yesterday, I was in Toledo shaking some hands in a line. Two women, both of them probably in...
Tonight's Presidential Debate
Posted on October 07, 2008...will hopefully be more interesting than the VP debate, which I thought was disappointing since no one said anything completely bizarre or insane. Debates are only fun when someone makes a big mistake. And since the moderator didn't force anyone...
The Mentalist
Posted on October 02, 2008Is seriously amazing, riveting television.I just watched episode 2, from Tuesday. It's awesome. I don't even like crime procedurals -- there isn't another crime procedural on TV that I watch -- but it's just so compelling. I don't know what...
Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising
Posted on September 25, 2008I just watched Slacker Uprising, Michael Moore's new film that he's streaming for free at SlackerUprising.com. It's a bit of an odd movie, basically a concert DVD of Moore's 2004 tour of college campuses trying to get young people to...
Raising the Bar (TNT)
Posted on September 23, 2008...should be required viewing for everyone who works at a law firm and wants to feel better about it. Just watched tonight's episode, which pretty much paints both sides of the public system -- the DA's office and the public...
Why We're All Screwed
Posted on September 21, 2008The New York Times has an article in today's paper called "A Disability Epidemic Among a Railroad's Retirees," about how as many as 97% of employees who retire from the Long Island Railroad file for disability post-retirement and have been...
Hypothetical Wedding Etiquette Question #1
Posted on September 18, 2008Suppose you tell someone they're invited to your wedding, and they say they wish they could come but they already have another wedding that day, and so they can't.Do you send them an invitation anyway?I feel like there's probably a...
Free Range Chickens
Posted on September 17, 2008I just read Simon Rich's new book, Free Range Chickens. It's a collection of short humor pieces, like his previous book, Ant Farm, which was a paperback. This one is hardcover. I'm slightly torn about this book. Because if I...
David Foster Wallace
Posted on September 14, 2008A nice post from Ben Casnocha's blog about David Foster Wallace.
My Grandma Reviews: "The Women"
Posted on September 13, 2008"The whole cast was women. There weren't any men at all. Frankly, when I go see a movie, I like when there are men in it. I thought it was a stupid decision for it to be all women."
Barry Zito
Posted on September 13, 2008Fascinating piece about Giants pitcher Barry Zito in the New York Times Play magazine this weekend. I like Barry Zito. He's always seemed very human, for a baseball player. I hope he bounces back next season. Although I probably won't...
Thirty-Seven Posts I Haven't Written About Planning A Wedding All Combined Into One Massive Wedding-Related Brain Dump
Posted on September 10, 2008After my fiancee and I got engaged, part of me hoped and expected that the act of planning a wedding would inspire a whole bunch of blog posts, and maybe even something bigger than that. That "wedding planning" could be...
Are McCain and Palin having an affair?
Posted on September 09, 2008The NY Times seems to be wondering. Okay, not quite. But this is a stupid, sexist article. If Obama and Biden hug too close, does that mean they're sleeping together?
Fall TV Season: What I Might Be Watching / New Show Preview
Posted on September 03, 2008With the fall TV premieres coming up, thought I'd quickly blog about the stuff I've seen and what I'll be watching.Mondays: Really like How I Met Your Mother and keep getting sucked back into Boston Legal. Found myself watching more...
90210
Posted on September 03, 2008Wow, that was terrible. I guess I expected it would be. I lasted 33 minutes until I had to turn it off. My fiancee made me watch it. That is my excuse. But I found the Republican convention more interesting...
Palin etc
Posted on September 03, 2008I don't understand the insistence that this is the biggest speech of Palin's life, and this speech will make or break her vice-presidential candidacy, and that we are somehow going to know something more about Sarah Palin after her speech...
A quick link...
Posted on August 28, 2008...with my fiancee's permission, to our wedding website, in case anyone's curious where my blogging energy has gone for the past couple of weeks. I've probably spent a little too much time on this. (And I'm probably not quite done...
Jeremy Reviews: Tropic Thunder
Posted on August 19, 2008Apologies that posting has been really light lately. It may pick up. I saw Tropic Thunder this afternoon. First 20 minutes and last 20 minutes are really good. I kept wanting to fast forward through the hour in the middle....
Mike Birbiglia: "Sleepwalk With Me"
Posted on August 11, 2008Saw Mike Birbiglia's one-man show, "Sleepwalk With Me," last night at Upright Citizens Brigade. He's apparently prepping it for an off-Broadway run in the fall, but why see it for $50 when you can see it for $5 at UCB....
My Grandma Reviews: The X-Files
Posted on August 02, 2008"I wanted to leave right in the middle! All you see is people not in regular neighborhoods, but in very very remote locations, not neighborhoods where you can see normal things going on, normal people. And it was very dark,...
"Must Love Kids" on TLC
Posted on July 30, 2008I'm a little bit ashamed of what I'm watching on TV these days. I feel like I've really hit the bottom of the barrel when I'm watching things that don't even have their own threads on Television Without Pity. I've...
My Grandma Reviews: "Mamma Mia"
Posted on July 26, 2008There was a lot of action, but one thing doesn't seem to be connected with another. I've seen so many wonderful pictures in my life, I can't say I was thrilled with this movie. It was mostly music, only a...
Quick baseball link
Posted on July 25, 2008This is a pretty neat little article on ESPN about Twins utility infielder Mike Lamb. Worth a quick read.
On A Lamppost
Posted on July 22, 2008Saw this today, handwritten sign on a lamppost: ------------- My name is Jay. I am 6 feet 4 inches tall. I am looking for help selling two books I wrote. [Phone number] ------------- Still wondering why his height is relevant.
The All-Star Game
Posted on July 16, 2008I should have live-blogged the All-Star Game. Peter Abraham of the Journal News did. It's terrific. That was an awesome, awesome, awesome All-Star Game. I was rooting for it to go until someone's arm fell off. Still, really awesome, and...
Spooky
Posted on July 14, 2008I'm writing a scene right now that involves a ghost. And right as I'm writing the ghost's only line of dialogue, I press the CTRL key to underline the words -- and it pops off the keyboard. Ghosts are inside...
My Grandma Reviews: Hancock
Posted on July 12, 2008"Terrible, for me. I didn't even want to keep watching it. There was somebody in it who was famous. I know I've seen movies with him in it before. It had a lot of action, but constantly, they didn't stop....
"Lawyer Boy" by Rick Lax
Posted on July 09, 2008Wanted to give a quick plug to a just-released law school memoir called "Lawyer Boy," by Rick Lax. Amazon link here. The book's a funny account of Lax's 1L year at DePaul -- he just graduated this May -- and...
My Grandma Reviews! "You Don't Mess With The Zohan"
Posted on July 08, 2008I wasn't actually sitting in front of the computer when I talked to my grandma earlier today, and even though she went to the movies with her friends on Saturday -- for the first time since her stroke -- I...
The L.A. Library
Posted on July 07, 2008I added a few more books I've read to the sidebar, including Clay Shirky's excellent "Here Comes Everybody," a primer on how the Internet has enabled people to meet, interact, and organize collective action in ways we never before could,...
July 4th, and a grandma update
Posted on July 02, 2008My mom and I went into a stationary store to buy stamps this afternoon (I'm in NY the rest of this week -- going to a friend's wedding this weekend). "Oh, we're all sold out. A whole bunch of people...
Why You Should Check Your Lawyer's References
Posted on July 01, 2008I'm in an airport, between flights en route from LA to NY (free wireless in the Las Vegas airport (!), if anyone's curious). I just got this e-mail: ----------------------------- Subject: more info on annonymous law firm I found your website...
George Carlin
Posted on June 23, 2008Can't believe George Carlin just died. I am mostly oblivious to any celebrities I may or may not pass on street out here, but just last month George Carlin was in front of me on line in Whole Foods. He...
Random Links
Posted on June 22, 2008Sorry I haven't written in a while. Finished up a script I've been working on, on Monday, and haven't had too much interesting going on since I guess. Watched the U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials on TV yesterday, just flipped it...
Toothpaste
Posted on June 17, 2008I just bought toothpaste -- there was a version of Crest on sale, and I'm a little confused by it. It's called Crest Pro-Health Night. I don't know what could possibly make a toothpaste specially formulated for the nighttime, as...
In The Heights
Posted on June 16, 2008Just watched the Tony Awards. The creator/writer/star of In The Heights (which won best musical) went to my high school. We were in a chorus together at some point, but didn't really know each other. Pretty cool though. My high...
Grandma update
Posted on June 13, 2008I wanted to write a post about my grandma today, something like a My Grandma Reviews: What She's Been Going Through. She's been back at home for about a week now, having physical therapy and occupational therapy and language therapy...
A few links
Posted on June 05, 2008Just so I can clear them out of my browser, and since I wanted to share 'em: Great interviews with Albert Brooks and Robert Smigel. Videos of Stephen Colbert's Princeton graduation speech. Here and here. Cool free things you can...
Sex and the City
Posted on June 02, 2008I saw the Sex and the City movie yesterday. With someone who liked it more than I did. :) It's hard for me to understand why people are enjoying this movie. It's all very unhappy. The characters are all very...
Spelling Bee
Posted on May 30, 2008The National Spelling Bee is on ESPN this morning and then ABC for the final rounds tonight. I'm Tivoing it because I won't be home, which is probably really dorky. There's an online test on the website, which is pretty...
Miracle Fruit?
Posted on May 28, 2008This is a totally wild article from the Times about a fruit that makes sour foods taste sweet, and this group that puts on food-tasting parties to explore what the fruit can do. Sounds fascinating, and makes me want to...
Some happy news
Posted on May 23, 2008I'm very excited to share the news that my girlfriend and I got engaged this afternoon -- she's been a little blog-shy, hence the lack of much talk about her on here, but I'm sure she won't mind me saying...
Top Chef
Posted on May 22, 2008I can't BELIEVE they sent Dale home instead of Lisa. I think Dale is the first reality TV contestant I've felt really bad for post-elimination -- he so clearly seemed the better chef and the better person. Of course, not...
Grandma update, Wednesday
Posted on May 21, 2008I am relieved to be able to say that I'm pretty sure my next post won't need to be about my grandma, because things have stabilized to a point where I'm starting to resume thinking about and doing other things...
Grandma update, making good progress
Posted on May 18, 2008Last two days she's thankfully been back to herself -- the delusions have passed out of her system, it was almost certainly due to the sedatives she was given during surgery -- and although day to day progress definitely continuing...
Grandma update, featuring a psychiatrist kind of having a panic attack
Posted on May 16, 2008Another long, up and down day. We got to the hospital this morning and it was quite frightening -- my grandma was very agitated, trying to pull out her IV and get out of bed, insisting that the people in...
Grandma update, again
Posted on May 15, 2008It helps me to write about this stuff, even if it's probably not terribly interesting to most people reading. But I feel like it helps me to process what's going on if I write, so I will. Long day, and...
Grandma, update
Posted on May 14, 2008I should be sleeping. I think I was sleeping, but now I'm not. Unless I'm writing this in my sleep. I took the red-eye flight back to New York last night, landed at 6AM, got about 4 hours of sleep,...
Local News
Posted on May 13, 2008I'm back in LA -- was just watching last night's How I Met Your Mother on the DVR, and there was a local news teaser that I really, really, really could not believe. I'm paraphrasing, but essentially: "Thousands die in...
Uh Oh
Posted on May 13, 2008And just when I posted a picture of her on the blog... My grandma apparently just had a stroke, or a mini-stroke, or a transient ischemic attack that hopefully -- hopefully -- will resolve itself. I spoke to her on...
My Grandma Reviews: "Iron Man"
Posted on May 10, 2008My grandma turned 92 yesterday. We didn't really get a chance to do anything to celebrate -- my mom came home from the hospital yesterday evening, and is doing pretty well... laparoscopic surgery seems an awful lot easier/faster to recover...
I Just Got a Request From a Reader...
Posted on May 10, 2008...to post a photo of my grandma so you can put a face to her reviews, if you like. Here she is:
Long Day...
Posted on May 07, 2008I'm in New York... kept half-wanting to post about this and half not wanting to, but my mom had surgery today so I flew home for that -- I wrote a couple of years ago about her breast cancer and...
Great Article...
Posted on May 05, 2008...in this week's New Yorker, about chef Grant Achatz, molecular gastronomy, and the stage IV tongue cancer that has robbed him of his sense of taste. Reading this article is like watching a combination of Top Chef and Grey's Anatomy....
A Poem By My Grandma
Posted on May 04, 2008My grandma is in a poetry workshop at a senior center where she takes classes. Tomorrow they're doing a "reading" at lunch -- each of them gets up and reads one of their poems, and the audience is "held captive,"...
My Grandma Reviews: "Made of Honor"
Posted on May 03, 2008"They're crazy. Making movies like this, that aren't about normal people. It was a fairy tale. That's all it was. It's so unnatural. He's in love with her, but it's so stupid, he won't just tell her, and then right...
Links
Posted on May 02, 2008A kosher restaurant in NYC held a $3000 contest to find its new name... and ended up with... Kosher Village. As if they had to spend $3000 to come up with that one. There's a long list of the entries...
Brothers and Sisters
Posted on April 28, 2008I can't believe they totally reversed course and made Rebecca not a Walker anymore. It's like the Landry murder plot from Friday Night Lights.
Museum of Tolerance / Huntington Botanical Gardens
Posted on April 28, 2008My girlfriend was out in LA with me this past week, and we did two touristy things -- we went to the Huntington Botanical Gardens, and to the Museum of Tolerance. First, the gardens. They're very pretty. They're not far...
My Grandma Reviews: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Posted on April 21, 2008I don't want to get your hopes up, but this is a great review. I could barely type fast enough. "I can't believe you recommended that movie! It's so sad to think that sex is put in the front like...
Liveblogging the Presidential Debate
Posted on April 16, 20088:01 -- I think Charlie Gibson should wear his glasses. I like him better with his glasses. 8:05 -- I am really bored by these opening statements. Really I'm bored by the race, and have been for quite a while....
Oops
Posted on April 15, 2008I write a post called "blogging kills" and then I forget to blog for a week! Ha. Anyway, no blogging because not much to say. I finished a script today that I've been playing around with, a half-hour medical comedy-ish...
Blogging Kills
Posted on April 07, 2008Or so the New York Times says. This is a very stupid article. The headline: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop Oh, wow, this must be quite an epidemic for the Times to decide it's...
99 Cents Only
Posted on April 06, 2008There was an NPR piece last week about some woman who decided to cook her meals using only ingredients found in "99 Cents Only" stores. This specific chain of 99 cents stores, big in California and the West, is distinguished...
My Grandma Reviews: "Leatherheads"
Posted on April 05, 2008"I didn't understand it. It all seemed very unimportant. I didn't really care for it. Women wouldn't respond to it because they don't know much about football. And the way they played it in the mud. Why would they have...
Opening Day
Posted on April 01, 2008I watched way too much baseball today. The MLB Extra Innings free preview week is actually the biggest reason I don't buy the Extra Innings package -- having all the games available for a week shows me how much I'd...
How I Met Your Mother
Posted on April 01, 2008You know what's great? When How I Met Your Mother mentions a fake website, they actually create it. Awesome.
Book Thoughts: In Defense of Food (Michael Pollan) and Punching In (Alex Frankel)
Posted on April 01, 2008I've been putting the books I read in the sidebar but haven't been writing much about them (or anything lately), but I thought I'd try and get back in the habit. Michael Pollan's carved out a nice niche for himself....
More Links I Want To Post Before I Close My Browser
Posted on March 25, 2008Bhutan had its first elections the other day. I saw a 60 Minutes piece about Bhutan a whole bunch of years ago and decided it seemed like a cool place. The government is big into Gross National Happiness instead of...
My Grandma Reviews: "Drillbit Taylor"
Posted on March 22, 2008"I know I say this a lot, but it's really one of the worst things I ever saw. It's alright for children, I guess. It's certainly not the kind of picture I want to see. My friend picked it again....
The Stupidest Thing I Did Today
Posted on March 17, 2008Kraft Easy Mac is apparently not easy enough. Put the macaroni in a bowl, put the bowl in the microwave. After about two minutes, I thought to myself, "Hmm, something smells like microwave popcorn." After about two minutes and eight...
Theory
Posted on March 15, 2008Cats are like law firm partners. Dogs are like law firm associates. Think about it. Cats only want you around when they need something. They're moody, unpredictable, and will sometimes scratch you for no reason. They're mean. And just like...
Browser Windows I Want To Close
Posted on March 15, 2008Some links: A funny parody of the Juno movie trailer called Jewno. An article about a minor league baseball team planning an Eliot Spitzer theme night. An interview with Michael Schur, writer for The Office and baseball blogger at Fire...
Sleep
Posted on March 12, 2008I hate to bump my Spitzer post down on the page, but I suppose I would have to eventually. Anyway -- there's an article in the Washington Post about sleep, and how Americans may not be as sleep deprived as...
Top Chef
Posted on March 12, 2008I love Top Chef. Just watched the season premiere of Top Chef: Chicago. I don't think I've missed an episode of Top Chef in all four seasons, and this one's got me hooked again. They have a formula, it doesn't...
My Grandma Reviews: Governor Spitzer
Posted on March 10, 2008"So did you hear about Governor Spitzer?" "Yeah, Jeremy, I did, but I want you to explain something to me. What exactly did he do?" "I'm not totally sure of the details, but they're saying he was involved in a...
Huffington Post
Posted on March 08, 2008A friend told me to read this Jon Robin Baitz piece on the Huffington Post, about Samantha Power's resignation. It's fine, except when I thought it was just getting started, it turned out that was the entire piece. I don't...
Be A Lawyer in Brazil
Posted on March 07, 2008An 8-year-old boy passed the law school entrance exam in Brazil, the school enrolled him, and then turned him away when he showed up and they realized how old he was. This is causing some concern about the admissions standards...
Two Links You've Perhaps Already Seen
Posted on March 07, 2008Two things I found yesterday that have already gotten tons of media attention and I'm late to discovering: 1. A professor at Carnegie Mellon who's unfortunately dying of pancreatic cancer gave a lecture about time management that's really interesting and...
Wizards of Waverly Place
Posted on March 06, 2008I have a friend who wrote this Sunday night's episode of "Wizards of Waverly Place" airing on the Disney Channel at 8:30pm. The episode's called "Little Sister." I'm sure it will be awesome. Check it out. I've never seen the...
Obama and Clinton
Posted on March 06, 2008Just a pragmatic thought for the Democrats that I haven't heard or read anywhere, although it seems pretty obvious to me. It's fairly clear that, whatever anyone thinks of Hillary Clinton, her campaign has been run pretty poorly. Lots of...
My Grandma (Briefly) Reviews: "The Other Boleyn Girl"
Posted on March 01, 2008"I don't know if it's based on a real true story." "It's based on a novel, which was based on a true story. It's like a fictionalized account of something vaguely true, to whatever degree we can even know if...
Scrabulous
Posted on March 01, 2008The New York Times, on Scrabulous, the addictive Facebook game. I hate how it takes people with jobs so long to take their turns sometimes. :) I feel like Scrabulous, in a small way, makes slightly more interesting that fuzzy...
Tonight's Democratic Debate
Posted on February 27, 2008I just watched the Democratic debate on MSNBC. Not a thrilling 90 minutes of television, although Clinton was a little more combative than she was last week in Texas, and Tim Russert seemed nicely well-prepared with specific questions about statements...
Book Covers
Posted on February 26, 2008There's a great blog I linked to once before that posts about interesting book covers. Today's post compares the US and UK covers for a book called "The Bush Tragedy." The difference in tone is pretty astounding. Personally, I like...
Free Will, and other odds and ends
Posted on February 25, 2008SNL's digital short on Saturday, about old people and the movies (my favorite topic!) was very funny. You can watch it here. Also, fun fact, my first couple of weeks in LA, the sublet I had was in the apartment...
My Grandma Reviews: "Vantage Point"
Posted on February 23, 2008"Don't ask me what the name of this movie was. It just came into the theater two days ago. About someone trying to assassinate the President, I don't know, I think I fell asleep. I don't know why we saw...
My Grandma Reviews: "Definitely, Maybe"
Posted on February 16, 2008"You know, while I was watching it, I liked it. The romance, the story, it held my attention, I was into it. It was only after I left the theater and started to think about it that I realized it...
Definitely, Maybe... Probably Not, Don't Bother
Posted on February 15, 2008I thought it was kinda dull. Nice premise, but it didn't do too much with the execution. My grandma is supposed to see it tomorrow, so we'll see what she thinks.
My Grandma Reviews: "Fool's Gold"
Posted on February 10, 2008"Okay, I know I've said this before, but this really is the worst movie I've seen in a long, long time. Truly, truly dumb. No feeling at all. You watch this movie, and you're left feeling nothing. I couldn't wait...
Micturition Syncope
Posted on February 08, 2008No, don't Google it yet, you'll ruin my boring story. So the reason for no posts this week is that I came down with an upper respiratory infection the other day, which now seems to be getting better, and I...
Happy Birthday To Me / Is The Strike Over?
Posted on February 04, 2008It appears that the writers strike might be ending on my birthday, which would be kind of cool. Strike rumors completely went insane over the weekend, articles saying there's a handshake deal, it's going to be over any minute, Fox...
My Grandma Reviews: "The Bucket List"
Posted on February 03, 2008"You liked this movie?" "No." "So why did you tell me to see it?" "Because at least I thought it would be easy to follow, and you'd know what was going on." "Oh, I did! But it wasn't any good!...
My Grandma Reviews: SATURDAY MOVIE PREVIEW
Posted on February 02, 2008Sorry for the lack of movie reviews recently: one of my grandma's friends hasn't been feeling well, so they haven't gone to the movies for a few weeks. I just spoke to her, and they're supposed to go this afternoon....
Eli Stone
Posted on February 01, 2008The new ABC drama Eli Stone premiered last night -- it's on ABC.com if you're curious and missed it. It's about a big-firm lawyer who starts to see visions. I'd seen the original pilot and loved it -- just watched...
Brothers and Sisters
Posted on January 27, 2008Anyone familiar with the show willing to read and comment on my spec script? Thanks (e-mail me).
Killing Your Evening
Posted on January 26, 2008I just stumbled on the website for TED, a conference series that has cool people talking about stuff. Watched the video of Malcolm Gladwell's presentation from 2004 about consumer demand, and JJ Abrams's presentation from 2007 about magic and mystery...
Last night's Colbert Report
Posted on January 23, 2008There's still some airings on today, so I wanted to post this quickly -- watch last night's Colbert Report episode, because it was terrific. He interviewed Andrew Young, a civil rights leader who negotiated a settlement for a hospital workers...
Democratic Debate on CNN
Posted on January 21, 2008It's only about 20 minutes in, but this debate has some real fire! Clinton and Obama don't like each other very much! Hope it continues to not be boring.
Discover Your Inner Economist
Posted on January 21, 2008Economist Tyler Cowen, who has a blog I haven't read nearly enough but just added to my Google Reader, has written the best of the post-Freakonomics pop-economics books. I still have 50 pages to go, but I felt inspired to...
Very Boring Democratic Debate
Posted on January 16, 2008Much too civil. The candidates were all pleasant to each other, well prepared, and have basically no differences between them on any of the issues. The only funny line didn't even get noticed by anyone, and no one's reporting on...
Scripted Television Is A Dying Industry
Posted on January 15, 2008Or maybe it's not. But the strike probably isn't helping, since a bazillion people are watching Gladiators, and it costs a heck of a lot less to produce Gladiators (even with the cost of the steroid testing) than it does...
Things I've Been Meaning To Post About
Posted on January 11, 2008I'm ashamed to admit it, but Grey's Anatomy has become a don't-want-to-miss show for me this season. Tonight's final new pre-strike episode no exception. And a pretty awesome Lifehouse song in there too, called "Broken." Twice I've tried to write...
My Grandma Reviews: The Presidential Race
Posted on January 07, 2008"I just saw Hillary Clinton on the television, she had tears and she was getting very emotional, how much this means to her, how much has to be done in the world. I think she's getting desperate and now she's...
Cashmere Mafia
Posted on January 07, 2008I'm remiss in not posting this sooner, but I wanted to encourage whoever's reading to check out the new ABC show Cashmere Mafia (premiered tonight at 10 -- so, in an hour on the West Coast, but two hours ago...
Benazir Bhutto
Posted on January 06, 2008Apparently she's on the cover of this week's Parade magazine supplement. Except they went to press before she was assassinated and the magazine makes no reference to it. Oops. Read more here. It's pretty insane. Like, someone should be fired...
My Grandma Reviews: P.S. I Love You
Posted on January 05, 2008"If that's imagination -- if I were a producer I would have turned that down so fast. He died, but it's like he's still alive, they're acting like he's still with them. It's idiotic. The Great Debaters, that was very...
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