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The Spy Who I Think Maybe Met Me When I Was A Kid 2

Oct

27

2005

My dad sent me an article this morning about the neighbors of the Plame/Wilsons, and said “See if you recognize a name or two in there.” I was a bit surprised to read: David and Victoria Tillotson knew Valerie Plame as a neighbor and friend for more than five years. Plame was, the Tillotsons believed, ...

Attention Bad TV Movie Fans

Oct

26

2005

Everything’s not lost. Despite NBC’s decision to push back 10.5: Apocalypse, thanks to CBS, you will still have something to see this November in the genre of Bad Made-For-TV Disaster Movies. That’s right, from the makers of the stultifyingly awful (as opposed to spectacularly awful, which 10.5 was) Category 6: Day of Destruction comes Category ...

Damn You, E-Fares!

Oct

25

2005

One of America’s favorite bankrupt airlines sends me an email every week with fares I can’t afford to all sorts of places. Usually I just wish I had $600 for a weekend jaunt to Tokyo, and then send the email to the trash, since I don’t. But this week, when many of my friends are ...

Why Watching Baseball In A Bar Is Better Than Watching At Home

Oct

24

2005

So round about the sixth inning of tonight’s World Series game, Nate and I met up in a bar near his house. We had two amusing incidents in the four innings we watched: Incident The First: A fairly drunk Irishman with a very thick accent came up to us and tried out his theory about ...

Now Where Did I Leave My Earplugs?

Oct

23

2005

It appears my next-door neighbors have purchased some sort of karaoke apparatus. I found this out this evening while watching the World Series, as they were putting it through its (really loud) paces. They did not manage to concurrently purchase the ability to sing on-key. If you saw how off-key Liz Phair was during the ...

Miniature Dilemma 1

Oct

22

2005

I suddenly got hit with the odd urge to play miniature golf this weekend, but there’s an odd problem in Southern California. In the Yahoo! Yellow pages, there are eight listings for miniature golf courses in all Los Angeles county area codes. There are 20 listings in the 310 area code alone for full-sized golf ...

Fun With International Incidents

Oct

20

2005

Man, Hugo Chavez is batshit crazy. He’s clearly not stupid, because he takes Pat Robertson’s dumbfuck remarks about assasinating him and turns them into evidence that the U.S. is preparing an invasion of Venezuela, but still. It’d be almost amusing to watch him flail about all the plots that are coming from the dark corners ...

10.5.2 Update: The Scheduling Move Of DOOOOM 2

Oct

20

2005

From the fine folks over at the The Futon Critic, an update on the forthcoming sequel to my favorite bad TV movie of all time: 10.5 APOCALYPSE (NBC) – The Peacock has quietly bumped the “10.5” sequel from its November sweeps schedule. Originally slated for November 27-28, the project will now air sometime in 2006. ...

Can’t Sleep, Clown’ll Eat Me 4

Oct

18

2005

This can’t be good. I’m starting to fall into patterns from last summer where I would be up until 4 in the morning, then stumbled out of bed at noon for a bit, looked for a job, then fell asleep on the couch until about 5 or 6, from which point I then could not ...

Signs You’re Overdue For A Haircut

Oct

15

2005

When your cat decides your hair dangling over the back of the couch is a chew toy, it’s time for a haircut. Bad kitty.