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April 30, 2005

hot for each other's press

"Cruise can't get the double-publicity value of dating his leading lady again: In War of the Worlds, it's 11-year-old Dakota Fanning."

Posted by R. at 12:11 PM |

April 28, 2005

duplicity

The UPS guy and the FedEx guy showed up at the same time. That wasn't awkward.

Posted by R. at 11:50 AM |

April 27, 2005

the new new

Whenever I hear the term "mash-up" now I kinda wanna barf.

Posted by R. at 01:17 PM | | Comments (2)

April 25, 2005

mourning period

"Success on television can be as brutal as failure; the job of a network anchor, and particularly a morning anchor who must banter for hours on end, is more harmful to the ego than almost any other kind of public performance."

Posted by R. at 11:04 AM |

April 17, 2005

aged cheese

"The reasons to avoid House of D, David Duchovny's earnest, unwatchable coming-of-age drama, can best be summarized in a simple declarative sentence. Robin Williams plays a retarded janitor."

Posted by R. at 04:41 PM |

April 13, 2005

patently false

"Marie Tucek, of New York City, engineers the first push-up bra in 1893. It is made of either sheet metal or cardboard and covered with silk."

Posted by R. at 12:04 AM |

April 12, 2005

adidas version

Hello.

Posted by R. at 03:31 PM |

April 10, 2005

cold reception

"They did a drop into a crème brûlée. It had a nice crust and, horrifyingly, they got a signal that wasn't a million miles from the real one from Titan."

Posted by R. at 10:56 PM |

April 09, 2005

boys night out

"Sideways, the Oscar-winning film about two buddies touring the central California wine country on the eve of the wedding of one of them, is one long and boozy man date."

Posted by R. at 08:06 PM | | Comments (3)

April 08, 2005

punk schlock

"In fact, I'm not really sure we got punked by anyone in particular. It's more like we got punked by a machine, an organization invented to create cheap TV product."

Posted by R. at 07:02 PM |

April 06, 2005

traveling light

"What intrigues the researchers is that the lenses are of such high quality that they could have been used to make a telescope some 500 years before the first known crude telescopes were constructed in Europe in the last few years of the 16th century."

Posted by R. at 10:52 AM |

in ancient shadows and twilights

"The capacity for laughter may be a very ancient emotional response that predates the evolution of humankind."

Posted by R. at 12:10 AM |

April 05, 2005

silent but deadly

Apparently lunar dust sticks like Velcro and stinks like spent gunpowder. That's kind of awesome and terrible.

Posted by R. at 10:38 PM |