Urban Honking

Last night we did watch a terrible movie. I wish there were a lower rating on Netflix than one star. This is a film called “Tightrope” which is about Clint Eastwood wearing a very weird Saints hat and t-shirts tucked into jeans and collecting stray dogs and then putting handcuffs on prostitutes and then there […]

Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing not only stars Art Garfunkel, during those like, two years when he was considered to be fair leading man material (the seventies!), before people figured out he has all the onscreen charisma of an old carrot. This movie is notable only because THERE ARE UNSEXY SEX SCENES WITH ART GARFUNKEL A-TANGLE […]

White Dog is out now on DVD. I would recommend you throw it to the top spot on yr Netflix cue. Unfortunately, this nice little synopsis on the Criterion website fails to mention all the truly great stuff about the movie: the Burl Ives under the crotch shot, his ham-fisted jeremiad about robots in movies, […]

The Watchmen is the longest episode of Scooby Doo I have ever seen–so much bad guys explaining their motives. The best part was when Dr. Manhattan appeared full frontal for the first time and the lady behind us goes “his penis is blue!” I also laughed hardest when the mom yells “I should of had […]

Plazm magazine turns 20 this year and launches a new issue featuring writing and artwork by local and international contributors. Join us for a Powell’s celebration reading and a first peek at the new issue. May 97 pm: Music with theremin player Larold Will7:30: Readings by Jon Raymond, Tiffany Lee Brown, Kevin Sampsell, and Leanne […]

*The post should really be titled “thoughts in progress.” I’m not cynical about love; despite (or inspite) of my own fair share of debilitating heartache. I’m actually a romantic. What I’m interested in is a new model of romance. The hollywood stuff, the novels of yore, and the engagement photo albums on facebook aren’t cutting […]

“I’m applying to a job in St. Louis.” “Ok.” “Do you want to live in St. Louis?” “Not really.” “But you will, right?” “Oh yeah.” “St. Louis could be cool, right?” “…..” “We could finally see that big ol’ arch you’re always talking about.” “…..”

People are tearing it up in the comments! so many great graduate school words I forgot about. Keep posting them! Also if possible tell me what discipline you are from, because it’s hilarious to see how clusters of words adhere to certain disciplines. Lets dig into a few of these: teleological: I can’t believe I […]

How Much Did I Love Grad School I loved grad school so much. I loved it so much! Whenever I met someone who complained about it I knew that they (a) had never had a real job and (b) were possibly psychotic. Or also (c) just didn’t like school and had thus made kind of […]

On the most recent episode of The Talk Show, John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discussed the release of Final Cut Pro X. Above all, they were asking the question: why is Apple in this market? Why does Apple spend money producing professional grade video editing software, conducting full extensive rewrites of apps like Final Cut […]