The Schrug

OK, now I’m a little (??) obsessed with this viral video thing, even to the point of creating a new video in response to my first one.
The “other version” of the Hitler-Coakley-Brown video has now received well over a million views. But not only on DrRonPaul2012’s page. The same video has been uploaded to YouTube [...]

I had a brilliant idea last night as the gloom of the Martha Coakley debacle set in. I was trying to imagine how President Obama must have been feeling as the returns were announced, and I thought of that scene from Downfall that has been endlessly parodied on YouTube. (Quick side note: I had to [...]

Don’t get me wrong. I enjoyed District 9. But at the same time I couldn’t stop noticing all the bits of this film that reminded me of other films. The ones that occurred to me were:

28 Weeks Later
The Fugitive
Black Hawk Down
E.T.
Alien
Iron Man
The Fly
Minority Report
Saving Private Ryan

And, of course, The Office.
What’d I miss?

I don’t know how long this will be the case, but there is a still photo from “The Flaming of the Shrew” as part of the photo gallery at the International Cringefest ‘09 web site right now. (The photo is the one that includes a crown and a sword. You can’t miss it.) “Shrew” opened [...]

I am loving the debate about my alleged traffic violation. I’ve been picked up by UniversalHub and even “the papers.” Most blog posters seem to think I’m in the wrong, but I think the law is clearly on my side when it comes to making a left turn across a double solid yellow line. The [...]

I arrived a few minutes before 9:00 AM at the Waltham District Court and got the last parking space behind the building. I passed through the metal detector and promised to keep my cell phone turned off. I had forgotten to bring the instructions they had mailed me, so I wasn’t sure at first where [...]

The eleventh Boston Theater Marathon was held on May 17, 2009. The BTM consists of 50 ten-minute plays, performed almost without interruption over a ten-hour period. (There is a ten-minute break after every fifth play.) I saw 49 of them. (Sorry, Susan Kosoff. I just couldn’t finish my dinner quick enough to get back for [...]

Fortunately, I was able to bingo anyway:

In his confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts famously remarked that nobody ever went to a ballgame to see an umpire. It was and still is a horrible analogy – being a Supreme Court Justice is NOTHING LIKE being an umpire – but I could not help recalling those words today. What people really don’t [...]