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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Delancey: Seattle’s Great Pizza Hope. The much-buzzed-about restaurant became the Great Pizza Hope of Seattle long before its doors even opened. Why? Because the pair behind the operation is food-focused author and Orangette blogger Molly Wizenberg and her husband, Brandon … Continue reading
The Final Destination: 3D
My first 3D movie! That gets it one star, because it’s a fun time. Another star for getting what I expected—a bunch of outrageous death scenes one after the other. The estimated budget for the movie is $43 million, which … Continue reading
Disney to acquire Marvel Entertainment. Based on the closing price of Disney stock on Friday, August 28, the transaction value is $50 per Marvel share or approximately $4 billion. Under the deal, Disney will acquire ownership of Marvel including its … Continue reading
Snow Leopard calculates disk space in base 10. One comment brings up a good point: downloaded files will appear larger on the hard drive than the size stated on a website. But hard drives have so much capacity these days … Continue reading
DJ Rok One’s eulogy for DJ AM. I have learned so much about myself and music and life in the aftermath of his success. Beyond the US Weekly shit and the Nicole Richie shit, and the TV shows and Million … Continue reading
Speaking of Michael Jordan, ESPN is counting down his top 23 most memorable moments leading up to his hall of fame induction. I love sports clips with the original announcers (as opposed to highlight clips set to background music). Having … Continue reading
TMZ: DJ AM found dead. Sad that it’s so soon after getting a second chance surviving the plane crash last year.
Kevin Wildes was on the B.S. Report today. (Clicking this link will resize your window and open up the ESPN player.) He’s an ESPN producer (currently working on SportsNation) and one of my favorite guests on Bill Simmons’s podcast. When … Continue reading
SLAM Online’s college basketball preseason preview: Washington (#9). I’m definitely excited for Thomas & Gaddy, which has the bonus of sounding like both a law firm and a mob family. While it would seem like a less than ideal situation … Continue reading
The Aristocrats
Pitch: Comedians talk about and perform a joke known as The Aristocrats. I decided to stick The Aristocrats on the Netflix queue because of Jeffrey Ross’s appearance on Bill Simmons’s podcast. He discussed the Hugh Hefner roast and Gilbert Gottfried … Continue reading
Dave Chappelle 2007 stand-up in London. I always ask people if they’ve seen this then I tell them I’ll send them a link later and later I forget to send the link. Anyway, Neal Brennan (co-creator of Chappelle’s Show) was … Continue reading
District 9
After the letdowns of G.I. Joe, Terminator: Salvation, and Transformers 2, I’m happy to say that District 9 exceeded my expectations. And they were actually pretty high going in. Even more amazing is the budget that was less than $40 … Continue reading
San Francisco thoughts
Summer is coming to an end. But the break isn’t! As the month comes to a close, I’ve started to transition from feeling and saying “Oh I just graduated” to “Oh I’m unemployed.” I went to San Francisco a couple … Continue reading
Michael Wilbon’s article on the Michael Vick signing. He touches on the racial implications and the relationship between Vick and McNabb. The press conference with Vick, Dungy, and Reid just ended and I think they did as good a job … Continue reading
San Francisco: 1
I found out I could set the custom button on my D90 to a “hold down for RAW capture” setting. These pictures are all from RAW files. If the vignette setting could go left any further, my pictures would do a Haka because they’d be all black.
Seth Rogen talks about being rejected by Megan Fox on Jimmy Kimmel Live. This was his third appearance on the show. On his first appearance, Megan Fox was also a guest promoting Transformers pre-release, so she was just a few … Continue reading
Seattle Weekly: Seattle’s Ragin’ Asian Nightlife. Poorly written and a tad racist, but I’m sure some of you will be interested (Venom, War Room, and walnut shrimp make an appearance). I don’t go out much, but there were a lot … Continue reading
Harvey and Mayen’s Wedding: 2 of 2
My favorite anecdote from the night: After we got in a huddle and gave our best “Harvey on 3!”, I walked back to my seat and overheard one of the east coast visitors laughing and saying to his table, “It’s just a shame that Harvey doesn’t have a lot of close friends.”
Harvey and Mayen’s Wedding: 1 of 2
Just a fantastic day and night. Photography note to self: use the in-camera flash more next time, it’s actually not bad. The professional photographer might know how to compose shots and use the light and equipment ten times better, but did she get an up close shot of Paul’s fresh haircut? I think not!
G.I. Joe reviews are trickling in. Right now at 86% with with 7 reviews. My expectations peaked when the Snake Eyes photos were released last year and have dropped a lot since then.