Kerouac:  “So, be honest.  Any of you guys ever, y’know, make it with a beaver?  Just to say you’ve done it…?  Because I’d be game…”

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Directed by Wes Anderson.  Stars Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Willem Defoe, Noah Taylor, Anjelica Houston, Seu Jorge, Michael Gambon, Jeff Goldblum, and Bud Cort. Five words or less review:  Lost In Translation.  With flippers.* *still, I quite enjoyed it.  There is something awfully appealing comedically in the way Anderson crafts his dialogue.  It’s just slightly off—signaling, as do many of his

Sorry.  Been too stoned to download it just yet.  Any nice Sith ass…? **** update:  Hey.  Any of you know what I did with my Birks?  The carpet’s all covered with melted Raisinettes again…

A few days ago, John Cole wrote a long and thoughtful post excoriating some rightwing pundits for what he sees as their overreliance on scapegoating the liberal media each time some new revelation about potential U.S. military abuses is reported in the mainstream press.  In a nutshell, Cole argues that an increasing number of conservative commentators have taken to exploiting the (often very real) anti-US and anti-military bias of the

Sunday, 9am – 11:45 am:  Spent the morning staking out a Starbucks in Writer’s Square, Denver, hoping a minor celebrity might wander in and make a vicious anti-American remark over espresso and a bran muffin.  Had my laptop and wireless card with me so that, in a pinch, I could write up a quick post, then email the particulars to Hewitt—a master at ginning up some real, honest-to-goodness A-list OUTRAGE. 

…so I need to get rid of a few DVDs…

Anyone who tells you that drinking nine pints of Guinness in a single sitting is not a particularly bright idea might just have a point.

Yeah, right.  And I want a house in Newport so that I can take Katie Holmes for naked wheelbarrow rides on the beach, then prop her up against a pier support and bang her through the surf like a randy walrus trying to crack open an oyster.  Take a number, losers.

Cho: “So I’m reading the Bible the other day—not for spirtual guidance, mind you, just looking for tips on how to cook goat, because I get tired of broiling it with a little barbecue sauce, to be honest—when I come across this passage about a burning bush.  A burning bush!  And then it hits me:  if God is willing to burn a Bush, maybe I should go find myself some

From the AP: British and American newspapers published photos Friday showing an imprisoned Saddam Hussein clad only in his underwear and washing his laundry, prompting an angry U.S. military to launch an investigation and the Red Cross to say the pictures may violate the Geneva Conventions. Britain’s The Sun and the New York Post said the photos were provided by a U.S. military official they did not identify. The photos