Anybody interested in the DVDs of Scorsese’s The Last Waltz (Special Edition) and/or Boxcar Bertha?  Both are brand new and can be had for $6.50 each, shipping included (to the US), or both for $12.  The Scorsese box set I purchased included both of these, but I already had them in my collection. Email me or drop a note in the comments. 

“Man. If I ever meet the guy who invented ‘blogging,’ I swear to Jesus I will brain him with a very heavy      log.”

My guess is that in the cold, clarifying light of morning, how Jordan’s remarks actually played on that Davos tape was even worse than we’d been led to expect—and that, recognizing this, Jordan didn’t so much resign as he was coached by the CNN brass on how best to salvage what remained of his dignity.  I echo Jim Geraghty’s parting thoughts: I would have preferred the tape come out, and

Hoping to overcome what has quickly become a hackneyed premise, FBI agent Don Epps (Rob Morrow) eschews a dangerously abductive statistics-based theory offered him by his brooding mathematician brother, Charlie (David Krumholz), and instead tries doing his own fucking crime solving for a change—relying on nothing more than the vast resources available to him as a federal law enforcement official.  (Co-stars Peter MacNichol, Judd Hirsch, and Sabrina Lloyd)

1.  Many many thanks to Platt Thompson for the Thieves Highway DVD, which arrived this afternoon from Amazon.  I’m a big fan of both Dassin and Lee J. Cobb, and I very much look forward to checking this one out. 2.  Arthur Miller dies at 89—having written some lasting plays, and having thrown some quality humps into Marilyn Monroe.  Not a bad life, all things considered. 3.  What the hell…?