Archive for January, 2008

Dumb Days
Monday, January 21st, 2008

I’m not smart every day. Or even 85% of days. I’d lay the odds at around 5/6ths. Maybe that’s being generous.
I’ve learned to accept this, after countless mornings spent poring through WebMD to see if there’s some way my brain cells could have evaporated overnight. Writers love to flounder in self-created dramas about “the [...]

“Teeth”: The Beast Within Eats the Boys Without
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

“We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead” Warner Bros. president of production Jeff Robinov reportedly decreed last year, after Jodie Foster’s The Brave One sank like congealed lard in the gut of domestic box offices. Just like that, half of the population is banned from headlining films (with no mention of [...]

Fallback
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

People hate Christmas. They really do. When I was a child (a time period that includes the majority of my life so far, including the odd day or two in the present), I would listen to adults talk about how much they loathed the holidays, how the whole business was one earth-shattering headache, and all [...]