I have not seen the Sex And The City movie (which I keep thinking is Sex IN The City). I will not see the Sex And The City movie. But that’s not going to stop me from writing a review as if I had.
We take our seats. The theater is full, mostly women [...]
The New York Times has is reporting on Wednesday’s article in Nature about researchers that have developed a brain implant that allows monkeys to operate a robotic arm via thought. Now, let me be clear; this isn’t an artificial limb that has replaced a missing arm. The monkeys still have all of their regular monkey-arms [...]
So I’m at the bank this afternoon making some changes to my account with one of the managers and somehow get into a conversation about ex-girlfriends and the relative perceptions of men and women. The manager is an attractive young woman, married, in her 20’s, who’s going to be visiting her family for a week [...]
So I’m shaving today and I’m looking in the mirror (which is foggy as hell becuase I shave in the shower, and you can’t buy a good fogless mirror anywhere, and if you do it stops being fogless in about a day and that sucks because I hate shaving at the sink) and I notice [...]
I’ll tell you how tough. Last night I caught a bit of the original version of Rollerball on television. If you haven’t seen it, Rollerball was one of those movies that came along in the seventies that tried to make incisive observations and predictions about society and violence. There was a raft of them in [...]
December 8, 1980, New York City: Mark David Chapman murders John Lennon on a street in front of his home. The world mourns.
May 20, 2008, Los Angeles: David Archuleta murders “Imagine” on national television. I puke in my mouth.
I almost didn’t watch it. My 11 year old daughter wanted to watch the Idol finals (she’s [...]
