Archive for June, 2007
crazy
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007amazing
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007If Fire Was Made Of Water…
Monday, June 25th, 2007top 100 american films, new versus old
Thursday, June 21st, 2007top 100 films, as decided by the American Film Institute by votes from people in the industry.
what?!?!!? swing time (90) should totally top sunrise (82)! Other than that, I agree totally with this list, and proclaim it definitive. All comments disagreeing will be deleted.
it’s a living…
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007tybor recommends: The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
Slate: Why wine writers talk that way
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007from z-dog: Check out this Seidner-esque description of a wine quoted in the Slate.com article “Cherries, Berries, Asphalt and Jam: Why Wine Writers Talk that Way”
. . . Of course, the line between incisive and overwrought can be a fine one. British wine expert Michael Broadbent once likened a wine’s bouquet to the smell of schoolgirls’ uniforms (no, he wasn’t arrested). And the late Auberon (son of Evelyn) Waugh, in his wine column for Britain’s Tatler, described one wine as smelling of “a dead chrysanthemum on the grave of a still-born West Indian baby” (no, he wasn’t fired, but he and his editor, Tina Brown, were brought before the Press Council to answer charges of insensitivity).
[Actually sounds more like z. to me. Ed.]
Presidential approval ratings
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007notice a pattern? (via Kottke)
sad times
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007mr. wizard died yesterday.