–Image copyright Rocky Schenck Right now, right this moment, you’d like nothing better than to sit staring at the splendid moon floating in a shallow cloud-saucer of skim milk right outside your window. There’s a nice breeze, and surely memories are moving on it. Pleasant memories, I’ve no doubt, if you could manage to sit … Read more
Today’s the big day I get to go see The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? Although I very much plan to let loose and open what can often be a very closed mind (on account of a certain artistic snobbery), I’ll be sure to report back with a critique. The only bummer is that I would’ve … Read more
I saw a great Fringe show last night–Borderlines, which was, far as I could tell, a meditation on bureaucracy, national security, and red tape. Think airline security and INS folk scrutinizing an innocent enough international marriage. But the funniest part was the physical presences of the five performers who got to play the inefficient pencil-pushers. … Read more
World Trade Center, 2006. Written by Andrea Berloff, directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Nicholas Cage, Michael Pena, Jay Hernandez, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Armando Riesco, and Donna Murphy. When I first heard that Oliver Stone was directing a film called World Trade Center, I was actually quite excited, in a pugilistic sense. Why, … Read more
are you sick of hearing about my obsession with humboldt fog? I got a sneak peek at the new Premier Cheese Market on 50th/France in Edina. What can I say? Lund’s: You’d better step it up. France 44: I don’t know how to help you. The gang at Premier is serious about cheese. The cheesemongers … Read more
Surely, by now, you’ve heard the story of a certain unshaven So Cal guy whose wife left ‘im a while back; and he was so heartbroken that he locked himself into the basement for several months, where he wrote and recorded brilliant sad songs. He subsequently became an emo pop star, and now, presumably, is … Read more
Parents, let me tell you, get out there and take your children to see some great kids’ movies at the Walker’s Summer Movies and Music. Bringing Up Baby? Undoubtedly a masterpiece of childlike humor. Our twelve-year old charge was thoroughly enthralled, giggling uncontrollably, and falling over herself over Baby, the leopard that bites at Cary … Read more
The night doesn’t move at all. It doesn’t budge. It’s like it drops from out of nowhere, and all of a sudden I’m splayed in total darkness on the floor thinking about goats. And I know that it’s going to just squat there over me, to the point where I can’t move and can barely … Read more
“You can waste your time on the little lies, but Americans have shown they are even more gullible when you hit them with the whoppers.” There was in interesting piece in the Strib this morning, from the Associated Press, noting that half of all Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That … Read more
Tonight is, of course, Summer Music and Movies, which is turning this wretched day into the best one of the week. By now my hyperactive thrill for this series should be well known by all half-dozen of my readers, so I’ll spare you the hyperbole, and boil it down : Perfect Weather + Perfect Movie … Read more