We join Meg and Phil as Phil is explaining that the “twist” ending of “7 Pounds” is obvious and sucks. Meg is about to try to guess the twist.
Meg: When I saw the trailer, it seemed like he was going to kill himself and give his organs to a bunch of people.
Phil: Win.
Meg: I [...]
Meg: I want to have a TV show called “Let’s Try That Again With Jack Nicholson”
Phil: hahaha
Meg: In it, you go try to do something and you fail
Meg: and then it goes
Meg: LET’S TRY THAT AGAIN WITH… you get the idea
Phil: that is a great idea
Today I saw a guy riding a unicycle. He was an older guy. Thin. Looked like a high school physics teacher. He was riding the unicycle (badly), across a busy street, while carrying his dry cleaning. I thought to myself, “At what point do you decide, ‘yes, I am now good enough at the unicycle [...]
Phil: M. Night: “If The Happening makes a billion dollars, we will be happy for the producers but I am not going to be loved any more or any less. My movies don’t get acclaim the day they come. I have to wait longer.”
Meg: what
Phil: he’s ahead of his time
Meg: so is diarrhea
Phil: haha
Advice: If you are so drunk that you are incapable of walking without doing that “oh shit an alligator is chasing me” side to side swerve thing, and are urinating on someone’s front steps at 4:43 pm, in extremely bright daylight, on heavily trafficed street in Brooklyn– just let me pass by you. Don’t start [...]
(Batcave door bell rings)
Batman: Oh hello there, nice outfit.
Robin: Hi.
Batman: It’s a good thing you’re here. I need an assistant. Follow me. Careful, mind the… Oh dear. It seems you’ve fallen into a chasm and have died. Alfred? Get the Shop-Vac.
If men are going to wear women’s jeans, and designers are going to design men’s jeans that look like women’s jeans for the men who like women’s jeans, and retailers are going to charge half as much for men’s jeans that look like women’s jeans, and twice as much for women’s jeans that look like [...]
NYMag is asking “Is Shia LeBouf the next JarJar Binks?” Shia isn’t my cup of tea, so I might as well admit that my initial reaction is “ew, yes.”
Those who know me know that I think the scale of the Atlantic Yards project is ridiculous, so I was happy to read that Ratner is sheepishly admitting to the New York Times that maybe, possibly he’ll be chucking huge sections of it, including the main office tower “Miss Brooklyn.”
Of all the victims of [...]
Much is being said these days about “local food.” Must of this earthy discourse is, of course, taking place in New York City, a place where the idea of local food should probably cause at least a small shiver to run down the spines of those who, like me, grew up within proximity of actual [...]