Published May 27th, 2009 at 3:11 pm in brooklyn, exposition, manhattan with Comments
Tagged with brooklyn bridge, city hall, manhattan bridge, subway, tribeca
For the past few weeks, I’ve exchanged my morning subway ride to work with a walking commute. Even though the time spent in transit has not changed overmuch (on average walking takes me ten to twenty minutes longer), the experience is a completely different animal. Without having to worry about practical matters such as jockeying for subway car position or perfecting proper platform placement for an incoming train, my mind can wander to more esoteric planes, asking questions like, for example, why is that woman screaming in the middle of the street?
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Published May 26th, 2009 at 11:17 am in commentary, movies with Comments
Tagged with great man theory, helena bonham carter, lord humongous, master blaster, mcgyver, michael biehn, michael ironsides, richard dean anderson, salvation, save the cat, star trek, tango & cash, terminator
Bless me, readers, for I have sinned. It’s been a month since my last confession. Over a month, actually, but what a busy, busy month it’s been. I’m still chewing over my Cannes 2009 experience- the meat of it still churning slowly through my digestive tract. In the meantime, over the long weekend, I watched Terminator: Salvation and could only conclude my viewing with a single thought: when did John Connor become a complete and monstrous prick?
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Published April 20th, 2009 at 11:25 am in commentary, technology with Comments
Tagged with conan, messageboards, thirteenth warrior, trolling, twitter, vikings
I got into an argument with a gentleman last night over twitter. I had posted a tweet about his application (which I hashtagged) in which I questioned certain aspects of that application. Inevitably, sometime later, he responded. A few back-and-forths later, he tried to dismiss me as a troll. Now I’ve been around the internets long enough to know the cold, slime-slick claw of a troll when I see it and this wasn’t it. Besides, how can I be trolling in my own feed?
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