- I’m sorry, Roger Ebert, but “little nuggets of armadillo surrounded by microscopic carrots and curlicues of raspberry-avocado-mint juice”?
- I don’t know what I find more unsettling, that a Sarah Palin impersonator could get on stage with John McCain so easily, or that her community theater mounted a production of High School Musical.
- If there’s any silver lining in Sarah Palin’s nomination — other than the voters who ran as fast as they could from McCain when the nomination was made, of course — is that it might make people appreciate Tina Fey more. Seriously, people, 30 Rock is damn funny.
- A bookstore with a liquor license? You know, if that’s what it takes to get people to buy more books…
- But do we really need another social networking site, this one tied to Barnes & Noble?
- Michael Palin for President suggests replacing all future Presidential debates “with bouts of Fish Slapping.” I can get behind that!
- In the Wicked Playbill, there’s an interview with Frank Langella, in which he says of his Frost/Nixon director, “Ron Howard doesn’t think in less than 20 takes…”
- Just how much of Frankenstein did Mary Shelley write? I’m fascinated by this sort of thing, and I’m reminded of the relationship between Raymond Carver and his first editor Gordon Lish There, too, questions over authorship and the role of an editor have arisen — so much so that it’s not always to say what’s the definitive authorial voice. [via]
- Were the 2nd century Roman emperors Dungeon & Dragons gaming nerds? Could be… could be… [via]
- Keith Phipps on The Omen III: “At one point, I started to feel sorry for the Foley artist who had to imagine what the sound of a baby being suffocated during a baptism would sound like.”
- One of the bad things about the Joker makeup — especially the rudimentary, naturalistic version of it that Heath Ledger wore — is that it lends itself to really lame, halfhearted costumes.
- And it occurred to me, listening to the drunken boors on the train tonight, that one of the biggest problems with the lies the McCain campaign has spread about Obama is that some people will actually start to believe them. (Or just pretend to. It’s hard to tell with drunken boors.)
Your drunken train boors beat my drunken bus bums any day…they don’t have much to say about politics. They have many opinions about mandatory bottle deposits, but not so much about parliamentary procedure and the House of Commons.
The story about the Roman gaming die is +5 awesome.