As I just mentioned, once the Oscar nominations are announced a lot of people go to see the best picture nominees who might normally not be interested in that genre.  I don’t really like “heartwarming”.  But Slumdog Millionaire is getting a lot of buzz.  Since I just had to sit through a brunch where some [...]

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Apparently, according to Cinematical, people are going to IMDB and giving Milk a rating of “1″,  just because it’s gay-themed and was nominated for best picture.  The evidence is that the IMDB rating dropped sharply after the nominations were announced.  Brokeback Mountain saw a similar decline.  I suspect that Cinematical is correct in assuming that [...]

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Turns out that all the time I spend in World of Warcraft is honing my management skills. Business Week did an article on how all the skills used in WoW also apply to making the workplace better and more efficient. I think this is probably true, but have admit that my WoW performance, [...]

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I live in Washington DC.  Once in awhile, things happen here that don’t happen anywhere else, like terrorist attacks on the pentagon and the inauguration of Barack Obama.  For both events, I was here, in DC.  If I ever had grandchildren, or even children, I’d probably have to tell them I wasn’t actually down on [...]

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My favorite virtual world, right now, is the World of Warcraft.  Because it’s so popular, naturally some people will hate it.  I don’t mind that, I sometimes hate people, movies, television shows, whatever, mostly because they seem way more popular than they deserve.  I understand.  But the reasons people give for hating are sometimes instructive.
One [...]

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Hamlet 2 is this brilliant movie, in which a loser high school drama teacher decides to stage his own creation, a complex sequel to Hamlet that involves a time-traveling Jesus.  A Jesus who “kicks ass”.  Elizabeth Shue shows up to play herself, as a someone who is kind of done with acting.  You get the [...]

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I was reading a Peter King (Sportswriter and Bret Favre spokesperson) column where he complained that the TSA didn’t do the same thing every time at every airport.  He wanted the comfort of either being told to always take off his shoes, or never take off his shoes.  I think he speaks for most people.  [...]

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Long lines at airports, to get through security, tell us something.  They tell us that our government is doing something about terrorism.  In fact, the government is mostly crowding travelers into large packs, in the midst of which large carts full of luggage are dragged along.  It makes a pretty good target, but nobody says [...]

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