This year, for the first time in over seven years, I lost my annual Oscar pool. Needless to say, I found the Academy Awards a bit upsetting. So forgive me if this review of the Oscars comes across as a little less-than-objective. But then again, I’m a film critic: it’s my job […]
February 2007
A Bit Too Coincidental
This was a bit weird: two days after I put up a birthday post featuring historical famous accomplishments that I culled partly from the Museum of Conceptual Art, Lifehacker decides to feature a link to the exact same site.
The really freaky part of all of this? They used most of the same accomplishments that […]
The Academy Awards and Great Films of 2006
It’s Oscar night tonight, so I know you all are thinking that it’s a bit late to be writing about picks for the awards. Rest assured, my picks for our annual Oscar pool went in weeks ago. What I want to do in this post is talk about my ten favorite films of […]
Twenty-Five
Today, I turned twenty-five years old. A quarter of a century. To put that into context, I went and found what a few other people in history had accomplished by the time they were my age. Here’s a sampling:
Orson Welles coscripted, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane.
By this age, Charles Chaplin had […]
Paintings Below Zero by Gordon Halloran
Some of you may have noticed that the photo in the top right of this site was featuring colored pieces of ice for a few days. The pieces of ice were actually part of an exhibition called Paintings Below Zero by Gordon Halloran that was featured as part of the WinterCity celebrations this year […]