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Movies you must see before you die

Yesterday, I went through a list of must-read fiction books and discovered I had read about one-fifth of the list. Today, I’m going to continue to be inspired by Jason Kottke and examine a list of 1001 must-watch movies.
Most of you know me as a bit of a film nerd, so it’s probably not surprising […]

15 May 2008 Film & Television Tagged , , , , , Comments (2) By Sameer Vasta

Fiction books you must read before you die

When I was young, my father used to chastize me for not looking up from my book while crossing the street. Calling me a “bookworm” was an apt metaphor: when I picked up a book, I crawled inside it and very rarely broke free to see the light of day until I was done.
These days, […]

14 May 2008 Books & Literature Tagged , , , , , , Comments (16) By Sameer Vasta

Mis-pronunnsed.

Jason Kottke recently linked to an article about people saying words wrong on purpose. It’s quite a fun article, and the comments on Kottke’s post are great.
From the article:
I sometimes say “muscles” so that the ‘c’ has a ‘k’ sound (the same way the cartoon character Popeye says it), computor instead of “computer” (after Ned […]

03 April 2008 Thoughts & Questions Tagged , , Comments (0) By Sameer Vasta