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We watched Vertical Limit last night. It was predictably mindless, but I for one (maybe the only one) was entertained. Here’s Roger Ebert’s review of […]

Speaking of comics, Salon had this article today about a book dealing with the history of comics. He hits some things on the head – […]

There was an article in Newsweek recently about the trials and travails of opening a new restaurant. It featured this place in New York called […]

I had lunch with some relatives the other day and somehow Henry’s name came up and Alex was like, “Henry. He’s the guy that made […]

So I became aware of this frightening web page that lists my social web network at Stanford. It’s pretty scary. But pretty interesting also. Kind […]

So I found out what happened to JT The Brick (it was in the Mercury this morning). Apparently, the network he was on, Sports Fan […]

Just saw Gorgeous, the latest Jackie Chan film. Plot wise, it’s utterly incomprehensible. But there were a couple of boxing fight scenes that were incredible. […]

I saw What Women Want this weekend. It was fairly good, not great. The basic premise was interesting, though. What’s interesting to me is that […]

I regularly read the Iron Chef newsgroup. Apparently, my animosity towards that annoying kid in the New York Battle is shared by many people. As […]

I should have mentioned this earlier, but U.S. News and World Report’s cover story last week was on boarding schools. The usual suspects were featured, […]