No wonder the dude could stand straight at Tiffany’s.
Super Committee, last seen discarding genitals
When you’re a Super Committee, you can do whatever you damn please, right? Anything! And anything includes nothing, right? The null set! Which is just what the super committee set up by Congress a few months in a fit of “this time we mean business” fury seems ready to do. Over at Politico, which takes…
Why, Oh, Why Can’t We Have A Better Press Corps? Mark Halperin just wants to be liked
I really shouldn’t read Time magazine, and I especially shouldn’t read Mark Halperin, aka Captain Kiss-Ass, but I did, and I have to pay the price—I have to suffer as Mark rates Newt Gingrich an A- for saying, among other things, that he would use sabotage and assassinations, plus “absolute strategic pressure” (which is kind…
New at Bright Lights: Chaplin at Keystone, Part 1
The new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal has another of my pieces on the films of Charlie Chaplin. Flicker Alley recently released virtually all of Chaplin’s 33 odd films made in one year, 1914, at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios in Los Angeles. I take a look at the first 18 films Chaplin made. The…
Newt and the Neo-Cons, updated
Last week I noted that noted Likudist Jennifer Rubin has been industriously pissing on Newt Gingrich and every other Republican presidential candidate not addressed as “Mitt” and suggested that this was all a plot on Jennie’s part. Well, welcome Charles to the party, as in Krauthammer. Charles is a lot more subtle than Jennie. Instead…
Again, NTNY
If you want the official New Yorker cartoon contest, go here. And stop wasting my time. “Yes, I am a stripper. But I’m a very nice stripper.” “How can you eat? Well, why don’t you just leave that to me.” “Okay, this is the part where I question you intensively about your toilet training.” “I…
Newt Gingrich, not really a friend of Israel, it seems
Not enough to satisfy the admittedly exacting standards of Jennifer Rubin, at least, who plants one of her many long knives between the former Speaker’s shoulder blades here. While other conservatives politely averted their eyes from Newt’s whopper, delivered in last night’s debate, claiming that he charged Freddie Mac $300,000 in 2006 to tell them…
Ba-da-bing! Ba-da-bing-aling-aling!
NYTimesman Michael Cieply is all over the departure of Eddie Murphy from the upcoming Oscars telecast, as a result of the departure of Murphy buddy Brett Ratner, a day after Ratner was forced out, due to Ratner’s utterance of something bitchy about gays and, apparently, some jive talk about his sex life on the Howard…
Tim Geithner, Idiot Servant
Yet another entry pissing on poor old Tim? Pissing on poor old Tim isn’t going to reduce the unemployment rate, so maybe I should just shut up and fly to Vegas first class and run up some serious credit-card debt, which would, you know, actually stimulate the economy. But Vegas isn’t really my kind of…
Joe Lovano—Charlie Parker’s “Barbados”
The band is introduced as “Joe Lovano and Us Five,” except there are only four guys, that I see, and none of them is Esperanza Spalding, who plays bass for the band. Well, it’s still good jazz. Posted by KPLU885