Amy's Robot: Coming to London, Lord of

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The Onion: How Come Nobody Celebrates My Alcoholism Like John Cheever's? "I keep drinking and drinking and I'm no closer to being heralded as the greatest voice of my generation." (0) 7/23/08

Amtrak ridership is actually going up. Biggest gain is the Boston to Portland Downeaster line, up 33% last year! Maybe one day we'll actually have a high-speed rail system. (0) 7/23/08

Google Maps now has a walking directions option, not just driving. Who cares about one-way streets when you're on foot? Also includes pedestrian pathways. (0) 7/23/08

New At the Movies hosts: Ben Lyons, E! host and son of Jeffrey, and Ben Mankiewicz, grandson of Herman, who wrote Citizen Kane. Neither of these new guys are really writers, so I doubt this is a return to the good old Siskel and Ebert days. (0) 7/23/08

Nice: new Gossip Girl promos feature negative quotes from Parents Television Council and other anti-smut groups. "Mind-blowingly inappropriate." Ha! (0) 7/23/08

Bad Love: Long Island math teacher is a regular Mary Kay Letourneau. Pleaded guilty for having sex with 16 year-old boy last month. Since then she's had sex with him 5 more times. Just got arrested again. (0) 7/23/08

Guy has been stalking Lorne Michaels, trying to talk to him about the thoughts and conversations that Michaels is stealing for SNL. Dude, could you try having some funnier thoughts for NBC to steal? (0) 7/23/08

Radovan Karadzic was hiding out by working in Belgrade in an alternative health clinic (0) 7/22/08

Times obituary of "absurdist furrier" Jacques Kaplan is so wacky it sounds like a joke. He made a coat out of cats, raincoats out of mink, and pronounced his name "Kap-LAHN". He also created fun fur. (0) 7/22/08

Con Ed gives out dry ice to customers whose power goes out for 48 hours or more. So they can resume their Dokken-Megadeth-Pantera Monsters of Rock concerts as soon as the lights come back on, I guess. (0) 7/22/08

Good Wired interview with Simon Pegg about Spaced release in the US. Thinks it should carry over to US audiences-- geek slackers are the same the world over. (0) 7/22/08

Capt. Lou Albano's birthday party turns into Wrestlemania smackdown, with bloody wrestlers, cops, and a SWAT team. A "bottle-hurling, glass-smashing melee" with The Sandman, The Zombie, and Pitbull. [map] (0) 7/22/08

The day you've been waiting for: 'Spaced' (from the brilliant Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright) is out on US DVD today! Also, everyone involved in the original is horrified that Fox is trying to do an American version (0) 7/22/08

Christian Bale is being questioned by the police about assaulting his mother and sister. ??!!?!?!, right? I'm telling you, the problem with Dark Knight is it's TOO DARK. (1) 7/22/08

Awesome, hilarious Guardian review of Mamma Mia! "But there is one very famous Abba number which is entirely omitted. That is a crying shame. I have an idea for the way in which it could yet be included, should an extra scene be needed for the DVD. There's a six-year-old boy on the island called Fernando, and caring Meryl Streep suspects that poor little Fernando could be hearing-impaired. She sits the little lad down, takes out a set of drums and bangs them close to his ears; with tears pouring down her cheeks, she sings to him a single, heart-rending question ..." (0) 7/21/08

Ebert and Roeper is over. Ebert: "The trademark still belongs to me and Marlene Iglitzen, Gene's widow, and the thumbs will return. We are discussing possibilities, and plan to continue the show's tradition." (0) 7/21/08

Great set of pictures of tourists doing cliched "holding up leaning tower of Pisa" shot [via Waxy] (0) 7/21/08

A bunch of the songs for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox are by Jarvis Cocker. Songs should be just warped enough to tip the movie toward the adults in the audience. (0) 7/18/08

RED ALERT: Salma Hayek might be single. She canceled engagement with the French dude that she had a baby with. And did you see that guy? Not what you would call handsome. (0) 7/18/08

Slate examines the world of covers by artists of different genres than the original. The more ironic, the worse they are. Best are radical departures like Sonic Youth doing Madonna, or bluegrass AC/DC. (0) 7/18/08

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Amy's Robot

May 28, 2003

Coming to London, Lord of

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