Times looks at Truman Show delusion, Internet delusions, and other mental illnesses linked to pop culture/ media. Did you see the awesome Harper's piece about penis snatching delusions in Nigeria? In the June issue. Background: http://tinyurl.com/6aj9yy (0)
8/28/08
Site of Heath Ledger's death is back up for rent, with 20% markup. I'm choosing to believe the higher price is due to normal Manhattan rental market inflation. (0)
8/28/08
Jack Abramoff is using his movie writing/producing resume to teach Cinema Studies in prison. He made a Dolph Lundgren movie in 1989, Red Scorpion. (0)
8/28/08
Good AP story about Jonathan and Linda Sohus, the CA couple that Clark Rockefeller might have killed. She painted unicorns and worked at a sci-fi shop. He was a NASA programmer. Many strange details about their disappearance. (0)
8/28/08
O.J. got beaten up by his daughter. Daughter Arnelle doesn't like O.J.'s 32 year-old girlfriend who "has some problems with drinking." (0)
8/28/08
FBI arrested that dude who posted tracks from Gn'R's Chinese Democracy on his website. This album has gotten more free pre-existence publicity than any other album in the history of the world. (0)
8/27/08
Here's a good way to tell if you are old: do you read the Times article on low-alcohol beers and think they sound pretty good? These are sub-5% beers, "where you could have a few and not have to go take a nap." Yeah, I'm old. (1)
8/27/08
Little Haley Joel Osment, who you probably haven't seen since A.I., is coming to Broadway in Mamet's American Buffalo. That's a whole lot of swearing for little Haley! Co-stars with John Leguizamo. (0)
8/27/08
Ted Kennedy gave his DNC speech last night while reportedly in "excruciating pain" from kidney stones. Plus the brain cancer. (0)
8/26/08
Pop culture figures that have statues in Serbian towns: Tarzan, Rocky, and now the latest one, Bob Marley. (0)
8/26/08
Excerpt from Watch You Bleed, the new Gn'R bio, on the origins of "Welcome to the Jungle". Song comes from little 18 year-old Axl's first trip to New York. It's good. (0)
8/26/08
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the first Woody Allen movie to crack the Top 10 since Small Time Crooks in 2000. I think it's his best movie post- Deconstructing Harry. Sweet and Lowdown was pretty good, Melinda and Melinda was OK, everything else was awful. [via fimoculous] (0)
8/26/08
Slate has an in-depth review of Biden's plagiarism and lies from the 1988 campaign. They're weirder and worse than I remembered. They also remind us that the phrase "media feeding frenzy" became popular during that campaign. (0)
8/26/08
AP: Texas students pack bookbags; teachers pack heat. You'd think high school is bad enough without knowing your teachers might have f'ing guns. School board approves permits "based on personality." Great. [map] (0)
8/26/08
The Times interviews a few of the many people that were taken in by "Clark Rockefeller" and his various high-status identities. Only one NH woman says she saw through him: "He talked about money. He was a name-dropper. I smelled a rat." (0)
8/25/08
Caution to hippies and the guys in front of the Astor Place Starbucks: burning incense causes cancer. (0)
8/25/08
Slate article says that racism is the only reason Obama could lose. OK, let's follow that logic. Our country is pretty clearly racist. Therefore, Obama could (will?) lose. Ack. (0)
8/25/08
Loads of small documentaries are opening here this week in order to qualify for Oscars. Most are playing at the Village East theater. (0)
8/25/08
Woody Allen's mock diary from set of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in his usual surreal self-denegrating style. After all these years, his sense of humor is pretty much exactly the same as it was in "Bananas". (0)
8/25/08
Oh for crying out loud: Madonna's tour includes video montage with photos of Hitler, Mugabe, and John McCain. Could all crackpot celebrities please just keep quiet about politics for the next 2 months? Thanks. (0)
8/25/08
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