Month: January 2001
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Attention all SUV owners: Todd David Whitmore examines them in relation to Catholic social tradition and comes to the conclusion that they’re all about image and not about safety. Which isn’t exactly a genius concept or anything, but I liked the unique approach. Ahhh, Notre Dame.
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Huh. Not only is the University gearing up to make significant repairs to the Stadium, but they’re also suing the architect and engineer to try and get them to foot the bill. I guess that water leak at the first game was more serious than we thought…
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I agree with all of Max’s comments about teachers having favorites, and I’ll just add one more thing. I’ve got several friends who currently teach high school, and I get the impression that “favorites” are sometimes the only thing that keeps a teacher going on a bad day. When my buddy Andrew is struggling through…
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Oh all right. I couldn’t resist. Ironminds’ reactions to the inauguration were just too funny. My favorite: “I hear we’re now 4 1/2 point underdogs against Iraq.”
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As you might have noticed, I have resisted the urge to comment on that fiasco… except to say that I think blocking all Clinton’s last executive orders is a damn dirty trick. The man hasn’t even been in office for a week and already he’s pandering to corporate interests at the expense of America’s natural…
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I enjoyed Gina Arnold’s Salon article about “Badass girls on film”, but I thought that the comment about “latent lesbianism” on Buffy showed her ignorance a bit. There’s actually explicit lesbianism in the show in the form of Willow, but she was never the ass-kicker that the article describes. Arnold wants to claim that by…
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Whoa! Some guy has a million Atari games to sell! If only I had managed to save my aunt’s console from the family garage sale…
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Sorry about the lack of updates. An old friend was in town, and (as expected) my sniffles finally developed into a full-blown cold. All in all it was not a weekend conducive to blogging… I’ll make up for it today. 🙂
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I applaud Miramax for trying something new, but I don’t really think they’re giving the “movies-over-the-Internet” thing a fair trial. I mean, Guinevere???. I don’t even wanna think about Sarah Polley gettin’ it on with Stephen Rea, let alone spend half an hour downloading 500MB of it to my computer. Yuck.
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Sorry, Max. I hate Andy Dick. The only time I ever found him funny was when Chris Kattan was impersonating him on Saturday Night Live. (Andy himself apparently didn’t see the humor.)