October 2010
29 posts
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WatchFirst film I ever did: Hal Hartley’s “Opera No. 1,” shot in ‘94. Also featuring Patricia Dunnock, Parker Posey and the late, luminescent Adrienne Shelly. Made for a Comedy Central special of music-related shorts (of all things). We’re all lip-syncing other people’s vocals, BTW.
ROCK FOOTNOTES. Episode One: DROOGIE
It’s well-worn religious conservative rhetoric to stress that the words “separation of church and state” don’t appear in the Constitution, as if that somehow undermines the fact that the Constitution establishes a separation of church and state. But leave it to Christine O’Donnell to repeatedly mock the idea that the First Amendment contains any language barring...
Watch“In the future, everyone will be— oh, fuck me.”-Andy Warhol
Advertising blows
Kelly Oxford posts Burger King’s infamous “Super Seven Incher” print ad from 2009. Created by an agency in Singapore as part of a limited promotion there, it was universally condemned by ad professionals and even provoked Burger King to release a statement stressing it was not produced by their official American agency and was never intended for the U.S. market. I would love to...
WatchSorry, there was no way I couldn’t make a Downfall parody about Rich Iott.
Appearances
“Liberal, I’ll bet.
Oh, they take terrorism seriously alright. What a freaking disgusting display … from a University President? Are you kidding me?
‘University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann threw her annual Halloween costume party at her home Tuesday night. Among the guests was Saad Saadi, who came dressed as a suicide bomber.’ This woman deserves to be...
“‘Working at Tribune means accepting that you might hear a word that you,...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/business/media/06tribune.html
