February 2012
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Very Short Reviews of the Best Picture Nominees...
The Artist
Watching The Artist was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
The Descendants
For some reason I thought Brad Pitt was going to be in this movie. I was mildly disappointed that he wasn’t. Far too much of this movie was George Clooney playing a bumbling private detective searching for Matthew Lillard. Given the ending, why didn’t we ever see anyone camp on the...
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Things a Man Will Do When He Loves a Woman,...
Think solely about here and nothing else
Trade the world for the good thing he’s found
Romanticize her entirely, completely missing her “bad”
Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down
Spend his very last dime trying to hold on to what he needs
Give up all of his comfort, even going so far as to sleep out in the rain if she arbitrarily said that’s the way it...
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Mark Bittman Rants About Pringles
Procter and Gamble sold “Pringles” to Kellogg for $2.7 billion? I should have gotten over this by now, but it’s still crazy to me that the rights to the idea of a snack food (and I guess the recipe and probably some equipment) is worth money. Anyway, Mark turns this into a discussion about the insanity that is processed foods. Take it away, Mark:
[Pringles are] only 42 percent...
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Online Dating is Terrible
This will eventually be part of a piece I plan on writing in the coming month, but this article does a good job of crystallizing some of my thoughts about the absolute terribleness that is Internet dating:
So now you have this market where everyone is presenting themselves as a good type. Some of them are probably lying. You don’t know which ones, so you’ll value every potential date...
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