Monthly Archives: May 2004

In defense of Grease 2.

It’s Sunday, it’s raining, and I’m still unemployed, so there’s no good reason for me not to be inside watching television all day. Flipping through the channels, I noticed that VH1 was showing Grease again. VH1 runs Grease a lot … Continue reading

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Graduation isn’t about the parents anyway.

Barbara Bush (apparently, “the smart one” of the Bush Twins) graduated from Yale today. As with her sister’s graduation on Saturday, neither of her parents attended the graduation, supposedly because they didn’t want to inconvienence the other graduates with Presidential-level … Continue reading

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Too smart to be a Superstar.

This afternoon, I watched a rerun of Superstar USA, the WB’s self-consciously cruel parody of American Idol, wherein the WB cons bad singers into thinking they’re pop star material. The only time I watch American Idol is when they’re showing … Continue reading

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Fox joins liberal media; CBS stays the course.

In 1968, Walter Cronkite returned to the United States after visiting Viet Nam and witnessing the Tet Offensive. He was distressed enough by what he saw to announce on national television that he thought the war was unwinnable. Legend has … Continue reading

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By the time I got to Phoenix.

Want to hear a shameful confession? Until tonight, the script powering this weblog could only print entries in two timezones: Eastern Standard and Eastern Daylight. That’s fine for all the years I spent in Michigan and Ohio, but I lived … Continue reading

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As I was saying….

The Phoenix New Times has finally noticed that Janet Napolitano is on John Kerry‘s imaginary list of vice-presidential candidates, and they’ve made a list of reasons she’s not a real contender. Their list only partially overlaps my list of reasons … Continue reading

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I think I liked the old Mexico better, actually.

When my youngest brother was getting ready to drive his family to Calfornia, I tried really hard to provide some useful brotherly advice culled from my three trips across the country. All I could come up with at the time, … Continue reading

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Pick a holiday. Any holiday.

Its the first day of May: the anarchists are celebrating labor, the Russians are showing off their love for Lenin, the pagans are setting things on fire, the Christians are parading for homophobia, and the American government is showing off … Continue reading

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