07/03/2009 Amazing Trends
In my ongoing effort to stay on the front edge of trends, I am hereby limiting my entire vocabulary of adjectives to the word amazing. So if I want hash browns with my breakfast at Waffle House, I order amazing fries. If I want to tell a salesman [amazingperson] that I want to look at a hybrid car, I say, "I am in the market for an amazing car."
Amazing I'm amazed that this amazing trend has come this amazing. In the amazing months I will be ...
06/30/2009 Pecker
I still don't fully understand the movie Pecker. I assume that a lot of the humor is reserved for those inside the NYC gallery scene and the very, extremely gay. But there is a growing list of indicators that it is a much more serious movie than it first appears.
First of all, there are serious people featured in the film. Cindy Sherman is hilarious as some version of herself - as a casual fan of her pictures I prefer to not know too much about her personal life - in Pecker she comes to the rescue of the manic, sugar-addicted ...