Here’s how lame Barnes & Noble is. I had a book reading and signing at the Oakland B&N last February (a whole year ago), and after the reading, rather than send the unsold books back to me (who shipped them directly there), they sent them to a distributor from which they didn’t even order them.…

Too much travel and too many 5am wakeup calls have left me too tired to form coherent original thoughts, so here’s a hysterical (and oh so accurate) damnation of the blog community. (Note that I’d never consider myself part of any “community” at all, and I agree that most blogs are indeed trash.) Why your…

Too much travel and too many 5am wakeup calls have left me too tired to form coherent original thoughts, so here’s a hysterical (and oh so accurate) damnation of the blog community. (Note that I’d never consider myself part of any “community” at all, and I agree that most blogs are indeed trash.) Why your…

Sadly, I can’t really remember all the states I’ve visited. Have I been to Utah? Surely I’ve been to St. Louis, right? Rhode Island… did we go through there during that tour of the east coast? Ah, skip it… create your own visited states map

Sadly, I can’t really remember all the states I’ve visited. Have I been to Utah? Surely I’ve been to St. Louis, right? Rhode Island… did we go through there during that tour of the east coast? Ah, skip it… create your own visited states map

I know a bunch of film-obsessed freaks read this weblog. So now’s your chance to make something out of that lunacy. Let me know if you get on the show. IFCTV.com > Ultimate Film Fanatic

Yeah, it’s pretty freakin’ hard. The Village Voice: Film: World’s Hardest Movie Quiz 2004 by Michael Atkinson

Dig! virtual archeologist

It’s what’s for dinner. SUPER MODEL MEAT SPORTS

This is a very long but worthwhile story… check it out. Confessions of a Car Salesman

The scene at Jamba Juice: Woman walks in, shouts to all the customers, “Does anyone have a cigarette!?” This is Jamba Juice…

544.7 smack the pingu!!! (Yes i ripped it)

Beware the maid. Today I come home from work and the power is out in the study. All the computers are dead, the DSL modem is out, the UPSes are completely drained. There’s a known problem with power surges and vacuum cleaners… but no circuit breaker is tripped. What has gone on here? And more…

I’ve spent 10 of the last 30 hours on airplanes, so allow me to complain for one short moment. I’ve discovered a nifty way to get exit row seating (no, I’m not sharing), but in this instance it backfired. I’m in row 12, and it looks like I’m going to get the whole thing to…

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For relaxing times… Lost in Translation Movie Fansite: Translated Suntory Scene

Now that’s a little funky Crossing filmcritic.com with The Register

Not only can these Canadians not tell the difference between a lion and a cat, they just can’t get their headlines proofread either. DailyBulletin.com – News

Hey Spuddy, you still out there?

“Spuddy” has always been a favorite of mine… Spalding come back to us! (Not mentioned in this story is the issue that in addition to his many maladies, Gray’s skull was cracked and suffered nerve damage in a car accident in 2001. Yahoo! News – Actor-Writer Spalding Gray Reported Missing in NY