Link of the Day [11.30.11]

broderic on November 30, 2011

As the nights start getting colder (the days stay very warm) and the dark settles in earlier, the winter Oscar season heats up. I haven't watched to many of the contenders: I still haven't seen The Tree of Life. Yet, I been following the Oscar race on Grantland. Grantland is a website writing about sports, but they also have other writers writing about pop culture. I've been reading the Oscarmetrics column with devotion trying to figure out what to watch and to handicap for the Oscar Pool.It also helps me to figure out what to watch. Let's checkout what's playing at the Charles.http://www.grantland.com/search/_/query/mark-harris

Link of the Day [11.27.11]

broderic on November 27, 2011

Followed a link from Kottke this morning to Susan Kare’s website. She was the original designer of many of the visual interface icons on the original Macintosh. Now I want a few prints of her classic icons. The Happy Mac. The Sad Mac. The Bomb. The Dogcow. What should I choose? Or should I let you choose for Secret Santa.

http://www.kareprints.com/?cat=3

Feast

broderic on November 26, 2011

Thanksgiving Feast 2011

All I wanted was the dressing. And the oysters. But there was also some barley and some clams that jumped onto my plate. This was the fourth one. I liked this better.

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

broderic on November 24, 2011

What should we be thankful for?

Most everything! Life is mostly beautiful even if it stinks at this time.

Everyone and everybody, have a safe and joyous thanksgiving!

J. Edgar

broderic on November 17, 2011

As I watched J. Edgar, I wondered what hack directed this film. The tone seemed all wrong — it felt campy. Leonardo was bombastic. The makeup looked horrendous. What hack would do this on a biopic?

Clint Eastwood. Wow. I couldn’t believe it.

It’s another strange effort by Eastwood.

He makes the old people look like Charles Foster Kane. He let Leonardo chew some scenery.

2 of 5 stars.