This could be brilliant! Now where’s the “Black Sheep Squadron” movie?! A Magnum, P.I. movie is a tempting idea, and Clooney, of anyone around today, probably has the charisma and laid-back cleverness to do it well. But the show, at least from my mid-’80s perspective, had a great combination of comedy, drama, historical weight, and […]

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I came across this image from Wes Anderson’s couldn’t-be-any-more-highly-anticipated film The Life Aquatic (though it seems the “with Steve Zissou” tag has been removed), and it made me laugh. The image is from a Disney promotional PDF that someone over at Yankee Racers found on the Disney site. Since Wes Anderson is, hands down, the […]

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Cuchi Cuchi in Central Square is a gem – I don’t know why we never ate there before. We had an amazing array of food and drink there last night, surrounded by lamps, beads, kimonos, stained glass, and Charo-related art. After we left, Aimee and I strolled past the former location of Mama Gaia’s Caf? […]

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So I grew up a little today. I finally got a suit – or should I say, Aimee got me a suit, as she tries to class me up a little bit – my first real, honest-to-goodness black suit. The fact that I now have a suit makes me feel like an actual old person, […]

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Funny how things work… I found myself yet again shut out of a Pixies show – and yes, I was ready to head to Minneapolis on a Tuesday, because at least it’s not Winnipeg – so on a mostly unrelated note, I decided to get tickets to the Oakland A’s game Aimee and I have […]

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I’ve watched more movies in a day, but maybe not such strangely different ones. This morning began with the last hour and a half of Sirk’s 1959 makeover of “Imitation of Life,” all teary-eyed and frantic. At work, JD was screening Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible (Part I)” for his “sound era” class, with that terrific […]

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Not that we should all look to MTV for validation when our friends are in bands, but it’s pretty great that Marty and the rest of the Social Club are featured on a new MTV “Advance Warning” compilation, and have their hyper-hyped bio written up to accompany the disc. They’ve got a record contract with […]

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After spending a lazy day in the sun with Aimee, napping in the park on Broadway and walking my lame bike (crippled, rather than sub-par) bike to Ace Wheel Works in Davis to get a new tube and a “tune and true” run on it in preparation for summer riding, I headed back to the […]

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Living and working in an eight-block stretch in Cambridge, I rarely get into Boston anymore. This morning, Aimee and Jack picked me up (well, really, it was Aimee, because Jack was in his car seat in the back, busy pointing out every “car!” and “”truck!” that passed us by) and we headed to the New […]

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Someone needs to give the Cambridge Parking Authority some handwriting lessons. Aimee and I got a ticket a week or so ago, and I went online today to check on it, because I was curious to see if the license plate was entered correctly. Sure enough, the ticket was on record for someone else’s plate, […]

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Hung out with Josh, Chris, and Kirstin from my old job at The Field tonight (check out their site: Christmas 1998 e-cards!). And when I say “job,” I mean the job where three of us used to work, and where one of us still works, three years after the rest of us lost our jobs […]

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Aimee and I (along with a small theater’s worth of moviegoers) enjoyed a preview screening of the latest effort from the ever-tightening spiral that is Charlie Kaufman’s brain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I really enjoyed it, and found it exhilaratingly imaginative and a lot of fun to watch. Jim Carrey was terrific (I […]

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As I walked to work this morning, I saw some sad news in the windows of The Museum of Useful Things and Black Ink @ Home just down the street from me: it (they?) plans to move to 49 Brattle Street in Harvard Square sometime this spring. I’ve always been happy that an actual store […]

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All in all, the Oscars were un-surprising, which was a little sad, given the opportunities in the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories for some interesting decisions. I’m happy for Sean Penn, and my disgust at Ren?e Zellweger’s totally undeserved victory for “Cold Mountain” was made up for by the fact that the trite […]

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