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James

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My Interests

Music:

Black Sabbath, The Stones, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Miles Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan, The Carter Family, Guided By Voices, The Faces, The Stooges, Joanna Newsom, Wilco, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Louie Prima, Built to Spill, Gillian Welch...

Movies:

Goodfellas, The Sting, Vanya on 42nd St., Breaking the Waves, Flirting with Disaster, Mulholland Drive, LOTR, Scarecrow, Rear Window, 2001....

Television:

Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show, Carnivale, Arrested Development, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, Rome, The Office, Extras, Documentaries...

Books:

John Adams, Theodore Rex, any Kurt Vonnegut, High Fidelity, LOTR, any history or foreign policy...

Heroes:

George Washington, My Mom, Jesus

My Blog

Guyliner? Please stop.

A recent online article in slate discussed the new trend in male fashion: make up.  Now we are not talking about a little eyeliner and powder applied during a photo shoot, we are talking about pa...
Posted by James on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:12:00 PST

Game of the year

Well, the regular season game of the year in the NFL has come and gone, actually better than advertised.  While at first it seemed like crushing defeat for the Colts, the results are more promisi...
Posted by James on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:23:00 PST

Taken for granted?

In an interview with MSNBC, Evangelical political activist Richard Land derided the current crop of Republican candidates for taking the religious right for granted, and compared this to the Democrati...
Posted by James on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

Death of the Leading Man

Can offer a brief eulogy to the Hollywood leading man?  What has happened to the Humphrey Bogarts, the Clint Eastwoods, and the Steve McQueens? Here is what has happened: they've been replaced b...
Posted by James on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:34:00 PST

"Trap" Game

   The "trap" game has become the new buzz word in the NFL this year, and as always with buzz words, it is most often misused.  Highlighting this trend, of course, is Sports Illustrate...
Posted by James on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:47:00 PST

To Catch a Predator

Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator" segment has been garnering a lot of heat of late.  This will happen to television programs when the targets of their questionable entrapment schemes excuse th...
Posted by James on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:58:00 PST

Even on the way out hes evil!

Karl Rove never ceases to amaze.  Even on the way out of office he plants one last Rovian sabotage of American democracy. Lost in the headlines of Rove's resignation was the notice from his pit ...
Posted by James on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:35:00 PST

Hold on to your hats folks, it's rantin' time

Ah, yes.  Summer is here.  It's the perfect time for the Hollywood's intellectual yes man, the AFI, to come out with their repugnant list of the top 100 films of all time.  Yes, it's ti...
Posted by James on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:29:00 PST

Justificatory

Ever since yesterday afternoon when the press reported that intelligence was being declassified finally and totally supporting the War in Iraq, I have been eagerly awaiting its dissemination by our fe...
Posted by James on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:12:00 PST

Our Prince Incarnate

As the Attorneys General scandal winds its way to the center, is anyone surprised at its rotten core?  Highlighting the news today are more lies from the Secretary of False Witness for an adminis...
Posted by James on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:54:00 PST