Weekend Watch
Friday morning - it's the weekend already in many parts of the world. Let's get it started.
Perhaps you'd like to begin with the Morning Power Smoothie, one of 100 of the world's healthiest foods? Perhaps over the marinated beets, a good and colorful source of anti-oxydents.
Already in London it's time to Rate My Lunch.
A local site I stumbled upon recently (thanks, Bruce Warren) is called Overlooked Gems of My Lifetime, and I've been hooked since reading the blogger's hazy fondness for the lost art of chocking up. (I still have my grandfather's 35-oz. Mickey Cochrane bat with the tape wrapped almost to the Louisville Slugger insignia.) Other items reconsidered: The Undertones, a great Irish new wave band, and Tom Arnold's (!!) The Jackie Thomas Show. The blogger makes the case, though.
Rule No. 15 from 40 Things That Only Happen in Movies. All grocery shopping involves the purchase of French loaves which will be placed in open brown paper bags (Caveat: when said bags break, only fruit will spill out). The list is ok - it's got your bombs-always-show-how-much-time-is-left and all - but can't we do better?
Phillyist finds one: Fat Joe is coming to town for a free "flash concert." But no one's saying when or where. If you sign up on this Web site, they'll let you know in time. By email or cell phone message. It's a promotion for Ford's new Fusion and New York got the Roots.
Stick figures, the universal language. This Italian site collects readers' simple animations from around the world, thousands of them, into a digital flipbook. For a good waste of time, try Bad Luck from some guy in Bankok.
Daily Sally gets regularly steamed over Pennsylvania's junior Republican senator. Rick Santorum. Was happy to find the Help Expose Rick Santorum Web site.
But don't pay attention to me. I'm an old media guy. Pay attention to Jason Pontin at MIT. He says Print is dying.
Would you read a story captioned, Brazilian bandits pull off big boob job. (Thanks, MSNBC's Clicked.)
Morning Mom. I remember that from My Favorite Year.
One of my all-time favorite movies! "If I were truly plastered, could I do THIS?" (flips over onto writing table, unconscious) "Well, we know he can do THAT."
Hacking and Programming usually involve just hitting keys really fast and watching cool animations on the screen... source: Swordfish, Hackers. Actually, one showed actual "code", Anti-Trust. The beginning credits splashed HTML all over the place as if it were relevant at all! But during the movie you could see something that resembled C or C++ http://www.google.com/search?q=programming+c
"Print is dying" - Jason Pontin, 2005 "Print is dead" - Egon, Ghostbusters, 1984 :)
Got another. Home watching The Rookie. Rule No. 42: When making a baseball movie about an older player, make sure there's a smiling kid to annoy most viewers. SEE: the batboy in "The Natural." For improvement on theme, see: "Bull Durham," where the batboy says "Get a hit, Crash" and Crash answers "Shut up."