Hold Fast

I can probably count the number of my friends who saw The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on one hand, while pretty much everyone I know has seen No Country for Old Men. While I loved No Country for Old Men and thought Javier Bardem gave a phenomenal performance, Casey Affleck’s [...]

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For those who are friends of FireDogLake and Donita Sparks I wanted to let you know that my pal Joh Padgett of Monticello Politics is doing a special podcast version of this week’s regular The Spin I’m In music column at FDL. Donita will host a conversation with her longtime friend and drummer Lady Dee [...]

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Via Dean Barker at Blue Hampshire, it turns out two Democrats cast “present” votes on legislation that the rest of the caucus had the courage to stand up and vote for: H RES 960 RES 960: “Congratulating the National Football League champion New York Giants for winning Super Bowl XLII and completing one of the [...]

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It’s an overcast day in New York City, with misting rain and temperatures in the upper 40s. The picture this morning is more bleak, I think, than the actual weather. I was the 102nd person to vote in my precinct. I voted at around 9:45 AM and there was no line, with lots of poll [...]

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Victory! Enjoy that champagne, 1972 Dolphins. Update: ESPN (rough transcript): “All season the talk around the NFL was about whether the Patriots were the greatest team of all time. Turns out they weren’t even the best team Sunday.” Update II: I’m having server problems that’s preventing me from posting new content. My server thinks it’s [...]

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Roy at alicublog has a review of There Will Be Blood that really captures what makes this such a powerful and disturbing movie. I saw it a couple weeks ago and had trouble fully circumscribing the film in a way that allowed me to adequately respond to it. I recommend giving Roy’s review a read, [...]

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Brad Reed, writing at Network World, documents the case that ABC’s Lost has a Luddite strain. In short, technology is a harbinger for death on the hit TV show (which, incidentally, is one of the few network TV shows that I closely follow). Characters who use network technology in ABC’s hit mystery drama Lost are [...]

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Erik Moe, the Dodd campaign’s art director / web designer, is considering becoming a Resident of NYC. I just signed onto his exploratory committee — you can too.

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As a New Yorker who loves sushi and eats quite a lot of tuna, this article in the Times on the high levels of mercury in tuna found in NYC sushi restaurants is pretty troubling. I don’t think I currently approach the danger levels cited for tuna consumption, but if I ate as much sushi [...]

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