apropos of anything

For most of the summer, we heard non-stop whinging about the box-office slump, hand-wringing over the decreased sales, rocket-scientist-type extrapolating about why, exactly, the American consumer wasn’t flocking to the theaters as usual. It was probably because, with a few exceptions, the summer crop of movies sucked royally; additionally, movie tickets have gotten ridiculously expensive, [...]

CNN has a video on the site today where Laura Bush gives a tour of the White House Christmas decorations to Dana Bash, who records the whole thing for our viewing pleasure. And in the related pane, there is a link to another video, entitled “Christmas tree returns to Capitol”, although the description makes a [...]

I recently lambasted somebody for describing all the charactertics of, but not actually admitting to being, a music snob. Actually, what I really reamed him for was the “lampooning” of the “clumsy clods” who don’t know the difference between Björk and Bjorn Borg. And I suppose if you want to get truly technical about it, [...]

I’ve just been informed, by way of Pop Culture Junk Mail, that Coca-Cola is placing my favorite drink, Vanilla Coke, on (at least temporary) hiatus in favor of Black Cherry Vanilla Coke.

Mmm, vanilla Coke

This is such sad news. It’s not that I have anything in particular against cherry Coke, except that it’s not very good, [...]

I fought long and hard against this show. I swore I would never forgive it for getting both the plum time slot and all the overexposure denied the deliciously snarky Eyes even though I knew ABC, and not Grey’s Anatomy, was responsible for the stingy, short-sighted, prohibitive scheduling decisions. It was easier not to watch [...]