March 2009
14 posts
Taxi
In the movies, New York City cab drivers are a cross between Jeff Gordon and Saddam Hussein. People are often ignored by the first ten cabs they see. It becomes a movie in of itself to find a taxi who will stop and take them in. Movie cab drivers run red lights, drive in the wrong direction, barely miss hitting pedestrians. They have to run with other asshole drivers, and deal with them by...
LOST - He's Our You
What I Liked —An old school Lost episode. The scenes of Sayid’s island experience being intercut with scenes from his recent past. The time travel stuff was fun, but it was nice they got back to basics in this episode. —Oldham. The Dharma Initiative’s Sayid, the go-to guy to get information by any means necessary. Lost continues to introduce new and interesting...
Sickdays
I’ve always enjoyed being sick. It’s one of the only times when everyone I deal with is completely nice and considerate. I think it’s because they are afraid I’ll breathe and give them my disease. When I’m sick, I like to lie down and pretend there’s a war going on inside my body between the white blood cells and the flu virus. The white blood cells are a...
Lost - Namaste
What I liked: —Sawyer’s smackdown of Jack. He’s 100% right by saying Jack being in charge lead to confusion and many deaths on the island in roughly three months. With Sawyer/LaFleur in charge, the island was at peace for three years. James/Sawyer/LaFleur has been the MVP of this season, shown the most growth as a character. He’s less angry and sarcastic, and more of a...
The Madness of March
Despite the cratering economy, many sites are offering $100 million to bracketologists around the internet if they get every single NCAA tournament game right. They might as well offer a trip to Mars where you can hang out with Dr. Manhattan and his blue penis. No one has ever gotten any game right. Many feel proud if they get the entire opening round correct. And they should. The NCAA...
Twittering
The internet is amazing. Not because you have all the news and information in the world right at your fingertips, or because you can buy any product you can imagine with just one click, but because the creators of some of the most popular applications or sites decided to name their companies the silliest names imaginable. “Yahoo” and “Google” are the two biggest search...
Jobs
I work at a small/medium sized advertising agency in New York, where every day is like slowly experiencing death. We devise campaigns, put together powerpoint presentations, slave over the details, worry about the execution. In the end, I’m not sure how much of an impact is made. One of my old bosses used to say “Relax, it’s not curing cancer”, but somehow, every single...
Insurance
I had to sit through a boring meeting about health care benefits the other day. It was a frank lecture about EPOs and PPOs and medical bank cards. I am not a doctor or a con artist, so I can’t specify details about the discussion. All I know is unless I get hit by a bus, or get attacked by the cancer fairy, there’s no way any type of medical insurance is worth what I’m paying....
24 - 8-9
Bill Buchanan Season 4-Season 7
Chessmaster
I must confess, there are times when I look at my life, and I realize there is something missing. I’m in my mid-20s, and I look in the mirror and say “Why haven’t I followed my dreams?” There are times I feel lost. There are times when I wake up in the middle of the night and just stare in the mirror. Sometimes I sit in the park, and I cry. People look at me and ask...
Lost - LaFleur
What I liked —Living in the 70s. It’s another episode that slows the narrative to a crawl. The only real revelation was that it confirmed that everyone got sent to the 1970s, after Locke came back to save them. The character development with Sawyer, how he’s turning into a leader rather than a rebel while still remaining true to himself, was great though. I like that he found...
Restroom Review
Restroom is a weird name. I’m not taking a rest in this place. If anything, I feel the opposite of restful. Having to go to the bathroom is a stressful situation, especially if you’ve been holding it in for awhile. In those situations, it’s like racing against an imaginary clock. It becomes the most important thing that you can do. Aliens could be mating outside your car,...
24 - 6-8
The FBI has Dubaku’s hospital bed surrounded. Unfortunately for the terrorist, every single agent protecting him has to watch his nurse answer the phone. One of General Juma’s soldiers, who happens to work at the hospital or at least is able to afford a nice pair of scrubs, sneaks up to Dubaku’s bed and injects him with some sort of heart attack potion, killing him. Bad...
Snow in New York
Snow in New York is one of the most misrepresented aspects of the city in movies, film, or any other work of fiction. Along with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Eskimos, it is one of the greatest lies that is continually perpetrated throughout the world. New York City is known as one of the finest cities in the world, a fine place to live, a fantastic place to work, a wonderful place to...