Kent Peterman Groaner, Jon Carroll, Lasusa Links, Daniel Dern’s Movie Plans, Dan Grobstein File
November 11, 2007
This is the kind of thing Kent Peterman used to send to Herb Caen. Now he sends it to me–and I love it.
Loeb of the Loeb and Leopold convicted of the murder of Bobby Frank (an early typewriter identification case) was knifed to death while in prison by a fellow prisoner who claimed that he killed Loeb because he propositioned him to commit a homosexual act. The wags say that Loeb was the first prisoner to end his sentence with a proposition.
A Jon Carroll cat column, almost but not quite called The Story of Bucket, the Cat Who Wanted to Be a Real Cat. Also: check out Chronicle TV Writer Tim Goodman’s appreciation of Carroll, a few paragraphs down in his column Who can write the future of TV strike? Well, we can try.
Tom Lasusa’s review of Young Frankenstein, The Musical. And, he surfs the web so you don’t have to: New Guinness Commercial Really Knocks them over (bad joke, I know)… HOWTO make a speaker out of a magnet, a cup, legos and wire… Can someone explain why this never happened to me in school?… A Trio of wierd Japanese commercials for whiskey (To quote Rodney Dangerfield “what’s with the midget?”)… Daredevils use “Flying Squirrel Suits” to fly insanely close around mountains… Ingredients for Salad Dressing Found in 2,400-year-old Shipwreck… Dude, You’re Serving Me Drinks!… So, why is there a Hollywood Writer’s Strike exactly?… Bad Day at the Office?… UKs stupidest laws… Waitress tells campaign reporters: ‘You people are really nuts’… Asshole of the Week: National Review’s Deroy Murdock says Waterboarding torture isn’t so bad.
Daniel Dern sez he’s going to see Sweeney Todd, The Movie and Golden Compass. How about you? I’ll go see Golden Compass just to honk off the people who hate it without ever seeing it.
Dan Grobstein File
Andrew Tobias pointed at Jim Holt’s It’s The Oil in the London Review of Books. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n20/holt01_.html
I was going to say that of course if this is what really happened it would be the first thing dubya has ever done that came out the way he wanted. Except that since he doesn’t want government to work, he doesn’t even try to make it work. So a lot of things happen the way he wants them to. And if the Democrats win in ’08 they’ll have an awful lot of obstructionist dubya moles to root out of the various agencies.
- NEW YORK REGION | November 6, 2007
A Corona, Please, and Don’t Hold the Lime
By MICHAEL WILSON
Every time a bartender in New York City puts a lime slice in that Corona with bare hands, he or she is breaking the law.
- I can’t believe these people don’t know that the only reason that their books are “best sellers” is that they are bought in bulk and given away.
BOOKS | November 7, 2007
Conservative Authors Sue Publisher
By MOTOKO RICH
Five authors charged that Regnery Publishing deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to organizations owned by the same parent company. - Praying for rain in Georgia
- Rudy!
- [Since we don’t build anything here anymore it looks like we’ll keep having these problems. From the article: Speaking about the failure, “Another factor was a decline of American expertise in systems engineering, the science and art of managing complex engineering projects to weigh risks, gauge feasibility, test components and ensure that the pieces come together smoothly.”
WASHINGTON | November 11, 2007
Failure to Launch: In Death of Spy Satellite Program, Lofty Plans and Unrealistic Bids
By PHILIP TAUBMAN
An effort called Future Imagery Architecture was perhaps the most expensive and spectacular failure in the history of American spy satellite projects.
- BUSINESS | November 11, 2007
The Tables Turn for Dilbert’s Creator
By BRAD STONE
Scott Adams, the progenitor of the multimillion-dollar Dilbert empire, is now a pointy-haired boss at an upscale restaurant serving California cuisine. [ed. note: I haven’t gone yet, but now I want to…]
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