Archive: March 2006

• Movies / More Oscar crap in cinema, reviews · Mar 7, 15:38

  Of course Crash won Best Picture. Why wouldn’t Academy members — I’m assuming they’re mostly white and Angeleno — rally around a film that momentarily relieved them of guilt they feel for living in such a racially segregated city? (I have to admit that I love Ludacris’s rant about the racial implications of riding city [...]

• Truth, fiction, the Village Voice, Sylvestergate in lit · Mar 6, 23:58

  Village Voice writer Nick Sylvester joins the ranks of defamed young journalists with his recent foray into research fabrication — i.e., he basically invented a (mostly unremarkable) scene that neatly summed up his thoughts in an article on Neil Strauss’s The Game and its effect on NYC dating culture. The obviously weird thing is that [...]

• Art / Richard Misrach slays 49 Geary in inside art, reviews, san francisco, visual · Mar 5, 03:01

  First Thursdays at 49 Geary can be overwhelming, people-wise, and underwhelming, art-wise, and this month was different only in that the overwhelmingness was crammed into one place: the Fraenkel Gallery. Packed with people, it also displayed a face-melting collection of Richard Misrach photos.

  When I first saw Misrach’s photos, I thought immediately of Sebastiao Salgado. Both [...]

• Art / Oakland is special in other ways in inside art, reviews, san francisco, visual · Mar 5, 02:43

  Last night we checked out the Oakland Art Murmur. Actually, we didn’t even know that such a thing existed, and drove over the Bridge intending to see Jason Munn’s opening at Bloom Screen Printing. So it was a pleasant surprise to see that little stretch of Telegraph goin off when we got there. Jason’s stuff [...]

• SportsCenter catchphrases & their usage contexts in baseball, the ancient past · Mar 2, 19:24

  I watch so much SportsCenter that I figured I’d try to chronicle the non sequitors that they use to punctuate excellent sports moments.

  Three beers apiece for my co-workers – While high-fives among teammates are being exchanged. Derivation: Shawshank Redemption
  What’s on the grill? — Punctuates the moment when someone, usually Dwayne Wade, dunks in someone else’s [...]