Double Reading

Poor Kate Moss — and I am serious. I do feel bad for her. She was recently featured on the cover of the British tabloid The Daily Mirror doing lines of cocaine. After the image appeared, Moss lost her modeling contracts with numerous agencies, and it appears to be the end of her modeling career.
My [...]

I’ve had it with these stupid “me too!!” comments that people are posting on the 206-415-xxxx post. I’ve noted my annoyance before, but now I’m taking action. I have disabled comments for that post. Although it’s fun to get tons of emails with people posting comments, nobody has posted a comment that is worthwhile or [...]

My friend from college, Ryan Mello is running for Tacoma Parks Commissioner (position #4). He’s a great guy and I worked with him a lot when he was the ASUPS (our student government) president at my college my sophomore year. Admitedly, I don’t know too much about the Tacoma Parks Board, but I’m sure he’d [...]

I keep hearing people on the news use the word “fatalistic” to refer to someone who is being really negative/pessimistic about a situation.
For example, “Is the mayor of New Orleans being as fatalistic about the situation as the Army Corps of Engineers?” The person asking the question was trying to find out if the mayor [...]

Strangely enough, two of my daily reads, Salon.com and Slate, featured some “gender studies”-related articles yesterday. Reading them really made me miss college (which isn’t to difficult for me) and reminded me why I really should’ve been a women’s studies minor (which, it appears, my school has renamed to “gender studies”… there was a discussion [...]

No offense to all who love those Pepperidge Farm cookies, but I really think that they are quite possibly the most pretentious food ever created. I’ve never liked them and I’ve always thought that they were way overpriced. I especially hate the Milano cookies. The Chocolate Chunk cookies are semi-decent, but still overpriced and pretentious.

When it comes to the television show Millennium, there seem to be two camps (the “owls” and the “roosters” perhaps?): one group thinks that during season two when Glen Morgan and James Wong took over executive production (because series creator Chris Carter was focusing on Fight the Future [the X-Files movie]) the show went downhill [...]

Consider this to be an “introduction” to the forthcoming episode-by-episode review of Millennium season 3.
Last night I watched the episode “Collateral Damage.” Right now I won’t go into an actual review of the episode. I just wanted to mention that the episode guest starred James Marsters (looking very Spike [from Buffy]) and Art Bell (weekend [...]

Surprisingly enough (to me, at least), I just now watched Planet of the Apes (the original 1968 version). Why do I think this is surprising? Well, I like sci-fi stuff in general, and Planet of the Apes is such a classic, but oh well. I’m not sure why I’ve never watched it.
My initial reaction was: [...]

On Tuesday I had the unique pleasure of meeting one of my favorite authors, Bret Easton Ellis (author of Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, American Psycho, Glamorama, and the recently published Lunar Park).
I first read Less Than Zero during my freshman year of college. For my Argument and Debate class, my group chose [...]