June 2010
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Was spending over $200 on dinner worth it?
Just ask yourself these three easy questions.
Was the food delicious?
Are you full?
Are you drunk?
Yes to all three and it was worth it. No to even one and something went wrong.
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If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable.
– Robert Rodriguez (via ronenreblogs)
Robert Rodriguez speaks the truth.
The cornerstone of the topherchris Guide to Being Happy and Successful is to just make shit. JMS®.
If you’re even just a little bit creative and a little bit technical, you have very few excuses for not making shit and having...
the peril for Mr. Ansari is that, as his celebrity increases, his ability to...
– NY Times, in their otherwise great piece on Aziz Ansari.
This is a bullshit thing to say about any ascending artist, but an especially ignorant thing to say about a comedian. Haven’t they seen Eddie Murphy’s height-of-his-power Delirious?
Ah but here’s the rub: meanwhile along come a whole bunch of younger people for...
– a grammar: Dave Eggers on being a critic
Nitsuh just identified the central argument and solution to an argument I’ve been regularly having (and losing) with my father for the last 5 or 6 years. Yeah, no big deal.
He also maybe just described why I think Scott Pilgrim is so important too -...
My Weekend in Canada
To celebrate Memorial Day in the most American way I could think of, I went to Montreal and Toronto. Here’s a short music video I made (set to Caribou’s Sun) that I promise you isn’t boring.
The Bechdel Test
Before today, I had no idea about the Bechdel test for women in film. The test states that you should ask the following questions of a film:
1. Are there two or more female characters with names? 2. Do they talk to each other? 3. If they talk to each other, do they talk about something other than a man?
The amount of great films that fail surprising (pretty complete list here.)
I’ve...