August 2010
7 posts
Aug 27th
Aug 27th
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ned hepburn: more like NOTT Pilgrim, amiright?  →
I can’t tell if it was bad or I’m just old. Why did the movie have to be so twee? I wanted it to grow some balls. Between this and despising the last (terrible, awful, wretched) Arcade Fire album I think it’s time for me to grow up and start shopping at LL Bean, eat salad from a wooden bowl,… Isn’t “getting over your twee bullshit and growing the fuck up” what the...
Aug 27th
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People are still disappointed by movies. Doesn’t this seem weird? After everything that’s happened? After three godawful Star Wars movies, after the Matrix sequels dropped the ball and then peed on the ball, after shovelling one hype-soaked movie corpse after another onto the plague-wagon of our collective regret for the past fifteen or twenty years, people are still getting their...
Aug 25th
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Ranger Rick would not approve
My girlfriend: They say when you’re dating someone much younger, you should follow the “campsite rule”. Me: Which is what? My girlfriend: “Leave it better than you found it.” Me: Oh. I thought it was “Take only pictures, leave only footprints.”
Aug 16th
Whenever I see a baby in a nice restaurant eating goldfish crackers or whatever his parents brought for him, I like to pretend they ordered it off the menu and received it from a waiter. “So that’s the steak for you, sir, and the chicken for madame, and sir, I believe you ordered the Rice Krispies spread erratically around the table?”
Aug 14th
Aug 3rd