December 2010
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Farewell to 2010/New Year's resolution
If you let me off the hook for an end-of-year post, I promise to write more in 2011. That cool? Great, I’m gonna read some comics before going out tonight. Happy new year!
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“Endless sub-clauses roam across prairies of newsprint in search of the point,...”
– BBC America correspondent Kevin Conolly is going to a new post in the Middle East. I quite enjoyed his guide to American culture, which included the above quote regarding our newspapers.
“While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to...”
– The future Editor-In-Chief of City Paper should have 10 fingers, apparently. Well, that rules out Antonio Alfonseca. (Legalese is great! A tip of the hat to John; I owe you a drink at Oscar’s.)
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WatchSuccess! Not only did the Eagles vanquish the hated Dallas Cowboys, Johnny Doc returned to the airwaves with a new ad for Local 98. I consider this the Russian Ark of local TV commercials, because every shot was pretty clearly done in one take.
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Death to the Dallas Cowboys
As I get older, I have less of an emotional investment in sports. I still watch a lot of sports, and I enjoy it more than ever. But sports no longer bring me to ridiculous highs and lows like it did when I was a kid. They never inspire any righteous anger. They never make me cry1. Philadelphia sports teams were once demiurges that frequently determined my mood. Now they’re a group of 5-70...
WatchAnd then there was the time John Lennon did the weather report on Action News. Thanks to XPN’s The Key blog for posting. (P.S. I like George better.)
WatchAnother great Beatles song ruined. Thanks, celebrities! It is good to see David Faustino still getting work. (via @TheThomason/@ryankelly)
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