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The Connecticut Democratic party bears witness to Ned Lamontentum. (Catchy?) I spoke to my mom at 10:55, and predicted that the Lieb was waiting until the top of the eleven o'clock news to announce his second candidacy. And he is. I called it. I was never crazy about Lamont. But after that despicab...

If you'd seen Lamont on the Colbert Report this week, I think you'd be less likely to consider him a lightweight. He came off far better/less geeky than he had in the debate. He's a perfectly reasonable alternative to Lieberman, who, whatever his record on certain issues like the one you cite, has ...

I have always had a problem with Arthur Miller's writing. He had a penchant for stating the obvious in speeches no one in real lfie could possibly make. aka the stylized form of theater writing. Plays are not expected to be dead-on accurate portrayals of how people talk in real life, even if they s...

Yes, but saying they're "down, down, down" ignores the fact that they are currently rising. It implies that Bush is still losing ground, when in fact he is gaining. I didn't say they were rising or falling, you dishonest prat. I said they were down, and they were. The more you put words i...

And there goes another one. "Forever Changes" was purchased at 16 or 17. I don't think it's the best album of '67, but it was on constant rotation in my bedroom, and it's far more preferable to anything Crosby Still & Nash or Jefferson Airplane ever did. A cousin of mine made a tape o...

Pink Floyd was a very important part of my formative years, when I thought bands like Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Gentle Giant, King Crimson and the like were mind-blowing. It was like I had discovered this cool sub-culture no one else seemed to know about. (I almost never listen to them now, a...

His hard-core supporters. Well, how many is that? A lot more than there were Democrats who voted for Bush, I'll guarantee you. And everyone seems to forget taking the Republican voters into account. They're going to flock to Leiberman's support, given that their candidate is proving to be as corrup...

I thought that he was either a) traveling; b) burned out or c) pissed off over the negative reaction to his Superman Returns posts. If it's the latter, hope he gets over it soon. All of the above. As annoying as the Superman discussion was, it was magnified by everything else that was happening in ...

I'm going to get really angry soon. LOL that I'm the one accused of blowing it out of proportion, or the one who turned it into a "slugfest". I said from the outset that it was a very unlikely possibility, but something to keep our eye on in case it's a huge blockbuster, and I've never wa...

Where's A Hard Day's Night? I mean, if they can allow other "American" films like Chariots of Fire onto the 100 Cheers list, then... you know? If you're going to have A Night at the Opera, you may as well have A Day at the Races too. If you're going to have Moulin Rouge, you may as well h...

Before Roger Ebert's inevitable pan upsets the apple cart: David Ansen of Newsweek compares the filmmaking to Jean Cocteau One of the Richards at Time magazine calls it "beyond Super. It's superb." Hollywood Reporter raves, and spends ten paragraphs writing spoilers From all the reviews I...