Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from October 26, 2009

Monday Miscellany

1. Am I the only one appalled by the DirecTV commercial in which David Spade tells us we should get DirecTV while his dead friend Chris Farley cavorts in the foreground? Don't get me wrong -- the other incarnations of this commercial (Bill Pullman in a scene from Twister , Naomi Watts from King Kong , Sigourney Weaver from Aliens *) were also pandering of the cheapest sort, but dude. C'mon. Chris Farley is dead . Not cool, David Spade. NOT. COOL. 2. I went on a walk this weekend and took my camera with me. I live in a suburb of Cleveland, which was built in the early 1900s, so there's some pretty interesting architecture.** These people have a moat! 3. I watched the pilot episode of White Collar on the USA channel recently--and it was pretty entertaining. Just like FX is the cable channel for hard core, strange, gritty shows, USA seems to be carving out a niche for itself with snappy, charming, buddy comedies. 4. In case you care, the brightly colored knee s