Paul Constant, at the Stranger: There has never been a good movie based on a video game. Think about that for a second. For twenty years, Hollywood has been trying to adapt video games to film; Wikipedia lists 29 adaptations made in that time. They’ve never successfully made a good one. And so I am …
Cat Rescue Bleg – Seattle / Northwest Coast Area
From commentor Erin B: I’m hoping to get some assistance rehoming my mother’s two cats. Her health has taken a rather abrupt turn for the worse and she can no longer care for them. Their names are Pumpkin and Cleo, and both are elderly (12ish) and diabetic, requiring regular insulin shots. Pumpkin is a handsome …
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Open Thread: Doing Well, Doing Good
Sometimes the good guys do win. Ryan Cooper, at the Washington Monthly, on “The Divergent Fates of Sarah Palin and Shirley Sherrod“: With the recent retirement of Sarah Palin from her grotesquely lucrative career as a Fox commentator, I immediately thought of another person who was inadvertently catapulted to national prominence: Shirley Sherrod (backstory here). …
Open Thread: Interim Senator Mo Cowan
No, I’d never heard of him, either, and I live twenty miles north of the State House. From the Boston Globe: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has picked William “Mo” Cowan, his former chief of staff, to serve as the state’s interim US senator until the successor to John F. Kerry is chosen by the voters …
Open Thread: Mazel Tov, Gomer Pyle!
There’s a ‘semper fi’ joke here somewhere. From the Washington Post: HONOLULU — The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years. Hawaii News Now (http://bit.ly/14tFM3U) reports Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to …
Open Thread: Kerry’s Confirmed
From his hometown paper, the Boston Globe: Senator John Kerry wins confirmation as secretary of state; to replace Hillary Clinton at swearing-in ceremony later this week WASHINGTON — The Senate Tuesday confirmed President Obama’s nomination of Senator John F. Kerry to be secretary of state, handing the Massachusetts Democrat a redemptive career victory that ensconces …
Late Night Open Thread: Geeks, Represent!
. (h/t commentor Elizabelle) . Ron McNair’s brother: “Later on, a show came on, called Star Trek. Star Trek showed a future where there were black folk and white folk working together. I looked at it as science fiction, ‘cuz that wasn’t gonna happen, really. But Ronald saw it as science possibility.” ********** Living memory, …
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