Saturday, February 28, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The ALR's index is marbles
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saying "the book was better than the movie" is marbles

I can say without much hesitation that I've only genuinely disliked 5 to 10 movies in my entire life. But the number of books I've genuinely disliked is at least 10 times that number. Most books are terrible. Many movies are terrible, but they're still movies, which can be entertaining even when (or because) they're bad, and at worst only take up a few hours of your time. But to waste days on a book that ultimately sucks is just devastating. Maybe this is why I stopped reading books.
That largely irrelevant discussion aside, please lay off the movie adaptations, Slate, et al. Just tell me whether the damn movie was any good on its own merits and holster your comparative literature degree for another day.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Ticketmaster's idea of "buy one get one free" is marbles
I realize I'm taking aim at some easy targets here, but I had to share. I was tempted to go see School of Seven Bells with Fujiya & Miyagi next week until I saw that Ticketmaster surcharges turned a $15 ticket into a $26.75 ticket. Just don't like them enough for that. But then I saw today that they were running a two-for-one special on that show, so I checked it out thinking I might con somebody else into going and save a couple bucks. Turns out, it cost $29.60. Essentially the same as buying two full priced tickets (sans surcharge rape). What a deal.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
The Philosophy of Furniture is unintentionally hilarious, marbles

A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.
Yet we have heard discoursing of carpets, with the air "d'un mouton qui reve," fellows who should not and who could not be entrusted with the management of their own moustaches.
The Dutch have, perhaps, an indeterminate idea that a curtain is not a cabbage.
Weird dude.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Nobody ever liking my favorite song is marbles

Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion was the subject. Everyone pretty much agrees it's brilliant, and so do I. And after having sat with it for a few weeks now I feel like I have a handle on what my favorite song is ("Taste"). So I went on metacritic and checked five or six of the higher-rated reviews to see what they thought of my song. The majority didn't even mention it, even the ones that made a point of going through a track-by-track description. What gives?
I'd like to blame it on the short period of time that reviewers have with an album before their deadlines come (so they might overlook a grower), but I don't think that's really the case anymore, since everything leaks months in advance. The only thing I can really come up with to explain it is that everyone is wrong except me.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Whining that your pirating software is being pirated is marbles

The absurdity of this needs no elaboration. There seems to be a whole big world of insanity out there, the extent of which I'm only slowly becoming aware. Just makes you want to smack someone.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
That polydactyly is the least marbles thing about this video is marbles
Wait for the doctor. Flamenco guitar and typing skills?
Tennis instant replay is marbles

It's like at work when you make the mistake of throwing a number out to roughly estimate something and your boss latches onto it and treats it like gospel. As soon as something gets quantified, any hope of qualifying it is lost.
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