Last Thursday Ms. Retronaut and I watched the season premiere of The Office, the NBC sitcom about the employees of a struggling paper company in Scranton, PA. We’ve watched it since its debut, and during the show we were trying to determine how many seasons it had been on the air. We ultimately were able [...]
You magnificent bastard. “What would you like to be?” “Everything you hate.” Those are lines lifted from Citizen Kane and used to great effect in the White Stripes’ “The Union Forever” (from their breakthrough album White Blood Cells.) Kane was one of those movies that I had never gotten around to seeing for one [...]
Today marks the ninth anniversary of the 9-11 hijackings. Clearly 9-11 was one of those “where were you when” events that come along maybe once or twice a decade. (For the record, I was driving to work when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. I found out about it via an email from [...]
