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Hallelujah. Somebody with a much bigger name than mine (in every sense) blogged this so I don’t have to. Now I can simply linkblog it, which is ever so much quicker.

Hendrik Hertzberg:

We can finally drop the “thousand.” Last year may have been two thousand nine, but this year, mercifully, is twenty ten. And next year will be twenty eleven. And so on until—well, until the year 3000.

Sing it, Rick. I for one am in favor of anything that signifies departure from the last decade.

Everybody got that? “Twenty ten.” Woohoo! Our long extra-syllable nightmare is over!


If this blog has revealed only one significant thing this year (which may indeed be the case), it is that we Americans have a serious problem with sign composition.

When one sign doesn't stop them

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And on that absurd note, I take my leave of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »


You know that poker movie Lucky You that came out a few weeks ago? I was all but certain it was going to suck based solely on its preview, although as a poker enthusiast I genuinely wanted to be wrong. Apparently I wasn’t. The always-insightful critic Mike D’Angelo not only explains why, but describes the overall problem with dramatizing poker on film.

I’ve been a fan of Mike’s writing since I first encountered him on the now-defunct Cinemarati.org about six years ago, when I believe he was writing reviews for Time Out New York. Unsurprisingly to me, he has since progressed to become regular columnist for Esquire, as well as a contributor to Nerve.com and the Las Vegas Weekly. At least, that’s as much of his resume as I can discern from his web site, which is where I go to keep up with his latest output.