I had a horrible dream last night in which I was responsible for the death of a good friend (I’m not saying which one!) It was all very Friday Night Lights Season 2 NO SPOILERS. It really was an upsetting dream and I felt horrible both over the death of my friend, and the fact [...]

Womp womp. Oh well. It seemed like a dream team, Mariah Carey and Jack McBrayer could have been our generation’s Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, or at least this year’s Heat-caliber casting powerhouse. Instead it is obvious that someone just said “We need a nerd, any nerd,” not realizing that they had gotten the caviar [...]

I got an email offering me the opportunity to interview Penn Jillette about his new web video series. Here is a brief description:
In this totally irreverent show, Penn will turn the camera on himself at least four times a week to rant and rave about whatever gets under his skin that day. No topic/celebrity/politician [...]

Friday evening, I suffered one of the most horrible humiliations of my life when in a fit of desperation driven by raw need, I tried to buy a Nintendo Wii at a Game Stop in downtown Brooklyn. Look, we all go through things in life, many doorways of experience, and some of those doorways are [...]

Actress Natalie Portman, who graduated from Syosset High School in 1999, says math was one of her favorite subjects in school. Now she’s a guest editor of Scholastic Math, a magazine for students in grades 6-9 that’s available in classrooms and by subscription.
(newsday.com)
Cheat Sheet
Guest Edited by Natalie Portman
Dear Cheat Sheet,
I sit next to the cutest [...]

New York Magazine’s Vulture Blog has been doing lots of coverage of J.J. Abram’s top secret Dogma film about a thing that hates the Statue of Liberty, and today they posted this image, taken from an alternate gaming fan forum (I write what I’m told, babies):

(Oh, and by the way, this is a movie [...]

I’m reading the new Harry Potter (before you give me trouble, I AM READING IT FOR WORK, WHY ARE YOU READING IT?) But anyway, um, this part:
“This isn’t your average book,” said Ron. “It’s pure gold: Twelve Fail-Safe Ways to Charm Witches. Explains everything you need to know about girls. If only I’d had this [...]

Okay, if there are an infinite number of parallel universes (a multiverse, if you will), each of which is predicated on a slight shift of causally-related events (the butterfly effect in chaos theory), then how many of those alternate realities do you think would NOT involve me having seen Sliding Doors in the theater by [...]

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