Running Around!

My buddy and I have been emailing back and forth on where we rank Roethlisberger in terms of elite NFL QBs. I think he’s overrated — and it’s not that I don’t like him. I actually thought Pitt made a great pick when he came out of Miami of Ohio. I just didn’t think he […]

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I’m taking this great screenwriting class at iO West right now taught by John Hindman (writer/director of “The Answer Man” which premiered at Sundance this year and stars Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham.) While watching a lot of movies isn’t one of our assignments, I started keeping track of which movies I watch week to […]

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I’ve been trying to close my TimeWarner account. In packing up, I was quite meticulous — even taping the remote controller to my cable box. However, in the mayhem, I put my cable modem in who knows where. So I go to Time Warner on 23rd St. (they charge you $40 if you schedule a […]

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The Writer’s Guild has a fascinating series of panels on screen writing. Each week, they pick a genre (action/adventure, drama, comedy, etc.) and bring together what has so far been a fantastic group of accomplished writers and (probably more importantly) good panelists. A few nights ago, I was at the session on drama and James […]

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Bob Woodward on Charlie Rose [link] talks about trying to find Obama’s center of gravity — essentially what’s the defining aspect of his agenda / what he’s pursuing. He mentions that when W was first elected, he presumed that the center of gravity would be the Bush tax cuts and spent 9 months researching it. […]

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Tim Kurkjian was on Mike & Mike this morning and went through his all-time baseball team.
C: Bench1st: Gehrig2nd: HornsbySS: Wagner3rd: Mike SchmidtLF: Ted WilliamsCF: Willie MaysRF: RuthRighty Starting Pitcher: Walter JohnsonLefty Starting Pitcher: Lefty GroveCloser: Mariano Rivera
He was then asked about having only 1 active player on the roster and he thought that:–Pujols, if he […]

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I somehow made it to Whole Foods today, filled a basket with food, and made it all the way through checkout without realizing I didn’t have my wallet with me. I’m not usually this absent minded, though I think I did this one other time when buying a sandwich. Anyways, I was thinking that I […]

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I always complain that I never see famous people around (though the last time I was in Brooklyn, I walked past Paul Giamatti who lives in the same neighborhood I lived in in Brooklyn Heights. Random fact. His father was Bart Giamatti, former commissioner of baseball — and probably my favorite commissioner since I’ve been […]

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I recently read a blog posting about an interviewee’s experience of interviewing at Google (via Jess Lee on FriendFeed) and at the end of it, he discussed her pros and cons of working at Microsoft vs. Google. As someone who has worked at both places, I thought I would comment a little on his comments. […]

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I’m listening to the B.S. Report now and Bill Simmons and Chad Ford said something really interesting. Simmons said that it’s interesting how we hear all these rumors of potential trades but the ones that actually go down have not been talked about. The Spurs trade for Richard Jefferson being the most timely example. I […]

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