tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56272792024-03-13T00:30:12.453-04:00The Angus IndexWhere Massachusetts Liberals procrastinate.emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.comBlogger2333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-61713923173540858402008-12-01T21:43:00.006-05:002008-12-01T22:39:13.410-05:00Back by popular demand....DEMAND, I SAY! No fewer than three fans of TAI have accosted me of late, urging me to spend some quality weeknight time freshening the face of this poor neglected blog....wow, is there nothing duller than reading a blog post belaboring how long-overdue it is?Probably, and that would be my All-Twilight Edition of TicketStub! You thought you could escape this tweeny emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-89626693900188409782008-08-07T21:21:00.002-04:002008-08-07T21:52:30.690-04:00It's always a good time for some Summertime Roadside Sightings!1. Trotting across Trapelo Road in the afternoon sunshine, stoping traffic, smooth as you please, looking for a delicious garbage can or stray kittycat -- one rather glossy, non-malnourished-looking coyote.2. Driving through Wellesley at 4pm on a weekday, I pass the corner of a well-manicured side street, at which are standing 3 or emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-90658269690044534562008-07-01T21:06:00.003-04:002008-07-01T21:13:06.639-04:00Hello out there in blogland, I am in fact still alive -- just working a lot more, and blogging a lot less. My "new" (six months and counting...) job has a piping hot firewall, from behind which I can't see any blogs, video, or "sleepwear and lingerie" sites...not so fun when you're looking to send a pajamagram!My goal for the summer is to pick up TAI, dust it off, and get on a weekend posting emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-90616486164569894102008-02-18T21:32:00.002-05:002008-02-18T21:53:58.742-05:00Time has been slipping slipping slipping, people...but the Index shall return! In the last few weeks, I've started an absolutely awesome new job, tweaked my back, reorganized every closet in the house, memorized a slew of new passwords, ate way too much Peterson's honey nut crunch, and so on and so forth. The awesome new job does not allow blogging, so my productivity is way up...just not emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-28634280141614658232008-01-21T22:21:00.000-05:002008-01-21T22:26:02.906-05:00"David Dinkins and I are lucky that Rudy didn’t cast our portraits onto a bonfire along with the First Amendment, which he enjoyed violating daily." -- Here's the article I've been waiting for from the NYTimes, dredging up the hurlyburly of Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty, checkered as it was with political machinations, ruthlessness, and over $7 million paid out to settle civil rights lawsuits againstemilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-22638550563722557692008-01-18T09:13:00.000-05:002008-01-18T09:18:04.546-05:00"Hi, nice to meet you...aaaaAAAGGGHHHH!" -- Behold, the easiest cheapest neat-o-est combination Halloween costume and job interview outfit evah! Tentacle Arms, people, and they're one size fits all. Time to get your Cthulu on...emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-81962317859341219072008-01-08T15:59:00.000-05:002008-01-08T16:03:19.015-05:00"But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex." -- That might be a bit more simplistic than reality, but as usual Gloria Steinem is on to something. Her op-ed in today's NYTimes picks at the irritating double standard applied to our two "outsider" Democratic frontrunners...should be an interesting night here in the Greater New Hampshire emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-28450557130739472152008-01-07T11:46:00.000-05:002008-01-07T11:47:37.079-05:00Now that we've turned the page over to 2008, I can complete my Holiday TicketStub Roundup -- stay tuned for my Top Five of '07, I'm still deciding.* Atonement: Ladies, the English Patient of the new millenium has arrived. With the same sepia-toned historical detail, Atonement also makes an impenetrable (for me) book into a sweeping movie tromancedy. Keira Knightley smolders and James McAvoy hunksemilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-17133836191252899682008-01-04T22:29:00.001-05:002008-01-04T22:29:26.845-05:00Behold, the Invisible Library is real. -- Well, one volume, anyway...bravo, J.K. Rowling! She hand-wrote and illustrated seven copies of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the Aesop's Fables of the wizarding world that figure so prominently in HP7. Encased in leather, silver, and moonstones, one copy was auctioned off at Sotheby's to raise money for The Children's Voice campaign. And who coughed up emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-68900359231901886442008-01-04T22:11:00.000-05:002008-01-04T22:52:16.097-05:00This freshly hatched new year has already yielded a bumper crop of Roadside Sightings -- enjoy the randomness:* On a refrigerator repair truck, a bumper sticker reading "I (HEART) Ammonia."* On an undistinguished white sedan, with Colorado plates, an "I (HEART) Portland" sticker.* On a prissy green Subaru wagon, a "KILL YOUR TV!" sticker. Give me a break.* We saw two separate cars on our drive emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-30779566582664630022007-12-12T14:15:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:22:02.501-05:00OfficeLOL, vote early and often! -- What with the Hollywood writer's strike and my own ongoing subemployed state, you'd think I'd have more time for blogging, not less. Well, what little time I do have has lately been spent over at Office Tally, where fellow bereft fans of the greatest of all comedy shows are turning their talents into hilarity. Not sure why mine didn't make the final cut...emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-83624039847831428362007-12-12T14:12:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:13:28.402-05:00w00t! -- That's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year, people. Plus, they seem to think it's an acronym...? It's just a plain old onomatopoeic ejaculation, if you ask me.emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-47359271879211690112007-12-12T14:03:00.000-05:002007-12-12T14:09:46.725-05:00Sometimes a tampon is not just a tampon -- and sometimes a TV commercial is worth rewinding the TiVo for! This morning I caught a blip of an ad for Tampax's Protecting Futures campaign. They are working with the UN Association's HERO program to help provide menstrual supplies, clean water, and puberty education to girls in Southern Africa. Apparently, many girls miss days of school during emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-84177925722298427402007-12-03T15:24:00.000-05:002007-12-03T17:19:45.025-05:00The holidays mean more moviegoing at our house -- here's my Good, Better, Best Edition of TicketStub:* Dan In Real Life -- Sometimes you've got tinder and sparks but the flame just doesn't catch. That's the problem, literally and figuratively, with this movie. Written and directed by Peter Hedges, he of the superb indie family dramas What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and Pieces of April, this one emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-82638777409691137862007-12-03T13:59:00.001-05:002007-12-03T13:59:13.096-05:00"Many of our nation's idiosyncrasies—both good and bad—can be observed the moment you step inside its hallowed halls: our preoccupation with jaw-gaping enormity, our irrepressible capitalist spirit, our cultural diversity, our insistence on wearing jorts even in mid-November." -- And they sell plenty of jorts at the Mall of America, for your convenience! I've been there and ridden the emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-62372438193507291592007-11-28T13:01:00.000-05:002007-12-03T14:02:57.928-05:00"But this is PLANET EARTH where no such thing as IDEAL actually exists, and these particular self-checkout machines are so fundamentally broken that it takes the average person no less than 15 minutes to pay for an apple." -- The inimitable Dooce tells the local self-checkout lane to piss off, and nearly 5oo commenters to date agree! This one's for you, honey...emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-14006295685425015052007-11-16T13:36:00.000-05:002007-11-16T13:43:52.694-05:00A couple random, back to back Roadside Sightings today:1. A bright red panel truck zipping along Rt.3A with a large anthropomorphized lightbulb character on the side, wearing a cap and holding a stopwatch in one hand and a lightning bolt (!) in the other. His name? Mr. Sparky. His business? Being "America's On-Time Electrician." Around here, he is also the Vulcan best friend of a certain emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-37359030932528339152007-11-16T13:31:00.000-05:002007-11-16T13:33:21.041-05:00"If the writers want diamond-crusted laptops, give it to them!" -- Proof that the creative impulse shall survive the WGA strike...of course, it would be nice for these two entrepreneurial scribes to have decent profit-sharing when they inevitably get a network deal...emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-57094005893114932912007-11-10T15:25:00.001-05:002007-12-03T15:21:07.537-05:00This year my moviegoing has slowed down considerably, yet my movie reviewing is even slower! Nevertheless, it's time for the Auteur, Auteur Edition of TicketStub:* The Darjeeling Limited -- Toot toot, all aboard the Tweeville Express! Yes, I am a total sucker for Wes Anderson, and no, I don't care if you think he's boring, pretentious, repetitive, racist, whatever. Despite my bias, I think this emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-69201769410761684772007-11-10T15:23:00.000-05:002007-11-10T15:25:33.278-05:00"Will Write For Food...Won't Write For Free!" -- No wonder they get paid to write dialogue for "The Unit"! Check out some of the clever signage at Day 5 of the WGA strike in Hollywood.emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-68759546017621092682007-11-07T21:10:00.000-05:002007-11-07T21:15:29.445-05:00"We’re talking about story-telling, the most basic human need. Food? That’s an animal need. Shelter? That’s a luxury item that leads to social grouping, which leads directly to fancy scarves." -- Joss Whedon is on strike and on a tear! On his personal blog, he waxes on about the WGA strike and why writing is hard and important, not just funtime for fops. Some of my favorite "content creators" (emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-77820947015714798942007-11-07T16:36:00.000-05:002007-11-07T16:50:33.682-05:00"I saw the girl of my dreams on the subway tonight..." -- Ahh, internet + doofus = love....? Maybe. He's like the Emo Mahir. And she (yes, he found her) is like a real-life "Leggy Blonde"! Thank god for hipster jackasses...emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-40901001827732122692007-11-07T16:27:00.000-05:002007-11-07T16:36:06.666-05:00"She got too close for comfort, on the verge of working Triple-A baseball, which was too close to the big leagues for baseball brass to handle." -- Not talking about Annie Savoy here, folks, but an actual real-live female umpire, who was released from baseball this week after nine years in the minor leagues. Will a lady ump ever break through the grass ceiling? Hmmm.emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66238948693884550122007-10-22T16:46:00.000-04:002007-11-07T16:26:54.969-05:00Stay classy, Boston! -- I think Jonathan Papelbon speaks for us all when he dances around with a cigar and scuba goggles whilst pouring the finest Bud Lite over the American League Championship Series trophy. All that's missing is his victory jig...aha! Baseball is unique in many ways. It's the only professional sport which requires you to wear a leather belt, openly allows you to use addictive emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5627279.post-66567860113763226762007-10-04T21:07:00.000-04:002007-10-05T10:10:01.231-04:00It Ain't No Library Thing -- So in the realm of nerdliness, I can doubtless hold my own. But as we are in the media-declared Season of the Nerd, I thought I'd take things up a notch. Enter my BIL, Jon, who annotated the LibraryThing Top 106 Books People Own But Have Not Read list on his LJ. I hear the Nerd Klaxon in the air, I must obey! :D The italics mean it's still sitting on my shelf, the emilyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15237423636711836657noreply@blogger.com1