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I’ve neglected this blog in the past few weeks because of two reasons 1) I’m lazy and 2) I’ve been very busy. But something magical happened today to bring me back to this blog: Karl Rove is leaving the White House.

Whether it was push polling in 2000 to smear John McCain, feeding information about Valerie Plame to Matthew Cooper or rapping awfully on stage, Karl Rove was the very of the epitomy of a deceitful political bug. I hated everything he stood for not because he was a conservative, but because he was sniveling weasel.

The country, for once, just got a little better today.

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Just a saw a revival of Woody Allen’s Manhattan at the Film Forum. What a beautiful film…

Seeing the opening montage of New York City with Woody Allen’s voiceover was alone worth the price of admission.

Luckily I found it on youtube. Unfortunately it replaces Woody Allen’s voice with a spanish guy… still you can enjoy the visuals and the music.

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Manhattan is a terrible, overpriced yuppie haven.

I can say this because I live in Brooklyn of course. (Us Brooklynites are growing ever resentful of the millionaire playground Manhattan has become.)

Case in point:

“Spaces are in such demand that there are waiting lists of buyers. Eight people are hoping for the chance to buy one of five private parking spaces for $225,000 in the basement of 246 West 17th Street, a 34-unit condo development scheduled for completion next January. The developer, meanwhile, is seeking city approval to add four more spots. “

That’s right: $225,000 for a fucking parking space. It’s a symbol of what’s wrong with unbridled capitalism where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Where the rich can spend a quarter million dollars to buy a parking space, while 200 blocks uptown many people won’t see a quarter million dollars in 5 years for their entire families.

Call me a commie or socialist if you must… but this kind of luxury spending pisses me off.

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Today I was doing my usual useless perusal of the internet, and I discovered this on wikipedia:

Dick Assman (born ca. 1934 in Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Saskatchewan petrol station owner whose name propelled him to international celebrity status in 1995. Assman, who worked at Petro-Canada’s Victoria Square Mall station in Regina, was discovered by David Letterman, who was amused by his name.

Now if that isn’t funny, what is?

Other Interesting Links:

10 best geeky dance videos.

11 classic condom commercials.

iphone-free cell phone news.

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The conventional wisdom says women use 20,000 words a day, while men only use 7,000.Is this correct?

A story in today’s New York Times says no. They quote a study from Science Magazine where 396 subjects wore tiny microphones. The results: Men and Women speak roughly the same amount of words everyday.

So what does this mean? Despite the fact you think your significant other will never shut up about the dishes, guys, you still on average speak as much as she does.

Other Interesting Links:

50 things you should never say. (Ex: Holler at your boy.)

100 days that changed music.

10 reasons America rules.

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Is there anything better than web 2.0?

In my lifetime, we’ve come from waiting for our news during a 11 p.m. broadcast to getting news instantly on google news.

From never seeing pictures of friends and family living far away to looking at their myspace or flickr page and seeing them in an instant.

From buying cassette tapes and CDS to listening to song, anytime, anyplace…

Haven’t discovered this component of Web 2.0 yet? Well discover SeeqPod.com. It’s simple really– just type in an song using the SeeqPod search and then listen to the song.

It’s truly amazing.

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Here’s further proof of why the web is the greatest invention ever…

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CIA to air decades of dirty laundry, including more proof of why Nixon was a bastard.

iphone is almost here! Check out the commercial.

14 great sports fights.

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I had a good laugh about this story:

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Firefighters who spent half an hour fighting a blaze in which 2,000 pounds of marijuana went up in smoke breathed so much of it that they would have failed a drug test, a fire chief said.

It took more than 35 firefighters, 1,000 gallons of water and five gallons of chemical suppressant to extinguish the warehouse blaze on Wednesday, Fire Chief Shawn Snider said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were investigating the origin of the drugs.

The Hidalgo County fire marshal was investigating whether arson was the cause.

Snider said Thursday the firefighters were exposed to so much marijuana smoke that they would not be able to pass a drug test, despite wearing air packs to prevent them from inhaling toxic or hazardous fumes.

Wow, that’s some sweet gig those firefighters have. Not only are they doing a civic duty beyond reproach, but they’re getting high while doing it.

We should all be so lucky.

Other Interesting Links:

Top 20 Insults in Movie History.

5 biggest pricks in Congress.

Hillary Clinton’s Sopranos Parody. Not that great.

Renee Zellwegger is too skinny and gross.

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Anyone who has a blog, like myself, are usually full integrated into Web 2.0. We use wikipedia constantly, we find videos not only on YouTube, but iFilm, Daily Motion and Metacafe. We look up pictures on flickr…

But we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg with the internet. Imagine what we’ll see in the next 20 years…

Other Interesting Links:

13 movie plots made ridiculous by their stars’ behavior.

Stephen Colbert disappointed with the Sopranos finale.

Top 10 Phil Hartman moments.

20 best gibberish lyrics.

Technorati Tags: prometeus, the media revolution, web 2.0, stephen colbert, phil hartman, gibberish lyrics

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For a show that was talked about being maybe the greatest series in the history of television, The Sopranos ended with a whimper on Sunday night.

Instead of drama and intrigue, we, the audience, got dead air.

Instead of closure for the series, the audience got an open-ended ending that left us scrambling for the cable box.

Instead of a great ending, the audience got a gimmicky one.

For those who don’t know, the Sopranos ended with the immediate family sitting down for dinner at a dner. Meadow Soprano, running a little late because she can’t parallel park, runs into the restaurant to meet the rest of her family, and the camera cuts to Tony. Then nothing. A blank screen for 10 seconds. Then the closing credits appear without music.

The group I watched it with thought their DVR had malfunctioned and scrambled to find out what was wrong. We rewinded it and watched it again. And again. Turns out nothing was wrong except what David Chase calls an ending.

There’s a theory that makes the ending more palatable. It says:

“I am surprised to see that more people didn’t come to the same conclusion I came to watching the final episode of The Sopranos — Tony is dead. That’s why there was a sharp cut at the end. There wasn’t a fade to black, the music stopped, the pictures stopped, there was an instant sharp exit. That’s how you die when you get shot in the back of the head.”

This makes more some sense but still feels like a cop out. David Chase might have been “true” to his vision with this ending, but to me the Sopranos feels unfinished.

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