I’m leaving New Jersey in just a few days and will be leaving the Snore behind as well as a record of my brief time in the Garden State. You can now keep up with me/stalk me here:
http://manhattanmtnman.tumblr.com/
Please update your blog rolls and google readers.
The Snore is packing it up and heading for the big city. BOLO for a new Big Apple blog, and hopefully a couple of final posts to the Snore to give New Jersey some closure.
I graduated from high school in 1999. This also happened to be, by my contention, the worst year in music history. So here is my list of the 10 best songs/videos of the year (and somehow Sugar Ray didn’t make the list):
10. Steal My Sunshine by Len
9. All the Small Things by Blink 182
8. No Scrubs by TLC
7. Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega
6. All-Star by Smash Mouth
5. Livin’ La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin
4. …Baby One More Time by Britney Spears
3. My Own Worst Enemy by Lit
2. Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me) by Blessid Union of Souls
1. Summertime Girls (Abercrombie and Fitch) by LFO
I found this painting at http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com/
I just don’t know what to say.
I bet it was done by Tom Tancredo.
This was given to me today by a volunteer at the theatre. I’m not sure what it is. Or what I do with it.
10. Dutch baseball.
9. Starting third baseman for the Italian team: Frank Catalanatto, born: Smithtown, NY.
8. Irananian-Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish.
7. My all-time favorite UNC baseball player is the starting catcher for Team USA.
6. Starting shortstop for the Italian team: Nick Punto, born: San Diego, CA.
4. “Meaningful” baseball in March.
3. The percentage of players on the Netherlands team that are from Aruba or the Antilles is smaller than I would have guessed.
2. Starting pitcher for the Italian team: Mark DiFelice, born: Bryn Mawr, PA.
1. The world’s newest sports blogger: Fidel Castro.
Yes, I’m venturing into the Twitter world. No, I make no promises as to the number of updates.
Kevin Smith came by my theater, randomly, today asking to look around, so I gave him a tour. It struck me as ironic as I was talking to him that the two biggest celebrities that I have encountered here are both famous for being completely silent (Teller being the other).
I’ll post my Oscar picks this weekend, but first, my Top 5 of 2008 (I didn’t see as many of the good movies that I wanted to see this year, and saw a lot more bad ones than I usually do):
1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. The Reader
Runners-Up: The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Cloverfield
