It's stunning to me, watching Sarah Palin resign, how much she reminds me of Timothy Treadwell, the titular Grizzly Man of Herzog's film.  They have an amazingly similar naive and simplified sense of the world and their place(s) in it.  Maybe it's an Alaska thing.  You decide:  


Edit: As usual Josh Marshall nails it.  He writes:

Okay, we're getting our first indication of what happened. It seems like a colossal sulk on Palin's part, or perhaps better to say an effort on her part to ingeniously combine anti-liberal media bias agitation with Christianist politics by portraying herself as having been crucified by the liberal media.  Said Palin, according to a reporter at the press conference, "You are naive if you don't see a full-court press on the national level, picking apart a good point guard."

 
 

Some music from Juaneco Y Su Combo.  Audio remasterizado.

 
 

I didn't realize how much I liked this movie.  This very 80s Dr. John cut doesn't hurt matters either.

 
 
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Pleased to announce that TSROAW will be screening at the Laemmle Sunset 5 theater in Hollywood as apart of the 2009 LA Shorts Fest.

 
Oscar 10 06/24/2009
 

Bizarro: The Oscars will nominate 10 films for best picture in the future.  Related, Bob Dylan accepts his.

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Superman II 06/17/2009
 
 
Nagisa Ni Te 06/12/2009
 
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Bill Simmons 06/12/2009
 
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Bill Simmons, sportswriter, interviewed by The New Yorker:

I think the next revolution will be more chemistry-based: Teams valuing teamwork and personality more than ever and putting some real thought into how to build a true team. We got a glimpse of this last winter when Phoenix shopped Amare Stoudemire and nobody really wanted him. Why? Because he’s a pain in the ass. He’s not a bad guy, but he’s a me-first prima donna who doesn’t care about defense or making teammates better. 

 
 

From the great Everything is Terrible.  Related:

 
Made in Britain 06/05/2009
 

Highly recommended: Made in Britain, Alan Clarke's wonderfully disturbing 78 minute film of 1982 featuring a young Tim Roth.  Here's the first 2 1/2 minutes.