The guy who wrote the book on opening sequences in Law and Order passed away yesterday.
Only Jerry could put Baby in the corner.
Here’s the ABC News story, here’s Gothamist’s coverage with plenty of links and here are some Lennie Briscoe snappy remarks.
Last week, I posted a picture with 50 stills from 50 movies and asked if you could name them. The person who made this image has posted the solutions — click here to see the “50 movies” picture with their names.
I managed to identify only three movies. How’d you do?
(Pardon the street argot — I’ve been playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the PlayStation 2 that Wendy got me for Christmas.)
My thanks to the Halifax Herald for listing this blog as one of the notable Canadian ones. I’d also like to send a shout-out to my co-worker Bessy Nikolaou for telling me about it.
Rob MacDougall is a friend of mine from Crazy Go Nuts University. We worked together for years on Crazy Go Nuts University’s intentionally funny newspaper, Golden Words. He now has a Ph.D. in History from Harvard and is a post-doc research fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
(There are some starange parallels here: Rob’s at Harvard, where Wendy
works, and he’s married to an American Jewish girl, as I will be come
September. I met Wendy at a party I gate-crashed at Norton’s Woods in
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.)
You may have heard of Tucker Carlson, whom Jon Stewart correctly identified as a dick on Crossfire not so long ago. You may have also heard of Ann Coulter, foaming-at-the-mouth neocon pinup attack dog and poster child for bipolar personality disorder.
They recently had a field day with President Bush’s recent visit to
Canada, going on with lines like “better hope the United States doesn’t
roll over one night and crush
them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent”
[Coulter] and “Without the U.S., Canada is essentially Honduras, but
colder and much
less interesting The average Canadian is busy dogsledding.” [Carlson]
Apparently, for Coulter and Carlson, high school hasn’t quite ended.
What they’re doing, is the equivalent of the jocks harassing the chess
club with “hey, faggot” or “hey, [insert your favourite racist epithet
here]” taunts. Someone should remind them that those tables often turn
once high school is over and university and the real world beckon.
Donna Wentworth of the EFF by way of Wendy pointed me to this video of the Carlson and Coulter having their “Blame Canada” fest. I’d comment, but Rob has done a much better job already.
As with the US justices, I could name two-thirds of the judges in my country’s Supreme Court:
Stumped? Their names are listed here.
(For those who keep tabs on this sort of thing: 4 of our 9 Supreme
Court judges are women. The Americans have 9 justices, but only 2 are
women.)
[via MetaFilter] According to a recent survey of “a representative sample of 1000 adults nationwide [America]”, two-thirds couldn’t name any of the justices of the US Supreme Court.
I wonder how many of the same people surveyed can name any winners of the Survivor reality TV series.
(I’m not American, and I can name two-thirds of the Justices.)
Here’s a picture of 50 stills from 50 different movies. Can you name any of them?
(Wendy, I’m going to need your help with this one.)
