One Sentence Movie Reviews #31: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events:

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004): "Any movie involving Jim Carrey, even if he's holding a boom mike, is in some way a movie about Jim Carrey."

 

Waking the Dead:

Find A Grave.com is an online directory of millions of famous burial sites, of what famous people were laid to rest where. If you're into that sort of thing.

Hurry, Title!

Hurry! You still have a few days to enter the Author Enablers Writing Contest where you submit the first paragraph of a story titled When the Sparrow Cries Wolf. All you have is the title. The rest is up to you.

You know, "That Guy:"

My buddy Dave is doing a Top 50 Character Actors thing on his blog. Check it out. I asked a similar question last year which I phrased as "Who makes a movie better simply by being in it?"

On that note, Regina King (who could make a tax audit interesting simply by her presence) gets an audit on Fametracker. Justice is served!

Senator Al Franken?

Salon is reporting that Al Franken is thinking about running for Senator in his home state of Minnesota. He's bought an apartment in Minneapolis and is moving his Air America show staff back to the midwest.

Now I know nothing about freshman Republican Senator Norm Coleman, whom Franken would be attempting to unseat, but doesn't this sound like a giant stinkin' load of ammunition for the GOP? Will the cries of "celeb worship" and "out of touch with Joe Six-Pack" be leveled at the Dems starting, oh, now, even though Franken won't be gunning for election until 2008?
Doesn't mean he shouldn't do it. Or that it couldn't happen. Hell this is the state that elected Jesse Ventura as Governor seven short years ago. I'm just saying I can hear the scoffing already.

B.A in BJ:

This is what I love about San Francisco: It regards everything with a perfect blend of playful zeal and deadly seriousness. Like if you find yourself in the libido arts and need some professional brushing up, you can now attend Whore College on May 4 as part of the San Francisco Sex Worker Festival. For 20$ each or an all day pass of $40, you can learn necessary skills like the legal and health issues of your trade as well as giving excellent oral sex and how to set up a "DIY Webcam."

I hope you get a diploma. What does it look like? (via SFist).

Making it Up as Fast as She Can:

My old friend Judy B has got a neat writing project going on. She's set up a blog where she takes images, words, ideas from the ether and works it into a short story several times a week. It's a remarkable feat of a kind of literary endurance I don't have.

Links 4 U:

So my Del.icio.us file is stuffed to the point of bursting. If you are lacking in reading material, please take what you like. I'll be cleaning it out this weekend.

Home from Los Angeles:

Wherein we discuss my book, a marathon Passover seder and the ultimate cup of frozen yogurt.


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Books I'm Excited About #3: Josie and Jack by Kelly Braffet

Title: Josie And Jack

Author:Kelly Braffet

Relationship:Sent by the author's publicist.   

Synopsis: Hansel and Gretel set in industrial Pennsylvania. Oh and Hansel is a sociopath.

Acquired: See above

Excitement: Kelly and I chatted on the phone about web stuff and the Virtual Book Tour at the behest of her publicist. I liked her a lot. Blurbs from my friend Amanda Ward, whose taste I trust implicitly sealed the deal.

Early Verdict: Perhaps it will be my next bedside book. Although Bel Canto is in the queue now and that's a tough pass-up.