Worth the Train Ride: Martin Puryear at the MOMA

Today my visiting-from-LA sister and I braved the midtown crowds, Christmas-crazed and gift-bogged that they were, to venture up to the MOMA. I was there during the erstwhile summer months to check out the Richard Serra exhibit – but it was sis’s first trip in a while. The initially daunting line notwithstanding, the entrance fee [...]

Read Full Post »

Happy Holidays from Brooklyn Skeptic

                   
                                   God Bless Us. Everyone.

Read Full Post »

The Coolest Thing I Could Never Do

New York is a vicious town in terms of dating. I think this relates to the following three conditions of the City:
1. Everyone is so freaking cool/hot/rich, that either one or both of the people involved in a given hook-up is basically calculating their chances with everyone else in the room.
2. Everyone works a lot [...]

Read Full Post »

The Five Worst Films of 2007

I haven’t seen everything I want to see this year (which is why I’m holding off on the top ten films of 2007) but I can confidently say that these were the worst. I don’t mean worst in the Norbit sense either. These are the films that could have been great or interesting, but ultimately sucked.
Across [...]

Read Full Post »

Paris Hilton: Future Oscar Winner?

She’s been caught wasted. She’s been in jail. She’s made a sex video. But now Paris Hilton really just wants to be taken seriously. Her agent threw a bunch of projects at her, but she threw them all back saying “No! This is the year that Paris Hilton makes a name for herself. I want [...]

Read Full Post »

Brooklyn Update for Space Geeks

Washington Post reports that “Jet From Supermassive Black Hole Seen Blasting Neighboring Galaxy”.
The very first line of the article tells us that this is “an act of galactic violence…”
 Holy shit! Is this how they sneak it in, under the radar, that we’re not only in an unwinnable war against terrorism, but an INTERGALACTIC WAR too??? [...]

Read Full Post »

Jackson and Bubbles, Hobbits Together

When I first read this headline “Jackson to take part in New Line-MGM ‘Hobbit’” on googlenews, how excited was I? Visions of a coke-snorting Jacko with hairy feet danced in my head.

Our name is Bilbo Baggins.
One click further told me that it was, in fact, Peter Jackson. Directing the prequel to LOTR. Shooting will begin 2009. [...]

Read Full Post »

Baby Stealer Having Babies!!?!?!

Fiery redhead and noted baby stealer Kimberly Shaw has been spotted out and about Hollywood toting TWIN BABIES of unknown origins:

i am grinning because i stole these babies.
Does this make anyone else DEEPLY upset? Remember when she offered to birth Jo’s baby in her beach house and then STOLE him?? And named him Michael Jr.? [...]

Read Full Post »

Get Pumped…The World’s Christianest Rock Band is Back!!!

…and they’re here to save Brooklyn. There’s only one force in the world strong enough to demolish your sins WHILE shoving free PBR down your throat, and that is the Sin Destroyers.  These guys know how to pull out all the stops for a Christmas show, too (last year they brought THE POPE on stage [...]

Read Full Post »

Holy Fucking Awesome Trailer Batman!

The Dark Knight trailer was showing before I Am Legend this weekend, and now has been posted online. Any doubts that Heath Ledger is not the coolest villain in the history of bat-kind have been dismissed.

Read Full Post »