As Adam noted, Wes Anderson’s Hotel Chevalier is up at iTunes. I just finished my first screening. (Yay AppleTV!) It is tantalizingly short (as shorts are wont to be). It’s packed with Anderson’s trademark quirk and detail and gives a nice introduction to Jason Schwartzman’s character in Darjeeling Limited. At first glance, there seem to be a lot of similarities to Luke Wilson’s character in The Royal Tenenbaums (my favorite of Anderson’s movies). I can’t wait to see the movie.
On Notice: “Business Travelers”
The next douchebag with a terrible comb-over who decides the overhead bin is his personal garment bag is going to have hell to pay.
This message brought to you by seat 18a DL38 Atlanta to Amsterdam.
5519
Five thousand five hundred and nineteen: that’s the number of bounce replies, out-off-office notifications, and spam-catcher challenges I’ve received in the past 20 hours. It looks like my old friend is up to his tricks again.
Clearview
The New York Times Magazine has an article about Clearview, a new typeface that is on track to replace Highway Gothic on road signs across the country. I, for one, welcome this change. My somewhat compromised night vision makes some signs nearly impossible to read at night. If the tests are any indication, this should be a real improvement.
Also, kudos to the Times Magazine for printing an article filled with such typographic nerdery.
Harry
This is Harry the spider. He’s been a resident of my patio for a few weeks now. This is just a quick snap I took one evening with my iPhone. I was surprised that it turned out well. This is definitely leaps and bounds better than the previous phone camera’s I’ve used.
Administrative note
To anyone who is coming here because they received a SPAM email from an address at chaptastic.net I’m sorry you received that. Some jackass has decided to send a large number of messages from fake addresses at my domain using an open relay at prod-infinitum.com.mx. It is my firm belief that spammers deserve to be tortured in ways inconceivable by the CIA or even the Spanish Inquisition.
To the person responsible for this: I hope you live a long life of unspeakable pain. Death is too good for you.
Once again, I apologize to all those who may have received one of these messages.
A quick note to politicians
Don’t use interminable alliterative sequences in your speeches. They just make you sound like an idiot with nothing worthwhile to say. Of course, there’s an extremely high probability you are an idiot with nothing worthwhile to say.
President Cheney
President Cheney… I wonder if he will consider himself to be a part of the executive branch during this time.
Lightening very dangerous, lightning maybe so
I’ve made fun of Channel 11 in the past for their terrible grammar and comma predilection. Even though this story would be perfect material there are even better targets. No less than four uses of “lightening”. Poor “lightning” only gets one.
Update: Three of the four have been corrected. I wonder if they’ll catch the fourth.
