Brain Trust

Garth Sundem has a lot of fun talking to a bunch of scientists who seem to spend a good deal of time thinking about things that aren’t all that important.  Among the topics covered are how to talk your way out of  a traffic ticket, how to lose weight by eating 8 hours a day, and how to win a race by taking the best angle on the turns. As the subtitle suggests, we get advice from 93 top scientists-and since the book is only 250 pages thick, this means there is not a lot of in depth coverage of…

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Skyfall

James Bond is an old man now.  M is an even older woman.  The good old days of being a spy are gone.  Super Villains just aren’t what they used to be. Skyfall wasn’t too bad, it just wasn’t too great either.  The film opens with a car chase and then has about a five minute long opening credits.  I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw opening credits on a movie.  It was one of countless little flashbacks to the good old days of Bond films. James Bond may be old, but he is standard issue Bond-James Bond. …

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Plan B with Conan O’Brien

Conan’s new show is much like Conan’s old shows.  Conan comes out and makes a few jokes.  He gets some support and heckling from sidekick Andy Richter.  He feeds off the energy of the audience.  He chats up random famous and semi-famous and wanna be famous people.  If you like Conan, you’ll like his new show. By far the best bit I’ve seen is a commercial where Conan goes to India to create the perfect set of red curtains for his show.  I have no idea what this commercial is for, or if it is, in fact, for anything.  But…

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