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Jun 20

I’m going to keep this up until you go see it

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James Lileks, on “Up”:

I hadn’t really been looking forward to “Up” with tingling anticipation. A grumpy old crank in a floating house – well, no doubt misadventures will ensue. A bumbling sidekick kid: fine, target market and all that. I saw the trailers, read the preview stories, rode the chair with the helium balloons, but I wasn’t leaning into it.

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Now I suspect that everyone at Pixar smiled to themselves when they read reviews of “Wall-E” and its Surprising Emotional Connections, because they knew what was coming next, and thought: nothing, you ain’t seen it yet. My two-by-four to the heart, let me show it to you. The first 15 minutes of the film are just achingly wonderful, and anchor every subsequent moment of fantastical whimsy in a story you cannot guess from the previews. it hurts, it’s so good.

May 12

Quote of the day:

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James Lileks, on the new “Star Trek” movie:

It would be pathetic to say this meant something to me, but I’m sorry: It would be a lie to say it didn’t.

Exactly right. And it’s a great review of the movie. However, as I told the sibling who sent it to me, he’s wrong about engineering. Engineering looked like the inside of a real vessel for the first time.

Sep 07

Not making this up, as they say

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If I had known that the great Dave Barry was writing columns from both the Democratic and Republican conventions, I’d have read them as they came out. But I didn’t realize it until one of my brothers mentioned one of the columns.

Today, I read through all of the two week’s worth of columns. My favorite was the one about Dave and the also-very-funny James Lileks in search of Darryl Hannah and bird porn protestors (don’t ask).