John Dahl

Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 10-16: Aug. 10: Singer Al Alberts of The Four Aces is 86. Singer-turned-sausage-king Jimmy Dean is 80. Singer Eddie Fisher is 80. Actress Kate O'Mara ("Dynasty") is 69. Singer Ronnie Bennett Greenfield (Ronnie Spector) of The Ronettes is 65. Actor James Reynolds ("Days of Our Lives") is 62. Singer-flutist Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is 61. Singer Patti Austin is 60. Mandolin player Gene Johnson of Diamond Rio is 59. Actress Rosanna Arquette is 49. Actor A...

Popular Movements Are Not Funded By Billionaires and Oil Companies

I just came back from the Capitol, where Moveon volunteers and conservative movement group staffers were holding competing rallies around oil leasing (the full flickr set is here). Patrick Ruffini, one of the smartest consultants on the right, thinks this marks a turning point for the right. For the first time, he says, Moveon has mobilizes against "the House Republicans and the rightosphere". The problem with this formulation is that the people that I spoke from Moveon came because they were v...

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Gold Derby nuggets: 'Mad Men' talk and Charlie Rose (almost) listens ? Visual Effects Society fetes Kennedy & Marshall ?...

• New York magazine's Vulture column highlights the recent appearance by "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner and Emmy-nominated stars Jon Hamm and John Slattery on PBS TV's "The Charlie Rose Show. " As per the vultures: "If you can get...

Authors/Writers: F/U/C

The remaining forms will be processed next week. :) Finished McKinley, Robin Updated Andrews, Julie; Bellairs, John; Cornwell, Patricia; Gaiman, Neil; Lewis, C. S. Closed Dahl, Sophie; Sherrilyn Kenyon/Kinley MacGregor; Nelson, Judd; Sparks, Nicholas

JEN AND JOHN HIT UP THE NIGHTLIFE

After spending much of the last few days bundled up in John Mayer’s L.A. pad, an off-balance Jennifer Aniston capped off the weekend by stepping out with her beau at Villa Lounge in West Hollywood. Mr. Mayer was able to make a quick escape, but a seemingly buzzed Aniston was bombarded with photogs as she was [...]

Fiction Reading List

Decided to do my own version of the reading list meme, removing some of the shite books and replacing them with books I love. The original list and meme really annoyed me....pompously assuming that you should go around forcing those particular books on people, because it's somehow good for them. No wonder no one can be arsed reading anymore. And the stuff that wasn't crap was often either totally pretentious or childrens books. I left the childrens books in, but I have asterixed them. So this i...

MUSIC POSTERS - PETER MAX / ALEXANDRA NECHITA / MICK JAGGER

THE ART OF PETER MAX GIVE A GIFT THAT WILL BE VALUED THROUGH THE GENERATIONS RARE BOOKS ARE A GREAT INVESTMENT AND PLEASING TO THE SOUL MUSIC POSTERS - SIGNED BY ARTIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LAST SITTING - BERT STERN - MARILYN MONROE PHOTO SHOOT - MORROW, 1982. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original dust jacket, edge tears. 160 photographs, Monroe's last sitting. Text by Anne Gottlieb, photo...

The Dork Meme

This is one I've been meaning to do for a while too, over on my fellow web design student's blog sorrowfulunfounded. The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own weblog / journal so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.” 1 Pride and Prejudice...

The Big Read

( I am exceeding my rule of one post a day, but I can't believe I missed this! Doh.) “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Underline: Books I love. 3) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 The Harry Potter Series -...