• For quite a while now, I thought filmmakers were employing a “soft” (read: slightly blurred) filming technique like the “shaking” method of“NYPD Blue” a few years ago. After looking through my friends glasses last night, I found out they are not…
  • Even blurred, it’s interesting to see the contrasting visions of set design from each “Harry Potter” Director, but it detracts a little from the story continuity.
  • There’s something missing in the Red Sox lineup this year and it’s a fearsome hitter. I think that guy plays in LA now.
  • It just occurred to me I have to travel 3 times between early October and early November, twice to Sin City, which isn’t all that fun without the sin.
  • Check out Pandora.com internet radio…
  • Contrary to the market massaging melodies of Fed Chairman Ben “What, Me Worry” Bernanke, the recession is far from over for 14.5M unemployed Americans…
  • …and his primary constituency at the “too big to fail” financial institutions are still too big and are back to gouging us and gambling with our money.
  • And where the hell are the alt-energy stimulus dollars?
  • I’m not crazy about Intuit buying Mint.com because it reduces competition, but as long as they keep producing valuable content like “The Power of No at work,” all is not lost.
  • In all the noise on health care reform, the dire need to reform our financial system has been largely lost.
  • Speaking of lost (again), it looks like after a lost summer of “death panels killing Grammy” the public option may become a reality.
  • I’m looking forward to Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
  • Prediction: with back room diplomacy appealing to the educated middle class with influence on the Muslim powerbase in Iran, Ahmadinejad will fall by the end of 2010. That country and its citizens have too much to offer the world and can no longer be run by the male Iranian equivalent of Michele Bachmann.
  • Still on the subject of nuts, check out these “Top Ten Questions To Ask Yourself Before Spending $63,000 On Dinner With Sarah Palin.”
  • Finally, could Bill Maher have dinner with Sister Sarah? I mean are Christian Conservatives and Liberal Elites mutually exclusive? I’m beginning to think not, but…
  • …hearing “I loooove Rush” in an almost breathless exclaim really chilled my liberal mojo… I think the secret may be the ability to “have a civil conversation about those things…”
  • With a presidential election, London Summer Olympics and the whole Mayan thing, 2012 is going to be quite a year…
  • …but it’s best to remain focused on being alive in the present.