Posts tagged as Dan Kois
Jeff Mangum Last Night in Baltimore
In the car, my friend Jonathan and I talked about my kids, and his job, and how we feel old all the time. He’d come up that morning from North Carolina, where we once lived together, to come to the concert with me; now we were driving together from Arlington to Baltimore in a CRV whose backseat was dense with child-safety seats and princess books. READ MORE
The Critical Reaction To 'Transformers' Does Not Seem Particularly Positive
"A bunch of robots fight a bunch of other robots, and you can’t tell which are the good robots and which are the bad robots because they all look alike, you robot racist." READ MORE
"Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart"
Yesterday morning we woke up here on Earth and got dressed for church. Our youngest daughter, who is in year two of a dogged princess phase, wanted to wear a particularly awful pair of costume shoes, hot pink heels with little tufts of fur at the toes. “I think you should wear other shoes,” I told her. READ MORE
'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows': Two Nerds Geek Out
Natasha Vargas-Cooper: We need to talk about Harry Potter. READ MORE
When "White Folks' Bay High School" Did 'The Wiz'
When the choir director, Mr. Swiggum, announced that the spring musical my senior year at Whitefish Bay High School would be The Wiz, it seemed an absurd choice. Our northern Milwaukee suburb was already colloquially known as "White Folks' Bay," and the preceding year had not done much to improve the community's image in a city that studies have suggested is America's most segregated. READ MORE
No Great Work of Art Can Be "Spoiled"
Now that we've done the history of "Spoiler Alert," let's discuss appropriate and/or civically obligatory uses. READ MORE
Flicked Off: 'Toy Story 3' Provokes Mass Audience Sobbing
After we watched Toy Story 3, my wife and I ate dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. Why did we do this? Well, Wisconsin Avenue, near Mazza Gallerie in Chevy Chase, has some pretty slim pickings, restaurant-wise. Also, we did it because the Cheesecake Factory is fucking delicious. I got some kind of fried-chicken pasta in cream sauce, no lie. Just for the hell of it they laid two wide slices of prosciutto atop the whole shebang. None of it was exactly right; the pasta was a little mushy, the chicken was a little greasy, the prosciutto was sub-Boar's Head quality. But all together, drenched in butter and cheese, it was so good. READ MORE
I Don't Care What Anyone Says, Babies Are Adorable And "Babies" Will Be Super-Adorable
I am still going to see the hell out of Babies, but Awl pal Dan Kois' review of the film is definitely worth a read, containing as it does gems such as this: "A canny exercise in feature-length YouTube, Babies follows four international infants from birth to toddling. (Although, in a wise move, director Thomas Balmes zips through the first three months, in which a baby is little more than a shitting meatloaf.)" There is also an earlier draft here.
