http://punsalad.com/ The most recent articles from Pun Salad en-us Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:00:07 -0500 [Amazon Link] [4.0 stars] [IMDB Link] [Tomato Link] A silent movie from 1927. IMDB has this (as I type) at number 131 on their list of the top 250 movies of all time. And, yes, it's pretty amazing. ... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/05/1231196400 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:00:00 -0500 * Today's NYT had an article about unconventional "service" animals: a seeing-eye pony, for example. But Ann Althouse's blog entry about the article is much shorter and more fun. (And there ... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/04/1231111800 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:30:00 -0500 [Amazon Link] [3.0 stars] [IMDB Link] [Tomato Link] Audrey Tatou plays Irene, a—no need to be delicate about this—golddigger looking for a sugar daddy to buy her nice things. One night at a fancy French hotel, through a merry... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/04/1231110000 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:00:00 -0500 * Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary? OK, you probably know that joke. But if you're like me, you probably haven't been fooled by it more than... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/03/1231023600 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:00:00 -0500 [Amazon Link] [2.0 stars] [IMDB Link] [Tomato Link] I wanted to like An American Carol, but the truth is that it's not that funny. The movie was written and directed by David Zucker, who knows how to ... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/03/1230991200 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:00:00 -0500 * Amazing but true fact: the guy who wrote "Wild Thing" is Jon Voight's brother. * A word I hate: vibrant. A worthless adjective never actually used ... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/02/1230937800 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:10:00 -0500 Happy New Year! Although I mean no disrespect and intend no offense to any reader who is not a user of the Gregorian Calendar. * It does a sysadmin's heart good to see this in the syslog of... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/01/1230852600 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:30:00 -0500 [Amazon Link] James Lee Burke's Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux tackles an impressive array of bad guys, while also battling his inner demons. (Not as successfully as he's done in other entries in the series.) This book was an Edgar... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2009/01/01/1230850800 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:00:00 -0500 Some suggestions for your end-of-year clicking: * Don't forget to smooch your sweetie an extra second tonight. Not surprisingly, the French are behind this. * Thomas Sowell speaks wisely, as always: ... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2008/12/31/1230760800 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:00:00 -0500 [Amazon Link] [1.5 stars] [IMDB Link] [Tomato Link] I'll give an extra half-star to a movie that has Joan Allen say, "Okay c---s----r. F--- with me, and we'll see who s---s on the sidewalk." You don't often hear that... http://punsalad.com/cgi-bin/ps?spec=2008/12/31/1230759000 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:30:00 -0500