This is what THE SEVENTH SENSE blog masthead looked like when it began in the Middle Ages:
So Wrong In So Many Ways
Out of Florida: Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at Mile Marker 21 on Cudjoe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat. "She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit," … Read More
Sentence Of The Day
Jon Chait found it: Today's Wall Street Journal editorial page has one of those sentences that make the Wall Street Journal editorial page such a daily delight: "Last week President Obama sanctioned 'reconciliation,' a complex tactic that would jam ObamaCare into law on sheer power politics." The beautiful thing about this sentence is that it has no argument (nor is … Read More
Oscar Winners: How Did I Do?
RIGHT BEST PICTURE (The Hurt Locker)BEST ACTOR (Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart)BEST ACTRESS (Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side)BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds)BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Mo’Nique, Precious)BEST DIRECTOR (Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker)BEST SONG (“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham)BEST ANIMATED FILM (Up)BEST DOCUMENTARY (The Cove)BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY (Avatar)BEST EDITING (The Hurt Locker)BEST VISUAL EFFECTS (Avatar)BEST ART DIRECTION (Avatar)BEST MAKEUP (Star … Read More
“You’re So Vain” Mystery Still A Mystery
Okay, so despite what I blogged about a week or so ago, record producer David Geffen is apparently not the subject of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain". This comes from Dick Ebersol, who… told The Post, "I've never before spoken on this issue and I never will again . . . but I can assure [you] the David is not David … Read More
“The Mc10:35” — McDonald’s Secret Menu Item
It's got a cult following in San Francisco: 1. Go to McD's right when they are transitioning from breakfast to lunch. 2. Order one of the remaining Egg McMuffins from the breakfast menu and also order a McDouble since the lunch menu is now open. 3. Take the egg and Canadian bacon from the Egg McMuffin and put it on … Read More
The Most Disturbing Singing Performance Ever
This has beenmaking the rounds lately. It's a singer on A Russian TV show singing a song that has no lyrics. It's an ear worm, meaning that once you see/hear it, it's not going to leave your head for a while. Here's a background explanation of the performer and the song. By the way, doesn't it remind you of this … Read More
Try Not To Dangle Your Participles Today!
Because it's National Grammar Day. I'm not observing it because both my grammars are deceased.
Death Of A Blogger
The great Jon Swift has died. Swift was a mock-conservative who declared that he received his news through unbiased sources like Rush Limbaugh. Of the economic downturn, Swift wrote: “At a time when Wall Street executives are being forced to give up their private planes, limousines, bathroom renovations and multimillion dollar bonuses, the idea that a homeless man has been allowed … Read More
Burger Dominance
This map (click to embiggen) shows the controlled territories of the eight largest burger chains in America. The first thing you'll note is the stranglehold that Sonic has over Texas and Oklahoma. But that's just because of the way the map is color-coded. When you realize that McDonald's is in black, you see how they pretty much hold the rest … Read More
Roger Ebert Finds His Voice
Cancer has devastated film critic Roger Ebert's lower jaw and rendered him speechless. This has not stopped him from speaking out on the issues of the day and ironically, as pointed out in this much-praised Esquire article, Ebert is becoming a spokesman for the political left, mainly through his Tweets. He has been able to vocalize through the use of … Read More
For LOST Fans
You might enjoy this blog, entitled at the aptyl-named http://neverseenlost.wordpress.com. It's a blog about the last season of LOST from the perspective of someone who has never seen an episode of LOST prior to this season. Here's her recap of this season's first episode (she mistakenly refers to Jack as "Jake"): These people are stuck on an island. They tried detonating … Read More