Archive for August 20, 2007

Sicko

Well I suppose I’m late to the prom on this one, but I just finished watching Michael Moore’s Sicko, and I think it’s probably his best flick since Roger and Me. Although it’s not without those saccharine, simplistic and manipulative moments for which Moore is rightly criticized, one of its most obvious strengths is that [...]

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Holiday Inn ads that rock?


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The long, painful slide

Seek flipped me a link to this two-part Rolling Stone story on the death throes of the record industry. I’ll post the link to part 2 when it lands.
Here’s a tasty little tease:
“The record companies have created this situation themselves,” says Simon Wright, CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group, which operates Virgin Megastores. While there [...]

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