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Kill Bill, Volume 1 was a fun DVD last weekend. Volume 2 should arrive from Netflix tomorrow, and I’m looking forward to it. Quentin Tarantino was born to make this kind of movie, a pastiche of different styles, borrowing heavily from comic books and TV shows, stitched together with gratuituous violence but with a wink [...]

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After Best in Show, Christopher Guest and the rest of his merry team earned the right to make most any movie they chose. With For Your Consideration, I’d suggest it’s time to revoke that license. Studded with funny actors, sprinkled with funny scenes, this extended sketch — sort of a movie novella — really doesn’t [...]

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James Kim, 1971-2006 Like so many around the country (especially in the small-world of the San Francisco Internet industry), I followed the story of the Kim family over the last week. After the unexpected lift in spirits when the family was found, it was especially disheartening to get the bad news yesterday afternoon. So, we [...]

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I’d like a clean inbox to start next week, so it’s time to pull out the tidbits which raised themselves up above the del.icio.us level of interest, and into the “I should check this out” tier. Of course, I really haven’t given these much attention, but if I put them up here, at least my [...]

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Chad Dickerson asks “What was your first Amazon order?” So I went into Amazon, flipped back through my transaction history, and found two books I ordered on December 17, 1997. This is back when Amazon mostly sold books. The two books were The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea and [...]

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