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• Big Trouble In Little America

  I watched one of the two Best Worst Movies in film history this weekend - Big Trouble in Little China (the other Best Worst Movie is Army of Darkness). Whether brought on by the natural high of a leftover-filled stomach,...

  Posted by David Sirota on November 30, 2008 6:52 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment Iraq

• Easily the Most Horrifying Movie Poster Ever...

  Here's the movie poster for the upcoming movie, "Saw V." Yes, you are seeing it correctly - it is a man wearing a mask of a human face that he sawed off someone else. I saw this poster on...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 24, 2008 7:08 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Revelation of the Day

  Fleetwood Mac's early blues stuff is really awesome....

  Posted by David Sirota on August 12, 2008 7:10 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Five Films To Help You Remain Sane During Election '08

  I'm a movie junkie, though I'm not all that into political films. I tend to use films as a vehicle for escapism. That's quintessentially American: As the Baltimore Sun reports, in five of the past seven recessions, box office sales...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 1, 2008 8:30 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• A Bad Situationist

  I hung out with Sam Seder last night here in Austin at the Netroots Nation conference. He told me about his new movie, A Bad Situationist. You can now get it on DVD here....

  Posted by David Sirota on July 20, 2008 7:25 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Sunday Evening Deep Thought

  There are movies and television shows, and then there is The Wire - far and away the most compelling production made since the original advent of moving pictures....

  Posted by David Sirota on May 18, 2008 8:47 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Best. Show. Ever.

  I'm not a huge TV watcher, but I will say this unequivocally: The Wire is the best show on television, and maybe the best television show ever made. Never have I seen a show that is so real-life and so...

  Posted by David Sirota on March 5, 2008 7:37 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Amazon Kindle - Is It That Cool?

  I have some problems with Amazon's labor practices, but I have to admit that the Amazon Kindle looks pretty damn cool. Does anyone have it yet? If so, what do you think about it? Is it as good and useful...

  Posted by David Sirota on November 20, 2007 5:54 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Saturday Night Rocktober Blogging

  The pregame view from my seat at the Rockies-Red Sox World Series game tonight here in Denver. It is officially "Rocktober" here in Colorado (Unfortunately, the Rockies lost 10-5 tonight and are now down 3-0 in the series)....

  Posted by David Sirota on October 27, 2007 11:22 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Jon Stewart Dunks On Chris Matthews

  Something to brighten your day - watch the whole thing:...

  Posted by David Sirota on October 3, 2007 9:36 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment Media Bias/Idiocy

• Book Recommendation: Connie Schultz's "...And His Lovely Wife"

  Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Connie Schultz, my new colleague at Creators Syndicate, has just released a book entitled ...And His Lovely Wife. It is a first-person account of Ohio's 2006 U.S. Senate race - the race in which her husband Sherrod...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 11, 2007 10:47 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment book recommendation

• Book Recommendation: The Secret Lives of Citizens

  I have just finished reading a truly prophetic book called The Secret Lives of Citizens by Thomas Geoghegan. It's hard to quantify exactly what this book is about, other than to say it is about the loss of the idea...

  Posted by David Sirota on August 5, 2007 9:03 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment book recommendation

• Entering My Own Billy Walsh Phase

  My friends and family have been asking me how my next book is coming and what it's like to write a book in general, and the best I can come up with to describe what I feel like is by...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 29, 2007 3:03 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment shameless self-promotion

• Book Recommendation: A Tragic Legacy

  Mike Stark, writing at DailyKos, makes the point that it is important for the progressive movement to support movement progressives when they get out there in the traditional media fighting the good fight. This is something the conservative movement does...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 27, 2007 8:38 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment progressive infrastructure

• Movie Recommendation: Sicko

  As part of Denver's Screening Liberally lineup, my wife and I went to see an advanced screening of Sicko last night, and were really blown away. None of the movie was surprising to anyone who has studied the dysfunction that...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 24, 2007 1:41 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment health care

• Friday Theme Song of Your Life Blogging

  It's Friday, and I'm stuck in moving hell. Since Friday's are sort of an existential day, I'll pose a question: What would you want the theme song of your life to be? Though Al Franken assigned me "My Sirota," if...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 8, 2007 3:06 PM
  Tags: arts/entertainment

• Book Recommendation: Which Side Are You On?

  I'm currently reading Thomas Geoghegan's 1992 epic book "Which Side Are you On?" It's subtitle is "trying to be for labor when it's flat on its back." I first met Tom when he graciously agreed to be on a panel...

  Posted by David Sirota on June 3, 2007 11:27 AM
  Tags: arts/entertainment war on the middle class

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