Week in Review

Yeah this is overdue but this is my blog.

Obama cedes his presidency, temporarily, to Bill Clinton so he can catch up with his wife at some party.

Johnny Depp's greasy hair is no match to the lion's mane.  Boo!!! Boo!!! Boo!!!.  Narnia tops the weekend's box office.  The Tourist by Johnny Depp's greasy dirty hair and Angelina Jolie's lips, is a distant second.

(Diversion:  WTF is this Lamusique George Lam?  Is it a ploy to jazz up all his or other's songs, to kick them up from pop to jazz or some other arty farty renditions?  As if Jazz or new is better?  Maybe.  I guess they are just too lazy to crank out new material for him or there simply no market for new material from good old Lam anymore?  So same old shit for the same old audience.  People who love Lam are generally old and now gullible too.)

The Social Network
The Golden Globe nominations are out.  Among the movies nominated, the one and only one I saw was The Social Network.  The reason I saw the movie was number one it fits my schedule.  Number two I saw a clip of the movie on David Letterman and I was duly impressed by Jesse Eisenberg performance.  Basically the movie boils down Facebook as Mark Zuckerberg's way to get back (at) Erica Albright who jilts him not because he's a nerd but because he's an asshole.  But Zuckerberg is not just another asshole, Zuckerberg is an exceptional, one of a kind smart asshole who doesn't necessarily invent the social network but he sure comes out on top.  And in the process, he breaks all barriers by sheer intellectual prowess and ruthlessness, forever changes the world communicates and makes himself billions, not bad for a 26-year-old.  Indeed, not bad for an Ivy League dropout who, at least according to the movie, tries desperately to belong in the beginning and ends up dropping out to create a parallel universe that's uniquely himself or his time that's not shackled by class or birth.  I can't help but think of Philip Roth's seminal American Pastoral, in which it says something about Ivy League--"a world of Gentile wealth where the building were covered with ivy and the people had money and dressed in a certain style.  Didn't admit Jews, didn't know Jews, probably didn't like Jews all that much."  Zuckerberg sure comes a long way and would have made the Swede proud.