Month: February 2008

Irrational Hatred #1 – The Dirt logo

dirt_poster.jpgI have zero opinion on Courtney Cox and the show Dirt, but if FX promotion is going to plaster that poster all over my city then I’m going to pound on this.

Please, please, please come up with a better logo that doesn’t use that idiotic upside-down letter “i.” Yes I know the “i” is doing double-duty as an exclamation point, but it looks awkward – even more when it’s inside that box offset. A simple “dirt!” would fit in well with the poster’s Nagel-Lichtenstein pop art riff. Honesly I kinda like the art. It’s certainly a vast improvement on the hideous goth metal album cover poster for the show’s first season, but that logo is design kryptonite.

Attention FX: next time go directly to the Pander Brothers for this sort of thing. k thx bye.


Oscar v80.0

Congratulations guys!

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Occasionally something wins that utterly deserves to. Outside of There Will Be Blood, Once was the only movie that I unequivocably loved. No arguments with the winners, but Jeff Daniels really should have been nominated for The Lookout and The King Of Kong and Deep Water should have been nominated in Best Documentary.

I also discovered that I’ve seen 53 of the best picture winners.

Voting

There’s a ton of hysteria about the extra box you have to check if you’re a non-partisian voter in L.A. County who wants to vote on the Demoocratic ballot, and unlike Kos, et. al who are fanning the flames, the directions were pretty explicit from the sample ballot I received in the mail (page two says to check the box!) to the instructions you read on the ballot itself.

Bureaucracy doesn’t have to make sense.

Anyway I suppose I should have joined in with the folks who were taking pictures of their polling place, but everything was running smoothly this morning (I voted at the Oasis Christian Center on Wilshire). Took all of ten minutes.

There was a video crew from Time.com down the street and they ended up interviewing me for the site (note to self: when thinking, make sure your eyes are open). Techincally though, I’m not part of “a group of California Democrats,” – I’m non-partisian and just happened to vote on a Democratic ballot.