Thoughts and Such

Do you know why traffic in Los Angeles is so bad? Cellphones. People texting, leaving a full 2 car lengths in front of them while waiting at a light or "driving" with the flow of traffic. <Yosemite Sam voice> I hates texters.

Robin Williams and Depression

As horrific as his death was, the cause of death brought extra weight. One of the folks I follow on Twitter noted that people who never knew Robin Williams would now pontificate about him for the week. I made a mental note there would also be people who don’t understand depression saying and posting well-meaning but misguided things.

Which happened. But there were also many who spoke their story, who illuminated and enlightened and educated. People were being encouraged to get help, reminded of they are not alone in their depression. In death, Robin Williams continued to bring smiles, making his passing bitingly bittersweet.

Ferguson: Good Reads from Karen Walrond and Matt Zoller Seitz. Thank you to The Bloggess (Jenny Lawson) and Jay Smooth, respectively.

My Round 1 thoughts on Ferguson here.

Seeing commercials for the TV show RUSH, and thinking, they found a guy who looks just like Larenz Tate. Except he's not a look-alike. Apparently Larenz Tate doesn't age.

Yes, I do live under a rock. Fortunately, someone in my twitter feed linked to this, so I'm up-to-date on what's hip and happening as of last month.

When you watch Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on TV and Indy talks to Mack, do you think That's not the right guy – it should be homeboy from MacGyver - but then you're glad it's not homeboy from MacGyver because in the movie Mack is greedy? And then when you look up homeboy on IMDB and learn the character he played was Jack not Mack, do you think you should probably feel bad about the mistake, but you don't because it's like song lyrics, and everyone gets some song lyrics wrong so it's okay to get a character's name wrong? No? Just me then?

I'm jones'n for a newspaper.