Thursday, November 7, 2002

Quote of the day from Garrison Keillor in today's Salon To choose (Norm) Coleman over Walter Mondale is one of those dumb low-rent mistakes, like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. But I don't envy someone who's sold his soul. He's condemned to a life of small arrangements. There will be no passion, no joy, no heroism, for him. He is a hollow man. The next six years are not going to be kind to Norm. 9:57:36 AM

Winona Update (And I'm not talking about the city in Minnesota) Best summary yet of the Winona Ryder shoplifting case comes from SFGate.com's Mark Morford today where he writes: Casually overrated actress and noted cute little delicate-featured thang Winona Ryder was convicted Wednesday of shoplifting more than five grand worth of high-fashion crap she didn't really need from a Saks last year. The jury found Ryder guilty of felony grand theft and vandalism but acquitted her of burglary, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense and must be some sort of definition/severity legal-terminology thing, because how can you intentionally shoplift 5K of Versace but not burgle it? She could go to prison for 3 years or just get probation and go on to make at least a dozen more really mediocre films you really sort of want her to be good in because you really liked her in Beetlejuice and Reality Bites and Heathers but those were all like, ten years ago, and yet you can't help but just sort of cringe and sigh when you watch her now because she's just a little strange and her delivery is just a little off and if she makes one more totally miscast period piece where she wears a giant hoop skirt and forces some sort of odd accent you're just gonna given up entirely and say screw this and go "shopping" at Saks. 2:25:00 AM

SF's controversial homeless plan wins easily Let's hope this works and successfully balances liberalism's quest to be compassionate AND fiscally responsible. 12:13:46 AM