Kevin Smith and MeMe Roth

I have a piece in The Daily Beast on the Kevin Smith Southwest Airlines incident. What happened to Smith, who was apparently aribtrarily thrown off a flight for being too fat, is the kind of humiliating incident to which bigger than average people are subjected to constantly. Some day they're going to start getting mad.

(MeMe Roth's birth name was Meredith. I wonder if anyone has ever pointed out to her that changing your name to MeMe is like sticking a post-it note on your forehead saying "I have narcissistic personality disorder.")

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Favorites of the Aughts...

I will remember the Aughts warmly, as if they constituted a time period that spanned ten years.

Favorite Five Films:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Yi Yi
No Country for Old Men
In the Mood for Love

Favorite Five Television Series:

The Wire
The Sopranos
Mad Men
Battlestar Galactica
Lost

Favorite Five Albums:

Decoration Day, Drive By Truckers
A Man Under the Influence, Alejandro Escovedo
Elephant, The White Stripes
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco

Favorite Five Life Changing Moments:

Started blog
Finished dissertation
Got job
Got married
Had kids

Actor of the Aughts: George Clooney
Director of the Aughts: Alfonso Cuaron
Baseball Player of the Aughts: Ichiro
Band of the Aughts: The Drive By Truckers
Bowl Game of the Aughts: 2007 Fiesta Bowl

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