1. “Babies babies “Babies” babies Babies? Babies babies.”
    Village Voice’s original review for the movie Babies.
  2. via Vulture— how the hell did I not write this myself??

  3. “Astoundingly, about 80 percent of the entire Canadian population tuned in Sunday for at least some part of the men’s hockey Canada-U.S. showdown for the gold medal.”
  4. “Learning about a new sport is not unlike living for a time in a foreign country. It challenges your prejudices. It makes your mind work in new ways. If you like sports, it’s good for you.”
  5. “There will be no ‘Cool Runnings’ this time around in a Canadian Olympics.”
    NYTimes— Jamaican Bobsled Fails to Qualify for Games.
  6. Bizarre culture shock— my host sister asking, “What’s a Protestant?” and my host mom reponding, “Like the Huguenots.”

  7. “In the video game Dante is no longer a reedy, introspective poet but a knight who returns home from the Crusades to find that his beloved Beatrice has been brutally murdered. Her innocent soul has been taken captive by Lucifer, and Dante must chase the archfiend into hell, fending off wave after wave of advancing demons with a mighty scythe.”
    NYTimes— Midway on our life’s journey, I found myself in dark woods, and realized I needed to kill some motherfucking demons.
  8. “MTV needs a new tribe to study. Lucky for them, there’s a group of feisty young people just a few hundred miles north on the Atlantic coast. They’re called Massholes.”
    via Slate- The next Jersey Shore. YES.
  9. Just a college student living in Grenoble, France for the year.