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Jonathan V. Last is the online editor of The Weekly Standard and has a weekly editorial column in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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"Like watching two monkeys fuck a football."

That's James Cameron describing the (lack of?) skills of one of his lighting guys in this month-old bit of awesome from Dana Goodyear. It's a pretty great profile although--not to take anything away from Goodyear--the subject is so good that it would ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Cameron

More Dishonesty from Revkin's Dot.Earth

Goldfarb mentions Andrew Revkin's decision not to publish "private" -- though publicly available -- emails which cast the purveyors of climate change in a bad light. Just in case you were inclined to give Revkin the benefit of the doubt, here's another ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, The Weekly Standard,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Andrew C. Revkin,  John Simon

The Greatness of the Rowdy One

You probably didn't see it, but Roddy Piper guest hosted RAW this week and even though he was totally blotto by the end of the show, he still has spectacular stuff. I consider Piper one of the two greatest talkers in the history of wrestling, the ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ric Flair

Drilling for Amber Gold

Galley Friend R.M. once paid $800 for a bottle of scotch salvaged from a 100-year-old British ship, but even that's not as hardcore as this operationg: A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ernest Shackleton

Dirty New Mexico Part Deux: Dirtier

Some of you may remember Elizabeth Lambert as the UNM soccer player who's half Vinnie Jones and half Bill Laimbeer. Well now she's taken it up a notch, with what might be the biggest heel-turn in sports since the Honky-Tonk Man. In yesterday's New ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Elizabeth Lambert,  Vinnie Jones,  Bill Laimbeer,  New York Times Company

The Greatest Thanksgiving Day Touch Football Game Ever

It could have been yours. If you and a bunch of your friends--let's pretend there were 20 of you in total--had gotten together last week, you could have bought the Pontiac Silverdome. Former home of the Detroit Lions; the site of WrestleMania III. It ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pontiac,  Detroit Lions

Sorkin Watch

Aaron Sorkin--who brought us the reliably Democratic The American President, The West Wing, and Charlie Wilson's War -- has spent the last couple years working on adapting odd-ball non-fiction to the silver screen: He wrote the Facebook movie and the ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, The Weekly Standard,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Aaron Sorkin,  Charlie Wilson,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Greenpeace

USS Somerset

The USS New York was met with appropriate fanfare last week when she was commissioned in New York. Now there's word that her sister ship, the USS has scheduled her keel-authentication ceremony for December 11 at the Northrop Grumman Avondale yard in ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, The Weekly Standard,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Northrop Grumman Corp

Gladwell on Christmas

Why baby Jesus? Research confirms there were upwards of 157 hotel-cum-stables in Bethlehem that night, with estimated 97 percent occupancy levels. So why did that star shine so brightly over his? Imagine that I were to ask you to dress up as a ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  12 Nov 2009

Why I Hate Children's Television

The kids are watching a recent Dora The Explorer special episode ("Dora Saves The Crystal Kingdom," if you're interested). I just watched a scene in which Dora wanders upon a knight warding a giant dragon off with a sword. To intervene and stop the ...

From JONATHAN V. LAST, Galley Slaves,  11 Nov 2009

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