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i, justonius
i, justonius
A PAEAN TO MINIMALISM
That’s right. With the possible exception of a random shrine to Naomi Watts, expect no photos, graphics, colorful backgrounds or nonconformist fonts from this unapologetically Flash-free Web site. Do expect, however, plenty of unnecessarily polysyllabic words and irritating opinions.
Oh, and in case you’re wondering why “Web site” is spelled in that particular way, please consult your nearest Associated Press Stylebook. I’m a journalism major at USC (and quality of living be damned, I’m proud of it!), so pretty much everything you read here will be written, from force of habit, in AP style. Minus the newsworthy element, of course.
You Can Count On Me
- Well, actually, you can’t, since this shoddily designed HTML cesspool will be updated intermittently at best. But here’s a brief semi-autobiographical spiel to tide you over for now. (Link currently dead; deal.)
- Direct all hate mail and death threats here and here. Everything else you can send to me.
- My nearly two-year stint at the Daily Trojan has earned me a respectable degree of notoriety. Stay away from the early stuff (it’s übertrash), but you might find the Buzz sporadically enjoyable.
- I have written a few freelance pieces for the Los Angeles Times. If you have no interest in visiting a sports bar or the San Francisco Exploratium, keep your distance.
A Beautiful Mind (Sort of)
The List Is Life
The Strongest Links
- This page may be a blatant rip-off of Mike D’Angelo’s template, but there’s no duplicating the guy’s style.
- You won’t find a more lucid critic than Theo Panayides, who runs the inexhaustible Theo’s Century of Movies.
- David Edelstein, where have you been all my life?
- I love how angry Salon.com’s Charles Taylor gets.
- Bryant Frazer’s Deep Focus is a thing of beauty.
- Benjamin Soskin is one harsh grader — then again, he does go to Harvard. Don’t let that intimidate you.
- Brass-balled critic Jared Sapolin thinks “The Hours” is garbage and calls me a lazy sloth. He’s right on both counts, alas ...
- Two seasonal pleasures: OscarWatch is shamelessly addictive, but if you’re looking for substance and better grammar, check out the bottomless reservoir that is Alex Fung.
- Three cheers for Kenneth Turan, still the most underrated — and dignified — presence in American film criticism today.
- The New York Times employs a trio, of which only A.O. Scott remains consistently unignorable.
- The dignity of the New Republic’s Stanley Kauffmann has become impossible to resist.
- I grow suspicious of a man who honestly believes that “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” is a better movie than “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” but that doesn’t make Roger Ebert any less readable.