The Quintessential Blog of Adam Kuhn

Synopsis: After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL-E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.

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Synopsis: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Brian Grazer, Steve Zaillian and Ridley Scott team to tell the true juggernaut success story of a cult hero from the streets of 1970s Harlem in American Gangster.

Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas, the quiet driver to one of the inner city’s leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. Through ingenuity and a strict business ethic, he comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Lucas outplays all of the leading crime syndicates and becomes not only one of the city’s mainline corrupters, but part of its circle of legit civic superstars.

Richie Roberts is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene. Both Lucas and Roberts share a rigorous ethical code that sets them apart from their own colleagues, making them lone figures on opposite sides of the law. The destinies of these two men will become intertwined as they approach a confrontation where only one of them can come out on top.

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Synopsis: Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” is a masterly, unflinching examination of a consummately evil man. Daniel Plainview (via a transcendent performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis) is, as he likes to remind those around him, an oil man: he finds it, he drills for it, and he makes money from it. Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday, whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil, Plainview travels to the town of New Boston, California, with his young son. Sunday’s preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview’s ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church. As Plainview’s plans come to fruition, a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself, pitting Plainview against Sunday and forcing him to become even more vindictive and ruthless.

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Many of you know the Gorgatron:

She’s lead an interesting life so far. Many of us know about her air-travel experience and her intimate friendship with a flying friend named Stevie Ray. Lately she’s developed a new talent – she suddenly started playing fetch. I didn’t teach her anything, she started this on her own. About a week ago, she brought me a toy and started meowing and being generally annoying. So, I threw the toy across the room. About 15 seconds later, she was running back to me with the toy in her mouth; she dropped the toy neatly at my feet and started meowing again. I threw the toy again, this time much harder. She bolted after it, practiced pouncing on it, and then quickly ran back with it in her mouth. She went on with this game for about an hour. Now she plays this game every night.

She’s about to move again, so we’ll see how she handles life on the lake. We all know how much she hates water, but from her bathroom experiences, we do know she can swim.

I don’t really have much in the way of video of her playing catch, but I do have a few shots of her relaxing and giving me generally odd looks:

And for kicks, I’ll throw in the video of Gorgatron and Stevie going at it:

And no, the bird was never hurt. He could easily have flown away – he was in it to win. Gorgatron never once used her front claws when playing with Stevie (nor did she ever try to bite him).

Jimmy Kimmel fires back at Sarah Silverman with this cameo-packed response to her I’m f***ing Ben Affleck video.