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March 30, 2006
Small Pond
Favorite headline of the week: "Juan Urango Ready For His Title Shot." He's a junior welterweight from Colombia but that's neither here nor there. The only way I can put into words why this headline moves me so is to ask the reader to imagine that he's just seen a copy of Variety on a newsstand with a boldface header reading UNTITLED SCARLETT JOHANSEN VEHICLE UPDATE: MAN IN CROWD #3 HAS MEMORIZED HIS LINE. Now imagine that Man In Crowd #3 is professionally finished if he doesn't knock that line right out of the park. This analogy is inexact, but it walks us past the neighborhood, anyhow.
Posted by jd at March 30, 2006 09:05 PM