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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

Curious Bedfellows

Politico's Jonathan Martin writes that Barack Obama today praised T. Boone Pickens, the right-wing Texas oilman who contributed millions in '04 to the effort to swift-boat John KerryJohn McCain." Here's Pickens' alternative energy plan.

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 5, 2008 at 5:32 PM

comment #1

chappiesan says ...

As someone who was raised in west Texas, I don't believe praise is something T Boone Pickens deserves -- on his prior dealings on or on this one. Yeah, he's building giant wind farms in west Texas, but one of the major reasons he's doing so is to curry favor with the local governments so he can gain access to the Ogallala aquifer. He'll bottle up as much water as possible and sell it to the Dallas Metro area, most likely killing the nation's primary cotton cropland in the process (and not to mention the cropland through Oklahoma, Kansas, and areas northward that also rely on the aquifer). Consider this the Texas version of Owens Lake. Hopefully, the farmers will go after T Boone instead of the cosntruction guys he sends out.

http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us/bulksales/texas/

Posted by chappiesan at August 5, 2008 8:30 PM

comment #2

D.Z. says ...

I'm not really sure how that counts as praise...

Posted by D.Z. at August 5, 2008 9:28 PM

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