A vision of apocalyptic New York, Costner-style, and a discussion.

December seems to have forty percent fewer livable, workable hours than any other month. Now that Christmas is gone and my dog’s obedience training is coming along nicely, I’m hoping to do a few things: get back to the blog regularly and catch up on all the movies I haven’t had time to go see lately:

• About Schmidt,
  
• Adaptation
  
• Catch Me If You Can
  
• Far from Heaven
  
• Gangs of New York
  
• Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
  
• Morvern Callar
  
• Narc
  
• Solaris
  
• The 25th Hour
  
• Et cetera.
  

Business 2.0 looks inside Electronic Arts, publisher of the much-hyped Sims Online. They have aims to become the next Disney, as if that’s a good thing.

More extracurricular goodies from my Behavior partner, Chris Fahey: a Whitney Artport gate page called “Concentric Empathy,” and a ‘system’ entry to Doublecell.org. Meanwhile, I’ve been trying to teach this guy to sit and heel.

Getting a new dog turns your world upside down, as I’m learning right now. Yesterday, as an early birthday present, my girlfriend adopted this adorable mutt for me — I named him Mister President. I’m still getting my head around this whole pet parenting thing.