by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 5, 2013 | Asides
Roger Ebert, who died yesterday at age 70 from cancer, tried many times to win the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest. Today, the New Yorker offered up a selection of entries that Ebert did not win with. The last entry in this series made me laugh so hard I...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 20, 2012 | Asides, Featured
Roger Ebert on the Aurora shootings. We’ve Seen This Movie Before | via NY Times
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 29, 2010 | Asides
Great film short by Jamie Stuart of this week’s storm in NYC. Beautiful footage, extraordinary edit. “Man in a Blizzard,” by Jamie Stuart | via Roger Ebert’s Journal
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 24, 2010 | Asides, Featured
Thank you Mr. Ebert. I’m feeling kind of cozy now. ‘Twas the Night Before Pogo | via Roger Ebert’s Journal
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 5, 2008 | Asides
And I think he right-sizes Bush. Being president is as much about who you have around you as who you are. You have to be able to trust those you surround yourself with. Perhaps even more about who you surround yourself with. I don’t think Bush was evil, nor do I...
