While I'm clearly not producing daily content for Gitnerblog, I am editing daily content for another blog: NPR's i.e. (or Intern Edition).

Yours truly is Blog Editor for i.e., and I'd love it if any Gitnerblog supporters would head over to the i.e. Blog to check out our posts.

When I have time, I also write for the i.e. blog. Check out my recent post on hearing my favorite song for the first time here or read below:

I saw The Royal Tenenbaums for the first time back in 2002. I don’t remember the exact occasion -- it probably isn’t worth remembering: something involving my parents driving me to Blockbuster on a pathetically uneventful Friday night.

I do remember that my expectations were level.

That’s why I was totally unprepared for the following scene:

My life changed at 0:41 when, in the clip above, Margot Tenenbaum (played by Gwenyth Paltrow) took those slow motion steps from the Green Line Bus.

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