Happy Halloween!! I knew it was Halloween when I saw a guy riding a bicycle dressed in a pea-pod costume this morning. Hilarious!

SF Mini Trip Recaplet:

Saw The Decemberists in SF. They were AMAZING! Handsome frontman Colin Meloy was funny and quite the onstage charmer. The guy has a vocabulary that doesn't quit. At one point his glasses flew off. They played many of my favorites and most of the new ones. "The Legionnaire's Lament" was one high point. Super fun!

Saw Joseph Cornell's work "Pink Palace" at SF Moma. I've never seen it before in person. Pretty nifty. Just as delicate as I had anticipated. I've never noticed the teeny little cannons before.

Citizen Cupcake - I suggest stopping in for the best cupcake EVER.

Jesse and Dave visit recaplet:

Mostly shopping and restaurants and traipsing about. Lots of fun. Way too short!

Misc:

Saw The Departed this weekend. Nothing like a Scorcese gangster picture. Loved it! DiCaprio gives a stong performance. Nice to see Ray Winstone and David O'Hara (from The Matchmaker, the sweet Janeane Garofalo-goes-to-Ireland movie). Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg (playing the prick cop) have some choice moments. Goodfellas is still my favorite Scorcese film and certainly on my top five all-around list. And Bill the Butcher, as played by Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York, beats out Nicholson's Costello any day of the week for best crazy bastard.

30 Rock Clip: Alec Baldwin Just Cracks Me Up

Joe's Review: The Queen

Song for the day:
"Witchcraft" - The Chairman of the Board, for Halloween

Joe's Review: The Prestige

A comparison is drawn between the Johannson's character's loyalties and her corseted bosom. For more, read the review folks!

Project Runway:
Jeffrey won! His collection was rad. Uli's was lovely!! Michael will go far. I'll miss Tim Gunn. Till next season then.

Links to a slew of Joe's movie reviews below:

The Departed

Factotum

Beerfest

Call of Duty

Team building is painful in real life, but makes for great tv.

another cute office clip

Misc Pics Below:
-Some neat ones from my folks back home.
-The rest from a trip to San Diego and the San Diego Zoo over the summer.

The Office
"Grief Counseling" was alright.
Entertainment Weekly has a cute article/neat pics of Jenna Fischer this week. According to that article, the charming little grenade bit in "The Coup" between Jones and Krasinki was improvised. Sheesh, they got the chemistry.

Project Runway
Worried about Michael and Jeffrey. Still resisting the spoilers. Laura's collection looks great. Jeffrey's Japanese-inspired trapeze artist-looking ensembles look the best so far. I hope he doesn't get the boot. And Michael's. I don't know about that. Hopefully it's just a case of fakeout editing.

Misc:
-The Palm has comfy new seats!!

Songs for the day:
"They Don't Know." - Tracey Ullmann
Sure seems like the perfect song to listen to while flipping through the lovely new Amy Sedaris book.

"The Bagman's Gambit" - The Decemberists
Gearing up.

The Office: "The Coup"
Just fantastic!
-Loved the way Dwight's takeover attempt was combined with outlet shopping suggestions
"Pull over at Exit 40. There's a Liz Claiborne outlet store....Go inside and shop until I can meet you."
-Loved the Stamford branch's creepy "Call of Duty" drills (more great Krasinski looks as a result)
-Rashida Jones is so cute and funny as the new coworker taking a liking to Jim. Pim who?

David Rakoff on The Daily Show - Nice.

Just read about this ongoing Cringe Reading Series craze in Venus magazine. (a neat magazine I must say) Apparently people read their real journals and other misc writings from the junior high years. Yikes!! Another thing to add to the list for the New York trip I hope to take in the not too distant future.

TimeOut Blurb on Cringe Night