Monthly Archives: April 2007
Peter Dragon -vs- Old Whores And Hypocrites
Peter Dragon explains what the American people want to see in the movies.Bravo, Mr. Dragon! Bravo!
links for 2007-04-12
Kurt Vonnegut on The Daily Show Playing Chess with Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Dead at 84. So it goes.
Here’s the New York Time obituary. Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. Finally, you get just too tired, and the news is too awful, and humor doesn’t work anymore. Somebody like Mark Twain thought life was quite awful but held the awfulness at bay with jokes […]
links for 2007-04-11
How dating my ex was like playing DOOM II on nightmare mode Only the most nerdy of readers will appreciate this. So that means that over ninety percent of you that are reading this should click the link.
Go See “Grindhouse”
Last Friday I had the absolute joy of watching “Grindhouse.” We saw the eight o’clock showing in a fairly crowded theater. Normally, I’m pretty anal about any noise in the theater. People that talk during a movie infuriate me, I can’t stand sitting too close to people I don’t know, and I think that a […]
The Organization of Islamic Progress Is Scared Of Words
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” –George Orwell “Politics and the English Language,” 1946. If you read the link I assigned for homework you no doubt saw that on March 30th, the Organization of Islamic Progress pushed for, and passed, a resolution through the United Nation’s Human Rights Commission, which urges […]
links for 2007-04-09
Google Voice Local Search Google now offers a free 411 service. Call it from any phone and it will provide you with free directory assistance. I bow before our Google-overlords.
Homework Assignment
Read this article. We’ll discuss it Monday night.
Ahh, Buckle This!
I’m too tired for a proper post, so please, enjoy the shenanigans of Dark Helmet and Colonel Sandurz. And remember, light speed is just too damn slow.