Monthly Archives: March 2008

*SMACK* Wanna die? Watch this trailer!

28 March 2008 – 10:34 am +0800

This is for the American remake of My Sassy Girl, starring Elisha Cuthbert:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXsMTxrsQR4&hl=en]
I love love love the Korean original, but this looks like it might not ruin the story, so I’m hopeful. Except for the garbage music the trailer uses.
(The title of this post is in loving homage to the original film.)

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Duckie Shrugged

26 March 2008 – 9:42 pm +0800

I’m sorry, but this notion gave me giggle fits.
The first line is:
“Who is John Hughes?“
The last line is:
He raised his hand over the desolate Hollywood Hills and traced in space the sign of the Breakfast Club.
Yeah. I’m weird.

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More epistemological funny business

19 March 2008 – 12:47 pm +0800

NPR is rather charmingly blind to having one of their sacred oxes gored by reality. In an article headlined “The Mystery of Global Warming’s Missing Heat“:
Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over [...]

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Clarke, slander, and gross epistemological errors

18 March 2008 – 10:38 pm +0800

Sir Arthur C. Clarke has passed away, but this mostly won’t be about that.
Yes, I read his books when I was in high school, and very occasionally thereafter. I liked them for the long view that they took, seeing sometimes to the end of time. I didn’t like the coldness, and sometimes brutality, [...]

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Heh

13 March 2008 – 7:46 pm +0800

I love reviews that try to imagine just what the hell the writers must have been thinking:
C-kun
“We have a problem.”

B-kun
“You killed the heroines again.”

C-kun
“Besides that.”

(þSteven Den Beste)

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Bowman takes on Kurosawa

13 March 2008 – 1:18 pm +0800

I just found James T. Bowman’s recent article on filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, “Samurai Sage“. In it, Bowman (whom I respect greatly as a thinker and writer, even as I tend to disagree with him and judge him to be entirely too cynical) lays responsibility for Hollywood’s and popular culture’s obsession with moral equivalence (what [...]

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You know, I tend to lust after Apple products…

11 March 2008 – 1:17 pm +0800

But for the moment it looks like I’m better off as I am.
MacBook Pros apparently ship (þInsty) with crappy hard drives.
What, were they spending so much time and effort on the iPod and iPhone that they decided not to sweat their top of the line laptops?

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Accents

11 March 2008 – 12:54 pm +0800

English has lots of them:

Herself is studying for an English proficiency exam, and the tapes’ and instructors’ Brit accents are giving her some trouble. Somehow, this seemed appropriate.
(þMegan McCardle)

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Pants on fire!

8 March 2008 – 9:50 am +0800

Disney CEO Robert Iger is possessed of massive amounts of chutzpah (þLibertas):
Top brass at Disney were called on Thursday to defend their decision not to release The Path to 9/11 on DVD and to justify CEO Robert Iger’s $27.7 million pay package.
Path was a 2006 ABC miniseries critical of President Bill Clinton’s handling of terrorist [...]

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Quote of the moment

3 March 2008 – 11:53 am +0800

Bill Quick:
If the Israelis threw a marble across the line, reports would indicate that the marble killed 17 Palestinians, of whom 35 were children.

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What a decent chap!

1 March 2008 – 11:11 pm +0800

Prince Harry, Yanked-out in Afghanistan before being yanked out of Afghanistan:

(Source. þGZExpat)
One gets the feeling that all of the Anointed in Britain, particularly those in the media, are going to try to take him down a notch or ten. One just doesn’t support the war or the colonies in this unseemly fashion.
I kind of [...]

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