10 July 2008 – 6:52 am +0800
Amazon’s MP3 store has a special, a steep discount on one album every day. And whoever’s choosing them seems to have excellent taste. Two days ago they put up Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage album for $0.99. I noticed it in time to snag it, but too late to advertise it to my [...]
9 July 2008 – 8:24 am +0800
Certain black1 politicos in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, are either colossally ignorant, or they are engaged in a devilishly clever scheme cause anyone who ever cries “Racism!” again in the future to be laughed out of the room (þMichelle Malkin):
[Dallas County] Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Culture, News/Current Events
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Tagged bickering, bill cosby, black hole, Dallas, dallas county, john wiley price, michelle malkin, national culture, Racism, Texas, thomas sowell, university, US, walter williams
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7 July 2008 – 8:54 pm +0800
Don’t have much to say about it, really, because I never read him much. His prose mostly did not appeal to me, and his criticism even less so.
But sometimes his poetry was amazing. He did a series of poems, collected as A Child’s Garden of Grammar, that I adored.
Here are two [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in General
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Tagged adjective, adjectives, adverbial, adverbs, drawl, encroachments, fairness, grammar, nice day, parts of speech, poems, poetry, prose, RIP, simplest thought, snot, Thomas Disch
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7 July 2008 – 3:19 pm +0800
I meant to get this up the day I watched it, Independence Day, but circumstances intervened. The Pursuit of Happyness is a perfect movie for that day, celebrating what makes our country the best that ever was.
What I liked about it (from my notes while watching):
The hippie chick steals from Chris Gardner (Will Smith)! [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Tagged american flag, hippie chick, independence day, movie, Movies, public transportation, pursuit of happyness, reagan, review, Reviews, thandie newton, will smith
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4 July 2008 – 12:02 pm +0800
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“American Patrol”, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, 1 August 1939(!)
Happy Independence Day, everybody!
4 July 2008 – 9:48 am +0800
Boy oh boy is Paul Krugman a jerk:
Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.
As Thomas Disch once wrote,
Not, that nasty little snot, must [...]
4 July 2008 – 7:53 am +0800
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“S’Wonderful”, Artie Shaw, recorded 9 January 1945
3 July 2008 – 3:11 pm +0800
[Note: This is a rerun of a review first posted in October of 2003. I did indeed watch the movie again, but decided that what I said before stands unchanged. Links have been updated, a little light editing has occurred, but mostly this is what I wrote five years ago because this [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Tagged bugle, Captain Nathan Brittles, cavalry, film, Howard Hawks, John Ford, John Wayne, outposts, review, Sgt. Quincannon, sunset, tumbleweeds, Victor McLaglen, western, Westerns
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3 July 2008 – 9:40 am +0800
“Tuxedo Junction”, by The Glenn Miller Orchestra:
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3 July 2008 – 9:30 am +0800
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis has never been whole since 1928. Even the recent restoration, which I saw in the theater, was missing chunks of the movie.
No more.
An original, full-length print has been discovered!
Please pardon me why I dance and leap and cavort in anticipation of viewing it.
2 July 2008 – 3:41 pm +0800
Nothing I’m going to write is going to make a bit of difference, you’re either going to see it or not.
Nevertheless, while I felt a bit conflicted, I adored it. It keeps up this week’s unintentional “charming” theme — Wall-E and Eve are two of the most charming characters I’ve seen in a movie [...]
1 July 2008 – 3:38 pm +0800
Tomboy is, in its way, perfect. It’s not good. It’s intermittently entertaining in the usual sense. But it is perfectly what it sets out to be, and like The Pom Pom Girls, there isn’t a mean bone in its body.
This is the movie I referenced the other day as being precisely what [...]
By Ian Michael Hamet
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Posted in Yesterday's movie
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Tagged bad movie, Betsy Russell, charming actress, comedy, dance number, daytona 500, DVD, Eric Douglas, exploitation flicks, film, Films, movie, Movies, review, Reviews, rich jerk, School Dazed 8 Movie Collection, stock car race, stock car racing, synthesizer, teen comedy
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