This was in keeping with the Bigfoot theme started yesterday, and I might return to it in a week or two, but the rest of this week’s movies will be unrelated to cryptozoology. I think.
I tried several times to write a snarky, knowing, witty review of this, but I just can’t.
Because Snowbeast not a [...]
I think I’m getting a little overdosed on Bud and Lou. The more I watch, the less I seem to have to say, despite this being one of the stronger entries in the collection I bought.
At the opening of Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Bud is a wrestling manager in New York [...]
Arguably, this is it — the very best Abbott and Costello movie there is. The boys are in top form, and they get to play off a scenario that is not, at least at the time of the making of this film, threadbare. They get an actual story, into which their antics fit [...]
A man was arrested for taking a picture of a cop. (þ InstaPundit)
Cops should have nothing to fear from cameras — if they’ve got nothing to hide.
(Did you know that the lead officer in the arrest of Rodney King, Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, was happy that someone caught the arrest on video tape? He [...]
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 [...]
I got seconded by Ken Begg.
I might be the only person that is actually impressed by that fact, but it’s giving me a big, big smile.
It looks odd, but it’s Miyazaki, so I’m just about guaranteed to love it. And there’s a little Japanese girl singing cutely, which doesn’t hurt.
It’s called Ponyo on the Cliff, and that and what I just watched in the above trailer are all I know about it.
The fact that they call their product “Hooter Hiders“, or the styles they offer straight out of a timewarp from the 1970s?
Today’s movie review just isn’t getting finished. It will be up by early afternoon tomorrow, and tomorrow’s review is already done and set to post in late afternoon.
I’m getting some well-deserved sleep in the meantime.
Patrick J. Buchanan took issue with a review of his latest book, Churchill, Hitler, and ‘The Unnecessary War’, by Victor Davis Hanson.
Victor Davis Hanson responded. And didn’t pull any punches, either.
Ouchie.
(One wishes that someone would instruct VDH in the use of the <blockquote> tag, though.)
Benevolent Misanthropy is back. I’m going to be spending the weekend on back-end issues, and regular posting should resume by Monday, if not sooner.
It’s great to be back.
I neglected to post even a quote for today, so go read what I wrote three years ago. It’s still true.
Huh.
I took a typing class in hi skule, one of the few classes that actually taught me anything worthwhile, and after a semester was up around 40 or 45 words per minute.
And, while I type a lot (I do fancy myself a writer, after all), I’ve never clocked myself at much more than 50 wpm [...]
Here’s an amateur music video, cutting scenes from His and Her Circumstances (Kareshi Kanojyo no Jijo) to Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated”. Whoever did this is a born editor.
[I let the cat out of the bag on "Five Things", so I thought I'd provide a touch more detail here for the curious.]
That would be me.1
Because — despite all my bad luck, and all my idiotic decisions, and my having to reboot my life (again) at the age of thirty-two, starting over [...]