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Dang. I want to catch the next bus to Kenya now.
There just sems to be so much that's only in Kenya. Possibly, there are mango biscuits. Heck, just for overkill, here's those Quiznos guys singing about how they like the moon.
posted by DRH 2/28/2004 03:43:00 PM
Huge numbers at box office for The Passion
Check out the daily grosses...
posted by DRH 2/28/2004 03:34:00 PM
Friday, February 27, 2004
This Cracked Me Up
Rosie O'Donnell, Man of the People Merp!
posted by DRH 2/27/2004 04:57:00 PM
Thursday, February 26, 2004
Evil Cats in the News
Die die die!!!!
posted by DRH 2/26/2004 04:56:00 PM
George Orwell's Assertion was right
"When fascism comes again, it will be as antifacism" case study : "AntiMcMacrthyite" Hollywood is promoting it's own form of McCarthyism.
posted by DRH 2/26/2004 04:08:00 PM
How do you say YMCA in Japanese?
'Nippon Seaman Ship, Seaman Ship, For Love...For Peace'
posted by DRH 2/26/2004 12:03:00 PM
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Mmmm... Guilt by Association
How nice of the Denver paper to cooprate with some nutjob antisemitic "pastor" in linking the thought "The Jews killed Jesus" with The Passion. The media always loves this kind of thing; the guy that hangs out on Powell St with the "God Hates Fags" sign gets lots of play too. The media loves cartoony images of those religious types. I found this on Andrew Sullivan's blog. Sullivan has, of course gone ballistic because his gay ox is being gored right now; he tends to be a fairly rational guy in other circumstrances.
posted by DRH 2/25/2004 03:12:00 PM
Bum ba bum bum... bum ba bum bum buuuummmmmm.....
Lent is here....
posted by DRH 2/25/2004 02:39:00 PM
Through the Looking Glass
The final straw has been placed on this camel's back. Clinton managed to convince me to start votng republican back in '92. Now crap like this has convinced me to start
giving money to the Bush campaign. The idea that Bush took up the whole notion of "gay marriage" as some sort of political boogey-man to help in the '04 election indicates to me how fundementally damaged the culture is in the process of becoming. The people with the Big Megaphones see a radical change with no basis in human history as "normal" and any sort of reaction against it as beyong the beyond.
posted by DRH 2/25/2004 02:25:00 PM
Get Ready to Hear from the Caananite Anti-Defamation League!
Apparently, Mel Gibson is thinking about making more Bible movies.
posted by DRH 2/25/2004 02:14:00 PM
Cool Tees!
Urban Outfitters has nifty "new" Voting is for Old People shirts. The claim is that the design dates back to the 70s...
posted by DRH 2/25/2004 02:07:00 PM
A book on The Passion
I did not know that there was a book about this. Besides that Book, smart guy.
posted by DRH 2/25/2004 12:32:00 AM
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Yow!
"Zippies " is apparently the term that the Old GrayMareLady wants us to use for the people off in India and China that are getting all those cool telemarketing jobs that are being exported.
posted by DRH 2/24/2004 11:01:00 PM
Reviews of The Passion
Russell Hittinger and Elizabeth Lev in First Things
US Catholic Bishops - Office for Film and Broadcasting
Roger Ebert " What Gibson has provided for me, for the first time in my life, is a visceral idea of what the Passion consisted of. ... This is not a sermon or a homily, but a visualization of the central event in the Christian religion."
The New York Times seems relatively cluessless; the warning signs are in the first paragraph where the reviewer seems to think that the realism of the death of Christ to the wackiness of the "Mr Smith Goess to Washington" remake from ala Homer Simpson. A sentence that really stood out for me: "'The Passion of the Christ' is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus' final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it. Mr. Gibson has constructed an unnerving and painful spectacle that is also, in the end, a depressing one." It's one of those sentences that you end up parsing closely; because it gives you hints as to the author's mind set.... what does he mean by uplift, exactly... to be kinda "feel good" ? Why rage -- and not, say "gratitude" to Chirst for having suffered through all of that to save us?
Thomas S. Hibbs at NRO ... in St. Ignatius of Loyola's 16th-century manual, The Spiritual Exercises. Founder of the Jesuit order, Ignatius counsels use of the imagination to place oneself in the setting of the Gospel stories, to see and hear the events and voices, and to be moved in appropriate ways. "In the Passion," he writes, "the proper thing to ask for is grief with Christ suffering, a broken heart with Christ heartbroken, tears and deep suffering because of the great suffering that Christ endured for me."
posted by DRH 2/24/2004 11:28:00 AM
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Something to watch
I woder how this strategy will play out. When called to asked for his policy decisions, Kerry pretends that he was attacked for his Vietnam service record, and answers accordingly. The truely weird thing is that there is a very strong implication that people who didn't serve in teh military should have no say in the running of the military; a scary thought in a country where civilians are supposed to control the military, not the other way 'round. It will be interesting to see if this works for Kerry. (In the "Chinese" sense.)
posted by DRH 2/22/2004 02:12:00 AM
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Governor Ahnold figures it Out!
After consulting legal experts, he realizes that it's illegal to violate the law.
Anyhoo, I came across this quote in an article on the Frisco fiasco : Stacey Zartler, a San Francisco lawyer married last week at City Hall, ... i f their vows end up being nullified, "There will be a psychological toll," Zartler said. "I don't know if I can handle the disappointment."
It seems like this lawyer would have a pretty good case for suing the City of San Francisco. I can only imagine the war in her head as she hears the siren call of a Huge Cash Payout.
Late breaking addition: Gavin Newsom gets his revenge. Ahnold was getting in the way of his sweeping changes.
posted by DRH 2/21/2004 12:22:00 PM
Friday, February 20, 2004
Dark Side of Marin County
The sad thing is that there is no way that Lynn Woolsey's reelection would ever be affected by anything. Ah, the joys of the "safe district".
posted by DRH 2/20/2004 12:46:00 AM
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Dialect Usage in the USofA
Check out this cool set of maps of word usages.
posted by DRH 2/19/2004 11:54:00 PM
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Election's A'coming!
Frightened by the coming election?
Here's a nifty Catholic Voter Guide to help!
posted by DRH 2/18/2004 04:46:00 PM
Insane
You can find some amazingly sad things surfing the 'net. Here's a abortion clinic chaplain; if you want, he'll bless your baby for you, once it's properly killed, of course.
posted by DRH 2/18/2004 04:32:00 PM
Black Hole Seen
Detected, anyway. Whooooaaaaa.....
posted by DRH 2/18/2004 04:02:00 PM
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Fancified Ivy League Book Learnin'
How much does Yale charge per semester? Not that Harvard doesn't have equally high standards. Hee hee.....
posted by DRH 2/17/2004 03:45:00 PM
Soooooon....
I need to buy my ticket for The Passion of the Christ.
posted by DRH 2/17/2004 03:34:00 PM
Another Enlightened Academic
Yet another prof demonstrates his "enlightened" viewpoint by berating a student. But it's all academic freedom 'till they disagree, right?
posted by DRH 2/17/2004 03:31:00 PM
Gnifty Gnome
Fun article about the travelocity gnome. I dunno about the idea that the "poncy Brittish accent" would alienate American viewers... it's been 40 years since Beatlemania and ... what? 30 years since we started importing Monty Python? Not to mention decades and decades of campy Brit characters in American movies and TV shows....
posted by DRH 2/17/2004 02:43:00 PM
Children's News Network...
So I'm randomly watching CNN while I'm in Vegas (for some reason, CNN seems to be the default cable news in all hotels). It stuck me how they seemed to think that they were broadcasting for children. Essentially, they knew the right opinion and would tell you want it was, in extremely stupid terms, so that even you, the viewer, might understand. There was was story on the Korean scientists that cloned a human to harvest cells.
The story was formatted as an interview where the anchor asked the reporter questions, which the reported seemed to be answering in at least a semi-scripted way. Very Mr Rodgers.
The lead was the statement that the Koreans had taken a step that may mean that that Christopher Reeves could walk again. Then, that it could mean that Michael J Fox could be cured. It was all very kind of them to put it in terms of celebrities that we all have seen, while staring slack-jawed at the Screen. It keeps the kids' attention.
Then, the reporter insisted on talking about stem cell-based cures being "not yet ready for market", as opposed to, say possible cures.
Then, the reporter said that the cloning of humans was nothing to worry about, after all they "promised" not to do "reproductive" cloning. She did add that even with this promise, some people still didn't like this. As if the idea that humans shouldn't be grown and harvested for use in commercial products was so alien as to be almost shocking.
Sigh.
posted by DRH 2/17/2004 12:14:00 AM
For the Superstitious....I don't know if it has anything to do with the allegations about him having an affair, but thanks to the anagram server, I now know that "Horny Jerk" is an anagram for "John Kerry".
posted by DRH 2/17/2004 12:11:00 AM
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
What has been happening all that time?
Well, the "new" job didn't really work out, so I left as of Feb 2nd. Most likely, I'll be moving back to California at some point in the next 2-3 months. I'm considering Feb to be pretty much a vacation, though. In fact, I'm heading over to Sahara in Las Vegas tomorrow morning to meet up with my folks for two days, then head back to Burbank for a couple days, the back home to my evil cat. One thing I learned today... if you search google for "Sahara", the second to the top listing in is the hotel in Vegas, the first is the desert. I don't think that really means anything.
posted by DRH 2/10/2004 02:07:00 PM
THREE MONTHS?!?!?!?!!
Wow, I am lazy.
posted by DRH 2/10/2004 11:12:00 AM