Current Music: Stunned silence

I've just read an April New Yorker article by Collapse's Jared Diamond. (Coincidentally, I'd heard part of a radio interview with Diamond about this very article a month ago, in Perth, without getting the gist of it.) It's about vengeance, and is mostly concerned with describing the absurd and horrifying cycle of tit ( Read more... )

Current Music: Melbourne night sounds

Surprisingly cringe-sparse, occasionally witty, competently rendered (other than the Happy Meal lion toy) and adequately acted. All in all, a significant improvement on the first one. My big concern now though is whether I'll be able to tolerate an entire movie of Stuart Little's d'Artagnan impression.

Current Music: Whiteslug -- Fucklove
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Current Music: Aquila -- Sea and Sky

You'd never know it from the mainstream press, but Saturday our time saw the signing of the Constitutive Treaty of the Union of South American Nations, a trade bloc modeled on the EU which unites all of South America-except for the funny little colonial bits around the edges-and includes Mexico as an observer ( Read more... )

Current Music: Bob Dylan -- Talkin' New York
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Current Music: Underworld -- Best Mamgu Ever
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Current Music: Underworld -- Beautiful Burnout
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Current Music: City sounds

Cool. Not cool.

Current Music: Assemblage 23 -- Binary
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Current Music: Delerium -- Gateway

Simon Pegg as Scotty. Yeah, I can see that.

(An actor named Christopher Pine playing the captain of the Enterprise seems oddly appropriate too.)