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A Scanner Darkly
I got to see A Scanner Darkly on Saturday evening. It's a fun, trippy, and unsettling movie. I quite liked most things about it, and will get to specifics below the cut. You should see it if:
- You like Phillip K. Dick.
- You like Richard Linklater.
- You like stories that make you question identity and reality.
- You like stories with unreliable ( Read more... )
- You like Phillip K. Dick.
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Creepy
The local grocery stores (Giant) have a new movie rental service called Red Box. In reading one of their fliers, I felt a strange sense of deja-vu and creepiness. Here is the offending paragraph. Does it affect you the same way?
Introducing redbox automated DVD rental, the newest and easiest way to rent DVD's. Just $1 a night (you'll need a ( Read more... ) -
Bad Writing
From Yahoo! News
Jim Guigli of Carmichael submitted 64 entries into the contest. The judges were most impressed, or revolted perhaps, by his passage about a comely woman who walks into a detective's office ( Read more... ) -
Tool of Judgement
I got a new CD recently by a band called Tool (CD: Opiate). Metal isn't normally my thing, but this came recommended to me by a friend. The music is not bad - I'm intrigued enough to listen more. The lyrics though, are another matter ( Read more... ) -
Asim.... Where are you?
I died in the Dungeon of Asim
I was killed in a muddy chamber by Adam C Ruiz the fire elemental, whilst carrying...
the Amulet of Electronic, the Crown of Oakenking, the Amulet of Mermaidinblack, a Figurine of Porcelana, the Axe of Acid Jazz, the Armour of Brithistorian, the Amulet of Electronic, the Crown of Weep4moonlight, the Armour of Tanbi, a ( Read more... ) -
Albert Wynn gets the Colbert treatment
My representative in Congress recently sat down for an interview with Stephen Colbert. It included this highlight:
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Coupla Things
1. About Al-Zarqawi (or however you spell it). I think it's good that we got him. I have a minor quibble about the phrase "justice has been done," however. I prefer to think that we found and took out a major leader of the enemy - one who is was unquestionably violent and evil. It's a part of war, though, not part of a judicial system. Doing ( Read more... ) -
Thorax's Meditations
9 Chickweed Lane is an odd comic that I've come to like. Today's is very good - it's about the nature of the soul, what it brings to a person, and it will probably make you laugh too.
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Non-Crazy Conservatives
Sometimes in the mornings I listen to Chris Core on WMAL. He does a conservative radio call in show here in DC. When I do listen, it's usually to get a different point of view than I'd get talking to most of my friends, etc. I haven't dismissed him totally because even when people disagree with him he's polite and doesn't attack them personally ( Read more... )
