The new Alice in Wonderland: shiny but boring. I was surprised at how little I cared about what happened to any of the characters. Super shallow with some delightful window dressing.
Favorite part: How the White Queen moved, so conscious of grace as to be almost funny but also just fun to watch.

The Last Station: This is a German film with British ( Read more... )

I was doing pretty well in Ulysses, maybe a third of the way through, enjoying myself, going at a leisurely pace--when I lost the book. (In my own apartment. The shame!)

In the meantime, I collected all these distracting other books. Downtown Owl. Anathem. Inherent Vice. The Fan Man. Pride and Prejudice (w/o zombies ( Read more... )

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from __loveisrevenge• Post ten of any pictures currently on your hard drive that you think are self-expressive ( Read more... )

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In chatting with psylion, we came up with a few points about the current fluster over Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Maybe you read about the recent firing (just one of many since the policy first went into effect) of Arabic linguists in the US armed forces due to their breaking that rule and discussing their faggotry. It reminds me of the debate about including ( Read more... )

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I am a great believer in free speech. I would let people say all kinds of things about each other. I would let them show pictures of each other doing various things, as long as we are talking about adults. If I could ban speech I would do a couple of things: First of all, I would make it illegal to use metaphors in public policy debates…that’s a ( Read more... )