the Edwards South Coast Village 3 movie theater has one of my very favorite movies playing again on the big screen:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

go see james earl jones as a young man, back in 1962! and for those of you outside of orange county, look in your local theaters: hopefully it's there, too.

george stephanopoulos had an interview with george bush today. in the interview, shrub claimed that "we've never been stay the course", and stephanopoulos just went on ahead like it was business as usual ( Read more... )

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2393815,00.html

a clear indication that we were doing something wrong....

the amusing thing here is that i don't even like guinness that much. anymore.

being in deutschland does that to a bier trinker.

You Are Guinness
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actually, the mood is entirely wrong. i'm disgusted. but LJ doesn't do disgusted. i want to hurl my guts out. on a map.

islam is a religion of peace, eh? ok, let me run this up again.

recently, a performance of a mozart opera, Idomeneo, was cancelled in germany because in the opera muhammad gets his head chopped off and there is concern that ( Read more... )

never burn bridges behind you: merely raise them up so that other traffic can get by.

no. it's not. let me explain:

the pope did make a comment, in the form of a quote, which was insensitive. the quote, for any who haven't seen it is this: Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.it pissed the muslim ( Read more... )

my uncle died yesterday. he was flying his beloved Hawker Hunter, the Blue Max II, after the airshow in Hillsboro, Oregon. he appears to have suffered a mechanical failure. and jet fighters have glide ratios about like rocks.

but he managed to bring it down without injuring anyone else on the ground. so that's good.

we'll miss him.