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Avatar: I did not like it. Also stuff about fantasy and effects in movies.
What have I been up to lately, you ask? Well, I hated Avatar a lot! I have some thoughts to add to the various posts I've seen - many of them saying some of the things I'd want to say, but there's more. I want to talk about this movie as the alleged "next step" in big-budget fantasy filmmaking, and its relationship with other films in that ( Read more... ) -
Criminal Justice, rape, child abuse, and celebrities
I've gotten into a bit of a conversation about Roman Polanski on Twitter, and I'm realizing that this is one of those few topics that can't really be covered in 140 characters. Hey, I'm no Twitter h8er; I think it's pretty amazing what you can do with 140 characters - or 100 + tinyURL. But this discussion, it seems to me, is suffering from a ( Read more... ) -
Going through my gmail drafts...
where I often park odd bits of things, thoughts, notes ( Read more... ) -
Sarah Palin Is a Mary Sue (meta meta meta)
A couple of weeks ago, on Twitter, I called Sarah Palin "the Plebefic queen of US politics," citing this line (copied character for character) from the transcript of her farewell address to the Alaska governor's office:
*((Gotta put First Things First))*But thinking about it again yesterday, I realized that Sarah Palin isn't the plebefic writer ( Read more... ) -
Exile's Letter, by Ezra Pound & Li Po
For a_hollow_year, who has been conducting some research in the area of green eyeliner ( Read more... ) -
Driveby note on Summer Racism Spectacular, (aka Movies
Rundown of astonishing number and variety of racist stereotypes in Transformers 2. My favorite Little Wonk Boy Blogger Ezra Klein, who has also seen it, writes:
wow, is it racist. Much of the movie's comic relief comes from a pair of Autobot twins named Mudflap and Skids. They look like monkeys. One has a gold tooth and satellite ears. The dialect ( Read more... ) -
Rats totally do memes. They're meme people. Me me me.
I basically never do memes, at least not of this type. (BTW, remember when everyone posted quiz results all the time? I haven't seen one of those on eljay/DW/etc in ages. I guess everyone just does them on Facebook now.) But something impelled me to ask
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Unnerved in the extreme
At 6:00 I was on YouTube, looking for a clip of Michael Jackson singing "You Can't Win" from The WIZ. I wanted to post it to Facebook, because I am going to see The WIZ at City Center tonight, and everyone needs to know that, and I love that song ( Read more... )
