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On the train yesterday, I sat behind an American and three Austrians, all in their twenties. They had quite an interesting discussion of what the word "mushy" means. And then one of the Austrians said that when she got in the plan in Vienna, the moon was one phase, but it was a different phase when they landed here, because Vienna and New York were ( Read more... ) -
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I had a dream that the role of Han Solo in Star Wars was played by Jeff Goldblum.
That would have been a very different movie. Veeeeery different. But I kind of want to see it.
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I saw a poster that Bones and Sleepy Hollow are doing a crossover episode. Um...what? It's been many years since I stopped watching Bones, but I'm pretty sure it's a straight procedural. And Sleepy Hollow has witches and demons and magic time travel and the apocalypse. So...how exactly is mushing these two worlds together a good idea?
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I just finished rereading Machiavelli's "The Prince," the copy I'd studied from in college. In the whole book, this is the only thing I underlined:
It is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to bear her and strike her down.
Yeah. That about says it, doesn't it?
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Internet, you have failed me. Why did no one tell me about Locke? It's a Tom Hardy film from 2013. It is literally him in a car on the phone for an hour and a half. That is the entire movie. Just looking at his pretty face acting. I thought for sure I'd have heard of this from someone, but no. Stumbled across it. I'm amazed it hasn't gotten more ( Read more... ) -
Daredevil and Catholicism
I finally watched Daredevil. I find it interesting that the producers said they wanted to do a gritty, darker show, but without "gratuitous violence," cause, um, holy shit? Does the existence of Game of Thrones suddenly mean that everything that is less violent than Game of Thrones is suddenly not gratuitous? I really liked episode 10, but other ( Read more... ) -
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I have been watching through Royal Pains on Netflix while my other shows are on hiatus. This is basically cotton candy television. The show is mostly about showing amazing houses and bright, beautiful summer weather, where it has only rained once, and that was for the plot. It's also a medical show where everything that everyone is diagnosed with ( Read more... )