"Dude has a rather, let's say, Eastern approach to bowling," he said in an interview. "Walter is strictly Manifest Destiny."
John Goodman, quoted in this "stretch" claiming that Walter is played as an impersonation of John Milius so that you won't notice he's actually Paul Wolfowitz/Doug Feith/Bill Kristol.

Tried to use the translator function on a mobile phone the other day. It recognised "heart" and "potato", but not "horse" or "cheese". I know these devices have limited storage space, and I suppose some words are better than none, but really - no cheese?! If I could be arsed I'd try thousands of words to try to build up a picture of the world Nokia ( Read more... )

Talking (kind of) of Scots, Jews and mancrushes, I want to be him:
It wasn't that I wanted to go off with say, mountain gorillas, I wanted to be one. Primates grabbed me in a way that still makes me ache when I see them... You could be a yeshiva boy and a mountain gorilla at the same time.
(Although, not long afterward, he changed his mind about the ( Read more... )

Bestselling author Michael Crichton has died after a long battle with cancer, his family said yesterday. The acclaimed writer passed away on Tuesday [Nov 4], aged 66 ( Read more... )

Victory is his - Barack H. Obama, born August 4, 1961, ergo conceived at the start of November 1960, i.e. in the blissful dawn of JFK's election purchase victory. Wonder how many Barack babies will have begun to bud in the wombs of America before the last vote was counted ( Read more... )

Tom Stoppard quotes ( Read more... )

Ten books I own but you probably haven't encountered, via alfaguru. I wish I was as interesting as these books. Maybe if I'd read more than 10-15% of the sum of them, I would be.
The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend The Atom, by Heinz Haber. (Rathbone Books, 1956) This book is everything it sounds.
Build Your Own Minimum-Cost Solar Heating System, by ( Read more... )

Only just discovered that Ken Campbell has died. Bums.

5.64 Here we see that solipsism strictly carried out coincides with pure realism. The I in solipsism shrinks to an extensionless point and there remains the reality co-ordinated with it.

So, I heard Allan Massie on the radio a while back saying that Hemingway had contended that no matter how much you strike out from a piece of writing, the missing words will make their presence felt in what remains. (I can't actually find the exact quotation on the web; the closest I can get is, "The test of a book is how much good stuff you can ( Read more... )