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"Amour" -- SPOILERS. SEE MOVIE BEFORE READING.
This is one hell of a movie -- and anyone who's had to deal with death and final things, or for that matter severe loss followed by some degree of recovery, will find reality in it. My own experience is ongoing and I won't discuss it here. I just want to point out the notes of truth that rang quietly true for me in this film, a great film in the ( Read more... ) -
credit where it's due
Did the moms do it? On tv last night (horrifying film, rather circular discussion) about brain damage and football: one ex-player spoke up for the NFL, on the one hand agreeing that it's going to be very tough to "tame" a game prized for its violence to some point of "acceptable damage" to players, and on the other pointing out that the NFL has ( Read more... ) -
News, and a sign-off
I've more or less abandoned this blog, as some readers have reminded me, and thought a word of explanation would be better than just a blank ( Read more... ) -
Madagascar 4?
Just read a very positive review of the latest "Madagascar" animated film, and then stumbled upon this, at my favorite browse-field, BBC new ( Read more... ) -
business as usual
News, unfortunately, from the Land of Milk, Honey, and Remorseless, Ongoing Oppression ( Read more... ) -
weather that's weird in a good way
Damnedest thing -- we've actually had a Spring here in central N.M., which used to sport a reasonably chilly February - April and then get blown all to Hell by hot West winds during May. It would be Arizona dust and flying debris until the wind left, and the heat set in for the summer ( Read more... ) -
Sanity
Don't despair -- just because the US is caught in a time-warp of religious and economic reactionary back-pedaling, that doesn't mean that everybody else is as (apparently) stupid and delusional as so many Americans keep demonstrating (via votes and the popularity of Fox Lies) that they are. There do seem to be some grown-up around, and they are ( Read more... ) -
Read the future?
Found it -- probably long after many others, but so what? Look in particular at the item, well down the page, on "The Jobless Economy", which we are spiraling into while lying wildly to each other and ourselves about what's happening ( Read more... ) -
the latest
More on this ongoing Israeli atrocity of bullying, outright theft, and deliberate destruction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16656978
Wonder if this story will make it to US news outlets? Any bets?
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Yog-Sothoth seeks sympathetic companion . . .
Too delightful for words -- really, we have some comic geniuses among us, and they don't live in Hollywood and make stupid movies about lunkheads getting married/divorced/and/or drunk ( Read more... )