October 2009
21 posts
Nothing happened in West Tennessee today. →
105 Movies a Year
Amounts to about 7½ a month, or 2-ish a week. Pretty much every movie I’ve seen starting in September of last year, in approximate order. Movies I’d seen before September of 2008 are included, but movies watched more than once since then are not repeated.. Particularly good ones marked with a ‘+’, particularly bad ones with ‘-’ and Benjamin Button’s with a...
Library of Strange Folktales, No. 005
marsiouxpial:
“According to Mosuo legend, in ancient times mankind and animals living in the area never died. As time passed, the number of men and animals became so great that there wasn’t enough space for them. As a result, a god decided that there should be an age limit for everyone and everything. He then told all of mankind and the animals to listen to his judgment, which would determine...
Official Verdict: 'The Plan' sucks, or, How I...
Yep, I said it. I called part of the BSG cannon ‘suck.’ It’s worse than ‘Hero,’ worse than ‘Black Market.’ It’s a piece of junk, and I’m going to pretend I didn’t watch the half of it that I did (again, like ‘Hero’).
I can only speculate as to the motivations that the BSG production staff had for making the final...
They're thoroughly derivative. Their handling is... →
Ha!
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Frieze Art Fair: Press passes are pretty cool. →
My photos on BOMBLog.
Formulas divined by re-watching all of Battlestar...
x = 1/y, where x = Military Success (in terms of Propensity) and y = Humanitarian Ethics (in terms of Consideration)
for Helena Cain x > y,
for Laura Roslin x < y,
for Bill Adama x ≤ y
We can also add a divisor of z (equal to Ego in terms of Survival Instinct or Missing Legs), in which case we can derive as follows:
if x/z = 1/y, and t = time, then
for Felix Gaeta...
Library of Standards and Practices, No. 012:... →
Niche, I know, but I was impressed.
"Everything I needed to know about the appeal of... →
The sprinklers came on during the national... →
"I'm proud to be American, but I don't have time... →
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Library of Standards and Practices, No. 011:... →
From the Special Operations Division of the Metro Nashville PD.
Why the fuck
did I even bother with art school. He’s selling prints (not even the real thing!) for $2500 a pop. [via Wonkette]
In case you've ever wondered what life in... →
ch-sch:
this should sum it up more or less in its entirety.