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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Watching the trailer for the Clash of the Titans re-make, it occurs to me that today's ten-year old boys are far luckier than once upon a time. I had Harry Hamlin and a robot owl, and I thought it was the best movie evah.
Labels: movies
10:46 bone daddy
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.com
Whether, as the Pythons asserted, he was a boozy beggar or not, the question seems to be: could a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi really think anyone under the table.
On a tangentially related note, this reminded me of a dude I was in line behind in a coffee house in Cary a while back who, chatting up the barista, declared with hep solemnitude that he was getting his Masters in ... get this ... Theology. While the young lady professed admiration, it was all I could do to suppress guffaws. I mean, I could see if this were Europe in the Dark Ages, but in the 21st century they're still giving out advanced degrees in Santa Claus Logic and Easter Bunny Studies? It boggles the mind.
Labels: atheism, philosophy
23:39 c-dog
Sunday, November 08, 2009
David Tennant to Star in American TV Pilot | Gallifreyan Embassy: It's got a horrible name (Rex Is Not Your Lawyer) but a mildly interesting premise -- in that I'm not sure I'd be interested if Tennant weren't involved but, since he is, it's one that has lots of potential.
Labels: doctor who, TV
00:38 c-dog
Saturday, November 07, 2009
in which a fairly major secret is made secret no more - WWdN: In Exile
Labels: movies, sci-fi
00:56 c-dog
#1235200: "Today, I stuck a hand into my coat pocket and found five dollars. Wrapped inside of the five dollars, there was a note. 'You have just been reverse pickpocketed. Enjoy this five dollars in knowing that it was forcibly received by your pocket; take that, society.' I then proceeded to stick both the money and note into another victim's pocket.
"
Labels: interweb
00:55 c-dog
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Random Book, Random Passage #11
Doctor Who and the Daemons, Barry Letts. I went on a tear in 1983 and 1984 reading all the Target Doctor Who novelisations and still have an entire shelf to prove it.
'Yes, sir,' replied the Sergeant, obviously not believing a word of it, and moved away to sort out the junction boxes ready for the link-up to the electricity supply. The Brigadier moved as a close to the Doctor the heat barrier would let him.
'Do you know what you're doing?' he asked quietly.
The Doctor smiled charmingly. 'My dear chap,' he said, 'I can't wait to find out!'
Great old Pertwee-era Who with the Master no less.
Labels: Books, doctor who
20:11 c-dog
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Random Book, Random Passage #10
Not sure how to handle this one? Comic books and graphic novels will prove tricky, me without my scanner set up. Here's a fuzzy photo and all caps quoting from Los Bros Hernandez's House of Raging Women (Vol. 5 of the Complete Love and Rockets).
"BUT TO MY SURPRISE, SHARPE IS A REAL GENTLEMAN! AS HE'S ABOUT TO WIPE HIS SOPPING BROW HE NOTICES ME IN THE AISLE SEAT AND STOPS HIMSELF IN MID-MOTION AS NOT TO DRIP SWEAT IN MY BEER. MY FAITH IN HUMANITY IS RESTORED ... FOR THE MOMENT."
Not positive but I think these Fantagraphics editions of Love and Rockets were my first foray into comic book anthologies/graphic novels. I had beat old paperback collections of newspaper comics (Peanuts, B.C., Andy Capp) that were passed down to me, but I was never a comic book guy. I am more today in my late 30s than I ever was as a kid, oddly enough, and that's still not very much.
Labels: Books, comics
19:36 c-dog
Labels: 2009, politics
18:14 c-dog
Saturday, October 31, 2009
BBC Confirm Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss Sherlock Holmes Drama | Bleeding Cool Comic News & Rumors: Whoa, how did I miss this?
Labels: TV
09:31 c-dog
Friday, October 30, 2009
Labels: science, youtube goodness
23:27 c-dog
The Game is Afoot
First Holmes viral marketing message arrived by telegraphic despatch this afternoon:
London seethes with crime -- STOP -- find your partner upon whom you will rely -- STOP -- evidence secured for your advance assessment -- STOP -- the game is afoot -- STOP -- make all haste to 221B now STOP CLICK HERE
I know not everybody's thrilled about this project but I'm so eager for it I dvr'd the Hammer films Hound of the Baskervilles to watch some sleepless night.
Labels: movies
13:53 c-dog
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Random Book, Random Passage #9
Old School Pulp Sci-Fi time. Check out the cover on Andre Norton's Witch World, wouldja?
(Mine is actually the 1963 Ace first edition that retailed for 40¢) I'm actually a little worried that opening it again may crack the spine but here's a bit from page 58:
"When a potter creates a vase he lays clay upon the wheel and molds it with the skill of his hands to match the plan which is in his brain. Clay is a product of the earth, but that which changes its shape is the product of intelligence and training. It is in my mind that someone - or something - has gathered up that which is a part of the sea, of the air, and has molded it into another shape to serve a purpose."
I never read any of the other books in the Witch World series, Norton's style is a bit stilted for my taste. But I dig that Blue Falcon with a Hair Dryer cover. I don't know much about Norton but a quick look up in
The Anatomy of Wonder
informs me she was a childrens librarian, so I like her for that.
Labels: Books, sci-fi
22:14 c-dog
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
What I've learned from debating religious people around the world. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Labels: atheism
20:21 c-dog
The House Next Door: Fighting a Legend: Muhammad and Larry:
As heartbreaking as it is to see Ali now, crippled by Parkinson’s syndrome, this is almost worse. In 1980, Ali was 38 and hadn’t fought in two years. Just two months before the fight, he was overweight—ultimately slimming down by misusing thyroid medication as diet pills. Beyond all of that, it’s obvious now, if somehow it wasn’t then, that a career of taking blows to the head had taken a toll on Ali’s speech and motor skills. The beloved “Greatest of All Time,” whose most celebrated fights were the ones in which none of the experts gave him a chance, was brain damaged and about to step into the ring with Holmes, who at 29 wasn’t a dope who could be roped into a mistake—not that Ali was in any condition to capitalize on a mistake if Holmes made one.
Labels: sports
20:12 c-dog
Star Trek - Internet Trailer | SPIKE: Not awesome cut footage of Klingons from the DVD of J.J. Abrams's Star Trek.
Labels: sci-fi
20:06 c-dog
Do chimps grieve?:
"
Look at this photograph and just try to tell me the answer is no.
This incredible image was shot for National Geographic by Monica Szczupider, and shows chimpanzees at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon. They're observing as the body of an elder troop member named Dorothy is taken to burial. She died at 40 years of age, which is pretty old for a chimpanzee.
The photo appears in the November issue of National Geographic Magazine, in the 'Visions of Earth' section. [ Thanks, Marilyn Terrell ]"
Labels: chimps
19:12 c-dog
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Watching the trailer for the Clash of the Titans re-make, it occurs to me that today's ten-year old boys are far luckier than once upon a time. I had Harry Hamlin and a robot owl, and I thought it was the best movie evah.
Labels: movies
10:46 bone daddy
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Emmanuel Faye’s Book Questions Status of Heidegger - NYTimes.com
Whether, as the Pythons asserted, he was a boozy beggar or not, the question seems to be: could a dyed-in-the-wool Nazi really think anyone under the table.
On a tangentially related note, this reminded me of a dude I was in line behind in a coffee house in Cary a while back who, chatting up the barista, declared with hep solemnitude that he was getting his Masters in ... get this ... Theology. While the young lady professed admiration, it was all I could do to suppress guffaws. I mean, I could see if this were Europe in the Dark Ages, but in the 21st century they're still giving out advanced degrees in Santa Claus Logic and Easter Bunny Studies? It boggles the mind.
Labels: atheism, philosophy
23:39 c-dog
Sunday, November 08, 2009
David Tennant to Star in American TV Pilot | Gallifreyan Embassy: It's got a horrible name (Rex Is Not Your Lawyer) but a mildly interesting premise -- in that I'm not sure I'd be interested if Tennant weren't involved but, since he is, it's one that has lots of potential.
Labels: doctor who, TV
00:38 c-dog
Saturday, November 07, 2009
in which a fairly major secret is made secret no more - WWdN: In Exile
Labels: movies, sci-fi
00:56 c-dog
#1235200: "Today, I stuck a hand into my coat pocket and found five dollars. Wrapped inside of the five dollars, there was a note. 'You have just been reverse pickpocketed. Enjoy this five dollars in knowing that it was forcibly received by your pocket; take that, society.' I then proceeded to stick both the money and note into another victim's pocket.
"
Labels: interweb
00:55 c-dog
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Random Book, Random Passage #11
Doctor Who and the Daemons, Barry Letts. I went on a tear in 1983 and 1984 reading all the Target Doctor Who novelisations and still have an entire shelf to prove it.
'Yes, sir,' replied the Sergeant, obviously not believing a word of it, and moved away to sort out the junction boxes ready for the link-up to the electricity supply. The Brigadier moved as a close to the Doctor the heat barrier would let him.
'Do you know what you're doing?' he asked quietly.
The Doctor smiled charmingly. 'My dear chap,' he said, 'I can't wait to find out!'
Great old Pertwee-era Who with the Master no less.
Labels: Books, doctor who
20:11 c-dog
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Random Book, Random Passage #10
Not sure how to handle this one? Comic books and graphic novels will prove tricky, me without my scanner set up. Here's a fuzzy photo and all caps quoting from Los Bros Hernandez's House of Raging Women (Vol. 5 of the Complete Love and Rockets).
"BUT TO MY SURPRISE, SHARPE IS A REAL GENTLEMAN! AS HE'S ABOUT TO WIPE HIS SOPPING BROW HE NOTICES ME IN THE AISLE SEAT AND STOPS HIMSELF IN MID-MOTION AS NOT TO DRIP SWEAT IN MY BEER. MY FAITH IN HUMANITY IS RESTORED ... FOR THE MOMENT."
Not positive but I think these Fantagraphics editions of Love and Rockets were my first foray into comic book anthologies/graphic novels. I had beat old paperback collections of newspaper comics (Peanuts, B.C., Andy Capp) that were passed down to me, but I was never a comic book guy. I am more today in my late 30s than I ever was as a kid, oddly enough, and that's still not very much.
Labels: Books, comics
19:36 c-dog
Labels: 2009, politics
18:14 c-dog
Saturday, October 31, 2009
BBC Confirm Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss Sherlock Holmes Drama | Bleeding Cool Comic News & Rumors: Whoa, how did I miss this?
Labels: TV
09:31 c-dog
Friday, October 30, 2009
Labels: science, youtube goodness
23:27 c-dog
The Game is Afoot
First Holmes viral marketing message arrived by telegraphic despatch this afternoon:
London seethes with crime -- STOP -- find your partner upon whom you will rely -- STOP -- evidence secured for your advance assessment -- STOP -- the game is afoot -- STOP -- make all haste to 221B now STOP CLICK HERE
I know not everybody's thrilled about this project but I'm so eager for it I dvr'd the Hammer films Hound of the Baskervilles to watch some sleepless night.
Labels: movies
13:53 c-dog
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Random Book, Random Passage #9
Old School Pulp Sci-Fi time. Check out the cover on Andre Norton's Witch World, wouldja?
(Mine is actually the 1963 Ace first edition that retailed for 40¢) I'm actually a little worried that opening it again may crack the spine but here's a bit from page 58:
"When a potter creates a vase he lays clay upon the wheel and molds it with the skill of his hands to match the plan which is in his brain. Clay is a product of the earth, but that which changes its shape is the product of intelligence and training. It is in my mind that someone - or something - has gathered up that which is a part of the sea, of the air, and has molded it into another shape to serve a purpose."
I never read any of the other books in the Witch World series, Norton's style is a bit stilted for my taste. But I dig that Blue Falcon with a Hair Dryer cover. I don't know much about Norton but a quick look up in
The Anatomy of Wonder
informs me she was a childrens librarian, so I like her for that.
Labels: Books, sci-fi
22:14 c-dog
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
What I've learned from debating religious people around the world. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Labels: atheism
20:21 c-dog
The House Next Door: Fighting a Legend: Muhammad and Larry:
As heartbreaking as it is to see Ali now, crippled by Parkinson’s syndrome, this is almost worse. In 1980, Ali was 38 and hadn’t fought in two years. Just two months before the fight, he was overweight—ultimately slimming down by misusing thyroid medication as diet pills. Beyond all of that, it’s obvious now, if somehow it wasn’t then, that a career of taking blows to the head had taken a toll on Ali’s speech and motor skills. The beloved “Greatest of All Time,” whose most celebrated fights were the ones in which none of the experts gave him a chance, was brain damaged and about to step into the ring with Holmes, who at 29 wasn’t a dope who could be roped into a mistake—not that Ali was in any condition to capitalize on a mistake if Holmes made one.
Labels: sports
20:12 c-dog
Star Trek - Internet Trailer | SPIKE: Not awesome cut footage of Klingons from the DVD of J.J. Abrams's Star Trek.
Labels: sci-fi
20:06 c-dog
Do chimps grieve?:
"
Look at this photograph and just try to tell me the answer is no.
This incredible image was shot for National Geographic by Monica Szczupider, and shows chimpanzees at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon. They're observing as the body of an elder troop member named Dorothy is taken to burial. She died at 40 years of age, which is pretty old for a chimpanzee.
The photo appears in the November issue of National Geographic Magazine, in the 'Visions of Earth' section. [ Thanks, Marilyn Terrell ]"
Labels: chimps
19:12 c-dog
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