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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Macbeth
The excellent Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman will be in a new screen adaption of Macbeth. In the past few years, I’ve been exploring Shakespeare’s oevre, and starting to study it more closely. To date, in film or on stage, … Continue reading
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Art as a Sense of Place
Sailer has a piece on the futuristic architecture of John Lautner, whose work captured the “the shiny, optimistic, future-infatuated Southern California that peaked in the early 1960s.” As with Tiki culture, I absolutely love the imagined future represented by 1960s-era, … Continue reading
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Flag Wavers
Well, it looks like the Cleveland Kidnapping involved not one, but three charming fellas from the wonderful island of Puerto Rico: From a NYT story on the case is the following picture of the house where the three women were … Continue reading
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Ender’s Game
There’s a trailer for “Ender’s Game“, the big screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s classic sci-fi novel. Asa Butterfield (the kid from “Hugo”, who I think is a good actor) plays Ender. The film also stars Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, … Continue reading
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Jeff Hanneman (1964-2013)
Jeff Hanneman, key songwriter and guitarist of Slayer, has died at the age of 49. While both Hanneman and 2nd guitarist Kerry King wrote songs for the band, Hanneman’s music was the better of the two (e.g., “Angel of Death”, … Continue reading
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Slate: The Fence Junkies
Slate has a smarmy article about “The Fence Junkies“, a profile of the eminently defensible Glenn Spencer and American Border Patrol, and the important work he is doing. The article features Slate’s standard-issue, WTF prose (“Seventy-five years old, with the … Continue reading
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Suicide Rise: White Males
Here’s a story worthy of further media inquiry (“What are the causes? Why are middle aged white males doing this?”), but unlikely to get any. Why? Because the alarming increase in suicides is being committed by white males… and f*ck … Continue reading
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800 Christians, Victims of Islam, to Become Saints
Not much press on this poignant act the new Pope will be involved with next week: The cathedral of Otranto in southern Italy is decorated with the skulls of 800 Christian townsfolk beheaded by Ottoman soldiers in 1480. A week … Continue reading
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UK Govt: Race War Fear After Islamic Terrorists Target EDL
The English Defence League (EDL) is the British equivalent of Geert Wilders’ Party For Freedom. This is in addition to the presence of in England of the BNP. (We are still awaiting a U.S. version of this political parties. It … Continue reading
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New Guinea: ‘Sorcerers’ Beheaded After three 3 Days of Torture
These stories always drip out of the ‘darkness’, and each time they repulse me to core of my being. And yet we continue to explain the backwardness and barbarism of these people as a function of ‘colonialism’ (the international version … Continue reading
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