Category Archives: arts

cinema 1965

Posted on Monday, 2006 January 09 by Anton

侍 Samurai aka Samurai Assassin (dir. 岡本 喜八). Talk, talk, talk, talk, bloodbath, End. How To Murder Your Wife (dir. Richard Quine). Phooey. For comedy we make some allowance for a contrived story and an immoral resolution, but this one … Continue reading →

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my tastes are not always unshared

Posted on Sunday, 2006 January 01 by Anton

For Dad‘s birthday I sent him the first season of Northern Exposure and of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I am gratified to hear that both he and Mrs Dad are enjoying them; Ruth particularly raves about NX.

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runes, mountains, scary monsters …

Posted on Saturday, 2005 December 17 by Anton

Roderick Long points out parallels between A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and The Hobbit.

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that’s one big ad

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 December 13 by Anton

words fail me. (cited here almost five months ago)

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this website supports integration

Posted on Thursday, 2005 December 01 by Anton

The Answer Desimplified, on a t-shirt. Ligatures for our times Many translations of a conceivably useful phrase (possibly inspired by a similar project) (all cited by the muted horn) when grammarians go bad

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wacky microgravity tricks

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 November 30 by Anton

Does this really work?

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flies on fire

Posted on Sunday, 2005 November 27 by Anton

It’s a fair bet that my readers include at least one Mutant Enemy fanatic. Got a couple of canon questions for ya. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, anyone seen smoking is either evil, under a spell or doomed. (There’s one … Continue reading →

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