Category Archives: arts

what won’t be in RotK

Posted on Thursday, 2003 November 27 by Anton

The cutting-room floor: Houses of Healing: . . . . It’ll be on the DVD. Saruman: Jackson filmed [Saruman’s death] – and then cut it because it felt like old business, which slowed the new movie. A shame. Again, that’s what DVDs are … Continue reading →

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Agent Ridge

Posted on Thursday, 2003 November 27 by Anton

What if The Matrix was guarded by Homeland Security? (Linked by Paul Hsieh, whom I don’t read nearly often enough.)

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actuarial destiny

Posted on Thursday, 2003 November 27 by Anton

I read long ago (probably more than once) a short story that goes like this. A man of a certain age (let’s call him Bob) mysteriously receives, unwanted, a subscription to Hereafter magazine – all about death: funerals, estate planning, … Continue reading →

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the mystery caliber

Posted on Sunday, 2003 November 23 by Anton

Saturday at a gun shop, my eye was caught by the archaic stocks of a couple of Ruger “Vaquero” revolvers (modern versions of obsolete guns, made for rodeo sports). Looking closer, I saw that their calibers were .45 and .32. … Continue reading →

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a fleeting allusion

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 22 by Anton

Northcote Parkinson wrote (“Parkinson’s Second Law”): In 1957 Mr John Applebey remarked that those responsible for the [British] public accounts seem to confuse themselves as well as everyone else. Presumably the creators of Yes Minister, and thus of Sir Humphrey … Continue reading →

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equality

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 22 by Anton

Swen quotes Phil Ochs’s “Love me, I’m a Liberal”, which reminds me of this from The National Lampoon’s White Album Gold Turkey: National Lampoon Radio Hour/Greatest Hits: I wish I was a Negro, with lots of Negro soul, so I … Continue reading →

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the art of Onfim

Posted on Saturday, 2003 November 15 by Anton

medieval Novgorod through the eyes of a child Children’s drawings in the Middle Ages?! Even if such things were created in period, how could they have survived to the present day? After all, finger paints, magic markers, and crayons were … Continue reading →

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