Category Archives: arts

dentists in Beleriand?

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

“Jane Galt” (Megan McArdle) remarks in passing that “our bodies aren’t really up to the strain of physical labor for our new, improved lifespans.” Which reminds me of a puzzler: In all those stories where a drug/virus confers immortality, what … Continue reading →

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toon history

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Am I the only one who remembers a cartoon carnivore saying “And then it’s lunchtime!” as he plotted to catch the innocent rodent or boid? Does anyone remember him less hazily than I do?

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does whatever a spider can

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

I haven’t read Spider-Man much in the last twenty years, so I forgive myself for needing to have it pointed out to me (in a review whose link I have lost) that the nonentity recently played by Ms Dunst is … Continue reading →

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zero tolerance

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

Darth Vader’s War on Terror.

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we want our two hours back

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 16 by Anton

Accompanied my One True Ex today to see The Triumph of Love. Normally she loves pretty movies with no plot, e.g. Gosford Park, but Triumph has just enough plot to make the crap script stand out.

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I knew him when he posted to alt.peeves

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 15 by Anton

Recent reading: Toast and other rusted futures, short stories by Charlie Stross, most of which can be described as humorous dys-extropian. 2006: This item formerly linked to Charlie’s story “Lobsters”, which is part of Accelerando.

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de gustibus

Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 11 by Anton

Can anyone explain why Julia Roberts is called a beauty?

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