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Monday, 2003 June 2, 12:50 — cinema, futures

demilitarize fictional space!

Don’t you wish that just once there could be a tv series where the chief executive of a space station is called Mayor or Abbess or even Baron rather than Commander?

Monday, 2003 May 26, 11:42 — cinema, humanities

assuming, of course, that he really exists

A correspondent asks:

Incidentally, why does Schwarzenegger do so many epist[e]mological films? We’ve got the 6th Day, Last Action Hero, Total Recall, The Running Man . . .

(and one I haven’t seen)

. . . . Kindergarten Cop.

Monday, 2003 May 12, 15:10 — cinema, fandom, language

jIyajbe’

from CNN: Hospital seeks Klingon speaker

“There are some cases where we’ve had mental health patients where this was all they would speak,” said the county’s purchasing administrator, Franna Hathaway.

County officials said that obligates them to respond with a Klingon-English interpreter, putting the language of starship Enterprise officer Worf and other Klingon characters on a par with common languages such as Russian and Vietnamese, and less common tongues including Dari and Tongan.

Update: Or not.

Saturday, 2003 May 10, 18:29 — cinema, fandom, neep-neep

catch-phrase of the day

Google gives 2910 results for “wretched hive of scum and villainy”.

2004 Oct 24: now “about 6,070”; a disturbing trend.

2006 May 10: now “about 76,100”

Saturday, 2003 April 12, 19:08 — cinema, politics, weapons

propaganda for dummies

David Hardy catalogs deceptions in Bowling for Columbine. (Link from Bruce Baugh)

Thursday, 2003 February 20, 12:50 — cinema

“Your Name Here”

The ultimate generic industrial film, built around every script and visual cliché. I’ve just begun scratching the surface of the Prelinger Archive of ephemeral movies. (Link from two–four, who really doesn’t need to use such large type)

Monday, 2003 February 17, 12:22 — cinema

I hear Charlie Brown’s kite-eating tree is available

Yet Another Film Parody.

ARAGORN: You know what would have been really cool, though . . .
EOWYN: What?
ARAGORN: An army of flesh-eating trees to destroy the Orcs who are running away.
AUDIENCE: Yeah, that would have been cool.

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