Monthly Archives: August 2004

If you are facing multiple hostiles, press 4.

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 07 by Anton

a cartoon against “smart” guns (Bitter Bitch cites Clayton Cramer)

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QotD

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 07 by Anton

Jim Henley on Spider-Man 2: We are fortunate that genuine equality is impossible because it would be the social analog of entropy [ . . . ] ‘heat death’ of the social universe.

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watching the talkies

Posted on Friday, 2004 August 06 by Anton

Technicolor is always fun, and Scaramouche (1952) is a splendid example. Does digital image processing software (such as Photoshop) have filters that try to match the flavor of Technicolor? Later: Technicolor could not save The Crimson Pirate (also 1952). I … Continue reading →

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inochi mijikashi

Posted on Friday, 2004 August 06 by Anton

LanguageHat tells of seeing Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru (1952) for the first time, and provides the words of the song “Life is Short”.

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if it vents like a duct . . .

Posted on Thursday, 2004 August 05 by Anton

The truth about duck tape? (Languagehat)

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Mary Sue classic

Posted on Thursday, 2004 August 05 by Anton

In The Importance of Being Earnest, is Algernon Moncrief meant to resemble Oscar Wilde? In the film of 1952 he does.

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tick tick tick

Posted on Thursday, 2004 August 05 by Anton

Does anyone make a car whose turn-signals expire after (say) a mile? The question raised itself when, not for the first or tenth time, I politely hung back to let a truck into my lane . . . and found that the … Continue reading →

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