Monthly Archives: January 2006

cinema 1965

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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turning thirty

If anyone has a right to tell blond jokes, I have.

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our schools win too!

Sometime in 2005 I received referral spam from: http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/casino-gambling.html http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/casino-games.html http://www.rebuildsanmateohighschool.org/online-casino-gambling.html There’s a certain charm in it, don’t you think?

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anarcho history

Before I lose the link again: An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West (PDF), by Terry Anderson and P J Hill, Journal of Libertarian Studies vol.3 no.1.

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Inevitability

Libertango makes a couple of keen points about the war. (Cited by Terry Karney whom I don’t think I’ve seen since he was about sixteen.)

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Soapmaker

This Soapmaker is my former neighbor. It’s not a good likeness. (Posting mainly to save the link.)

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my tastes are not always unshared

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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