movies rented this week

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). Formulaic fluff, but fun to watch.

The Trouble with Harry (1955), a farce by Hitchcock, disappointingly thin. Shirley MacLaine’s first film.

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political speech

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

Alan K. Henderson sells shirts and a bumpersticker with the slogan

McCain/Feingold ’04
SILENCE THE VOTE!

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lethally cuute

Posted on Sunday, 2004 August 22 by Anton

Kevin of The Smallest Minority shows off a pair of t-shirts: pink Kalashnikitty, blue Kalashnikitty

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grrr!

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 21 by Anton

The Violence of Conservatism by Jeffrey A. Tucker

So there we have it. The magic of the marketplace, delivering via your computer screen straight to your doorstep, for only a buck, hundreds of pages of the most violent rhetoric put between covers since Progress Publishers collected Stalin’s speeches.

This is conservatism. There’s no use in denying it. The war party and American conservatism are interchangeable and inseparable.

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Great English Vowel Shift II

Posted on Saturday, 2004 August 21 by Anton

I am moderator of two lists which received a spam entitled: Nid the chiipaast mads on wab? We gut it! — evidently from a dialect which has lost most of its mid vowels!

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cielo de vainilla

Posted on Friday, 2004 August 20 by Anton

Visited stepbrother last night, and we watched Abre los Ojos (Open your Eyes) (1997). The surprise ending concerns a concept on which I have spent hours happily musing; I had no idea that the concept had gone so mainstream.

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something for everyone

Posted on Thursday, 2004 August 19 by Anton

A job listing on Craigslist has a curious title: Weekend Domestic Violence Advocates

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