search
Sunday, 2009 July 5, 20:40 — cinema

I watch stuff

I’ve been relatively quiet here since I stopped listing my Netflix rentals. I could do that some more.
( . . more . . )

Thursday, 2009 June 18, 17:36 — cinema

an international art

In the opening scene of Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation, a Hungarian Jew plays a Japanese impersonating a German, speaking English in Arabia.

Monday, 2009 June 8, 10:55 — militaria

rejecting the cult

Sheldon Richman (with help from Paddy Chayevsky) nails Memorial Day.

Sunday, 2009 June 7, 12:11 — mathematics

polytopes

Dr. Richard Klitzing lost his webhost, so I took custody of his polytope pages.

Wednesday, 2009 June 3, 13:50 — arts

separated at germination?

Okay, the mascot of OurWaterOurWorld isn’t quite as similar to Bob the Angry Flower as I thought, but still …

Monday, 2009 June 1, 15:15 — cinema

what’s in a name?

“You enjoyed Lost in Austen, didn’t you?”

“Sure. I also enjoy Austen in Lost.”

Wednesday, 2009 May 13, 22:15 — pets

life imitates embryonic blog-post

Pillow brought home a little brown snake, about a foot long – the size of the biggest earthworms I’ve ever seen. I put it out in the grass, for the cycle to begin anew.

A few hours later, as I was composing the above in my head, I saw the same(?) snake in the living-room again, now dead from obvious trauma.

« Previous PageNext Page »