i have too many thoughts

Posted on Sunday, 2006 October 29 by Anton

I saw a t-shirt today that proclaimed Blonde is the New Smart. The wearer was not blonde (and wouldn’t fool anyone if she tried to be) so what did she mean by it? Perhaps only “this shirt was cheap.”

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life, art, not entirely disjoint

Posted on Saturday, 2006 October 14 by Anton

This morning in Berkeley I saw a Smith College sweatshirt whose wearer could have stepped out of Questionable Content.

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a life less simple

Posted on Wednesday, 2006 October 11 by Anton

The looming prospect of liquidity raises new questions, like: How soon does a flat monitor pay for itself in power? Are the cameras built into telephones any good, and do they interface easily with a Mac?

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movies recently rented

Posted on Saturday, 2006 October 07 by Anton

In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks, 1967). Didn’t grab me; perhaps another time.

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (dir. Stanley Kramer). In 1967 I suppose the subject matter was enough to carry it, but now the script is rather thin.

Quatermass and the Pit (dir. Roy Ward Baker, 1967). Fluff.

Cool Hand Luke (dir. Stuart Rosenberg, 1967). Worth seeing. The famous tagline, when it came, seemed a bit out of place; the warden says it in the next breath after ordering Luke to cease attempting to communicate.

Wait Until Dark (dir. Terence Young, 1967). Highly recommended.

Batman serial (1943). Interesting as an example of the trash they could get away with back then.

Le Samouraï (The Godson) (dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967). Essentially a character portrait, but the character is a black box.

Safety Last (1923) and other short films with Harold Lloyd. Good fun.

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something has turned up

Posted on Saturday, 2006 September 30 by Anton

It’s a far cry from the career I imagined at age 20, and it’s not even as lucrative as the somewhat similar job that suddenly evaporated five years ago; but it is one heck (I might even say two hecks) of a lot better than nothing.

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not all bad

Posted on Friday, 2006 September 29 by Anton

In a comment at FuturePundit, Steven Horrobin chides me for supposing — though all I said was that I hadn’t yet seen a counterexample — that all bioethicists are anti-life.

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a metaphoric diode?

Posted on Tuesday, 2006 September 26 by Anton

In Ranma ½, Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, Abstract Gender and Misfile, a boy finds himself magically transformed into a girl. In both The Wotch and El Goonish Shive, the cast includes a boy who sometimes becomes a girl for a lark. A number of webcomics including Venus Envy are about boys who yearn to become girls.

Are there no cartoons about girls becoming boys?

(See also.)

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