I don't know what is wrong with me lately but I just want to watch violent Japanese movies lately.
This is a scene from Battle Royale, about a futuristic law that sends high school students to an island to battle to the death. I should warn you, it's pretty bloody.
I don't know about you but that looks like a typical day at high school to me.
So this guy climbed the New York Times building, causing the over-worked police to manage crowds, put up barricades and in general, waste their day on this idiot.
Is it just me or does her look like Iggy Pop's unattractive older brother?
This artist's "performance art piece" was just closed down in NY.
Of course, if you look at the websites, the Hillary one is extensive and multi-faceted. The Barak one is just offensive and one-note but not actually about how the press has assassinated him.
Why, you ask?
Oh, that's right. Because the press didn't.
It's not that people in this country don't regularly practice the kind of racism that made Jesse Helms ... well, that made him one of the longest serving senators in our history, but in the press racism is frowned upon (sorry, Don Imus), unless, of course it brings in the big bucks (welcome back, Don Imus). Sexism, however, is alive and well and largely perpetuated by women themselves. The idea that women are genetically programmed to shop, fail at math, cling desperately to men, and "play nice" is continually reinforced on talk shows, in sitcoms, and in insipid book clubs across the country.
I was a little bored at work- one of my underlings was yapping about journalistic ethics and the death of journalism...blah, blah, blah...(joke!) so I thought I'd venture to the back of the stacks and look at this whole blogging thing, old school.
This is a Wired article about blogging from 2002 by Andrew "What Am I Today?" Sullivan.
It's interesting how hopeful he is- the new democracy etc.
Marxist, even.
Isn't he a libertarian/conservative?
Are libertarians usually pro-Marxist?
Ah, so contradictory, Andy is.
I went to Sex in the City: The Movie.
55.7 million the first weekend.
Not bad.
I have no trouble believing in a man who can only woo women in absentia. Pathetic.
See, this is what I do on Sundays. Read the New York Times and blog about it....
So what's interesting about this article about an internet lothario is that I don't believe a word of it. Basically, he says that he seduced all these women online even though he was a geek. And then he gets texted "I love you" and he realizes that he's a big liar and dumps them all. There's something about the generic geeky references that I don't buy- Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings- and this guy is supposed to be in college now? Wouldn't he be playing Magic Cards and watching Battlestar Gallactica?
I think the persona who wrote the article is not the man himself, that's all I'm saying.
