Thursday, July 31, 2008

BARACK HITLER OBAMA

I laughed out loud at this line from Ross Douthet:
Here's a tip for liberals: If your candidate is going to stage enormous rallies in front of tens of thousands of chanting Germans (with monuments to Prussian military might in the background) in the middle of his Presidential campaign, it isn't the GOP's fault if the footage comes out looking a little like Hitler at Nuremberg.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

A CYNICAL CRACK ABOUT THE LAST LECTURE



I haven't watched the video, because it is so very long, but today my boss gushed about this line: "'We have these ideas, we have a couple of ideas. This idea here is very safe. This idea here is risky.' He said, 'Go for the risk. It's better to fail spectacularly then to pass along and do something which is mediocre.'"

I replied, "that's a pretty ironic statement from a man who made his living as a college professor."

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Not that you can tell from thiss picture, but seeing an elephant in the morning is considered good luck in some cultures.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

WHERE CAN I GET ONE OF THESE $500,000,000 BILLS?



Not one of these, obviously. One of the new ones. It'd sure be nice to be a billionaire.

Friday, July 18, 2008

I'm at The Dark Knight

I'm at The Dark Knight waiting for the 8:15 screening to start. Sixty years of superhero movies reach their culmination tonight!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

What does this mean?

Monday, July 14, 2008

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

MY NEXT FILM WILL LAST 200 YEARS



More than 1,000 music-lovers showed up on Saturday, July 5, in a German town to hear a change of note in the longest-running and slowest piece of music ever composed. Eccentric US composer John Cage (1912-1992) planned his composition to last 639 years, meaning more than a dozen generations of musicians will be needed to play it on an automatic, as-yet unfinished organ at Halberstadt, Germany.

Entitled ORGAN2/ASLSP, it began in 2001 and has so far reached its sixth note. The second part of the name means "as slow as possible."

Neighbors have got used to the monotonous tone coming out of the former Church of St. Burchard, which was used as a pig-sty in the communist years of East Germany. At first the all-day-and-night tone sounded something like an air-raid siren.

The audience hushed on Saturday as two more organ pipes were added alongside the four installed so far and the tone became more complex at 3:33 p.m. local time. The second of the new pipes is set to kick in this November. A machine keeps the sound coming out.

Since some notes will not be needed for decades, pipes need only be added when donations suffice.

Organizers in Halberstadt rejected questions about what it all means.
"It doesn’t mean anything," one of them said. "It’s just there."
Other works by avant-garde composer Cage include one piece that consists of four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

MY NEW JOURNALISTIC CRUSH



Marie Colvin. She looks like Cate Blanchett and lost an eye to grendade shrapnel. Bad ass.

Friday, July 04, 2008



The joy I felt upon reading the news of Jess Helms' death -- I actually cheered -- was quickly lessened by this sickening observation from the article:

He joins the second and third presidents of the United States – Thomas Jefferson and John Adams Jr. – who both also died on Independence Day.


I actually uttered, "Ugh."