The problems of translating the names of presidential candidates into Chinese.
(h/t: Hot Air Headlines)
Spawn of Rube Goldberg Sunday, Jun 24 2007
Art (or something like it) and Weird Crap 5:46 pm
Inheritors of this grand tradition, I present (thanks to my friends at Hot Air) “Ita Po na Su-i chi!” (or something that sounds like it)
I dare you to try to get that little song out of your head.
I Have Come to Believe, Too Sunday, Jun 24 2007
Comics and Pop culture 2:05 pm
I’m back after another hiatus full of deadline-meeting and other life tasks.
In the meantime, I have come to believe. Maybe you should, too.
Earth to Iran: Boo-Frippin’-Hoo Sunday, Jun 17 2007
Literature 10:30 am
Salman Rushdie gets knighted. Iran seethes, whines.
(h/t: Brietbart)
UPDATE: Allahpundit and the regular gang of commenters at Hot Air have a few things to say about Iran’s little pity party in dishonor of Sir Salman. As Allahpundit puts it:
A bejeweled, white-gloved hand turns towards Tehran and slowly extends its middle finger…
I knew it was bound to happen. I wonder how furious it would’ve made the Ayatollahs if this had happened right after the fatwa was issued after The Satanic Verses had been published. I read the novel shortly after its U.S. publication. I enjoyed it, but wasn’t as impressed by it as I was The Ground Beneath Her Feet 10 years later.
Putting it bluntly: the Ayatollah and Islamic Revolutionists really showed their asses when they announced the fatwa against Rushdie. Thing is, you think they’d have learned something by now.
UPDATE II: Well, that didn’t take long.
(h/t: Hot Air, again)
Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day Monday, Jun 11 2007
Art (or something like it) and Digital production and History and Science and Technology 4:00 pm
But it did take at least 10 years to digitally reconstruct it.
Official Rome Reborn site here.
Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi.
–Augustus
(h/t: Hot Air Headlines)
Your Monday Morning Dose of BULLITT Monday, Jun 11 2007
Movies and Photography and Pop culture 9:04 am
Taking it easy today. Off from realjob to celebrate my wife’s birthday with her. So please enjoy this behind-the-car-chase look at the supercool Bullitt.
And, presented as a drastic counterpoint, the first Ronald McDonald commercial (this time not linked to Nerve’s Scanner blog). He looks like he’s just been rolled from a dumpster and sounds like he’s been offering candy to the kiddies in the park if they help him look in his pocket for his special friend.
You’re welcome.
Stalin Goes to Berlin! Friday, Jun 8 2007
Movies and Politics and Pop culture 4:57 pm
In film, at least. In reality, he never went. This whole clip was staged.
So why do I keep thinking he’s going to break into song when he walks down the steps from the plane? Imagine the musical: Joe Stalin in Rogers and Hammerskold’s Meet Me at the Brandenberg Gate, Comrade!
(h/t: BoingBoing via Professor Reynolds)
UPDATE: More Vintage Commie theatrics here.
Linkfest: the Sequel Tuesday, Jun 5 2007
Music and National news and Politics and Pop culture 8:51 pm
Lots of interesting stuff here and about.
ITEM! An important WWII anniversary this week (besides the obvious one): the 65th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. Spend a few minutes and read a concise day-by-day account of it here. I can remember seeing the movie Midway back when it was released in 1976. Other than the melodramatic subplot (and the over-reliance on the cheesy Sensurround audio effects), it was pretty good movie and, despite some of the technical gaffes, a pretty accurate depiction of the strategy used by the Navy during those three fateful days in the Pacific. (h/t: LGF)
ITEM! Richard Minter takes on the myths and questions of the JFK airport plot. With one obnoxious MSM clown insisting that the bust was a handy distraction from the Worse-Than-Watergate-Ever-Was Scandal (Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and the firing of some US Attorneys), and a Hollywood ditz insisting it was entrapment, this executive-level briefing makes a nice set of rebuttals to the memes that get floated around.
ITEM! Speaking of rebuttals, Jann Wenner tries to get some notable celebrities to say that that the 1960s were the Most Awesomest Decade Ever, Man! for the 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone. But he doesn’t have much luck. Some people grow up, Jann.
ITEM! Guys, remember when (if ever) you were caught in the act? Caution: contains a clip from an early 1970s educational film. (h/t: Dave)
June LMN Up and Ready Monday, Jun 4 2007
Music 4:59 pm
The June issue of Louisville Music News is available online. Print version is available around Louisville wherever fine music, or something like it, is heard, made, or sold. This month’s cover story is on the New Albany band Between Two Lions. I also have reviews of CDs from Jamie Barnes and Arnett Hollow. The print version has those two reviews combined into one.
Also, a quick-n-dirty review of a CD from The Uncommon Houseflies. Pursue at risk of your own personal hygiene and ability to chew food without producing a stream of drool.
Enjoy.
