I wrote this up for another online venue, but I might as well put it (lightly edited) here. The idea was to recommend five movies that you think are “good” and that people are less likely to have seen. I chose these:
From the Heist/Caper/RomCom Of The Old School pile, I’d choose O’Toole and Hepburn in [...]
No blogging tonight. I got distracted. In fact, I think probably not even enough sleep.
Saw this at Margo Lanagan’s blog, and felt like doing it.
Things you’ve already done: bold.
Things you want to do: italicise.
Things you haven’t done and don’t want to—leave plain.
Started your own blog - you are reading it, running strong for more than a couple of years
Slept under the stars - in a Roman ruin outside Ouchy [...]
Infected via Wheeler and Gwenda, I find that:
Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test…
Traditional, Vibrant, and Tasteful
19 Islamic, 16 Impressionist, 11 Ukiyo-e, -29 Cubist, -30 Abstract and 14 Renaissance!
Islamic art is developed from many sources: Roman, Early Christian, and Byzantine styles were taken over [...]
You are a Social Liberal (76% permissive) [...]
Yes, that’s right, I’m going to the meme well again. This time for Andrew Wheeler’s Omnivore’s Hundred (which I’ve seen a lot of places, but first saw at the other Andrew Wheeler’s blog.). I think the “expected” result, in so far as there is one, is that people would find there are lots and lots [...]
Following on from The Colonel (I guess that should be Sir The Colonel, considering his result):
Your result for The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test…
The Harlequin
You scored 32% Cardinal, 46% Monk, 38% Lady, and 43% Knight!
You are a mystery, a jack-of-all-trades. You have the king’s ear, but also listen to murmurings of [...]
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the [...]
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering.
—Thomas Merton
Life is thick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to [...]
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
—Edgar Allen Poe
Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
—John Locke, Of Reading
Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are [...]
You kids today with your webcomics, you don’t know how good you’ve got it. I remember the early 90s1, when getting a comic on the web meant puerile Space Moose sodomy jokes or the banal comedy of Doctor Fun.
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Seriously, though, there’s a wealth of great stuff out there today–no one could read everything being [...]
Tonight’s planned hotel blogging will not be happening due to a much longer than intended commute time today.
Americans, rest assured that your Border Protection officers are doing an excellent job of preventing Canadians from sneaking into your county without a thorough examination. Also, they are very friendly, very interested in the intricacies of software architecture, [...]
I’m working on a post with a bunch of information about the various things I got up to this week while I was away from the Internets. In the interim, here’s one photo that captures the way most of the week went:
So, yeah, it was a pretty good week.
This one via Gwenda
1. Have you ever killed a man? Only in my heart
2. With your own hands? No. And if I were to, it wouldn’t be.
3. What, in your opinion, is the best way to transport contraband across state and country lines? In a middle class car. With a child seat.
4. Even if you’re [...]
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