Quote of the Day [5.07.08]
Stop your messing around
Better think of your future
Time you straightened right out
Creating problems in townDandy Livingstone, "A Message to you, Rudy"
Link of the Day [5.07.08]
I started reading this manga only a few hours ago, and I find that I am enjoying it. It’s about bread baking, but done up with as a hero’s quest story plus a dash of Iron Chef. It’s that competition that makes it so intriguing.
Quote of the Day [5.06.08]
This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floorThe Specials, Ghost Town
Link of the Day [5.06.08]
Scanning the television dial the other day and I come across some belly
dancers. It's on the FitTV channel and they claim that it is some form
of exercise. While I don't doubt that shaking and gyrating your hips
can feel like exercise, the one whose blood pressure rose was mine.
It's strangely hypnotic.Is it getting hot in here?http://fittv.discovery.com/convergence/shimmy/shimmy.html
The bitter end
Now they tell me!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iron+man+after+the+creditsI hate that, because I did stay past the first set of credits on the
roll. Everything that had some Iron Manly thing as a background. I
left during the credit roll before it got to the technical talent of the
gaffers, best boys, focus pullers, slate snappers, dolly men, and craft
service servers. I wondered why that group of guys were sticking around.Oh, well. We at least got YouTube.
Quote of the Day [5.05.08]
"Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration,
which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the
conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should
cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental
and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and
each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from
the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not
judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has
been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes." President Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Link of the Day [5.05.08]
Here it is. Two o’clock in the morning and I’m posting my link of the day. It’s to some Japanese ghost phenomena. I’m scared. I haven’t seen any of the videos. Would someone please tell me if they are creepy?
Iron Man
Bully for Jon Favreau for directing Iron Man to the opening of Summer Movie Season 2008, and making some bucks as well as garnering well deserved kudos.
I found it good. Not on the Spidey 2 level, but better than a Fantastic Four catastrophe. That a suit is fantastic. The iron monger one reminded me of Appleseed’s Mecha.
The cast was first rate. Robert Downey, Jr. displayed a flair for being debonair and an asshole but winningly so. Gweneth Paltrow was hot as Pepper Potts. The dude, Jeff Bridges, was the villainous Lex Luthor out to make bombs not love. Shield was there.
The interesting part was the play on the military industrial complex. If I didn’t know it, Stark industries is a facsimile of Lockheed Martin. Even down to the corporate logo. They got that covered.
All in all, an enjoyable comic book movie. Good opening salvo for the Summer of 2008.
4 of 5 stars.
Quote of the Day [5.04.08]
“Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them!”
Albert Einstein
Link of the Day [5.04.08]
Gas prices going up? You should be mad about everything that the auto-obsessed country is doing to us. We’re too busy to notice, but it’s the choices that we made in the past that is haunting us today.
Let’s change, America!