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I’m excited about the new Jason Bourne movie, except the lead looks too much like Jason Bateman and Brendan Fraser’s love child; the plot is too similar to Hanna; and it’s continuing a franchise past the original author’s scope. This was fine for Bond, but there’s only one Bond (and, as a side note, only two Bonds I liked: Dalton and Craig). This seems more like a George Lucas move where the rights holders decide they can milk the series for more.
I can’t imagine how this is going to work out with the Russian doll that is ‘Treadbriar’. Tread Stone? No that was dismantled early in the series when we took out Chris Cooper, remember? Blackbriar? Blackbriar was for pussies. We’re talking Operation Shrubbery here, man! We’ve got some Ninja Turtles stuff going on here.
I don’t know. I think seeing a lot of the higher-ups that were taken down when Blackbriar was uncovered being lectured by even higher higher-ups in the same command room where they botched the first three cleanup operations as they’re improbably poised for yet another, is enough to make even Oliver Stone wince. How many more layers can we possibly peal back?
I’m probably wrong and almost certain to like this and end up watching it as often as I do the current Bourne series because this is my preferred genre. The International was an amalgam of every cliche in international intrigue but I love it and watch it all the time.
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Alex is a comic reduction of Alexander the great, slashing his way through the world and conquering it. […] He is a law (a lex) unto himself; he becomes a creature without a lex or a lexicon. The hidden puns, of course, have nothing to do with the real meaning of the name Alexander, which is defender of men.
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I bought in to Facebook during their IPO last Friday. Since then the stock has dropped like a turd. In spite of this, I think it’s a solid investment and I don’t regret buying.
What I don’t understand is how such an incredible and unprecedented amount of money can disappear from one week to the next. Literally. I mean about $20 billion of valuation gone.
From what I understand, an initial public offering is cash for paper, straight up. A company gets listed on an exchange to raise money for expansion of some sort.
There aren’t enough shares in circulation for anyone to short the stock, and any selling that occurs is from early investors. Still, with so much demand, this shouldn’t drive the price down.
I understand P/E is around 60 at the moment, but that shouldn’t matter because of what we established earlier, that anyone who pays for paper at the stage is knowingly trading cash for ideas. So P/E and any other metrics shouldn’t make any difference.
So what I’m wondering is where did this money go? How can any stock down-sell to the tune of the GDP of a Central American country in one week? Seriously. I’d like to know.
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Like something out of a Graham Greene novel, but without the intrigue.
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Not many people know that I was in a band in the 80s. We called ourselves Iron Leopard. We were way ahead of our times in that we were totally retro which, mathematically speaking, meant that we fit right in with our times. We were somewhere along the lines of Van Halen meets Dean Martin meets Quantum Leap, and seasoned with some Kraftwerk.
We didn’t get to play too many gigs since we were primarily a garage/studio band (we had a garage that was converted from a studio), but we did get to open a few shows for Danzig in Nebrahoma. I was noted for being the only one-armed drummer that had both arms in tact.
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Obama at the DNC.
(Source: Beastie Boys)
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I don’t use it, but I’m proud to own a (very small) part of it.
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When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behaviour and thoughts to match that of the character.
Ah, so this is why I’ve been asking strangers, where do whores go?
On a serious note, I do agree with this article and particularly regarding the Game of Thrones n-tilogy, which is why I mention it so often. GRRM has done such a great job of creating a narrative structure such that you just can’t help but find yourself behind the eyes of your favorite character.
At the start, you think it’s a typical power struggle with some intrigue thrown into the mix, and you see the world through Eddard Stark. There’s what’s right and honorable, and then there’s everything else. But there’s also Jon Snow, his bastard son; so our white knight has a dirty cloak.
Then we shift perspectives and see the world through the vantage point of various characters (this gets out of control later in the series) and learn that everyone has motives, everyone’s dirty but honorable in their own way.
If you can get people to relate to characters in this way, you might really open up their horizons, getting them to relate to social groups that maybe they wouldn’t have otherwise.
I like the sentiment here, but I think it’s overly optimistic in the way that only academics can be because,
watching a movie, by comparison, does not require viewers to engage any more than as a spectator, limiting the ability to imagine themselves as characters.
which means you’d first have to get people to read.
Speaking of reading, I don’t read Mail Online but I am amazed by how addicting and clickable the site is. Whenever I go to checkout an article I find myself clicking through three to five others. I have to force myself to close the tab. Their articles are as clickable as they are tacky.
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There’s no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with in and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say ‘In July’ and I’ll go down on you.
Orson Welles
(Source: Neil Gaiman)
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