They say that artists suffer for their art.
What deranged notions would possess American actors to take part in a film like this one? What’s next? A film version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, starring Barbra Streisand?
Maybe there’s a good reason that these particular “artists” should suffer for their art. Help them along, and fulfill their destiny, by refusing to pay money to see it.
Another conference break, for Lileks, from yesterday:
…we had a Road Runner marathon. I was heartened to see that she didn
My webmaster, Bill Simon, is coach of a Chinese dragon-boat team, based in Long Beach, CA. He sends link to a video of a close race in Vancouver last month:
Here is the 500M race for the medals in the Comp C division of the 2006 Vancouver (ALCAN) Dragon Boat festival that was held on June 18, 2006. Now you can actually see how close this race was.
LARD (Los Angeles Racing Dragons, our local rivals) came in first (in the lane 4th from the top). We, the Los Angeles Killer Guppies, (in the 3rd lane from the top) came in about 3/4 boat behind them–and that put us in 9th place! We were separated by less than 2.5 second! Our time was 2:09.
I know how intense this was for us on the boat. But now I know what the crowd experienced. This is the closest Dragon Boat race I’ve ever seen. Awesome! Congrats to LARD! But just wait till next year…
This is my kind of multiculturalism.
Just how badly will Hollywood screw up Atlas Shrugged?
As I recall, The Fountainhead wasn’t bad, but those were different times.
Some amusing comments. I don’t mind clowns all that much, myself. But mimes–that’s a different story. I’m not a violent person, generally, but they make me want to take a bat to them.
Lileks is kind of tough on the politically correct naifs who castrated the most recent Superman film:
“We were always hesitant to include the term `American way’ because the meaning of that today is somewhat uncertain,” said co-writer Michael Dougherty. “I think when people say `American way,’ they’re actually
talking about what the `American way’ meant back in the ’40s and ’50s, which was something more noble and idealistic.”Ah. Of course. Well, in the ’40s, the American Way included incinerating German cities, nuking Japan, installing occupying armies with remnants to this day, and imposing our form of government — all the while referring to the enemy with hurtful ethnic slurs. All this plus forced relocation. If these actions are deemed noble and idealistic now, it’ll be a handy sentiment the next time the U.S. gears up for total war.
But the inconstant left doesn’t believe any of this is permissible in the service of a noble goal. The right, after all, can’t lead the war on terror because they don’t “walk the walk” on human rights: witness those POWs slaving away in the cane fields of Gitmo. Unless we lead by example, no one will choose the American Way. Never mind that the internment of the Japanese didn’t keep the Germans — or the Japanese, for that matter — from following our example after World War II. (Note to the dense: The above is not an endorsement of internment. Just a reminder of which party has more practice.)
I was a DC kind of guy. I read Marvel, but couldn’t really get into it. I liked Spiderman and Fantastic Four, but that was about it.
And I quit reading comics about the time I hit puberty.
Again, for whatever it’s worth.
I was a DC kind of guy. I read Marvel, but couldn’t really get into it. I liked Spiderman and Fantastic Four, but that was about it.
And I quit reading comics about the time I hit puberty.
Again, for whatever it’s worth.
I was a DC kind of guy. I read Marvel, but couldn’t really get into it. I liked Spiderman and Fantastic Four, but that was about it.
And I quit reading comics about the time I hit puberty.
Again, for whatever it’s worth.
Baseball is a game of numbers and stats, and right now, for Detroit, they look pretty damn good:
Every Detroit fan everywhere knows what 35-5 means — the Tigers’ record after 40 games of their 1984 World Series-winning season.
That start was so good Detroit had to play just a little above .500 ball the rest of the season to cruise home in first place. In fact, the Tigers closed 69-53.
Detroit enters its Friday interleague game at Pittsburgh with a 54-25 record. If the Tigers win Friday, they will be dead even with the 1984 team’s record after 80 games.