Friday Film Fest
Making fun of the way people look is a cheap and disreputable form of humor, so it’s something I never (erm, disregard my previous post) do. Having said that, I don’t have a problem laughing when other people do it. Like this. Warning: Probably NSFW. There isn’t any nudity, but there’s music and a fair amount of anatomical description.
But who are we to laugh at true love? Witness these poignant scenes of unrequited passion, as acted out by typographical characters: Act I; Act II; Act III.
There’s also an Act IV, but it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the first three. I guess the guy just gave up.
Sometimes, though, it all works out, resulting in a house in the ‘burbs and a flipbook animation of children’s drawings about a familiar song.
Comments are off for this postR.I.P.
Mo Mowlan While I disagreed with almost all of her politics she was one of the decent ones in Parliament. She will be missed.
3 commentsYou can use mate again
Politicians in Australia have listened to their electorate and made a historic bit of policy. Security guards can now use the word mate when talking to people entering the Parliament.
Thanks to Jon P for pointing me to this story.
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Okay, the resemblance isn’t perfect, at least not in those two pictures. But they’re fairly old and both Sheryl Crow and Tom Petty look much more gaunt these days. Especially Petty.
Anyway, it was the best I could come up with on short notice. You think that bl0gging is a glamorous business, friend?. Ha! I’ve spent the last two days trawling through Mozilla forums trying to figure out what’s gone wrong with my browser.
I finally got it running again, but there are all sorts of little things that aren’t working right. I am not bitter. If I have to start using Microsoft Explorer, I still will not be bitter. Jaded and possibly homicidal, but never bitter. It’s such a negative emotion.
Where was I? Ah, yes, Sheryl Crow. I’m linking to this video of hers not because I like the song—it’s rather insipid, and I don’t even know the name of it—but because it’s got nice CG effects added to it by a N.Y.-based production house called PSYOP.
It isn’t a direct link, so you’ll have to click on “Platinum Select,” then “Sheryl Crow,” and then on one of the two pictures or the “Play” button that appear on the right.
Check out some of their other efforts, too.
the blog québécois Comments are off for this postFading tartan
Arthur Herman wrote a fine book about Scotland and its achievements a few years ago. I enjoyed ploughing through this terrific volume during a long flight to California last year. No-one who studies the history of post-Reformation Scotland, the Englightement, the contributions of Scots the the British Empire and to the development of the USA can doubt that the Tartan lads and lasses have made a huge difference to the world, one emphatically for the better. Think of the Scottish engineers, doctors, scientists, novelists, poets, political leaders, soldiers and actors, for starters. Remember, even James Bond was a half-Scot!
With that it in mind, Andrew Neil’s rather elgaic piece in the Spectator bemoaning the demise of Scottish influence in the higher regions of British political life makes for an interesting read. I don’t think that Scotland is at risk of turning in upon itself – the costs of that are likely to be too severe – but it cannot be ruled out.
When a nation ceases to look afar, it crumbles. It happened to the once-mighty Chinese in the 15th century and could happen much more severely to a smaller nation. I hope and am confident that the Jocks won’t make that mistake.
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