1. Lawrence of Arabia: Probably my favorite movie of all time, beautiful camera work, exceptional character development, outstanding dialogue, objective racial profiling [by this i mean that the british and arabs seem equally ignorant and barbarous and equally honorable and enlightened.]
2. The Princess Bride: Because it is exactly what a live action children's movie should be.
3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Because it is exactly what subversive cinema should be.
I'm pretty sure Arthur Dent lived briefly on a planet like this in Mostly Harmless. Only it was 25 hour days, 30 day months and 300 day years. So he got to sleep in an extra hour every day, the months didn't rush by and the year didn't drag along. He also made sandwiches from a Perfectly Normal Beast.
/douglas adams
I'm with zedediah 100%. only i've seen the movies and only read about half the books.
like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes
/naked gun
These people give me hope for mankind.
Wait, no I said that wrong. I shouldn't really talk though, I would be likely to participate in something like that...
my case liners are going for a sort of punk rock seamy feel.
ok ok, so i don't have a printer and i had to print them on the crummy work printer when no one was looking. that gets me indie cred right?
Mine go out today as well. Each one is accompanied by an autographed photo of me in my adult film: The Mating Habits of Squirrel Monkeys as seen on Animal Planet late at night.
I almost put a Toadies song on the CD you will be getting shortly, Kimberly. I ended up culling it so I could add some variety.
Fes- I look forward to having you in a future MoFiCD swap group.
By approaching each other as partners working toward a common goal, rather than antagonists working alternately to pin the blame and eliminate the competition, real solutions - pragmatic solutions - could be found.
This also could work for Israel/Palestine and, well, just about any long term rivalry where the sides disagree with each other on principle. The problem is making both sides realize this and keep it in mind throughout the relatively long time it would take to reach the goal.
New housing developments in Scotland will destroy critical habitat for Britain's threatened red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), which has disappeared from most of its former range.
MY BROTHERS!
Could the "a few species a year" vs. "3000 species a year" statistic be biased because of the fossil record itself?
Good point, but even if that is the case I sincerely doubt that the natural world has experienced this type of systematic extinction caused by another species. The megafaunal extinction of the last Ice Age and the mass extinction of the dinosaur eras might be comparable in scope but not in method. I guess I am saying that I think his point is that this is a different type of species loss than we have seen previously in the fossil record.
This is terrible and makes me want to cry. However, when humans eventually kill ourselves off, everything will start all over again. I'm not afraid that life will lose, I just pity all of the speciation that we've whacked through our ignorance.
Juliana Hatfield is awesome. I saw her new gig with Freda Love from the Blake Babies and Heidi Gluck called Some Girls. Hottest rockingest chick band ever!
haha. i diggit.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "<b>Curious George: Usernames</b>"
sciurus is latin for 'squirrel' and i'm one squirrely mofo/mofi. rustcellar: cellar door.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Vote Coggeshell"
Ack! His damn name is stuck to my mouse pointer! Trickery! Trickery!
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "God exists, "
*makes sausage from quidnunc's bowels* *presents sausage to the Most Holy SideDish*
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious George Goes To The Movies!"
1. Lawrence of Arabia: Probably my favorite movie of all time, beautiful camera work, exceptional character development, outstanding dialogue, objective racial profiling [by this i mean that the british and arabs seem equally ignorant and barbarous and equally honorable and enlightened.] 2. The Princess Bride: Because it is exactly what a live action children's movie should be. 3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Because it is exactly what subversive cinema should be.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "28 hours a day,"
I'm pretty sure Arthur Dent lived briefly on a planet like this in Mostly Harmless. Only it was 25 hour days, 30 day months and 300 day years. So he got to sleep in an extra hour every day, the months didn't rush by and the year didn't drag along. He also made sandwiches from a Perfectly Normal Beast. /douglas adams
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Hardboiled Slanguage of the '30s and '40s"
I'm with zedediah 100%. only i've seen the movies and only read about half the books. like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes /naked gun
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Japanese Armour."
yeah, man. this is good stuff, a friend and i having been visiting here extensively lately and are going to try making some this summer.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Badger Badger Redux"
These people give me hope for mankind. Wait, no I said that wrong. I shouldn't really talk though, I would be likely to participate in something like that...
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious, George: Hey good looking, wanna swap?"
if we can overthrow them using Alnedra's hammer or a rusty shovel then i'm all for it.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
my case liners are going for a sort of punk rock seamy feel. ok ok, so i don't have a printer and i had to print them on the crummy work printer when no one was looking. that gets me indie cred right?
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
i'm listening to it right now ambrosia. =)
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious George; What was the best concert you ever went to?"
yeah, The Pieces are FIERCE. Indy used to be just a jump away from where I grew up.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious, George: Hey good looking, wanna swap?"
Mine go out today as well. Each one is accompanied by an autographed photo of me in my adult film: The Mating Habits of Squirrel Monkeys as seen on Animal Planet late at night.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious George; What was the best concert you ever went to?"
I almost put a Toadies song on the CD you will be getting shortly, Kimberly. I ended up culling it so I could add some variety. Fes- I look forward to having you in a future MoFiCD swap group.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "The extinction crisis is over. We lost."
By approaching each other as partners working toward a common goal, rather than antagonists working alternately to pin the blame and eliminate the competition, real solutions - pragmatic solutions - could be found. This also could work for Israel/Palestine and, well, just about any long term rivalry where the sides disagree with each other on principle. The problem is making both sides realize this and keep it in mind throughout the relatively long time it would take to reach the goal.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
New housing developments in Scotland will destroy critical habitat for Britain's threatened red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), which has disappeared from most of its former range. MY BROTHERS! Could the "a few species a year" vs. "3000 species a year" statistic be biased because of the fossil record itself? Good point, but even if that is the case I sincerely doubt that the natural world has experienced this type of systematic extinction caused by another species. The megafaunal extinction of the last Ice Age and the mass extinction of the dinosaur eras might be comparable in scope but not in method. I guess I am saying that I think his point is that this is a different type of species loss than we have seen previously in the fossil record. This is terrible and makes me want to cry. However, when humans eventually kill ourselves off, everything will start all over again. I'm not afraid that life will lose, I just pity all of the speciation that we've whacked through our ignorance.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious George; What was the best concert you ever went to?"
Juliana Hatfield is awesome. I saw her new gig with Freda Love from the Blake Babies and Heidi Gluck called Some Girls. Hottest rockingest chick band ever!
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Curious George: Now!!"
i wish i was billy corgan.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
In "Legal Battle of the Sexes."
Hm. I'm going to start taking copies of these out to bars.
posted by sciurus 20 years ago
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