Patriotism test: As published in the Asheville Citizen Times, 2 July 2006: What is the date that the Declaration of Independence was signed? What document is the legal framework of the United States? Who wrote the words to the "Star Spangled Banner"? What is the Pledge of Allegiance? Where was the...
As an expat in South Korea, I come across a lot of Canuckleheads. At the most extreme, they end up in jail for beating up small Korean men in Seoul, or getting deported for obtaining work visas with fake University degrees. The G-Jay Canuckleheads however, are silly rather than malicious. For...
So Markku and I step up to the counter. Markku cheerfully announces, “We’re here to apply for passports!” Having lived here in Grant County for over 8 years now, I anticipated problems attempting anything even REMOTELY cosmopolitan like applying for passports. I got on line, researched the...
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Better late than never, I guess. Report: NexCen Hires Financial Advisor New York City (May 22, 2008) NexCen Brands has hired Rothschild as its investment advisor, according to a report in Women's Wear Daily. Rothschild is expected to help the company decide which of its assets it should sell, the...
I guess you could tell by the title that I didn't like the movie. I'm going to say that I thought it was just plain awful. A lot of times, I might tell someone, "I saw that and I didn't care for it, but there were a couple of good scenes and you enjoy it more than I did." I'm not saying that this...
"Indiana Jones" Fans Tough Crowd For Effects Crew (Hollywood Reporter) - Indiana Jones' return to the big screen after 19 years underscores how much visual effects have evolved. When the first three Indy films were made in the 1980s, the visual effects were done optically, i.e. photographically or...
Each day I find odd things at the Internet, such as this poem, "The Chaos." I would never ever guess that something like this would exist... So, wanna practice your English pronunciation? Try this poem! The Chaos Gerard Nolst Trenité. This version is essentially the author's own final text, as also...
Rebecca Mader, best known for playing scheming redhead Charlotte on ABC's "Lost," is in final negotiations to play Ewan McGregor's wife in "Men Who Stare at Goats." Based on the book by Jon Ronson, the Iraq-set movie centers on a desperate reporter (McGregor) who stumbles upon the story of a...
I'm gonna live-blog the Oscars for as long as I can stand them tonight! Which may not be very long, given the incredible horror of Barbara Walters that I already withstood, and now Regis Philbin is talking on the red carpet. Holy crap I may not make it through this! George Clooney on why people want...
Rating: 1/5 This movie is simply ridiculous and is by far the worst Indiana Jones movie ever spawned. It should have stayed on the cutting room floor. There are a million things wrong with this film, and I'm probably not exaggerating. So what am I going to point out? Inconsistencies. Above all else,...
Stan Helsing to Take on Hollywood Monsters (Variety.com) Multihyphenate Bo Zenga will spoof six of the highest-grossing monster movie of all time in his new project Stan Helsing, reports Variety. The project is set up at Scott Steindorf's Stone Village Pictures. A producer on Scary Movie, Zenga will...
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by Hendrik Hertzberg, via the New Yorker The precise origins of Memorial Day are a little fuzzy. According to one version, it was first celebrated in 1865, a few weeks after Lee surrendered to Grant; freed slaves and black and white Union soldiers marched to the site of a Confederate prisoner-of-war...
Although it's been mentioned quite often here on MouseKingdoms it appear at the company sharholder meeting Walt Disney Animation Studios finally made it official: "2007-03-08 13:04 (New York) By Andy Fixmer and Cecile Daurat March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Walt Disney Co., owner of Pixar animation studio,...
In case you couldn't settle on a career from the last list, here is a second dip! Gascoigne, Stephen Harold (1878 - 1942) ‘rabbito’ and barracker Girardin, Louis - see Girardin, Marie-Louise Victoire (1754 - 1794) ship’s steward and cross-dresser Gocher, William Henry (1856 - 1921) artist,...
February 4th Bored. Walked down to the foyer and struck Captain Jones up in conversation. The Captain is not only the doorman at my building, he was also an indispensable source of tittle tattle on the other residents, and often carries one home in the event of passing out in the foyer. It seems...
It has often been said that 'patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels' and indeed it is. That 'refuge' now appears to be in the throes of being overtaken by the 'democracy scam' - in that the so-called 'democracy' now on offer by most governments is in fact no more than a simple play on words...
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1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Published in 2005 by Cassell Illustrated. Selected & written by 90 leading international critics, general editor Robert Dimery. In chronological order 1955-2005. Year of release only given here, when considered absolutely necessary. Where there were...
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