New Lawsuit May Kill 'The Hobbit' (eonline.com) The Lord of the Rings bling is a lot like the One Ring. Everybody wants it. The estate of Rings mastermind J.R.R. Tolkien is the latest to launch a legal salvo against New Line Cinema, suing the studio for using "creative accounting" to cheat the...
sum reflechtions and purseonale openonions on Choyce's monsterpiece So what shall we make of Finnegans Wake? Is it worth the time and trouble? Did Joyce squander his talent, let down his admirers, and renege on the promise of Ulysses? Critics have charged Joyce with irrelevance and pointless...
Look at the ages. 19. 20. 22. 25. 34. 28. 19. Today a female suicide bomber killed 40 or so people. It is an unwanted occupation. We will win when our men and women come home. 20-June1One Soldier was killed and five wounded in three roadside bomb attacks on Coalition force patrols in Diyala province...
Signal Oil and Gas James Van Blaricum - The risk for the Fed is that the economy gets stuck in slo-mo, but surging inflation expectations prevent the central bank from providing monetary relief. That could be bad news, especially if high gas prices soak up disposable income at the same time that...
Here I've been going on about Sheffield and the great industrial dance music of the 80s and I haven't even gotten around to Cabaret Voltaire yet, arguably the godfathers of that whole scene. So to remedy that, here's the video for what is probably their best-known song, "Sensoria"-- This video was a...
199 Love Quotes Collection - Collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes. Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense....
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
I love getting Christmas cards with photos on them or in them. They give lots of information about the people who send them, in addition to what the senders put into words. I hope the photos on this blog give you a huge, holiday bellyache of information about what we've been doing here for the last...
Saturday I started SIFFing, at the Egyptian. I love this theater, set in a former Masonic temple. I’m ushering a few times again this year. I ushered at last year’s festival hoping to meet like-minded people while lurking in darkened theaters. It’s not really a make-friends kind of activity,...
I recently picked up a used copy of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. As the title would suggest, it features essays on 1,001 books that the editors have chosen as important or essential reading. The book is fundamentally flawed as it features eleven selections by J.M. Coetzee and only two by...
I do not like: Getting up at 5:30 a.m. to make a 7:00 physical therapy appointment. Wet shoes from the pouring rain. Having to interview intercity bus operators (nothing against them, only out of fear of talking to strangers on the phone). Most of the selections in the two short film packages I saw...
