Miniver Cheevy

Merry Goth Christmas! Via Pandagon, I am amused by yet another article in the "Hallowe'en candy and Harry Potter are tools of S...

In the last few years, I've caught a succession of bugs that have made me feel crappy enough that I do nothing for a couple of days but ...

It looks everyone else is safe, at least for now, but we have indictment on five counts for Libby. From the Washington Post : The v...

Whaddaya know. George Takei, who played Sulu on Star Trek , just came out as gay. You know, it’s not really coming out, which suggests ope...

From Warren Ellis. You may want to click through to see the illustration of the point. $207 million to remake a flick about a giant monkey...

While we’re impatiently waiting for Fitzmas , DeLong offers us a Platonic dialogue on the subject. Glaukon: Victoria Wilson AKA Va...

I forget who passed this one on to me. Elie Wiesel, in The Gates of the Forest , tells this parable. When the great Rabbi Israel Baal Shem...

I'm hoping to find time to blog about the recent doings in the developing Rove / Plame / Wilson / Fitzgerald story. In the meantime, ...

The Second Thousand Honored sons and daughters of America I don't know what to say. You may want to see what I said about the first t...

It's the perjury. Still speculation, mind you. The perjury, that is, not the big fat hairy lie. The only cloud in this silver lining...

Rosa Parks 1912-2005 Civil rights mover Let me remind you that she took her stand by refusing to stand in 1955. That's still in livi...

Okay, last time , we talked about soundtrack and editing, focusing on the soundtrack. Let's do that again, only this time, let's foc...

It is important to read Roger Ebert's reviews of films he does not like. He gets bored of reviewing the movie, and wanders far afield i...

Some things I noticed about Brazil in my short stay there: Guidebooks say that Brazilians dine around 10:00 pm. Brazilians actually p...

Sorry to drop out for so long. I'm going to try to go back to daily again.

I'm still in Brazil, but here in the internet café it occurs to me that I should start planning Serenity opening night now . I'm ge...

From Charles Gatewood, when asked "What's the weirdest place you've ever been?" San Francisco This is someone who has b...

Yes, I know that it's been ages since I've been blogging lately. I'm embarassed. I have long overdue posts I want to get to abou...

Four years since 11 September 2001. Time again to read what Phil Agre said four days later. The people who conducted those terrorist att...

Having returned from Burning Man, before I say anything else, for those who haven't given yet, let me offer you Billmon's list of pl...

I'm on the way out the door to wend my way out to Burning Man . So no posting for the next week. I leave you with this quote from ...

I'm a sucker for the magic of space exploration — sending both robots and people — but the space shuttle program is exactly what...

NOLA.com is still blogging through the hurricane. Fingers crossed for New Orleans. Hang tough.

As a rule, I don't like t-shirts with words on 'em. But I might make an exception.

There needs to be a word for "this is the sort of thing you'll like if you like this sort of thing." Metaphilic, perhaps? I b...

Someone has constructed a website of "facts" about Vin Diesel like this one: Vin Diesel is powered by the tears of the Chupakabr...

Via Atrios, I learn that Cenk Uygur has done a little math with poll results. George Bush’s approval ratings are at 36% . Those are pre-c...

Burning Man is next week. I'll be there starting Wednesday morning. I just got the word from the Tortoise that our camp will be betwe...

If you care, you probably already know that Bryan Singer has abandoned the X-Men to direct the only film that would justify such treachery ....

It's been kicking around the web for years, but it occurs to me that some of my readers who might be interested have not yet read the fa...