Monthly Archives: November 2009

Dang, I Thought

Whoever came up with it first, it’s still an infallible piece of cannibal logic (page 133): “If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” More here: ”The Book of Sarah embraces God & Todd,” another review here.
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Walk In The Park – Part 2

A humbling experience: By the time I managed to get these two (after slightly over 20 attempts that weren’t quite right), two tourists stood to my left, three to my right, taking their pictures of the same group of trees. Sometimes it is hard to maintain that you’re special.
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The Lives Of Others

While I have no particular obsession with audio surveillance movies, let me recommend to you another one (after Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation): The Lives Of Others, by German writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, on the Stasi monitoring of the cultural scene in the former “German Democratic Republic.” Von Donnersmarck talked in an [...]
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