11/07/08 09:26 - 57ºF - ID#46582
Dear California
kisses,
James
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11/02/08 08:18 - 42ºF - ID#46477
Oh hell yaroswell
Wish me luck. I really want to work there.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/31/08 10:09 - 52ºF - ID#46443
Hamster on a Piano
enjoy the ear worm
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/30/08 01:49 - 44ºF - ID#46428
> Rock the Vote
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/28/08 12:49 - 38ºF - ID#46385
Halloween Movie Madness
Until Freaks.
Todd Browning's Freaks is the only movie to creep me out. To make me so uncomfortable I had to take a break and untangle the disgust in my brain.
The film takes place in a carnival. There are the big ring circus folks, and the sideshow freaks. Plotting brings the big ring people into the world of the freaks. The freaks are so other that we can't help but empathize with the plotting, evil characters. The viewer is the villain.
The movie is filled with little scenes of simple humanity. Like a man born without limbs rolling a cigarette.
Or take a look at this iconic scene. Just prior to it, the woman was mocking her new dwarf husband (all part of that evil plotting) at their wedding. The sincerity of the freaks response is one of the most chilling things on film.
And the ending... if the ending doesn't keep you up all night you aren't human. But I wont spoil it. Go out and rent it.
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10/27/08 01:11 - 42ºF - ID#46366
Mustmayostarayonnaise
A trifecta of an outstanding sketch.
god I love throw away culture
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/24/08 10:56 - 44ºF - ID#46298
WTF McCain-Palin?
It was recently revealed, through the magic of campaign financial disclosure, that $150,000 was spent on wardrobe and accessories for Sarah and family. Which, from the convention to election day is over $2,000 a day in clothing. Hockey Mom indeed.
But what gem surfaced this morning?
Who would you guess is the highest paid staff member on the McCain-Palin team?
A hot economic advisor?
Campaign manager for Ohio?
Makeup artist?
That is right, the highest paid staff member is Palin's makeup artist. Amy Strozzi picked up $22,800 in the first two weeks of October as Palin's traveling makeup artist. To put that in perspective, McCain's top foreign policy advisor only made $12,500 in the same period.
McCain's new campaign slogan: MILF the vote!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/23/08 04:37 - 49ºF - ID#46282
On a happier note
You should watch it, even if it looks familiar. Trust me.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/23/08 02:29 - 49ºF - ID#46278
Palin: I'm so AWESOME!
You are such a great, principled woman. You could of had an abortion, but you didn't! You would have been tempted to abort one of those horrible, ugly, demi-human's with Down's syndrome. But you are so filled with conviction that you didn't kill this disgusting offspring.
Dobson reminded Palin that he sent her a letter after her infant son, Trig was born saying the baby's birth was "a powerful testimony" to the "sanctity of human life." Trig was born 6 months ago with Down Syndrome.
She told Dobson that Trig's birth was "an opportunity for me to really be walking the walk, and not just talking the talk" on her opposition to abortion.
maybe I am just a little pissed off at this woman, maybe I am a little sensitive about this issue lately, maybe it is the way this article was framed. But these remarks do not come off well, as if there was doubt that an absolute stance against abortion applied to other human beings we value less.
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10/23/08 09:13 - 38ºF - ID#46269
Jacob Bronowski
The first series that got me hooked on these epic, far reaching TV series was Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man. He was a prominent mathematician, but his mind was not bound by mere numbers. He was more of a numbers-based anthropologist, able to dissect what it is to be human through the lens of science. Much like one of my favorite authors, Lauren Eisley.
The Ascent of Man talked about not just science, but the scientific mind and the unraveling of the human story. Filmed at the height of cold war tension, the series is an appeal to the scientific reason which both brought us to the verge of annihilation, and could being us back. Here is the final clip, where Bronowski goes to Auschwitz, where many of his friends and family members were killed.
It is one of the most moving pieces of film I have ever seen.
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