Friday, February 29, 2008
The Scream
Have you ever felt like you've heard that scream before? I mean when you're watching an action flick and you hear this scream, a prolonged and rather anguished Aaaaaah that trails off a the end, and you think to yourself, "I've heard that before somewhere." Well, it turns out you're right, in fact, you've probably heard it many, many times before. Read more (and watch a video) about the "Wilhelm Scream" here.
- Mr. Ed
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Gosh
It's been a busy few days, what with the road trip, the birth of Ella, the late nights and the long flight delays. I'm tired, so here's some P Club goodness bullet point stylee.
~ More joy fromOur Hearts are Electric What should we have for dinner:
~ The New Yorker continues to outdo itself:
~ This speaks for itself:
moar humorous pics
~ And finally, you've got to hand it to him, Bill's got a point...
- Mr. Ed
~ More joy from
- Another marvelous missive from BDS:
"Not only does the emperor not have any new clothes, he’s not even the emperor—he’s just some loser in a cable knit sweater who’s really into Norah Jones".
- "I've done a lot of bad things in my life..."
~ The New Yorker continues to outdo itself:
- Carbon Footprints, what's all that about then eh? Don't miss the mention of John Elkington right at the end.
- A rather nifty Salman Rushdie short story.
- The Phillipines, 1901 - the US Army learns to waterboard, and that's not an obtuse reference to Robert Duval.
~ This speaks for itself:
moar humorous pics
~ And finally, you've got to hand it to him, Bill's got a point...
- Mr. Ed
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Ella est arrivée!
Friday, February 15, 2008
A break from the Obamania
The teaser trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie is up on youtube:
Even if it ends up being crap, right now the prospect of more Indy adventures gets my hooves a thumpin'.
- Mr Ed
Even if it ends up being crap, right now the prospect of more Indy adventures gets my hooves a thumpin'.
- Mr Ed
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Super-duper Tuesday so far...
Well, so far it seems to be a dead heat. In the long run I'd say that favours the challenger, and despite pulling alomst level with the Hildog tonight, Obama remains the outsider and that's a powerful position. California is a big prize for Clinton to be sure, ditto Mass. and NJ. On the other hand, wins in Connecticut, Missouri, Colorado and the other western states should hearten Obamaniacs. One thing I hope we can put to rest tonight though is whether Obama can win white votes: YES HE CAN. After all - Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, Idaho, Colorado, Utah and Alaska are not exactly "Jesse Jackson" territory. Enough of my attempts at punditry, I'll give over to a master, and steal a whole post, photo and all:
Image nabbed from here
Heading off to bed now,
- Mr. Ed
Image nabbed from here
Among Obama's states: Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Kansas, Alabama. His geographic reach is remarkable. His speech - just so glaringly, embarrassingly, surpassingly superior to his opponent's - has a theme of national unity and an end to identity politics. He actually rebukes voting on the basis of race whereas Clinton championed her role as a woman in politics. That's the difference. A reference to Washington's "dramas and distractions." An invocation of the wave of mortgage foreclosures. He praises Clinton by name but then puts the boot in - on lobbyists, Iraq, Iran, torture. And he's actually making tax hikes for the rich a positive reason to vote for him. No, Senator Clinton, he is not Ronald Reagan. And he is not George W. Bush: "We will make mistakes."
Look: he's a liberal. I'm not. But I'm not immune to this moment in history and this candidate's broad appeal. He appeals to the liberal in all of us. And it may be time for such a swing of the pendulum. Frankly, if that's going to happen, I'd rather have Obama represent that shift than almost anyone else.
If he loses California, the race goes on and he may not ultimately win the nomination. But he will have won this campaign. And he will have won the argument.
Heading off to bed now,
- Mr. Ed
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Shining
Here's a little break from the wall-to-wall poli-blogging. This is the winning entry in a competition to re-cut movie trailers. From the NYT:
In other news it's super-duper Tuesday, so I expect we'll be back to the political side of things later today...
- Mr. Ed
Robert Ryang, 25, a film editor’s assistant in Manhattan, graduated from Columbia three years ago with a double major in film studies and psychology. This week, he got an eye-opening lesson in both.
Since 2002, Mr. Ryang has worked for one of the owners of P.S. 260, a commercial postproduction house, cutting commercials for the likes of Citizens Bank, Cingular and the TriBeCa Film Festival.
A few weeks back, he said, he entered a contest for editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer for it – but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals, he said.
Mr. Ryang chose “The Shining,” Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. In his hands, it became a saccharine comedy — about a writer struggling to find his muse and a boy lonely for a father. Gilding the lily, he even set it against “Solsbury Hill,” the way-too-overused Peter Gabriel song heard in comedies billed as life-changing experiences, like last year’s “In Good Company.
In other news it's super-duper Tuesday, so I expect we'll be back to the political side of things later today...
- Mr. Ed
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