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Wednesday, September 23
Females On Film
by
ed
on Wed 23 Sep 2009 01:00 AM BST
Interesting article about how women are portrayed in films Excerpt: cli⋅ché
1. a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually
expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost
originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse, as sadder but
wiser, or strong as an ox.
2. (in art, literature, drama, etc.) a trite or hackneyed plot, character development, use of color, musical expression, etc.
3. anything that has become trite or commonplace through overuse.
There's not much that's more irksome than clichés -- the flesh-eating
fungus of Hollywood, the virus that makes Tinseltown's already rampant
repetition all the more tiresome. They're completely trite and
overused, but the cinematic machine clings to them like they're
energy-giving oil.More here
Tuesday, September 22
10 Best Things We'll Say to Our Grandkids
by
ed
on Tue 22 Sep 2009 10:41 PM BST
1. Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters.
2. There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down.
3. Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in their head. For more, visit the original article at Wired.com
From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.
by
ed
on Tue 22 Sep 2009 06:00 AM BST
This is an interesting article, surprisingly. This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg.
It is the ... more »
Monday, September 14
10 Less
by
ed
on Mon 14 Sep 2009 11:00 AM BST
From hereThis week Twitter announced changes to its Terms of Service spelling out that you own your Tweets, and that Twitter ( ) can place ads next to your content. What’s more, Twitter wants to crack down on spammers, bots and other bad behavior.
eh?
by
ed
on Mon 14 Sep 2009 08:00 AM BST
Excerpt: I'm
going to NYC today for a meeting sponsored by the World Economic Forum
tomorrow, isolated and secure on Governor's Island. (Jeez, have they no
sense of: a) sybmolism; b) irony ?) I don't actually understand what
the meeting is about or for, but the attendees seem to be about 35
people from the entertainment industry and a few miscellaneous others.
The title of the event is "Barbarians at the Gate."
Here's
a draft of what I plan on saying during my 7 minute slot on the first
panel of the morning. Your comments and suggestions would be greatly
appreciated because I'm feeling quite insecure about this:
More
Sunday, September 13
Baffling Squabbles.
by
ed
on Sun 13 Sep 2009 10:00 PM BST
The fight scene is the single most important and meaningful expression
in cinema. Without it, the inspirational montage would not exist, “I
know karate” would not be the playground’s Neutron Bomb, and Rocky
would just be another mentally diminished meathead from Philadelphia
(which is like being a teardrop in an ocean of sadness). More>>>
Thursday, September 3
Well, he would, wouldn't he?
by
ed
on Thu 03 Sep 2009 10:00 PM BST
From here
Church Advertising with
'Satan' SignsUpdated: Tuesday, 01 Sep 2009, 10:48 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 31 Aug 2009, 10:54 PM EDT
TRENTON, Mich. (WJBK) - It's a case of good
versus evil in Trenton and there are signs everywhere to prove it. A
church is sending a message of hate, but it's not as bad as it sounds. We all see signs everywhere, but this one is different and dare we say devilish. It's a message signed by Satan. "He
says that Metro South Church sucks," said Jon Whaley. Another reads,
"MetroSouthChurch.com is killing me," and it is also signed Satan. "There's
so much noise out there that if you don't do something that's a little
bit more on the edge, people just ignore it, and so we thought this
will probably be creative enough to catch people's attention," said
Youth Pastor Adam Dorband.
Wednesday, September 2
Drinking
by
ed
on Wed 02 Sep 2009 03:00 AM BST
As creatures go, the Sloth is not one of the most attractive. It can't act, sing, dance or write prose. It would win Bulagarias' Got Talent. Narrowly. But they like a bevvy. 
Delights and Snow
by
ed
on Wed 02 Sep 2009 12:00 AM BST
I was delighted to learn of my favourite films, John Carpenters' The Thing, is actually now a classic of the man with beard stuck in some snow horror genre. 
Tuesday, September 1
Good Idea.
by
ed
on Tue 01 Sep 2009 10:28 PM BST
As ideas go, the War of Drugs didn't go all that well. Maybe it should have been a war on the people who make/sell/distribute drugs, as opposed to the clear meaning in the current term, which indicates being hostile to a pharmasists' stock room. In this article, from Esquire, an hypothosis is put forward which not only delights drug users, but also anyone running a late night chocolate supply shop.
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