Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Are The Critics Keen To Hook Up With The Farrelly Brothers' New Fox Sitcom U...
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As I mentioned yesterday, I read Murakami's After the Quake. It's a small collection of short stories. For those of you who don't know Murakami, he's written a number of pretty amazing books, including The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Dance, Dance, Dance, Norwegian Wood, After Dark, and many, many, others (those are the one's I've read, or, in the case of Wood, the one I've started). I think he's billed as Japan's premier novelist or something, but, then again, that could just be this ignorent American's mistake.
All of the short stories in Quake are set, as you might imagine from the title, after the Kobe earthquake. Murikami almost always includes these empty, disaffected characters, some almost-unsolvable mystery, tangible manifestations of emotions and emotional manifestations of physical objects. The objects and happenings in his works are almost always unconnected, but there's an emotional logic or a gut-level connction between them that's hard to pin down. His stuff has the tendency to hit you later on: when you're trying to fall asleep or outside walking to dinner.
Check it out.
Lastly, I want to highlight another Oberlin blog: Tendencies by filmaker and generally rad dude, Jon C____.
You can find scripts he's written, brief write-ups of shit he likes, a lot of things that go over my head because I know shit about films and, apparently, have horrible taste in them (at least, that's what I hear from my friends who know what they're talking about, and, you know what, Sydney White is an exquisite film, and I don't care what you say, Cody). You'll also note some divisions on the blogroll. Not that you, my faithful reader(s) care. Enjoy, nonetheless.
Later on Oberliner, more Doom Patrol and the re-incarnation of a blog.
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Monday, July 2, 2007
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Nobody's going to pay anything for my death certificate when I'm gone...
I Love Lucy cast death certificates and wills on eBay - TV Squad
Someone is selling the death certificates and wills of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley on ebay. These aren't just one page descriptions of the date and manner of death, they are the actual detailed wills that they wrote before they died. Lucy didn't want to be embalmed and wanted to make sure her brother Fred and his wife didn't get anything. Desi made sure his mom was cared for. Vance left most of her estate to her much younger husband, and Frawley's will has a lot of bills and notes from creditors attached. It's probably interesting reading, but creepy.
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Someone is selling the death certificates and wills of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley on ebay. These aren't just one page descriptions of the date and manner of death, they are the actual detailed wills that they wrote before they died. Lucy didn't want to be embalmed and wanted to make sure her brother Fred and his wife didn't get anything. Desi made sure his mom was cared for. Vance left most of her estate to her much younger husband, and Frawley's will has a lot of bills and notes from creditors attached. It's probably interesting reading, but creepy.
M!
ID THEFT 101: BEAUTY CONS HER WAY ONTO IVYS' ROLLS AS AN ED. RINGER
ID THEFT 101: BEAUTY CONS HER WAY ONTO IVYS' ROLLS AS AN ED. RINGER By LUKAS I. ALPERT - New York News New York City News NY News
(you've gotta love the Post's headlines)
My favorite bit?
But investigators also stumbled upon some alarming information.
At least one soldier's family told Campbell they saw that Reed frequently received large amounts of money wired to her from Germany and Italy. She also placed numerous lengthy calls to people in the Netherlands. And at some point, she traveled to Florida to have plastic surgery done on her face.
Then she allegedly tried to get a cadet to furnish her with a certificate from the Army's assault school.
"At this point, it started sounding like it could be espionage and not just identity theft," Campbell said.
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(you've gotta love the Post's headlines)
My favorite bit?
But investigators also stumbled upon some alarming information.
At least one soldier's family told Campbell they saw that Reed frequently received large amounts of money wired to her from Germany and Italy. She also placed numerous lengthy calls to people in the Netherlands. And at some point, she traveled to Florida to have plastic surgery done on her face.
Then she allegedly tried to get a cadet to furnish her with a certificate from the Army's assault school.
"At this point, it started sounding like it could be espionage and not just identity theft," Campbell said.
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Scripts
Odds and ends: http://www.dailyscript.com/tv.html
Even more odds and ends: http://www.simplyscripts.com/tv_all.html
Twin Peaks: http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/index.html
Even more odds and ends: http://www.simplyscripts.com/tv_all.html
Twin Peaks: http://www.glastonberrygrove.net/texts/index.html
If God were to piss acid urine down on the earth killing all the squirrels, no one would notice
Cumbria - The Lake District: Wordsworth Rap
It's a squirrel rapping Wordsworth.
Pulled this off somebody's facebook profile a while back when I was trudging for anything to keep me away from paper writing.
I don't know how to implant videos onto this thing. Fuck computers.
M!
It's a squirrel rapping Wordsworth.
Pulled this off somebody's facebook profile a while back when I was trudging for anything to keep me away from paper writing.
I don't know how to implant videos onto this thing. Fuck computers.
M!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Invention: Furry TV - tech - 23 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Invention: Furry TV - tech - 23 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Furry vision
How would you like to watch a television screen that is also soft and pleasant to the touch? Welcome to Furry TV. It's no joke: consumer electronics company Philips says a single pixel can be made out of a piece of fabric covered with hair-like strands.
Here's how it works: imagine the fabric is red and the hair is blue. With the hairs lying flat obscuring the fabric beneath, the pixel looks blue. But applying an electrostatic charge causes the hairs to repel each other and stand on end.
This reveals the fabric underneath and changes the pixel from blue to red. With an array of pixels, Philips says it should be possible to build a furry display that can show complete images. The company hopes to build furry displays into outfits. But does that mean we would all have to dress like Teletubbies?
Read the full Furry TV patent application.
Furry vision
How would you like to watch a television screen that is also soft and pleasant to the touch? Welcome to Furry TV. It's no joke: consumer electronics company Philips says a single pixel can be made out of a piece of fabric covered with hair-like strands.
Here's how it works: imagine the fabric is red and the hair is blue. With the hairs lying flat obscuring the fabric beneath, the pixel looks blue. But applying an electrostatic charge causes the hairs to repel each other and stand on end.
This reveals the fabric underneath and changes the pixel from blue to red. With an array of pixels, Philips says it should be possible to build a furry display that can show complete images. The company hopes to build furry displays into outfits. But does that mean we would all have to dress like Teletubbies?
Read the full Furry TV patent application.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Flagellation ritual exposes Filipinos to rabies - health - 19 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Flagellation ritual exposes Filipinos to rabies - health - 19 April 2007 - New Scientist Tech
More than a hundred men in the Philippines may have contracted rabies after taking part in a self-flagellation ritual to mark Good Friday, doctors and local authorities said on Thursday.
A health alert was issued after a man who took part in the traditional ceremony – where participants slash their backs with knifes before flaying themselves with bamboo whips – died from the virus on 11 April.
Mario Morales, the mayor of Mabalacat in Pampanga province north of Manila, told local media that Eduardo Sese may have contaminated up to 100 people who shared knives to cut themselves. He was bitten by an infected dog in February 2007.
The government doctor in Pampanga, Maria Clara Aquino, said vaccines had been given to 103 people who could have been exposed.
More than a hundred men in the Philippines may have contracted rabies after taking part in a self-flagellation ritual to mark Good Friday, doctors and local authorities said on Thursday.
A health alert was issued after a man who took part in the traditional ceremony – where participants slash their backs with knifes before flaying themselves with bamboo whips – died from the virus on 11 April.
Mario Morales, the mayor of Mabalacat in Pampanga province north of Manila, told local media that Eduardo Sese may have contaminated up to 100 people who shared knives to cut themselves. He was bitten by an infected dog in February 2007.
The government doctor in Pampanga, Maria Clara Aquino, said vaccines had been given to 103 people who could have been exposed.
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