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note: I wouldn’t, personally, consider this safe-for-work. there aren’t any unsafe pictures, however, just words.
it’s funny because it hurts
(tip o’ the hat to the great leap forward.)

learn, Hollywood, learn

(Detail of a photo at flickr)
. . .don’t we all?

I never made it through a whole Clancy novel, but I think I grasp the basic formula anyway: a bunch of factual background + some more-or-less plausible speculation + a chain of innocent-seeming coincidences = a thriller. Clancy, obviously, is hawkish, implicitly conservative, explicitly technophilic.
This is an idea for a techno/political thriller rooted in somewhat […]

Three cheeers for

not found sculpture. found ground fresco?

Considerable blather I wanna inflict on y’all, but a paucity of typing time. Mebbe over the weekend, although it looks to be a busy one.
In the meantime, quickly: we watched Team America: World Police. I had extremely mixed feelings about it, mostly because while it certainly was a parody of jingoist warmongering action flicks, I’m […]

oh, why not