What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema. Hulk take all effort of cinema, effort getting babysitter, effort finding parking, and Hulk put great green fist right through it. Hulk crush all hopes of entertainment. Hulk in boring film.
weird: Covering up the Ivanhoe reservoir
(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
[p.s.] Robot vs. Dog
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Christian the pet lion
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this video and flickr set makes me have smiles:
via back in the pack
OMG Randy Thom is coming to the university of edinburgh in ten days. I'll get to meet him! geekfest 9000!
In Defense of Regulation from Rustbelt Intellectual.
There are a lot of good links on the second page also.
Who's hungry for...
http://www.postrapturepets.com/Planning.html
# You'll need some kind of auto dispenser as well. The Rapture and Tribulation times will be very chaotic, so something with a battery backup may be a good idea.
I hope it is not gauche to start two new threads in a row, but I wanted to separate my politics and my video games.
Nice charts on declining iPhone prices.
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Very interesting post from Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland.
"In 1964, Lyndon Johnson—and, apparently, liberalism—achieved such a gigantic landslide victory that it appeared to pundits the Republican Party would be forever consigned to the outer darkness if it ever entertained a Goldwater-style conservative law-and-order platform again. Two years later, most of the new liberal congressmen swept in on LBJ's coattails—the congressional class that gave us Medicare and Medicaid, the first serious environmental legislation, National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the end of racist immigration quotas, Legal Aid, and more—was swept out on a tide of popular reaction.
That reaction, I hope I demonstrate effectively in NIXONLAND, rested on two pillars: terror at the wave of urban rioting that began in the Watts district of Los Angeles; and terror at the prospect of the 1966 civil rights bill passing, which, by imposing an ironclad federal ban on racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing—known as "open housing"—would be the first legislation to impact the entire nation equally, not just the South. (What that reaction most decidedly did not rest on: fear and loathing of "hippies," which were unknown, except in California, to most of the nation until 1967; or antiwar activists, which were not associated with either party, because Republicans and Democrats had about an equal number of hawks and doves in 1966.)"
oh nice:
raiders of the lost ark shot for shot remake screening in pittsburgh, filmmakers present. I am soooo going to this.
i want a shirt that says, "if you hate gays, you are supporting the terrorists."
(btw, this week's nytimes magazine is "the architecture issue")