Tzimtzum, or: Here There Be Tygers.
I saw the Life Of Pi today. Just a few quick thoughts… 1. It was good. I have never read the book, and usually avoid even transcendentally good and well hyped books if reviewers promise that they’ll...
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Found this online today: God bless the internet. If you’ve been listening to Greedo Shot First or Time Travel Murder Mystery then you know that I’m definite supporters of Idris Elba as Han Solo (in a...
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I’m not too afraid of the hypothetical end of the world. Everyone else will be cowering in fear with their loved ones, stockpiling water and canned goods, maybe praying for forgiveness and shit before...
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I repeat this a lot, but this is one of my favorite quotes, and it comes from Klaus Kinski’s autobiography, Kinksi Uncut: “I once asked a Gypsy girlfriend whether she ever went to the theater or the...
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I saw Hitchcock today. Just a few quick thoughts… 1. The nicest thing you can say about this movie was that it was witty and clever, but it’s ultimately very light fare. So much of this movie is...
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from here. Tomorrow is the end of the world as we know it. Only, you know, it’s not. I have somewhat of a New Age streak to me, but a lot of this 13 bak’tun, Nibiru, and “galactic synchronization...
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On our Star Wars podcast a few weeks ago, I was threatening that I was going to write a monograph about Ewan McGregor’s hair in films, and I’m sure Benjamin Light thought I was just joking. He probably...
View ArticleWhat They Blogged For.
Before we say our final goodbye, I just wanted to leave you with a random sampling of posts from some of my favorite people on this blog: Benjie’s Skyrim addiction. Occam Razor on “The Seven Robots...
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. As it has been written, and promised, and prophesied, so it is, and so it has come to pass: This is the last post for Counterforce. I’m going to try to...
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