Unhelpful

And what do we do when the desire to review a movie vastly outpaces the need for a review?

It could be argued that there is about as much need to proselytize about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as there is to run a public service campaign about the long-term benefits of breathing. There are only three types of people who will not see this movie: people who do not care for movies, people who do not like fantasy movies, and the most extreme fundamentalist minority of Tolkien purists who had convinced themselves that they were honor-bound to despise this production even before Liv Tyler was cast. It is, assuredly, their loss. Those three groups do not need a review. The majority of regular movie viewers have already seen the movie, or have plans to, and a review is not going to change their minds. Why, then, do I even bother discussing this movie? Read more »

Frosty’s WWII poster fun page

The six of you who read the site regularly have noticed that, for a long time, the link to Frosty’s WWII poster fun page was under the heading “where did this site go”, and for a lot longer than that, it was simply a dead link.

After preserving it for private use via a slow, fairly unreliable archive, I was debating publicizing the archive. As is not too surprising for a cob-web of several years, the provided e-mail link to Frosty has been as dead as the site. Several alternatives presented themselves:

] I could provide an unreliable link to an archive that is very often down, and is terribly slow by 28.8K modem standards even when it’s up.

] I could continue to host a private archive available only to people I correspond with regularly.

] I could host the archive publicly with a disclaimer making it very clear that this is not my creation, and that all credit is due to Frosty - whoever and wherever he might be.

I chose the latter. Read more »

Don’t doubt it for a second.

If we don’t fly to Vegas to spend $3,500, then the terrorists win.
If we don’t buy Britney Spears albums, then the terrorists win.
If we don’t spend money on frivolous luxuries, then the terrorists win.
If we’re forced to care about world events instead of stupid shit like college football, the Grammys, and the relationship of Jennifer Anniston and Brad Pitt, then the terrorists win.

By throwing away our First Amendment rights, however, apparently we win.

Apparently this is what America thinks. Read more »