Windows Live Messenger - the only communicative system with issues against free speech
Saturday, 10. May 2008, 09:41:59
They're blocking messages with "www.youtube.com" in them. How hilariously sad isn't that?
Posts tagged with "politics"
Living in America
Monday, 28. April 2008, 22:16:50
Occasionally friends ask why I'll write movies -- they're a huge drain on time and emotion, most of the scripts one writes simply do not get made, and when they do get made it's all-too-often nothing like the thing that you thought you were writing, and unlike novels you've given up control from the outset, you can find yourself being lied to or fired or cheated, and while I make a lot of money writing scripts I make a lot more money writing books, which I own and control for ever, and from which I get foreign income, and so on. And I say "Health Insurance," and if they're from America they normally get it, while people from countries that regard healthcare as a human right, like education, think I'm mad.- Neil Gaiman
The Severity Of An American Presidential Election
Sunday, 20. April 2008, 13:01:29
Democracy - Some random musings
Friday, 18. April 2008, 12:44:34
If you put me against the wall and push a gun towards my head, I might allow agreeing that democracy is a somewhat functional form of government that, despite a number of obvious flaws, seems to presently be better than most or even all realistic alternatives.
Stress on the "might".
And given that everybody who run things seem to think that democracy can do no wrong - I'll have you know, by the way, that Socrates was very critical of democracy, and that's before they voted to kill him, so there (and do you really think you're smarter than Socrates, Jensen? Stoltenberg? Gahr St-, eh, Solberg? I didn't think so) - my thoughts are, that should be at least somewhat consistent, right?
So how come nobody is proposing making the media democratically run?
I mean, really. The people who tell us what to do are democratically run. The people who punish us if we don't are democratically run. Why aren't the people who tell us what to know?
Why isn't there a rule that says that as soon as some form of media gain an audience-base of a certain percentage of the nation, the chief editor of said media becomes a democratically elected position? Or at least controlled by some board of elected officials? I'm not saying that'd work. I'm not remotely in the vicinity of suggesting that. I'm asking why that isn't seen as equally reasonable as having elected representatives on the school board of private schools, or heck, as having anything run by elected people whatsoever.
The media has a lot of power - more so, in some ways, than many governmental institutions. I'm not talking about making them part of the government here. I'm just asking why, in a democratical society where people go bananas about how great this whole voting-concept is on a pseudo-regular basis, why isn't the principle applied to the people that hand us our information? The information, note, that we then use to go and vote on the basis of. For everything but the source of the information. Is that intuitive? Does that follow the ideals of democracy applied to a society? I don't know - I'm just asking.
And don't come running with some capitalist explanation about the market having a democratical effect on the media unless you're willing to follow that logic to the end. If the guy who tells you what's true and what's important can be elected by the forces of the market, then so can the guy who tows you in for disorderly behaviour. Meaning that you're in favour of privatising the policeforce. And probably the army, too.
The country is run by the beuracracy. The elected officials just sit on top of the pyramid making the big decisions. I'm not suggesting that journalism becomes a job you run for. I'm just asking where the officials on top are.
It is weird, right? I'm just asking.
Stress on the "might".
And given that everybody who run things seem to think that democracy can do no wrong - I'll have you know, by the way, that Socrates was very critical of democracy, and that's before they voted to kill him, so there (and do you really think you're smarter than Socrates, Jensen? Stoltenberg? Gahr St-, eh, Solberg? I didn't think so) - my thoughts are, that should be at least somewhat consistent, right?
So how come nobody is proposing making the media democratically run?
I mean, really. The people who tell us what to do are democratically run. The people who punish us if we don't are democratically run. Why aren't the people who tell us what to know?
Why isn't there a rule that says that as soon as some form of media gain an audience-base of a certain percentage of the nation, the chief editor of said media becomes a democratically elected position? Or at least controlled by some board of elected officials? I'm not saying that'd work. I'm not remotely in the vicinity of suggesting that. I'm asking why that isn't seen as equally reasonable as having elected representatives on the school board of private schools, or heck, as having anything run by elected people whatsoever.
The media has a lot of power - more so, in some ways, than many governmental institutions. I'm not talking about making them part of the government here. I'm just asking why, in a democratical society where people go bananas about how great this whole voting-concept is on a pseudo-regular basis, why isn't the principle applied to the people that hand us our information? The information, note, that we then use to go and vote on the basis of. For everything but the source of the information. Is that intuitive? Does that follow the ideals of democracy applied to a society? I don't know - I'm just asking.
And don't come running with some capitalist explanation about the market having a democratical effect on the media unless you're willing to follow that logic to the end. If the guy who tells you what's true and what's important can be elected by the forces of the market, then so can the guy who tows you in for disorderly behaviour. Meaning that you're in favour of privatising the policeforce. And probably the army, too.
The country is run by the beuracracy. The elected officials just sit on top of the pyramid making the big decisions. I'm not suggesting that journalism becomes a job you run for. I'm just asking where the officials on top are.
It is weird, right? I'm just asking.
A travesty that should never have ocurred
Sunday, 30. March 2008, 16:24:46
I give you - with great sadness - the Signs of Modern Norway:
The beauty; gone. The charm; gone. The identity; gone. The soul. Gone.
All that remains are traffic signs. Anonymous traffic signs for anonymous traffic with anonymous people with anonymous lives in an increasingly anonymous country.
Damn them all.
The beauty; gone. The charm; gone. The identity; gone. The soul. Gone.
All that remains are traffic signs. Anonymous traffic signs for anonymous traffic with anonymous people with anonymous lives in an increasingly anonymous country.
Damn them all.
Holy mother of overdue
Friday, 7. March 2008, 19:52:37
Lets' just hope someone takes him up on his word.
(And my apologies to anyone not reading Norwegian; the gist of this is simply that a famous Norwegian political scientist is afraid of the possibility of someone starting up a political party fending for the interests of the West of Norway - 'cause we're in a situation much like the Scottish in Britain, having all the oil and comparatively very little of the benefits)
(And my apologies to anyone not reading Norwegian; the gist of this is simply that a famous Norwegian political scientist is afraid of the possibility of someone starting up a political party fending for the interests of the West of Norway - 'cause we're in a situation much like the Scottish in Britain, having all the oil and comparatively very little of the benefits)
A List to be Reckoned With
Monday, 3. March 2008, 21:38:29
The Most Badass US Presidents of All Time
Especially numbers 5 and 1 contain more awesome than you can shake a stick at.
Especially numbers 5 and 1 contain more awesome than you can shake a stick at.
On the day that he died
Sunday, 2. March 2008, 11:53:13
On the day that he died, Augustus frequently inquired whether rumours of his illness were causing any popular disturbance. He called for a mirror, and had his hair combed and his lower jaw, which had fallen from weakness, propped up. Presently he summoned a group of friends and asked:
"Have I played my part in the farce of life creditably enough?"
- The Twelve Caesars, by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, in Robert Graves' translation
Why the USA is a "republic" and not a "democracy":
Friday, 8. February 2008, 15:22:50
If every Athenian citizen were a Socrates, still every Athenian assembly would be a mob.
- Thomas Madison
Dear Diary
Tuesday, 5. February 2008, 15:25:04
Today, Santa Claus gave a lecture on the American revolution and early government, referencing Luke Skywalker, Napoleon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Superman, and then went on to state that "God wants greedy Americans" and "Sweeds are whimpy".
It was the best day ever.
It was the best day ever.
Homotrygdesnyltarmuslim
Sunday, 3. February 2008, 03:18:48
Og kanskje er det derfor det blir såpass lite bråk når forstandaren i Det Islamske Forbundet viser seg å mislike homofili. Basim Ghozlan meiner at homofili er synd, at homofili er avvik og avvik er sjukdom som bør kurerast, at aksept av homofili er farlig og at homofili ikkje bør straffast i Norge, men kanskje i andre land. Det er ikkje påfallande mange som har rast mot dette. Det har ikkje blitt ei stor sak, med lesarstorm og oppfølgjingsartiklar. Det manglar vanligvis ikkje på aggresjon når muslimske leiarar seier noko uhyrlig, men kanskje er problemet at mange som er aggressivt mot muslimar også er ganske aggressivt mot homofile. Det er ikkje lett når nokon ein misliker, misliker det same som ein sjølv.
- Are Kalvø, Homokommunistblitzar
Merry Christmas, everyone
Thursday, 27. December 2007, 17:46:55
Today, America’s skull is sitting right there in front of Russia’s crotch, its eyeball sockets all gooey and soft with nowhere to go. What will Russia do? Will this great nation unzip its fly, seize America by the hair, and skull-fuck it by championing Lakota’s independence? Or will Russia wuss out, and let this opportunity slip by with a mere complaint about the irony of the situation?
- The Editorial of The Exile, December 26th 2007.
Incredibly biased funnyness
Thursday, 20. December 2007, 20:03:22
Why he'd make an excellent comic book-villain
Tuesday, 27. November 2007, 15:27:02
Principles
Monday, 26. November 2007, 19:38:03
I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash & carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun.- Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce,
M*A*S*H 3x3: Officer of the Day
Brutal irony
Sunday, 25. November 2007, 10:51:58
The common people pray for rain, or healthy children, and a summer that never ends. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace.
They never are.
- Ser Jorah Mormont,
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.
You're all implored
Saturday, 17. November 2007, 20:18:16
...but by a Higher Authority than me.
I just spent a buck on behalf of "Dollhouse". I see some other people spend one on each show they watch, though, might be I'll consider going back to add a few.
I just spent a buck on behalf of "Dollhouse". I see some other people spend one on each show they watch, though, might be I'll consider going back to add a few.
Elizabeth and Elizabeth, one oldie and one goldie.
Friday, 16. November 2007, 00:11:51
Or something. (My puns pain even me. I'm sadomachopunny.)
Anyway, I recently saw Elizabeth: The Golden Age in the theatre, and then the day after (!) the first movie, Elizabeth, from the late 1990's aired on Norwegian television. So I saw that too. Ironically, I just the day before protested to the idea of a genre of "queen-movies", and, well... maybe there's something to it. Blanchett really pulls off this personal journey of the strong but untested woman in a man's world in the first one as well as the life of a woman cut off from a woman's life such as her time would have it be in the second.
As you've probably gathered by now, I thought they were good! Better than I thought they'd be. I actually preferred the sequel to the first one due to a series of reasons, foremost of which is probably simply the fact of having seen it in the cinema. Then again, the first one also had Elizabeth walk around be all unsure of herself the entire time, and she only got properly cool by the last scene, so I think that might have been a big influence on preferring the sequel - especially after seeing it first and thus expecting her to be cool in the first one only to find that she's not. (With the exception of the very clever treatment of the duke of Anjou, anyway) Because, by comparison, the sequel had Elizabeth go about her ruling very, very convicingly capable manner, and thus she came off as quite cool, though no less conflicted when in private than she was in the first one.
I should add, I love Cate Blanchett when she's in regal-mode, in the end-scene of the first one as well as in key scenes in the sequel she speaks in a certain commanding manner which quite frankly rocks like crazy. I dare even the most inane republican not to get a tiny little closet-feeling of royalism if he'd been in the room with a queen speaking to him like that.
Geoffrey Rush's Walsingham was awesome, but he had, like, no screen-time at all in the first one - and I already thought he had little to do in the sequel and was expecting there to be more of him in the first, not less. This was a huge disappointment. Also, I preferred Clive Owen's Sir Raleigh greatly to Joseph Fiennes' Eal of Leicester as far as romantic interests go, and the plot surrounding it, too, was more interesting in the sequel. However, Owen's Raleigh might have been painted a tiny tad too much the unflawed hero for my tastes, so I'm not exclusively positive.
All in all, two very strong movies. I'd give Elizabeth a weak 8 out of 10 (if I ever do a rewatch, I might retcon this post into showing 7,5) and The Golden Age a fair 8,5/10.
Anyway, I recently saw Elizabeth: The Golden Age in the theatre, and then the day after (!) the first movie, Elizabeth, from the late 1990's aired on Norwegian television. So I saw that too. Ironically, I just the day before protested to the idea of a genre of "queen-movies", and, well... maybe there's something to it. Blanchett really pulls off this personal journey of the strong but untested woman in a man's world in the first one as well as the life of a woman cut off from a woman's life such as her time would have it be in the second.
As you've probably gathered by now, I thought they were good! Better than I thought they'd be. I actually preferred the sequel to the first one due to a series of reasons, foremost of which is probably simply the fact of having seen it in the cinema. Then again, the first one also had Elizabeth walk around be all unsure of herself the entire time, and she only got properly cool by the last scene, so I think that might have been a big influence on preferring the sequel - especially after seeing it first and thus expecting her to be cool in the first one only to find that she's not. (With the exception of the very clever treatment of the duke of Anjou, anyway) Because, by comparison, the sequel had Elizabeth go about her ruling very, very convicingly capable manner, and thus she came off as quite cool, though no less conflicted when in private than she was in the first one.
I should add, I love Cate Blanchett when she's in regal-mode, in the end-scene of the first one as well as in key scenes in the sequel she speaks in a certain commanding manner which quite frankly rocks like crazy. I dare even the most inane republican not to get a tiny little closet-feeling of royalism if he'd been in the room with a queen speaking to him like that.
Geoffrey Rush's Walsingham was awesome, but he had, like, no screen-time at all in the first one - and I already thought he had little to do in the sequel and was expecting there to be more of him in the first, not less. This was a huge disappointment. Also, I preferred Clive Owen's Sir Raleigh greatly to Joseph Fiennes' Eal of Leicester as far as romantic interests go, and the plot surrounding it, too, was more interesting in the sequel. However, Owen's Raleigh might have been painted a tiny tad too much the unflawed hero for my tastes, so I'm not exclusively positive.
All in all, two very strong movies. I'd give Elizabeth a weak 8 out of 10 (if I ever do a rewatch, I might retcon this post into showing 7,5) and The Golden Age a fair 8,5/10.
Whatever you do, kill Brutus!
Sunday, 11. November 2007, 18:57:19
For he who seizes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who sets a state free and does not kill Brutus' sons, maintains himself but a little while.- Machiavelli, Discourses
Power and control
Saturday, 10. November 2007, 13:34:09
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.- Joss Whedon, today (November 10th 2007), Whedonesque.
Cicero again
Wednesday, 7. November 2007, 22:14:48
(Sorry, but it's the nature of studying a field where he wrote half the surviving source material)
Anyway, I just found this bit funny:
The man sure knew how not to point out stuff.
(Oh, and for those interested, the context is his arguing for giving Pompey a province of unprecedented size to govern...)
Anyway, I just found this bit funny:
I will not bother to point out here that our ancestors obeyed custom in times of peace, but necessity in times of war, always developing new plans and policies to meet the new crises of the day.- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Lege Manilia (On the Manilian Law)
The man sure knew how not to point out stuff.
(Oh, and for those interested, the context is his arguing for giving Pompey a province of unprecedented size to govern...)
See, this is why Joss is boss
Wednesday, 7. November 2007, 00:02:46
(God, that rhyme is painful no matter how true it might be)
Anyway, to anyone who might read this but don't read whedonesque and is marginally interested in the writer's strike, Joss Whedon, unions, writing as a job, zombies or funny essays should check out this. ^^
Anyway, to anyone who might read this but don't read whedonesque and is marginally interested in the writer's strike, Joss Whedon, unions, writing as a job, zombies or funny essays should check out this. ^^
Machiavelli would be delirious
Saturday, 3. November 2007, 04:33:10
A true ruler is as moral as a hurricane. Empty, but for the force of his gale.- Illyria, Angel 5x19: Time Bomb
Prey to wicked men
Tuesday, 30. October 2007, 13:59:11
As Machiavelli concludes - with an irony worthy of Gibbon - the price we have paid for the fact that Christianity 'shows us the truth and the true way' is that it 'has made the world weak and turned it over as prey to wicked men'.- Quentin Skinner on Machiavelli's Discourses, in Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction
I, Claudius - update
Sunday, 28. October 2007, 19:00:02
Originally posted this as a comment on a previous post, but it felt more like a new proper post in its own right, so here it is:
I've watched eight (out of thirteen, I think) of these episodes - meaning I've prioritized this above both Rome season 2 commentaries, the past week's Prison Break and Stargate Atlantis, and, up 'til today, the season premiere of Scrubs - and I have to say, I'm hooked. Sure, compared to series that AREN'T from 1976, it's linear, slow-moving, and somewhat predictable even for people without knowledge about the historical events it portrays. However; I really, really enjoy it. Especially how it keeps getting better after the first four episodes, when the relatively peaceful reign of Augustus is ended and the streets yet again start flowing with blood and terror.
I'm about to start on Caligula's reign. *shudders* He's already creeping me out, and he isn't even emperor. And there, in the back, looming like, well, like only a thoroughly mad Roman Emperor can loom, awaits Nero.
I can't make up my mind if I'm dreading this, or if I'm psyched!
"My dear, you look like a Greek tragedy!"- Tiberius and Agrippina the elder
"And you look like a Roman farce."
I've watched eight (out of thirteen, I think) of these episodes - meaning I've prioritized this above both Rome season 2 commentaries, the past week's Prison Break and Stargate Atlantis, and, up 'til today, the season premiere of Scrubs - and I have to say, I'm hooked. Sure, compared to series that AREN'T from 1976, it's linear, slow-moving, and somewhat predictable even for people without knowledge about the historical events it portrays. However; I really, really enjoy it. Especially how it keeps getting better after the first four episodes, when the relatively peaceful reign of Augustus is ended and the streets yet again start flowing with blood and terror.
I'm about to start on Caligula's reign. *shudders* He's already creeping me out, and he isn't even emperor. And there, in the back, looming like, well, like only a thoroughly mad Roman Emperor can loom, awaits Nero.
I can't make up my mind if I'm dreading this, or if I'm psyched!
...and here's one that's just rightly timed...
Thursday, 30. August 2007, 23:23:36
Unlike the last post, this post is a tiny little fan-rave to a character who hasn't been around in the "West Wing" for long at the point I'm at (late sixth season) - Alan Alda's Senator Vinick. But by golly... I caught a few episodes of the seventh season before I started my whole see-the-entire-series-project, and he was in those too. And, wow... I mean, the Santos-character is great. Fracking fantastic presidental-material, by all means, but Vinick... As for pure charisma, you don't get any better than Alan Alda in this role. Republican or no republican. Back then, when I caught those random episodes, I kept thinking, as I do now - "wow. I'd be hard-pressed not to vote for this guy".
Now, if he could just stop with the bloody tax-cuts already.
Now, if he could just stop with the bloody tax-cuts already.
180 AD, Speratus' Trial
Thursday, 23. August 2007, 18:15:44
In AD 180 [...] another group of Christians came before the Roman governor at Carthage. Their leader was one Speratus. Christian eyewitneses later recorded their version of events in the form of a trial transcript.
Governor: You may merit the clemency of our lord, the emperor, if you return to a right mind.
Speratus: We have never committed any wrong, we have never been party to any wicked deed, we have never uttered a curse, but we have given thanks when ill-treated because we honour our own emperor.
Governor: We also are a religious people and our religion is simple: we swear by our lord, the emperor, and pray for his safety, as you also ought to do.
Speratus: I do not recognise the empire of this world; but rather I serve that God whom with these eyes no man has seen, nor can see.
Governor: Cease to be of this persuasion.
Speratus: But that is evil.
Governor: Do you presist in remaining a Christian?
Speratus: I am a Christian.
Governor: Do you not wish any time for consideration?
Speratus: When right is so obvious there is nothing to consider.
Governor: Have a reprieve of thirty days and think it over.
Speratus: I am a Christian.
As Speratus became increasingly subversive in his remarks, the governor was forced, still unwillingly, to order his execution. [...] As Speratus' trial reveals, in the face of Roman disinterest, many Christians had to try quite hard to get themselves thrown to the lions.
- "The Roman Empire - a very short introduction" by Christopher Kelly, page 89-90.
Seriously. It's like a bloody Monty Python-sketch.
The Polish wants to vote as though they didn't lose millions of inhabitants in the second world war
Friday, 22. June 2007, 21:36:05
Sure, but in that case, I want the English crown to pay Norway tribute as though we never lost at Hastings. Oh, oh, and the Native Americans should get to vote in the US elections as though there are as many of them as there'd be if no European ever crossed the Atlantic.
(And we should all have toilet seats made out of solid gold.)
What? I can't be feeling glee that the European Union is making a mockery of itself?
(And we should all have toilet seats made out of solid gold.)
What? I can't be feeling glee that the European Union is making a mockery of itself?
Robin Williams Live
Wednesday, 28. February 2007, 06:22:38
I was hugely impressed by how long the guy can run around on stage, half-shouting, more often in funny-voices than in his real one, without, well, fracking dying.
It started out a bit crude and boring, in my eyes, but while he did keep the humour very playfully and kind-spirited politically incorrect throughout, it improved, in my opinion, and he was really funny in some parts. He's an inherently very funny man, he is, his taste in jokes was just a little overly focused on two things: sex and ethnic/national stereotypes. Especially the former was a bit... uncomfortable, in the long run, I know I'm more or less alone in thinking this, but there are limits to how many times you think candid references are funny. Since he made the latter - the national stereotyping - really funny in some parts, especially with his take on the French, I didn't mind that one in the same way at all. But same running theme; he obviously thinks you can make fun of everything and thus make it less "dangerous" and taboo, and he makes a good, ideological stance in that regard in this performance. Acceptance through playful ridiculing.
But yes, good show, it was a fun and well spent hour fifty minutes, all in all, and I'd recommend it to anyone liking Robin Williams. The guy's awesome with physical humour, and his jokes were mostly good. And certain parts were hilarious. (His drunk Scotsman inventing golf will be on Links of the Fortnight.)
It started out a bit crude and boring, in my eyes, but while he did keep the humour very playfully and kind-spirited politically incorrect throughout, it improved, in my opinion, and he was really funny in some parts. He's an inherently very funny man, he is, his taste in jokes was just a little overly focused on two things: sex and ethnic/national stereotypes. Especially the former was a bit... uncomfortable, in the long run, I know I'm more or less alone in thinking this, but there are limits to how many times you think candid references are funny. Since he made the latter - the national stereotyping - really funny in some parts, especially with his take on the French, I didn't mind that one in the same way at all. But same running theme; he obviously thinks you can make fun of everything and thus make it less "dangerous" and taboo, and he makes a good, ideological stance in that regard in this performance. Acceptance through playful ridiculing.
But yes, good show, it was a fun and well spent hour fifty minutes, all in all, and I'd recommend it to anyone liking Robin Williams. The guy's awesome with physical humour, and his jokes were mostly good. And certain parts were hilarious. (His drunk Scotsman inventing golf will be on Links of the Fortnight.)
Links of the fortnight
Sunday, 11. February 2007, 01:00:11
http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/?p=3424 A good article on what defines a superhero-story and -character, and one that makes a rather lengthy discussion of Buffy. I particularily liked the statement on "24" being by far a more typical superhero-show than "Heroes", and I agree. The article lacked a sense of conclusion to me, though, but it was well worth the read.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36vmAnqm_0 Aw, this made Smallville look far better than it is!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81291 O'Reilly Vs. Colbert - the aftermath
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81465 He's SCHOOLED. This is HUGE.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81647 Colbert and Stewart losing it! XD
http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/15 I really love this Richard-guy.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81635 Stephen Colbert offs racism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTwrpnfzDE Veronica Mars goes Canadian
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070205 hee!
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070207 hee again!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81918 If just ONE journalist involved on ONE of those headlines sees this clip and feels a sting of shame, the world's not quite as bad as one could assume. Damn.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81959 ...and then those planes were dipped in gooold!
http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/104.html Best TI-strip in a very long time, though you kind of have to read the three strips or so leading up to it to get it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UGf9Hc-KpAA He's seen everything. He's seen it all.
http://shortpacked.com/d/20070205.html Why Batman rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j36vmAnqm_0 Aw, this made Smallville look far better than it is!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81291 O'Reilly Vs. Colbert - the aftermath
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81465 He's SCHOOLED. This is HUGE.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81647 Colbert and Stewart losing it! XD
http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/15 I really love this Richard-guy.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81635 Stephen Colbert offs racism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTwrpnfzDE Veronica Mars goes Canadian
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070205 hee!
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070207 hee again!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81918 If just ONE journalist involved on ONE of those headlines sees this clip and feels a sting of shame, the world's not quite as bad as one could assume. Damn.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=81959 ...and then those planes were dipped in gooold!
http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/104.html Best TI-strip in a very long time, though you kind of have to read the three strips or so leading up to it to get it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UGf9Hc-KpAA He's seen everything. He's seen it all.
http://shortpacked.com/d/20070205.html Why Batman rocks.
Links of the week
Sunday, 14. January 2007, 00:35:17
Just Colbert and Stewart this week, I'm afraid.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80541 Hanging Hussein... it's like Finding Nemo... only instead of finding, it's hanging.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80536 Stephen's miffed
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80598 The Muslims'll hold Congress by 6520. And seriously, if Jesus hasn't returned by then, you should just fucking give it to them.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80467 THE TERRORISTS ARE EQUIPPED WITH ODEURS!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80774 Operationally; he's loving it
Edit: Well, just about, anyway.
http://lfgcomic.com/comics/lfg0002.gif
and
http://lfgcomic.com/comics/lfg0010.gif
I think I'll love this comic.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80541 Hanging Hussein... it's like Finding Nemo... only instead of finding, it's hanging.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80536 Stephen's miffed
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80598 The Muslims'll hold Congress by 6520. And seriously, if Jesus hasn't returned by then, you should just fucking give it to them.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80467 THE TERRORISTS ARE EQUIPPED WITH ODEURS!
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=80774 Operationally; he's loving it
Edit: Well, just about, anyway.
http://lfgcomic.com/comics/lfg0002.gif
and
http://lfgcomic.com/comics/lfg0010.gif
I think I'll love this comic.
Happy New Year, everybody
Saturday, 6. January 2007, 14:05:49
Or, hopefully, anyway. I'm not handing out guarantees.
Is this post late, you say? Is this not in keeping with the fine standard I set last year? And what about the Prime Minister Speech Review? Didn't do that one this year, either. Nor did I do the review of the King's Speech which I wanted to do to make up for last year.
Fear not, gentle reader.
Oh, and fear not, violent readers, I hadn't forgotten you, either, I'm just favorizing my gentle one.
Anyway, fear not.
'Cause I've got me some explanations.
I was at my grandfather's this New Year's Eve and Day. So, no internet. Zap. Zilch. Nil. Nada. Splonge. Bupkiss. Bippers. I might have made up some of those words. No net, though. Net-depravement is big around those parts.
He lives in a valley so secluded you had to transport your cars there by boat 'til 1989 'cause there were no roads.
Anywho.
No net, no immediate ability to Report On My Thoughts and such. Also, I've been busy. Busybusybusy. As in the kind of state where you're, you guessed it, busy. (Good guess, by the way, were you peeking ahead?) I've had other stuff on my mind. Plus, this whole (non-)blog-thing isn't as new and fancy and interesting now as it was a year ago. Then again that's life. ("That's liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife! That's what all the people saaaaay." That commercial has killed my taste in music)
The Prime Minister's Speech, that one I would have done a post on. Had I fracking watched it. I just caught the last five minutes. Probably a blessing in disguise, it's not like they ever say anything new. I caught the King's Speech, though, naturally, I'd be a poor sod of a monarchist if I didn't catch the one time throughout a year the King actually speaks directly to the people. But it's been so long since, now, I can't remember enough of it to comment properly. It was the same old same old with the thematic twist of the year, as usual, but I liked it. It dealt a lot with xenophobia and common decency and that kind of thing. Very humane. Sappy, but that's the point, I guess. Kudos to Harald and his speechwriter(s?).
Just for the record, though, I caught the national anthem after both speeches, and the King's song before his speech, and I rose and stood through all three. I might be a closet nationalist. I might just like the song. Or I might just think it's plain cool to revere something which is purely symbolic.
So, the year. Interesting thing, the year. It's a natural cycle. It's not man-made, like the second or the hour or the century or the millenia. There actually would be such a thing as a year even if we hadn't made up a name for it.
Sorry, I digress. I meant "the PAST year", not years in general, and by believing that was obvious, I seem to have misled myself, 'cause apparently, it wasn't. I need to stop taking everything I write literally.
So, the past year. Well, it's past. And it was a very good one. For me, anyway. They hung Saddam, though. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can do. I mean, he's even in the South Park-movie. He's like Cæsar; you just can't picture the guy die. Sure, he's a swine, but even so. He's like an icon. Doesn't ring right, his being dead. Like you kind of can't really believe it. It's scary, that, realizing how frail human life is even when you're the world's possibly best known genocidal maniac. If HE can die, everybody can die. He didn't lose his cool, though. Kudos to him. I'm generally opposed to execution as a form of penalty - I figure that nobody can really know what it entails without having died themselves first - and I kind of think imprisonment for life is the worse sentence anyway. Apparently, though, the Iraqi government was clear on this being to spare the people of him, not to punish him, so, that's a moot point. I just can't quite wrap my mind around his being gone. Even though the world is probably a slightly better place for it.
Other people I have never known, met or really wanted to meet have died this past year, too. The only ones of them to make an impression on me, though, were a couple of actors and the like. Right now I can only remember Sverre Holm and Peter Boyle. Thanks, guys. You've made me laugh.
So, that's the morbid section of this post. Me, I'm good. Good year. Better than good. No major bad occurancies in my immediate family, me included. Good health. Good life, rather good economy. Good getting-my-civic-service-postponed-indefinetely. Good studying. I'm regretting I didn't take an additional course in spring, 'cause one of the two I did take turned out to be far less work than I could have ever dreamed, but still. I re-took an exam in March, and improved my only post-high school grade below B, a D, to a B. One of my prouder moments, that. I had two more exams in June, one in an interesting subject where I got really lucky with the questions on the exam, and one in a dreadfully boring subject where I wrote my bachelor's assignment and somehow did extremely well without having read more than 10% of the curriculum. Summer was nice, but uneventful, maybe. Other than making my webcomic. Of which I'm rather proud, to tell the truth. Otherwise, this summer, I took a short trip with my family like we usually do in summers, and beyond that, I mainly just worked. I'm starting to tire of working where I work in vacations and weekends where I'm home. I'm starting to grow more comfortable there, yes, with the people there and the assigments there and so on, but I'm tiring of it. It's so dreadfully boring. Anyway, on to the autumn, where I took three *very* interesting courses, making for my academically most interesting term since spring 2005, and the two I've learned the results of yet turned out really well, too. January 17th will prove whether or not the third one followed suit. I have hopes. ("He's got HIIIIGH hopes. He's got. HIIIIGH hopes. He's got high apple pie in the sky hopes!" I love Goofy) If it does, it'll be pure awesomity. Personally, too, it's been a great year. I'm very lucky, I have a very easy life and no major worries, never really did have. I hope it'll last a long while yet. I've grown more social, too. This spring, I kind of regressed, I didn't share courses with anyone I know and I didn't really make much contact with the ones I knew outside my courses from before. Right before summer, though, it changed, and I made an effort to keep it up the first few weeks this fall, and voilà, it held. Suddenly, I find myself socializing almost one day or so every week. It's crazy. Nice people, too. Not a lot of people, but very nice people. Obviously. I'm way too picky to keep up seeing people I don't think are very nice. And I incresingly realize, I know a lot of very nice people online, too. You know who you are, but thank you for making my year that much better for having chatted with you and listened to me. So, great year. And in the humble beginnings of October, it got even better. Sure made me glad I don't keep this weblog in Norwegian.
I hope next year will be as good. Or possibly even better. I've signed up for some courses in Latin on top of my full-time studying history, so academically, it's suicide, but I'm hoping it will be a good year even so. This far, it's looking pretty promising.
To all of you out there reading this, happy new year. I wish you all the best. And thank you for all you've done for me in the old one. ^^ Keep flyin', people. I implore you. As does Mal.
Oh, and if any one of you tries making jokes on how late this post is, there will be fatal beatings administered.
Is this post late, you say? Is this not in keeping with the fine standard I set last year? And what about the Prime Minister Speech Review? Didn't do that one this year, either. Nor did I do the review of the King's Speech which I wanted to do to make up for last year.
Fear not, gentle reader.
Oh, and fear not, violent readers, I hadn't forgotten you, either, I'm just favorizing my gentle one.
Anyway, fear not.
'Cause I've got me some explanations.
I was at my grandfather's this New Year's Eve and Day. So, no internet. Zap. Zilch. Nil. Nada. Splonge. Bupkiss. Bippers. I might have made up some of those words. No net, though. Net-depravement is big around those parts.
He lives in a valley so secluded you had to transport your cars there by boat 'til 1989 'cause there were no roads.
Anywho.
No net, no immediate ability to Report On My Thoughts and such. Also, I've been busy. Busybusybusy. As in the kind of state where you're, you guessed it, busy. (Good guess, by the way, were you peeking ahead?) I've had other stuff on my mind. Plus, this whole (non-)blog-thing isn't as new and fancy and interesting now as it was a year ago. Then again that's life. ("That's liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife! That's what all the people saaaaay." That commercial has killed my taste in music)
The Prime Minister's Speech, that one I would have done a post on. Had I fracking watched it. I just caught the last five minutes. Probably a blessing in disguise, it's not like they ever say anything new. I caught the King's Speech, though, naturally, I'd be a poor sod of a monarchist if I didn't catch the one time throughout a year the King actually speaks directly to the people. But it's been so long since, now, I can't remember enough of it to comment properly. It was the same old same old with the thematic twist of the year, as usual, but I liked it. It dealt a lot with xenophobia and common decency and that kind of thing. Very humane. Sappy, but that's the point, I guess. Kudos to Harald and his speechwriter(s?).
Just for the record, though, I caught the national anthem after both speeches, and the King's song before his speech, and I rose and stood through all three. I might be a closet nationalist. I might just like the song. Or I might just think it's plain cool to revere something which is purely symbolic.
So, the year. Interesting thing, the year. It's a natural cycle. It's not man-made, like the second or the hour or the century or the millenia. There actually would be such a thing as a year even if we hadn't made up a name for it.
Sorry, I digress. I meant "the PAST year", not years in general, and by believing that was obvious, I seem to have misled myself, 'cause apparently, it wasn't. I need to stop taking everything I write literally.
So, the past year. Well, it's past. And it was a very good one. For me, anyway. They hung Saddam, though. Doesn't seem like the kind of thing you can do. I mean, he's even in the South Park-movie. He's like Cæsar; you just can't picture the guy die. Sure, he's a swine, but even so. He's like an icon. Doesn't ring right, his being dead. Like you kind of can't really believe it. It's scary, that, realizing how frail human life is even when you're the world's possibly best known genocidal maniac. If HE can die, everybody can die. He didn't lose his cool, though. Kudos to him. I'm generally opposed to execution as a form of penalty - I figure that nobody can really know what it entails without having died themselves first - and I kind of think imprisonment for life is the worse sentence anyway. Apparently, though, the Iraqi government was clear on this being to spare the people of him, not to punish him, so, that's a moot point. I just can't quite wrap my mind around his being gone. Even though the world is probably a slightly better place for it.
Other people I have never known, met or really wanted to meet have died this past year, too. The only ones of them to make an impression on me, though, were a couple of actors and the like. Right now I can only remember Sverre Holm and Peter Boyle. Thanks, guys. You've made me laugh.
So, that's the morbid section of this post. Me, I'm good. Good year. Better than good. No major bad occurancies in my immediate family, me included. Good health. Good life, rather good economy. Good getting-my-civic-service-postponed-indefinetely. Good studying. I'm regretting I didn't take an additional course in spring, 'cause one of the two I did take turned out to be far less work than I could have ever dreamed, but still. I re-took an exam in March, and improved my only post-high school grade below B, a D, to a B. One of my prouder moments, that. I had two more exams in June, one in an interesting subject where I got really lucky with the questions on the exam, and one in a dreadfully boring subject where I wrote my bachelor's assignment and somehow did extremely well without having read more than 10% of the curriculum. Summer was nice, but uneventful, maybe. Other than making my webcomic. Of which I'm rather proud, to tell the truth. Otherwise, this summer, I took a short trip with my family like we usually do in summers, and beyond that, I mainly just worked. I'm starting to tire of working where I work in vacations and weekends where I'm home. I'm starting to grow more comfortable there, yes, with the people there and the assigments there and so on, but I'm tiring of it. It's so dreadfully boring. Anyway, on to the autumn, where I took three *very* interesting courses, making for my academically most interesting term since spring 2005, and the two I've learned the results of yet turned out really well, too. January 17th will prove whether or not the third one followed suit. I have hopes. ("He's got HIIIIGH hopes. He's got. HIIIIGH hopes. He's got high apple pie in the sky hopes!" I love Goofy) If it does, it'll be pure awesomity. Personally, too, it's been a great year. I'm very lucky, I have a very easy life and no major worries, never really did have. I hope it'll last a long while yet. I've grown more social, too. This spring, I kind of regressed, I didn't share courses with anyone I know and I didn't really make much contact with the ones I knew outside my courses from before. Right before summer, though, it changed, and I made an effort to keep it up the first few weeks this fall, and voilà, it held. Suddenly, I find myself socializing almost one day or so every week. It's crazy. Nice people, too. Not a lot of people, but very nice people. Obviously. I'm way too picky to keep up seeing people I don't think are very nice. And I incresingly realize, I know a lot of very nice people online, too. You know who you are, but thank you for making my year that much better for having chatted with you and listened to me. So, great year. And in the humble beginnings of October, it got even better. Sure made me glad I don't keep this weblog in Norwegian.
I hope next year will be as good. Or possibly even better. I've signed up for some courses in Latin on top of my full-time studying history, so academically, it's suicide, but I'm hoping it will be a good year even so. This far, it's looking pretty promising.
To all of you out there reading this, happy new year. I wish you all the best. And thank you for all you've done for me in the old one. ^^ Keep flyin', people. I implore you. As does Mal.
Oh, and if any one of you tries making jokes on how late this post is, there will be fatal beatings administered.
Showing posts 1 - 35 of 88.
Georgius the Peasant
Latest comments
Oh, and since I managed to omit him in the review proper - the c ...
The abandonment is probably a good theory, I doubt that he'd hav ...
anonymous
Shirgaal writes: Excellent review. :) I agree that these kind ...
His brother. Was involved on "Deadwood", among other things, whe ...
anonymous
Ole writes: Indeed it was, indeed it was. Entertaining, I mean. ...
And here we go: TV-shows BSG - season 4 (pt1) Comic books: Ang ...
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 June 2008August 2008 | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
Latest blog posts
Countdowns
11 days until
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - act one
12 days until
Spike: After the Fall - part 1/4
13 days until
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - act two
14 days until
The Dark Knight
15 days until
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - act three
28 days until
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
33 days until
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 8x17: The Time of Your Life, part II
40 days until
Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Tarot
42 days until
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
51 days until
Spike: After the Fall - part 3/4
54 days until
Angel: After the Fall - #11
54 days until
Spike: After the Fall - part 2/4
61 days until
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 8x18: The Time of Your Life, part III
82 days until
Angel: After the Fall - #12
89 days until
Buffy the Vampire Slayer 8x19: The Time of Your Life, part IV
154 days until
Punisher: War Zone
245 days until
Watchmen
301 days until
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
665 days until
Iron Man 2
672 days until
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
700 days until
Thor
1036 days until
The First Avenger: Captain America
Recent visitors
A proud member of the My Opera community. | Help | Disclaimer