One. They’ve uploaded a slew of Godzilla movies on Hulu. Two. There is a Dutch colonial outpost erected in 1825 in modern-day Bukittingi called Fort de Kock. Three. My daily quotas for monster movies, military history, and toilet humour have been fulfilled, and all this before 5 PM. Now to find things to counteract this excess of subdued happiness.
Air Vice Marshal Sagom Tamboen, a military spokesman, said he respected what Gatot was reported to have said but berated the Australian filmmakers for bringing the movie into Indonesia.
“The film has triggered this problem. They should not have brought the movie to Indonesia,” Tamboen said.
But sir, universal truths are universal truths and hard facts are hard facts. If this happened, then it happened. Didn’t our mothers teach us to own up to mistakes we made? When I was growing up, my mother taught me to ram into my problems head-on. Or maybe you didn’t have a mother. Maybe you were raised by a pack of woodland creatures or something. I don’t know. But okay. Do you want your people to turn into a flock of sheep who just take things because somebody in taupe government-sanction uniform says so? Or you would like, perhaps, an acquiescing herd of fireless cattle with no thirst for original thought and asking difficult questions? Oh wait what am I saying. Of course you would.
“Speaking of movies, we need to make a list for (what I’ve now termed) the most indie movie ever. Here’s a short list I came up with while jogging:
1) Natalie Portman
2) Zooey Deshanel
3) Disenchantment
4) Tragic Haircuts
5) More or less the exact same plot from Lost in Translation
6) A themed soundtrack (I figured that all the songs have to have the word “home” in the title), featuring obscure artists covered by more obscure artists.
7) A half second shot of Joseph Gordon-Levitt looking dour
8) A thirty second tracking shot of Zooey running as the chorus to M. Ward’s “To Go Home” blares on
9) Hats!”
He is watching something with what appears to be warring armies in the midst of battle. There are dark grey clouds and flying animals. Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings?
This is an age of quick fixes and instant gratification. Here is another quick fix to add to the list of inventions that have made life a little less painful and made us a little lazier (examples include microwaveable rice, instant noodles, online banking). This is a fix for the Monday blues: if you are afflicted by it, click through the screenshot for instant happiness.
My sister and I had no intentions of dressing up and going out, but in the city of Milwaukee it is considered illegal to stay in and play Star Trek Monopoly during Halloween.* So when we received an invite to go dancing downtown, she turned the con over to her lieutenant, I mortgaged Xindi Council Planet, and we went to work on an emergency costume.
The Jack Sparrows and Roman Legionnaires and Slutty Sluts came out of the woodwork in droves and staggered around the streets in a drunken stupor, but we must have been the only All Blacks representatives for miles. Rugby is not as popular as it should be over here (criminal!), but I think we helped it garner support among opportunistic boys doing some drive-by catcalling that night. NEW ZEALAAAAAAAND!
*Okay, Halloween was a month ago but so was my last period.
The magix of genetix
Bounty
We will conquer over this plain of asphalt
Black Friday is an American national holiday also known as “Recession? What recession?”
According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush, more than turned out to vote in the 2008 United States presidential election, which recorded the largest voter turn out in history.
Incidentally, 135 million people is about three and a half times the population of Poland. Think about this.
