Watching Casablanca, thinking of how strange it is for America to be hating France so virulently. Of course, we've never really liked France much, even before the current Iraq flap. I think the reasons used to be that they are better educated than we are, and historically rude, at least to tourists in Paris, where [...]
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Mutants in black leather.
You have only your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to thank for this.
Bolstered by the webcrawler's wild success last summer, spun to the tune of $500 million earned in international sawbucks, Hollywood has gone comicbook crazy. A quick glance at your midsummer marquee looks like one of those dream team superhero pairings debated in [...]
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Well.
So here I am. My co-editor and I have decided it might be fun for me to have a go at this ultra-personal medium called blogging, though I still have my misgivings. Personally, I find it rather loathesome have to constantly be entertaining, though my fellow bloggers seem to be doing a fine job.
I'm also [...]
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So I cut loose on the Biggerboat dinghy for a little 3 week R & R and look what happens ? chicks are playing golf. What chimp-ruled faux-Earth have I set foot on anyway?
?Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!!?
Well, as you can tell, my creative juices have recharged after the initial shock and [...]
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Genf is in lockdown mode as the G8 summit is scheduled to start here (well, across the lake in Evian, but Genf is the nearest airport, locale with missions and international organizations, and biggest city) on Sunday. WHO is in bordering-on-panic mode, with security announcements going out every day. Rumor has it that our cluster [...]
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