I read a most remarkable passage in a movie review in the NY Times:
The director Robinson Devor apparently would like viewers who watch his heavily reconstructed documentary, “Zoo,” to see it as a story of ineluctable desire and human dignity. Shot on Super 16-millimeter film, with many scenes steeped in a blue that would have [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by pwyll
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(Simul-Post)
On Jackson Browne’s break-out album Late for the Sky, he wrote a song that makes me cry every time I listen to Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris sing it on Western Wall / The Tucson Sessions.
It’s the story of my life:
For A Dancer
Late For The Sky (1974)
Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2007 by Paco Malo
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Coolest. Robot. Ever.
A device that sounds like a 21st-century version of a medicinal leech may soon be set loose inside the chests of heart patients. Resembling a robotic caterpillar, it will crawl across the surface of their beating heart, delivering treatment without the need for major surgery.
The device, called HeartLander, can be inserted using minimally [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2007 by pwyll
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Sheryl Crow has an an idea.
I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2007 by pwyll
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Yes. Yes. Do it.
Afterwards, while answering a question from a viewer on the program YOUR SHOW about why he chose not to run, Kerry said he had decided it wasn’t the right time.
“Could that change?” Kerry said. “It might. It may change over years. It may change over months. I can’t tell you, but I’ve [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2007 by pwyll
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