by Rodney Eric Griffith | Armour of Rod | |
I’m not certain why the analysis of what was proved to be a jar of 2000 year-old cosmetics discovered at the site of a Roman temple in London makes me feel better, but it does.
Rodney | 10:10:00 AM [permalink]Stevie Washington: The Angry Youth. Born to die. New York’s New York. Apparently by request, Joe Horne is producing a new series of The Adventures of Stevie & Zoya as Flash episodes, according to the great Cartoon Brew.
Rodney | 6:40:00 PM [permalink]My friend Laura tipped me off to this outpouring of regret to the rest of the Western world.
Rodney | 9:02:00 PM [permalink]I like the show, and I advocate toys for adults, but I didn’t imagine there was a market for kids who want to grow up to be Greg Sanders or Teri Miller.
Rodney | 7:00:00 PM [permalink]Last night’s Treehouse of Horror reminded me of a mildly traumatic childhood event. Right before the Christmas break, they ran films in my elementary school—this would have been in my kindergarten and 1st years, so it would have been 1972-73. The two films they acquired were Fantastic Voyage and The Three Lives of Thomasina. The former could not have been more inappropriate. The latter, a 1964 Disney film I had all but forgotten about until now, is about a veterinarian (Patrick McGoohan) in 1912 Scotland whose daughter’s cat has a near-death experience and is “resurrected” by a woman thought to be a witch. (“Never trust a woman, even the four-legged variety,” as a later McGoohan character said.) This film gave me nightmares and probably will again. I’m not sure why they stopped the film forum or how they managed to start, either. Of course, now with DVD players ubiquitous the whole idea of a pre-Holiday film at school just seems mundane.
Rodney | 7:19:00 PM [permalink]From The Globe and Mail: “The Canadian dollar broke through 84 cents (U.S.) Monday, hitting a fresh 12-year high against its U.S. counterpart.”
Rodney | 6:54:00 PM [permalink]Two people have brought TomPaine.com to my attention, and a popular, encouraging post by typefiend deserves mention: “When the anger fades to a medium boil, let’s fucking do something about this. Let’s put words into action. Let’s fuck shit up not by hatred, but with education and activism. Let’s live up to the very ideals we feel are being taken away from us. Because if not us, who?”
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