ISBN: 0340685972 ; In the near future a group of dogs head for New York, but these are not your average four legged friends. They walk on their hindlegs, can talk, have hands and dress in formal 19th-century Prussian clothes. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: April 2004
29 April 2004
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Blather Shitegeist
God do I love the Blather Shitegeist: “Keane bestrides the Irish consciousness like CuChullain. A man seemingly born to conflict, with a staggering ability to make others around him perform beyond their natural ability. He taunts us and goads us, … Continue reading
29 April 2004
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Regret
I love stumble, but sometimes I just wish I hadn’tvisited certain images :)
28 April 2004
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
Script: Melissa Rosenberg
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Andromeda hits the dust
According to the Great Link and via Comic Book Guy Andromeda has finally been cancelled. And Mutant X too Now these two shows, I will admit, I have watched, although Mutant X is ten times worse than Andromeda, it has … Continue reading
28 April 2004
Cast: Jackson Rathbone, Walter Donado
Script: Mary Agnes Donoghue
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Vexillology
Isn’t the internet a wonderful place? One learns so many things, for example, that vexillologists are people who are flag aficionadoa, I never knew that before :)
Course the reason I came across the term in Iraq’s new flag, the one with the blue cresent, picked by the Iraqi ruling council.
26 April 2004
Call no: 420.9
Genre: non-fiction
7 Stars
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Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
ISBN: 014014305X I really enjoyed this book, an entertaining and humorous look at the origins of the English language, its various dialects and the roles other languages have played in giving it such a diverse selection of words and spellings. … Continue reading
25 April 2004
Cast: Chia Hui Liu, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Michael Parks, Uma Thurman
Genre: Action
7 Stars
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Kill Bill vol 2 directed by Quentin Tarantino
Bang bang, my baby shot me down You know there isn’t really all that much for me to say about this film. Did I enjoy it? Yes, but it isn’t great, although I do think it is better than Vol. … Continue reading
23 April 2004
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More from Jo
“Wars eat your youth. When I was in college we made a census, boys and girls. There were about half girls and half boys but now there are maybe ten times as many girls” – wildfirejo There is also an … Continue reading
20 April 2004
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Isn’t work weird?
Isn’t it strange what you come across in the course of a day? There I was doing the ILLs when I saw an intriging article title before me: “Vacum Cleaner Injury ” of the Penis. Their quotation marks not mine. … Continue reading
20 April 2004
Cast: Louise Lombard, Omar Sharif, Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson
Script: John Fusco
Genre: Action, animal-human relationships
Setting: 1890s, Arabian desert, C19th
5 Stars
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Hidalgo directed by Joe Johnston
Frank Hopkins sets out to the Middle East to compete in a long distance race, 3,000 miles across the desert. Racing against the finest Arabian horses on his mustang Hidalgo, in an effort to escape his past. And that is … Continue reading