::tuesday, may 29::

The New Yorker: The Critics: The Current Cinema

Anthony Lane gets a few jabs at the Pearl Harbor movie... what fun. Gotta be my favorite movie critic, even if I don't always agree (on this one I definitely do). Um, this link won't work past about a week from now, though, because the New Yorker doesn't do "perma linked" archives, just current issues :( sad sad.

::monday, may 28::

Le seigneur des Anneaux : bientôt au cinéma

Some beautiful shots/stills from LOTR, from the footage that everyone went so gonzo over at Cannes. Warning: major spoilers in here. But gorgeous.

::saturday, may 26::

Lord of the Rings Trailer #2!

Thanks to Gray for passing this along (if he had one of these here bloggy things I'd provide a link). Made my day. Oh my, Christmas can't come soon enough.

::thursday, may 24::

frontline: the lost children of rockdale county

Just watched this on PBS from my hotel room while traveling on business. All it made me do was want to go straight home and start brainwashing my daughter that all the other children are evil, that she doesn't ever want to touch boys, that most of the other girls are corrupt, etc. etc. And the thing is, I already believed most of that, but this Frontline report just confirmed my paranoia. It's ostensibly about a syphilis outbreak in a Georgia town outside Atlanta among its uncontrolled teen population, but it's about more than that--the scene where the 14 yr old girls sit in a bedroom and illustrate group sex with their teddy bears and quoted scatalogical rap lyrics in unison was true horror. Hey, I have a 5 year old daughter...this is a nightmare to me. I grew up not far from Conyers, GA, and knew these exact kinds of kids growing up. But it's like all the stuff that surrounded me as a kid is amped up 100X now. Like all the meager barriers that got in our way just fell down and suddenly everything is permitted. Wow...I never thought I'd feel this way...but I'm starting to understand stuff like home schooling and living far far away in the woods.

::friday, may 18::

Furniture E-Commerce Cautionary Tale

Quite a chronicle of how furniture and ebusiness have had a tense relationship in these parts (yeah, I live in NC, right next to where all this stuff happens). Good read.

::tuesday, may 15::

Ain't It Cool News - View Article

HARRY'S FIRST IMPRESSIONS ADDED!! What You've Been Waiting For! LORD OF THE RINGS Footage Screened!

Unrestrained orgasmic praise of the scenes screened in France. I'm excited now.

::monday, may 14::

Doctors Seek Way to Measure Evil

This is long overdue.

MacEdition: The Parting Shot : May 11, 2001

Apparently in Dell's rush to kill Apple's dominance in the education market, they pumped out a bunch of laptops with a proclivity for battery flammability. Here's a picture of the new "Grill" from Dell. Further proof that Photoshop works best on a Mac.

Mandatory Curfew by Derek Lidbom

Derek got little buddy Jordan to help him ironize his web presence. Now it's "Super Mandatory Curfew" featuring little Nintendofied critters. No extra charge.

people you've been before

Friend and colleague Kyle has a new ego-site up. (ego-site isn't derogatory, my own 'drewspace' is also an ego-site... you don't have to have an inflated ego to have an ego) Anyway, check it out, neato doodlin' etc.

::sunday, may 13::

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Coppola debuts longer, sexier "Apocalypse Now" at Cannes

Coppola returned to this year's festival with the rendering of "Apocalypse Now" that he did not think he could get away with then: A three-hour, 16-minute cut with refreshing humor, a restored love scene and new insights into Marlon Brando's character.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Perhaps it is a true measure of one's geekhood that news like this would very nearly make one cry. I first heard of Hitchhiker's Guide from "Mr Prince" my chemistry teacher in Middle School. Very soon went out and got it, burned throug hit and its sequels. I still think of flying as throwing myself at the ground and missing.

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