According to a BBC article, Wong Kar Wai has been chosen as the president of the jury for this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
He apparently released a statement which contained an amusingly Wong Kar Wai-ish quote: “Every town has its own language. In Cannes, it’s the language of dream.” Mm-hmm…

Anyhow, I had to steal […]

I was looking at news.bbc.co.uk yesterday, as I do pretty much every day at least once, and this headline caught my eye:

Gotta love those cheeky British headline writers…
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I noticed this chart in an article on news.com:

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think it’s particularly helpful when “other” is basically 80-90% of the total information you are trying to illuminate…
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Yesterday I was listening to England vs. Portugal on BBC5 Radio’s live Web feed. You might say, “what a triumph of technology; nowadays you can listen to radio broadcasts from around the world from home!”
That’s one way to look at it.
Here’s the problem: Here in the USA, there’s this scumbag company called Setanta […]

Just to give you an idea of how fast I read, I picked up this book [shameless amazon.com link] over two years ago while stuck in O’Hare airport in Chicago (always, always stuck in that freaking airport), en route to Mexico City to visit a friend.
I thought, judging by its thickness and dense subject matter, […]

I watch English football.
I’m not religious about it or anything, but I find European soccer leagues interesting for basically one reason: their complicated league structure, complete with promotions and relegations, and the pan-national cup matches (my favorite is the UEFA cup, since it initially contains teams from the most countries).
And, so, I watch English […]

Well, even though reporter insertion inside Iraq is a million times better than it was during the Gulf War in 1991, the press coverage here in the United States is predictably abysmal.
I would say it’s an improvement over the television coverage during the Gulf War, in that at least we are able to see images […]

Can someone please explain to me why CNN apparently is incapable of operating microphones?
Like many Americans, I’ve been glued to the news networks much more than usual, and I had always thought (or been told, anyway), that CNN was a really together network. But the production competency I’ve seen is comparable to public access.
They […]

Tonight I got this email:
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Hot and beautiful gals….. 2 live shows with FULL chat
Geisha Japaneese gallery….tons on beauties
Movie clips and videos with a HUGE database of
action packed scenes…..behind, upfront, classic, etc…
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That’s all there was in it. Apparently, they just wanted to inform me that somewhere there exists a HUGE database of action packed scenes, […]

I just finished reading two books this week. It generally takes me forever to read a book, but I finished both of these very quickly. (Yes, I commonly read more than one book at a time…I am a Gemini, after all, and prone to boredom.)
Anyway, I think it would be difficult to find […]