"Someday, people who are terrified, you will laugh about this. And someday, people who are laughing, you will be terrified." -- Lemony Snicket, Senior Correspondent for Politically Unfortunate Events

The other night I finally watched Zardoz, which turns out to be your average pseudo-post-apocalyptic-crystalline-utopian-psychodrama-scifi-thriller-70's-flick. In other words, IT WAS AWESOME. It was everything that wretched excuse for a "movie" Logan's Run could've been but oh-so-wasn't ( Read more... )

As an aside, I'd like to point out that the US is not much of a representative democracy any more. It's more of a hokey-pokey-ocracy: in one election cycle, you throw your right bums out and vote your left bums in, and in the next election cycle, or the one after, you do the exact opposite. (And you shake it all around in the meantime.)
--from the ( Read more... )

OMG OMG OMG OMG

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...I may never be able to see those three letters the same way again.

OMG!

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
translated by Edward FitzGerald
(plain-text here)

-=-=-And so the Sultan called his artificer before him and ordered to create for him a magic ring ( Read more... )