Today, I finally realized that early written work was built upon a tradition of poorly argued points and badly articulated ideas. The writers of history weren't the most intelligent their time had to offer; they were the people who could afford a leisurely lifestyle of studying facts and offering their opinions. An English Literature university ( Read more... )

Age of consent, drinking age, smoking age -- I think the state should leave parenting in the hands of the parents. I dislike the idea of the "underage" being treated as second-class citizens ( Read more... )

    From Dialog Writing Tips at DailyWritingTips.com:
    Try taping two or more people talking, or reading a verbatim transcript of a live show. You’ll find that the result is almost unintelligible. You don’t want your dialogue to be this true to life.

Dialog test 01; October 15 2008; Fabricville, Prospect Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick:
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    It has been a long time since my last entry. Since then, I've MCed at my brother's wedding, gone to Gen Con and Toronto, spent a weekend at a friend's camp, started my 5th year at UNB, and had a birthday. Normally pictures would be forthcoming as they're the easiest way to close a gap in time, but I'm not feeling a pictures post so much right ( Read more... )

    I absolutely have to post a link to this.

    From my comments on codrus's LJ post about the film:
    Hard to call this a good movie? I disagree. This was an excellent movie, but by that, I mean certain things. Is it a V for Vendetta, Hero, or No Country for Old Men excellent kind of movie? -- no -- but it is a champion of the Kung-Fu genre. The white-haired witch raised by wolves, the deadly ( Read more... )

    For my second and final plug, I just wanted to announce that mattcast episode 2 is up. Get the latest broadcast, our Christmas episode, here, and if you're not on Live Journal, you can follow along with the RSS feed.

    Everyone, I am very excited for the premiere release of an mp3 broadcast my roommate m_tothe_at and I make here in our basement. He had the interest, and then the inspiration came when our other roommate gwydian said he ran out of music to listen to at his mindless job. The target audience is someone who enters data at a computer all night with only their mp3 ( Read more... )

    "Support Our Troops" yellow ribbons are everywhere. Businesses seem to be making a point of showing potential customers they're as nationalistic as can be while drivers share their patriotism with each other in bumper-sticker form. These ribbons carry a message no one could disagree with. We support the life and livelihood of fellow Canadians ( Read more... )

    From Ted Goranson's (tedg_imdb) review of Spider-Man 3:
"What he have here is the cinematic equivalent of two hours of "you know" and other such automatic, meaningless utterances. Part of what we pay for is this game, and under normal circumstances the question we decide is whether we want sugar or meat. Here we get cardboard.

"Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of ( Read more... )