Thank You For Smoking, (2005)
Directed by Jason Reitman

I spent a lot of this movie afraid that it was going to turn into some sentimental feel-good Disney claptrap, but it kept its satirical edge right through. A nice light movie for cynics.

Hard Candy, (2005 ( Read more... )

Julie, that Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives paper sounds kick-ass. I am le jealous. Must...learn...everything. *twitch*

Back on the race relations kick:

What I've glanced at among these essays is of the 'grass green sky blue' variety. Except for the disheartening fact that so many I know would be shocked by the sense therein, or deny it ( Read more... )

1. It's easy to tell that the hedgehogs aren't hibernating any more. They're decorating our roads as slightly three-dimensional Rorschach blots. *sigh ( Read more... )

Interviewed for the Returning Officer position yesterday. They would like to appoint me, and they would like to appoint some former Students' Association President from Germany as my deputy. Now, this guy sounds like he may actually be reasonably qualified, and I'd be keen to use him in the main student elections at the end of the year ( Read more... )