Forwarding this post from ivan23:

Tonight, PBS Frontline will become the first U.S. television network to broadcast The Suicide Tourist. As you probably know, this documentary follows my father's decision to access assisted suicide in Switzerland after contracting an incurable disease ( Read more... )

Check out the ballot for the mayor of Minneapolis:


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"Never work with children or animals." Or in this case, count on supposedly "well-behaved" dogs in a morning show's 'adopt-a-pet' segment.

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I especially like how you can hear people in the background unable to stop from laughing at their colleagues as it escalates.

One of the bad movies from my last gathering was The Warrior.

Afterwards, this is what I had to say about it on a previous LJ-post:

The Warrior, from Indonesia, 1973. Populist martial-arts hero leads rebellion against the imperialist Dutch, who employ a necromancer to raise someone from the dead to combat him. The native hero looks extremely ( Read more... )

Since I know certain people on my friends' list will get extra happiness out of this:

Steel Harmony, performing a Caribbean steel-drum cover of Joy Division's "Transmission". While being towed on a trailer as part of a parade in Manchester.

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President Obama came and spoke to the AMA House of Delegates about his healthcare reform plans and agendas this morning ( Read more... )

Thanks to the fine guys at Aint It Cool News, I got to go see an advance screening of the new Disney/Pixar movie, UP. (Plus the short before it, Partly Cloudy). We even saw it in 3D; apparently we were one of the first audiences to see it in that format in a theater (after the folks at Cannes ( Read more... )

The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled ( Read more... )

Went and saw Star Trek with about a dozen other folks last night on the local IMAX ( Read more... )