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Some scientists are such pricks :-)
"...Last month she [Katie Melua] released the single, Nine Million Bicycles, which entered the charts at number five, followed by her latest album Piece by Piece two weeks ago.
In the second verse of Nine Million Bicycles, written by Batt, she sings: "We are 12 billion light years from the edge, that's a guess, no one can ever say it's true, but I ( Read more... ) -
Who'll be my role model?..
Now a third person has entered my hall of worship, beside Al Pacino and Christopher Lee: it's David Bowie. I've just finished watching The Labyrinth, and I say that this movie owes half of its perfection to his character - Jareth, the Goblin King. I know I'll sound like some fangirl now :-P - he's a graceful, extremely rich & talented actor, has a ( Read more... ) -
The Saga Begins
More Weird Al Yankovic. A must see for both Don McLean and Star Wars fans. Also, they got the real Samuel L. Jackson into the clip.
A long, long time ago
(In a galaxy far away)
Naboo was under an attack
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the Federation in-
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Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?
Recently, while browsing the Internet, I came across CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE WITH BREVE, which brought back a feeling of nostalgia. This letter was specifically created by Russian linguists for our people to use, what with the indended general adoption of the cyrillic alphabet in the 15 Soviet republics. Now, though, it doesn't get as mush use ( Read more... ) -
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Started reading Heller's Catch-22. At Chapter 3, it feels real good. Still, I wonder how much uniformly good, witty, sparkling prose one can ingest before he runs screaming into the night. To quote Heller himself, Then there was the educated Texan from Texas [...] [who] turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could ( Read more... ) -
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A drunken girl is not a pretty sight. -
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I dreamt myself in Gormenghast, and I still can't shake the feeling.
Too bad Amazon won't ship to our backwater country...
And they're going to produce "Hogfather" - but won't cast Christopher Lee as the voice of Death again. Damn! He's as close as a mortal can get to it, and the only one who didn't suck in "Wyrd Sisters". -
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Thus Adam's Eden-plot in far-off time ( Read more... )
