Moffat Copies Moffat
Aug 18“Funny little human brains … How do you get around in those things?” – Doctor Who, “The Doctor Dances” “Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring!” – Sherlock, “A Study in Pink”
Looking for Justice in All the Wrong Places
Aug 18Inadvertently funny line from a press release for the new Americanised Torchwood: His choice of career is significant. Someone like Rex could make a fortune in Wall Street, or Hollywood. But choosing the C.I.A. says a lot about him: that for all his swagger, he does believe in justice.
Uoltajre!
Aug 17Michael Johnson’s article “The Delightful Voltaire” (linked from LRC today) tells me something I never knew before about Voltaire – namely that he chose the name “Voltaire” as an anagram of “Arouet l.j.” (the “l.j.” standing for “le jeune”). Johnson calls it a “loose” anagram, but it’s actually quite exact, given the once-prevalent convention that [...]
Austro-Athenian Ethics
Aug 16I recently had reason to link to my 2006 Mises philosophy seminar files, and saw that the relevant page on the Mises site looks somewhat confusing these days, so I made my own page of links.
The Comeback Kid
Aug 15In 1972, when I was eight, I wrote a series of stories (or four “books” – 186 pages’ worth, though typed up and without the original drawings they come to a mere 25 pages total) collectively titled Oscar of Oscarville, about an eight-year-old boy who flew around on the back of an enormous hummingbird while [...]
Father Knows Best
Aug 14A never-before-seen deleted scene from the very beginning of Return of the Jedi, scheduled to be included on a future blu-ray release. (CHT AICN.) Watch it now before it’s taken down:
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