Something I thought up during lunch:
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Trip Pics II
I’ve put photos from my recent Las Vegas and Seattle trips online, as well as an Orange Beach trip from 2009. More to follow.
Wrap Artist
Robert Rodriguez is finally beginning work on a sequel to Sin City. According to the announcement, the title will be Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, and “details of the film’s story have been kept tightly under wraps.”
Um, no. I don’t think a movie based on a graphic novel that’s been out for nearly twenty years can really claim that its story is “tightly under wraps.”
This reminds of the reporter who claimed that Steven Moffat was being “tight-lipped” about the storylines for Sherlock’s second series because the only clue he would give was the three words “Adler, Hound, Reichenbach”!
The Old Rugged Cross
Genius. Billionaire. Playboy. Philanthropist.
For some reason I’m on the mailing list of an outfit called “Conservative Action Alerts.” (They seem more libertarian than the conservative mainstream, so that’s probably the connection.) Their latest missive complains that the word “individualism” has been “poisoned by deceptive propaganda that disparaged it as ‘rugged.’”
Well, not exactly. “Rugged individualism” was introduced as a positive term, either coined or popularised by Herbert Hoover (who liked to pose, at least sometimes, as a free-market type even though his actual policies were straight-up big-government dirigism). Admittedly it’s often used pejoratively now, but that’s mainly due to the (ludicrous) perception that Hoover’s ineffective response to the Great Depression was somehow driven by individualism.
Atlas Shrunk, Part 10: Enter the Carousel – This Is the Time of Renewal
Filming has begun on Atlas Shrugged, Part 2 – with new writers, a new director, and a new cast.
Whether anything will be better, as opposed to merely different, remains to be seen.
Seattle’s Best Philosophy, Part 2
Photos from our panel in Seattle.