Here’s the first trailer for John Carter of Mars (or John Carter, as they’re calling it now, though the logo is still “JCM”):
It looks enough like Barsoom to make me hopeful, and enough unlike Barsoom to make me pessimistic.
You can see it bigger and prettier here.
The good news: C4SS is on the list of top 50 libertarian websites.
The bad news: we seem to have fallen from #30 to #43.
(But you can always help get us back up by contributing to our fundraiser. Even a $5 or $10 monthly pledge would be terrific!)
Gary Chartier’s latest BHL post explains why bleeding hearts should be anarchists.
In related news, see Stuart Bramhall on anti-union laws.
My favourite part of Franz Kafka’s Amerika is the (dare I say Kafkaesque?) sequence in which the protagonist is fired from his job as an elevator boy; it’s a classic illustration of the impossibility of upward communication in authoritarian hierachies. (I recently reread it for a paper I’m writing on Othello, William Godwin, and the problem of other minds. Long story.) The 1984 movie version, titled Class Relations, is online in twelve parts; the relevant sequence (condensed, alas) is in sections eight and nine. (Couldn’t embed these, sorry.)
I don’t like the military, but I have so many friends in it. I say I do not kill, but then I exterminate thousands.
Easy question: who said this?
Harder question: in what episode?
Cool looking poster for the next Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises:
(CHT AICN.) Click for enhanced magnitude.