Monthly Archives: October 2009

In Defense of Hoarding

| Published: October 22, 2009
Over at Minimal Mac (a terrific site that everyone should read, even if you’re not a Mac user), they recently pointed to a metafilter comment about the dangers of coveting possessions. The commenter suggests that the best way to beat any hoarding impulses we might have is to simply adjust the way we look at [...]
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Brain Dump – October 23rd

| Published: October 22, 2009
Here’s some stuff that’s been clogging up my starred list in Google Reader for too long. When it comes to bonkers films, Russia is the new Japan: Hosting your Windows 7 Torrenting Party “When you Marry” – they don’t write ‘em like that any more: It is not uncommon for one or both parties to [...]
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

| Published: October 20, 2009
Last night, through an amazing and unexpected string of good luck, I ended up at a special screening of Terry Gilliam’s new film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus presented by Gilliam himself. I should probably point out that I’m a huge, huge fan of Gilliam. To the point that I’ve said that I want to [...]
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Nanowrimo

| Published: October 19, 2009
We’re over halfway through October. You know what that means: it’s time for my annual resolution to actually participate in this year’s National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! I mean, it’s not like I don’t have enough on my plate, what with college, radio work, design work, Italian lessons and my most thankless of jobs as [...]
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Berlusconi Fights Back

| Published: October 17, 2009
I really don’t want this news story to go unnoticed, because it is amazing. ROME, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Italian magistrates and the opposition are up in arms after a television channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi shadowed and secretly filmed a judge who ruled against the prime minister in a bribery case. Days after Judge [...]
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Yeah, no

| Published: October 9, 2009
As you’d expect, being a stranger in a strange land, I often find myself talking to people who aren’t native english speakers. I’ve learned that there’s a definite knack to having a conversation that crosses a few language barriers. Talk slowly, taking a lot of care to en-un-ci-ate ev-er-y syl-lab-le. And throw in a lot [...]
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Glee

| Published: October 7, 2009
What does it say about me that an hipster indie film like Away We Go — a film which seemed to be tailor-made for people like me — completely failed to move me, despite the fact it was violently tugging at my heartstrings for the better part of two hours, whereas populist, cliched fluff like [...]
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Eden Lake

| Published: October 6, 2009
Director: James Watkins, 2008, 91′ IMDB Keywords: Lake, Young Couple, Lost In Woods, Bleeding To Death, Bicycle Sometimes it feels like my life is just a series of stupid decisions, strung together with crippling anxiety. For example, there’s the time we went camping in Tuscany. It was probably my favourite camping holiday yet – we [...]
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