Posts from the ‘Culture’ Category
Vanity is such a hallmark of the world’s culture that it’s hard sometimes to realize that the tendency to despise yourself is really no better.
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With Holy Week upon us, this isn’t likely to be a meaningful recommendation, but all the same, I thought I’d include a trailer and a plug for “Source Code.” Best way to sum up the plot is just to watch the trailer, which does a good job. As I said back HERE, I’m a sucker for […]
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Having deleted the SAME spam from the SAME parties over and over and over, I would like to make an announcement on behalf of all normal people: ATTENTION: All guys who are in the market to be “enhanced” and “enlarged” – would you please stop dawdling and get on with taking these pills (all-natural or […]
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I happened onto Google’s virtual art museum site by accident a week ago. Those clever people have digitized hundreds of works of art from 17 museums around the world, and you can see them in roughly the same way that you see things via Google Maps. That gives you incredible control (as you’d imagine) but […]
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If you don’t follow matters relating to astrology, you might have missed this big storm brewing amongst those airy, herbal-tea-drinking folk. But it’s actually kind of an interesting collision of their beliefs and a little hard science. And it might just give them the kind of schism that we Orthodox know all too much about […]
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Have you been watching motion pictures recently and said, “Why can’t we have MORE special effects, MORE dark, apocalyptic imagery, MORE violence and non-stop motion?” Well then! “Inception” is the movie for you. More to the point, if you watched the Matrix series and thought, “Well, it’s an interesting alternate reality, but for goodness sake, […]
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s-p has a candidate for the worst music video ever, and he may be right (check it out HERE). But are you ready for some juicy Bollywood goodness? It’s not in English, but when you see those big-budget production values and that gripping story line, you’re sure to say that some things transcend the boundaries […]
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I didn’t know that romantic comedies were abbreviated RomComs until a recent trip to the Netflix comment area. And given that both of these — “Date Night” and “Letters to Juliet” — have been playing for weeks now, you might have to wait until Netflix stocks them if you want a look. Both are worth […]
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It says a lot about a TV series that I would celebrate Greg’s birthday by taking us to a nearby hotel and staging an island party just so we could watch the series finale of ‘Lost’ in a suitably festive atmosphere. And Greg was completely okay with sharing natal-day-honors with a TV show, as I […]
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Last point about Avatar I wanted to make: Movie-makers have had a lot of fun blurring the lines between the real world and artificial worlds. Only recently have they been doing the same thing with real and artificial selves. And I think there’s a reason for that. Only in the age of online communities and […]
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