I usually try to avoid relying on reviews, reading them after seeing a film instead. I read i09's review of Battle: LA, a movie I was, quite honestly, very excited about. It was awful, and i09 was dead on with its scathing critique. I'm not going to let reviews dictate what I see, but I think this one is a safe bet.

dragons, mechs, samurai, hooker assassins, medievalism, guns, explosions, martial arts, thunderstorms, lesbo-eroticism, hot asians, gothic architecture, nazis i think? judeo christian iconography, apocalyptic hell scapes, the guy who played Admiral Joshua Painter in The Hunt for Red October, retro-futurism, oblique…

I asked out Miranda, a small moon which orbits the 7th planet from the sun (im not going to write the name). I sent an email to NASA asking them if they could get in touch with the moon and ask it on a date for me, no joke. They never emailed me back.

im with you, it was way too long and slow and just boring

but you didn't, so you'll never be able to judge as if you had

Eternal Sunshine can't lose to Galaxy Quest, I mean, really? It always seems like Eternal gets an ambiguous reaction from people, its a film that gets put into the 'I don't really know....' category. Although it has a comfortable, unassailable spot in my top 5, maybe even top 3, I've actually questioned my own…

christ i know, im one step away from bawling in my cubicle. Animals, at least for me, are living representations of innocence and helplessness, and it is intensely heartbreaking to watch them suffer. I don't just value them metaphorically of course, I care about them as a sentient being...I don't know, I just agree…

This looks as exciting as the scrawl from Star Wars: Episode I. "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic…

The only Rand book I've ever managed to read was 'Anthem' and it was pretty awful

As reprehensible and logically absurd as this law is it isn't uncommon. Many states have statutes that echo the Illinois example. California, Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, and possibly others have some type of "dual-consent" law on the books which makes it possible to prosecute people for recording the activities…

1. Has Assange created and maintained an invaluable tool designed to reign in the excesses of an increasingly secretive global hegemon and expose things being done in the name of citizens from countries around the world? Yes.

I want to be Ryan Gosling when I grow up.

@To.the.Lighthouse: haha, thanks, to all of you, and Lighthouse, I really like the Virginia Woolf reference, its one of my favorite books. You wouldn't perhaps want to go on a date would you? We could take a culinary seminar and combine a fun activity with dinner! Just kidding, im not an internet weirdo, and thanks…

Ok, one more post, sorry. It's just....I don't know, I'm not sure why just saying "Would you like to go out sometime?" is so hard, but doesn't it sound way too formal? "Hey, would you like to go out on a date sometime soon, on a date which implies my romantic interest in you?" Shouldn't there be some kind of…

@Le Kangourou de Kataroo: I think thats the best mix, alternating between the unfettered relaxation of movies and takeout from the couch (which is actually a hell of a lot of fun, one reason being you get to spend a lot of time talking to and getting to know each other without distraction) and more 'traditional' stuff…

Lets say theres this guy, similar in a lot of ways to myself. This guy meets a girl, asks her if she would like to get dinner one evening "this week" and hang out. He buys tickets to a big cat rescue center (tigers, lions, ocelots, leopards, etc.) and before dinner we, I mean they, go to the shelter and rehabilitation…

what about "wicked smart"?

@fatmonalisa: I think you're exactly right that monogamy is the underlying concern. Disapprobation of "promiscuity" (another term I don't like because of its negative connotations), culturally imposed shaming of 'sluts' can also be understood as a way to punitively enforce monogamy. This is particularly directed at…

@Justine: Sometimes I see things like this and am ashamed to be male. I just got back from 6 weeks in Southeast Asia, I spent about 10 days in Cambodia and the disgusting phenomenon you talk about was everywhere. It was disturbing how many elderly, white haired, serial killery European and American men were there…

@pixelpushing: Yeah, i agree with you. I kind of forgot to include a qualifier stating that Winer may turn out to be completely wrong, its just that his article was about the big picture and a lot of comments tended to focus solely on the phone. I grew up using Apple products (my mom is an academic/NPR listener so…