She's still busy trying to locate that Malaysian airliner. Maybe she could get more done with some help, but you think that turtle ever contributes? Just lollygags on her head everyday while she does everything.

I haven't seen "A Woman is a Woman" but perhaps I'll give it a try.

Dark times, indeed.

Hilarious.

1990. Back when Helen Lovejoys across America were convinced that Bart's rantipoling ways betokened the end of Western civilization.

There are . . . FOUR LIGHTS!

Well, hang on . . . Is there anything they can do to change your mind? Anything at all?

I made a concerted effort a few years ago to appreciate Godard, but without great success. They're stylish, nicely shot, feature beautiful people, are fairly entertaining, but I felt like that surface didn't bear much scratching which, given his reputation, I expected it to. It sort of felt like flipping through a Vo…

'Mathematics is too powerful to provide constraints on information: it models truth and drivel with equal felicity'.
- J. Cutting, Perception with an Eye for Motion (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986), xi.

It took me a while, but I'm prepared to defend Taylor (pitiable, downtrodden thing she is). But really, as someone who appreciates Cash for what he did, I can appreciate her for what she does. Not crazy about the naked corporate moves, but her albums are quite good, if not to everyone's taste. If I started a list…

She was all woman.

No it doesn't! Does it?

I agree, it's hard to conceive of West Germany having had armed forces at all if they weren't composed of many former Nazi-era people, but it's still amazing that the first person to lead it had been senior enough to be poring over maps beside Hitler a few years earlier.

Chomsky has a good discussion about US collaboration with fascists and the drug connection here:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

"This whole raid was as useless as they yellow lemon shaped rock over there. Wait a minute… there's a lemon behind that rock!"

I think mine might be when Alison showed up and overtook Lisa as the top student and academic crutch for Ralph.

I'm really looking forward to seeing Ida. Looks good.

They're both German and meant to be pronounced with that guttural noise used for ö as far as I can tell.

Make sure they're seated and strapped in for the ride before you tell them.

Here's my fun Kim fact: Kim was 35 in 1988 when 'Teen Age Riot' was recorded. Her penultimate year of teendom was 1971 when The Who's 'Baba O'Riley' ('Teenage Wasteland') was released.