I don't know, but wasn't it the case that Ralph McQuarrie was also pretty instrumental in creating those films? He was the one who gave all the characters and locales their look, wasn't he?

You will enter the contest, you will attend if you win, and you will enjoy yourself, mister!

Whenever I think of Cheney, I think of the Dylan's "Masters of War" where he vows to watch his body being lowered into the grave and standing over it until he's sure he's dead. It's a tragedy that won't be played at his funeral.

I'm loathe to be judgmental, but I'm beginning to think that Suge Knight may not be a very nice fellow.

You see, the black folk, they be commenting like this, whereas the white folk they be commenting like that

You have me convinced!

As Aristotle counselled, analytic precision should be sought only inasmuch as the nature of the subject permits it. But to suggest that any subject about which judgements can't be mathematically proven doesn't therefore allow for any arguments of judgment to be offered and rationally scrutinized doesn't appear…

I've said it before and I will say it again with renewed vigour: Most people are dumb, tasteless animals and will go to their graves as such.

Some people wish that, for others the idea that death is final would itself be the ultimate wish coming true. Wish-fulfillment can as easily be hypothesized as a motivation for atheism as for theism.

Hadn't occurred to me how much Savage looks like Jay Leno until now.

To be fair, most complicate it rather more than that. The putative petitionary function has to be reconciled, at least in orthodox Christianity, with a belief in the impassibility of God in some relationship far more subtle than sending wishes. There and in Buddhism and others, I'd think the focus is typically more…

tee-hee hee!

I'm glad Eastwood picked this particular piece of trash with his helpfully unconcealed contempt for the dignity of human life to serve as a microcosm of that war. Let people come out openly for a man who bragged about a lie that he'd murdered his own beleagured countrymen, if even they don't accept that non-American…

PJ Harvey, "A Place Called Home"

Shake it down, shake it down now.

PJ Harvey - Angelene
Van Morrison - Dweller on the Threshold
Laurie Anderson - Babydoll
Youssou N’Dour - So Many Men
Nils Petter Molvær - Baboon Moon

No, this is clearly a singular event that will reward painstaking analysis with startling new insights into race relations.

It may look glamorous, but an estimated 60% of those puppies go bankrupt within five years after retirement.

Teach the controversy!

Thing's a tour de force.