Merry Christmas Titan! — though the gift will be delivered late. A quick check on the Cassini-Huygens mission (all’s going ridiculously well so far, next Titan flyby in seven days) shows that the Huygens probe will be released on Decembe[…]

Napoleon, for the eight millionth time — every so often I get a fit to revisit a subject I already know about and enjoy, partially to see what alternate perspectives or different foci could provide, and while I’m not a Napoleon fanatic I […]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 5[…]

The Blue Bayou (ribbit ribbit — sorry, obscure Muppet Show joke)
located in Disneyland
As mentioned elsewhere, I ended up at Disneyland yesterday and among other things, thanks to a reservation from friend Julie, had lunch at what I still think[…]

VIVISECTING ALEXANDER — Oliver Stone’s purest folly — or at least the one I’ve directly experienced, as I’ve avoided a good slew of his films precisely because I didn’t like the other ones — was never going t[…]

DISNEYLAND AT CHRISTMAS
You read that right, and to some it may suggest unnerving horror and to others the exact means of perfection, and so forth. To talk about it in huge detail would be worthy and maybe I’ll yet do that in the essay section[…]

Quick ILXor.com update — just in case anyone’s been wondering (I’ve received a slew of e-mails asking!), Andrew G., who oversees the machine in Melbourne, Australia, is aware of the machine shutdown but won’t be able to invest[…]

or Don’t Look Back in Anger
Shot during the Prague Spring and released after the Russian invasion, Lindsay Anderson’s ‘If….’ would seem to have earned its parenthetical (1968). With its violent anti-authoritarianism, lon[…]

Mankind: Have A Nice Day by Mick Foley
I suppose going from a novel by a Nobel winner (reviewed below) to the autobiography of an ex-WWE wrestler is probably about as big a drop in literary respectability as one could contrive. Perhaps predictably, I[…]

An Amazing Collection
This http://www.christopherporter.com/ has songs from africa and its disporia, and it is the widest ranging, most wonderful collection of the material i have seen on any mp3 blog–hip hop from Narobi, that sounds somewhere […]