Case in point.
That’s Franken-steeen!
For Halloween, the first screen adaptation of "Frankenstein": Running about 12 minutes, it was made by the Thomas Edison Film Company in 1910. It was believed to have been lost by fire in 1914, until an archival copy was re-discovered in the 1970’s. No, it’s not very good. Frankenstein’s monstor looks like a reject from Cats.
Busy, Busy, Busy
The closing weekend of Little Shop of Horrors was successful and loads of fun. Show got even tighter and the audiences were relatively large and appreciative. Strike, which I thought would be the worst, was completed in about 3 hours — that includes transporting and unloading everything back at the shop. Night hadn’t fallen yet, and we were all off … Read More
Suburban Housewife Counterterrorist Does What The FBI Can’t
Interesting story in Wired about a woman in Montana who spends her free time infiltrating Jihadist online chats: Rossmiller developed her remarkable talent for chatting up terrorists after September 11, when she started going into online forums and cajoling valuable information from other visitors. She has passed along numerous case files to federal authorities. Her information has led US forces … Read More
Ordering Pizza Online
Don’t you hate ordering pizza online? What you want…. What you end up getting…. NO, NO, NO, DAMMIT! Can’t you see that I ordered the PEPPERONI on the left, and the MUSHROOMS on the right?!?!?!? Courtesy of The Sneeze
How to Ruin Halloween
Joel Stein (shorter): Why can’t Halloween be all about demons and Satan, rather than about scantily-dressed nurses and pirates? Actually (and predictably), there is a Christian right backlash against the whole demonic thing as well. Over at Pat Robertson’s CBN you’ll find an entire page dealing with Halloween, complete with godly advice guaranteed to ruin the holiday for the kids: … Read More
Email Chain
Via Matt Yglesius: Chris Hayes has a great piece on the bizarre world of right-wing chain emails, in which all manner of vicious slurs and lies circulate for months or even years without anyone in the MSM noticing. Sometimes they pop up on a sufficiently mainstream place — Fox News, Rush — for someone in the real press to bother … Read More
Tort Reform
From Feministing: "German playboy" Rolf Eden is suing a 19-year-old woman for ageism because, after he wined and dined her, she refused to sleep with him. Despite a night on the town with Eden, which ended back at his place, she refused to have sex with him, saying the he was too old for her. "That was shattering. No woman … Read More
Nose. Face. Spite.
Pennsylvania won’t release its list of polling places to the public. The reason? So that terrorists won’t disrupt the election process. I’m just spitballin’ here, but keeping the polling places a secret from the public? Won’t that disrupt the election process?
Fake News
FEMA holds a press conference with itself: The agency gave reporters 15 minutes’ notice before the press briefing, making it almost impossible for most reporters to get FEMA’s DC offices (which are nowhere near downtown or Capitol Hill). But the agency didn’t want to hold a press conference on national television without questions, so FEMA employees stood in and gave … Read More
New Rules For Relationships
It’s not that I disagree with Cosmo’s seven "new rules for keeping your man" or whatever it’s called. (In fact, most of these relationship tips are quite sound and common-sensical.) It’s just that they’ll be publishing, in six to seven months, another set of rules which totally contradict these ones….
Scientific Breakthrough Conquers AIDS?
I’m surprised nobody is covering this: With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents HIV from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population. To date, it represents the most significant treatment … Read More
Dewey, Bangham & Howe: Sex With Lawyers
Every lawyer knows — because it’s drilled into us — that it is unethical to have sex with a client. It violates the Rules of Professional Conduct in every state bar, and can lead to fines or suspension of your legal license. The rationale is that having sex with a client creates a conflict of interest. Also demeans the profession, … Read More