http://alexplorer.net/blog Thoughts, things, and places I'm exploring. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:47:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HGfaQCY_bo4&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HGfaQCY_bo4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/06/13/this-weeks-evidence-the-japanese-are-hornily-insane/ <b>Last Action Hero, 1993</b> - If you even vaguely remember it, you get the premise: Kid goes into the movie realm.  The problem is the meta-movie can't sufficiently exaggerate the "movieisms" for the audience to feel they've moved from the cartoonish version of "real life" to the supposedly unrealistic movie ... http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/06/12/mays-dvd-reviews-part-ii/ Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?" -Annie Dillard. (Thanks be to Katie for sharing.) http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/06/11/a-priest-walks-into-an-igloo/ Yes, I'm back in Texas now, but I don't know for how long.  Why am I moving?  Okay, invent an imaginary state with everything I want in it, and you'd basically be describing California, otherwise known as an imaginary state.  Or more specifically: <b>Wherever else you are, it's still early in ... http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/06/10/im-moving-to-california/ Maybe I'm just callous, but the way I figure it, if you're drunk enough to pass out in the busy parking lot of the bar you got plastered in, you deserve the Darwin Award conferred by the tires rolling over your head. My friend Rachel and her room/suitemates disagreed.  They wanted ... http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/06/03/untitled-drunk-story-no-2/ ...and who find this a relaxing alternative to a commute on the Tokyo subway. http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/05/23/this-weeks-evidence-the-japanese-are-happily-insane-3/ Teeth, 2006 - With the premise of a midwestern girl with a vagina dentata, there's so much potential to rip on the Christian right and their imposed ignorance of human sexuality and even fundamental anatomy. But then you take a first-time director who penned the script himself and what ... http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/05/22/mays-dvd-reviews-part-i/ After you've lived enough days and eaten three meals and lots of snacks in each of them, you eventually start to think you've finally tried everything. At that point, going out to eat means you aren't in search of "new and different" so much as "good and enough." ... http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/05/22/and-thanks-for-all-the-raw-fish/ You make it through this, I buy you a beer. Deal? (Thanks, Isaac... I think.) http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/05/19/mondays-musical-madness/ See more funny videos at CollegeHumor http://alexplorer.net/blog/2008/05/16/this-weeks-evidence-the-japanese-are-happily-insane-2/