Monthly Archives: August 2013

Heads Or Tails

August 31, 2013 – 8:27 pm

Koln was devastated in World War II. The US Army Air Force stated that the bombardiers avoided hitting the famous medieval cathedral. In truth they used the stone church for a point of reference and the cathedral was struck on many occasions. The massive structure only remained standing thanks to the workmanship of Middle Age […]

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The Beauty of Zatoichi

August 31, 2013 – 7:12 pm

Bored with Netflix and HBO I hunted the web for another source of entertainment and luckily stumbled onto ZATOICHI, the Blind Swordsman. This Japanese TV show portrayed the traveling trials of a blind masseur and swordmaster living in the Edo period circa 1840s. The actor Shintaro Katsu masterfully breathed life into novelist Kan Shimozawa’s creation […]

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A Nation Of Squares

August 30, 2013 – 10:02 pm

Last weekend former Disney child star Miley Cyrus upset countless people who don’t matter with her scantily-clad dance performance during a duet with Robin Thicke at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The religious right reacted, as if the pert singer/dancer had shit in the Pope’s mouth during a remake of THE ARISTOCRATS, and Sean […]

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I WALK THE LINE leonard nimoy

August 30, 2013 – 8:01 pm

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LOVELY SLEEP by Peter Nolan Smith

August 29, 2013 – 10:20 am

The Thai people pride themselves in the purity of their language. Few English words have infiltrated the common lexicon. Dtam-ruaat is the word for police. The diphonic annunciation can confuse most farangs. I thought for years that Dtam-ruaat meant ‘make blood’, however make blood is spelled Dtam-leuuat with a falling accent on the last syllable. […]

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