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The best Earth Hour diary yet.
- Posted by cyclosarin on 2008 04 01 at 11:04 PM • permalink
Suddenly I feel like I didn’t put enough effort in. I had every light in the house on, and outside the house for that matter. I even tried “carbon neutral” which means putting the heater and the air-conditioner on at the same time but I never considered lighting a fire.
Oh well, we’re all new at this stuff. I’ll just have to try harder next year.
I’m laughing so hard I think I’m going into an asthma attack.
And I don’t have asthma. 😀
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2008 04 01 at 11:23 PM • permalink
Oh come on, burning trash is fun. Burning house and pets not so much maybe…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 04 02 at 12:07 AM • permalink
We call that Saturday night around these parts.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 02 at 02:17 AM • permalink
- Posted by Margos Maid on 2008 04 02 at 05:29 AM • permalink
#16 – The environmentally friendly website. Everyday is Earth Hour at Webdiary!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 02 at 05:34 AM • permalink
OT, but I reckon this is one of Pat condell’s finest so far.
plus! Fitna is back on Live Leak.
Way to go Guys!!
futuremrsrickankiel said…
“Monday Morning Punter is my slave name. Punte is my tribal name that I have assumed as a way of re-appropriating my roots.”
10:11 AM, March 31, 2008
Grimey said…YOUR NAME IS TOBY! (whip)
That is even funnier than the post!
And for the record, due to Melbun’s wild weather, we had an enforced Earf Hour when we lost power completely between 2 and 3pm.I made my caffeine by mobile phone light.
I love modern technolomogy.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 04 02 at 07:13 AM • permalink
And something which deserves to be punted, but so far has been lightly slapped on its limp wrist by Andrew Bolt, is this item regarding the ABC, which is extracted from a speech given to the Sydney Institute by Douglas Kirsner (Philosophy Prof. at Deakin University).
“In news and current affairs, PM is fair, balanced, impartial and professional. I think Lateline casts a wide net and is generally fair and balanced, as is The World Today.”
“That the Labor and Liberal parties receive similar treatment on the ABC demonstrates that there may not be cultural bias towards one mainstream party rather than the other.”
“THERE can be little doubt things have improved at the ABC since the appointment of Mark Scott as managing director…”
“There have been new programs that increase debate, including the ill-fated, experimental Difference of Opinion,…”
“In terms of balance, Middle East correspondents Matt Brown and David Hardaker are marked improvements.”
He had some sensible things to say too, but the above is quite a load for one article/speech to drop.
O/T: Worst idea of all time.
Oh, now, Madge would be great as Ilsa Lund. Except that she can’t act, and is not beautiful.
And that resetting Casablanca in Iraq would be ludicrous. And making everything the fault of the good guys would be blasphemy. And you can’t have a bar with drinking, girl singers, and gambling in Iraq anyway.
Other than all that, it would be a good movie. Cate Blanchette as the girl who sings “La Marseillaise”! Matt Damon as Rick! Jake Gyllenhael as Senor Ferrari! Sean Penn as Ugarte!
The story behind Kissing Suzy Kolber (kissmesuzy.com) is that Suzy Kolber is an NFL sideline reporter who a couple of years ago interviewed a very drunk Joe Namath. Joe kept asking Suzy for a kiss instead of answering her inane questions.
Best part of that game as far as I can remember.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2008 04 02 at 09:17 AM • permalink
- A delightful account of suburban hijinks.
Take us there again, M.Blair.Posted by carpefraise on 2008 04 02 at 11:21 AM • permalink
- #23,
Er, didn’t Roger L. Simon have this idea several months ago, except that he would actually make it, you know, good?Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 04 02 at 01:03 PM • permalink
#32: Maybe not the greatest film of all time, but a long way from mediocre. The casting was flawless, down to the smallest bit role, the performances were outstanding, the dialogue was not only excellent but some of it has even attained iconic status, the direction was superb, and the themes – lost love, disillusionment, self-pity vying with patriotism and self-sacrifice, the redemption of lost honor – so far above the political quackery, narcissism and self-congratulatory smugness that characterize so many American films of recent years as to make the film seem like a diamond found among shards of glass.
“With an attitude like that, I simply had to bookmark the site.”
Be forewarned: KSK is a gleefully obscene take on American sports, etc., with emphasis on “obscene.” Thus, I check it out twice a day.
Posted by Percy Dovetonsils on 2008 04 02 at 02:44 PM • permalink
#35: The Maltese Falcon is a good movie made from an overly-complex story, but it is good primarily because of the performances, not because of the byzantine plot.. Is it a better film noir than D.O.A.? I think so, if you’re talking about the original D.O.A. (which was made, I believe, 7 or 8 years after the Falcon). I like D.O.A., but there are some directorial gimmicks that make the movie seriously flawed (the absurdly sweet soundtrack music when the hero is talking to his secretary, the “wolf whistle” that occurs when he eyes a pretty girl, etc.). I think there may have been a remake, with which I am totally unfamiliar. Neither of the above is as good, overall, as Out of the Past – in my opinion, which need not count for much, if anything, considering that I am not an expert on the cinema.
I’m not saying “Casablanca” isn’t a good film – it is, obviously. So is “Falcon”, for that matter. But their juicy goodness is a result of a studio system interested in making money by the revolutionary process of “giving the customer what they want”, as opposed to the current moronic system of “give the stupid consumer what we think they should have.”
The first treats people as people, whole and complete, with brains and everything. The second, well, does not. Hence the box office bombardment of recent years.
OT: my favorite snarky line from “Casablanca”:
“Are my eyes REALLY brown?”
#41: My favorite: from Captain Renault (speculating on Rick’s reasons for leaving America) – “I like to think you killed a man; it’s the romantic in me.”
I agree with your comments. I’m not sure what’s driving the current rush to red ink among moviemakers these days. For example, how many anti-war flops do they have to make before they realize there’s no money in it? Or if they’re motivated by a sense of “social responsibility”, how many commercial flops do they think they can sustain before they go under – in which case they won’t be producing anything, “relevant” or otherwise.
For example, check out some of these numbers.
It’s the death of the Studio Mogul that did it, paco. The towering likes of Schmuel Gelbfisz were replaced by the David Mamets and Ollie Stones of the world.
It’s the world’s loss, in my opinion.
Madonna isn’t phased that most of her films have been turkeys.
A source from a major Hollywood studio the singer had approached said it would be difficult to get the project going.
(snip)
“The reception has been lukewarm to say the least.
The problem is what helped her to sell CD’s 20 years ago (a brazen show of skin and sluttiness) won’t help her to sell movie tickets at a ripe age of 49. Of course, the fact that she can’t act beyond spreading her legs is a bit of a handicap also. Ingrid Berman this broad is not.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 02 at 05:09 PM • permalink
Look the movie must be set in Casablanca in black and white in 1941. How is she going to do that? No one could remake that movie, the comparison would always be made.
Mojo, it may not be the best movie of all time, but it is one of the greatest.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 02 at 06:27 PM • permalink
it may not be the best movie of all time, but it is one of the greatest.
A distinction without a difference.
Well made. Good cinematography. Good direction. Mediocre script offset by excellent casting.
Claude Raines is a fuckin’ God:
I’m going to miss you, Rick. Apparently, you’re the only person in Casablanca with even less scruples than I…
Definitely a New Hero for our age.