pretty much the best blog in the world

the blogger platform is a pile of throw up. there seems to be some good content, but that is not enough. tumblr is a toolbox. and young people use it.

2011-03-02T17:20:00.000-08:00

I like some of what I have posted on this blog. please read what I have put up here. I blog @ [ redacted ] now.

tumblr gives me wild content from all over. so i guess this blog had a nobler mission than the disposition of my current blog. I can put anything cool & heady that I want up there though. tumblr is a lot more exciting. there is more action than anybody using blogger ever experienced even if they made the absolute best of blogger. the functionality there eats blogger for a fucking light snack. it's kind of sad.

so that's it. see you on tumblr. thanks.

zach galiafanakis is pretty much can't miss.

2011-01-01T08:55:00.000-08:00

I am not sure about the hangover. it is not some of the smartest storytelling I have ever seen.

brad cooper's portrayal is not one of the most interesting or likable guys I've ever seen on screen. but i guess he pushes the story forward. we'll see.

mr. president (bush)--

2010-11-14T11:01:00.000-08:00

mr. president (bush)-- [btw, good to see back in the news & stuff again.] don't say "the liberation of iraq", please. we're not ready for you to go around putting that in our ears again. even if liberating them was what happened (when, exactly?) all that grandiose talk just sounds weird from you now. For me, ever since "we are not at war with Islam" came out, "we're doin' it for the Iraqi people" feels out-of-place. You did paint the picture, again, that Saddam was a threat. (I agree, but I think Mohamed Elbaradei feels a little left out of the threat assessment.)

So, unless you can tell those of us who care enough to wonder why US involvement (boots on the ground or any other kind) did or did not liberate people from the following hotspots that have flared up since 1990- kosovo, somalia, ossetia, beirut, west bank & gaza, then, big wheels keep on turnin’… btw, did afghanistan get liberated in the same sense yet or ever? And this is kinda random but I want to mention- arms sales to taiwan. Does that help liberate either all the people of some nation, or some the people of some nation who need liberation particularly badly?

This note has a hasty tone and poor organization. -- my bad. good luck w/ your book, sir. I will be looking for the highlights soon. I respected a lot of things you and your various team-members did as far as governance, international disposition and even on the campaign trail. I often tried to explain your case to a lot of people who would jerk their knees against you. garden-variety Senate Democrats can suck it most of the time. all day long.

I'm just on meme patrol today. I remain an ardent follower of your intellectual positions and fiercely loyal to the truly global interests of the United States.

yours,

[ me ]

will travers is the thin whatever color line.

2010-10-04T17:18:00.000-07:00

Rubicon is suggesting that it is possible for a massive and continuous corporate conspiracy to exist. in collusion with the federal government the rich and connected could orchestrate global terrorist acts. By way of massive privatization of the intelligence industry they'd play an instrumental role in executing the public interest in preventing such atrocities. I love Rubicon. as it's own fictional universe it has a believability and is strongly entertaining.

yet "9/11 was an inside job" rubs me the wrong way. As I am engrossed with this plot tonight, I can momentarily relate to the sentiment that motivates some to espouse [9/11 was an inside job]. do people still go around saying and believing that, by the way?

I knew a guy who used to pretend to believe it and would always argue it. anyway.

the identity of leroy

2010-08-29T07:14:00.000-07:00

the mexican actually has an OK plot. the movie is sort of disarming cuz brad pitt is so unassuming. it has many worthwhile moments, though.

the mix-up over "who" leroy "is" is played as a major plot point. of course, we do learn that winston, despite being lovable and nice enough to sam the whole time, is working for someone who would screw over or kill jerry and who jerry works for. as if we couldn't tell leroy is a black guy. but even leroy had a chance to reveal that that was his name and he didn't. so, bam. figure that shit out.

all that winston did was to tell her to tell jerry that she was with leroy. would this have gotten jerry killed or saved his ass? this is all unlcear to me and depends on ted or something.
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alright, so it becomes pretty clear by the end. Or does it? We do know that nayman wants to cut margolese out of a deal for the gun. we seem pretty convinced margolese has an honorable reason to want to take the gun. jerry is convinced.

but

don't we think winston may have turned around to side with jerry and sam? He has bonded with sam. He always insists he's so good at what he does, and he does seem to be good at it. He saved Sam's life. Why was leroy even trying to kill her in that scene, anyway?

So, are we sure about why Jerry killed Winston? Did he have to? This exact moment is hidden from us. I may have to watch again if I am really interested in these questions. We know that Jerry loves Sam. so we kinda have to think that he the only reason he'd need to kill winston was if winston def had sinister intent. but we get distracted that he's not black, that Jerry thought he was the leroy he knew all this time. also, maybe winston wears kevlar. but, what about all that blood?

organized thoughts next post? kbai.

there are a couple moments where these characters get to shine.

rotf

2010-08-28T09:41:00.000-07:00

bones-- season one, episode two

2010-05-29T08:47:00.000-07:00

"Bones" The Man in the SUV (2005)

this is s01e02 people. vintage stuff.

like:
plot: there's a homeland security mole connected to booth & bones' investigation. so, turf war.

what's off-putting:
appearance: zack is a skeleton. on this show. I'm disturbed by the degree of _gaunt_.

what's weird & a lil anlysis:
most everyone else is kind of baby-face-looking. naturally, the universe or "the background" in front of which the episodes play out is just being put together, so that's amusing. there is no cam in this episode. it feels like bones is running the show at the jeffersonian. hodgins pronounces maybe two names of materials weird. I think kinda overly proper or technical; it feels unnatural.

o yeah- bones kicks the homeland security guy's ass for a second. kind of out of left field. I like that she can do it, but why is this type of display from brennan not characteristic of the show in later episodes? she is clearly supposed to be the alpha in this early conception. perhaps not "top dog" in the same way in her dynamic with booth, but clearly strong and willing to dominate when necessary.

gonna watch last 13 minutes now.

russia and china and mortgage debt.

2010-05-15T10:07:00.000-07:00

watch this video. then read this post.

i have a serious suspicion that dylan ratigan is batshit round-the-bend.

that's not to say he doesn't usually have quite a solid idea of what he talking about.

okay, I'll back it up to say he's not crazy. what am I, a mental health clinician? He gets worked up. I've seen this a few times. he kinda bounces around quick. he is, first, a market guy. but he's swerved hard into the politcs/pundit realm. To be more fair, he is freaking me out if I try to take him seriously. which I do when ppl hit on the subjects that matter on a forum like MSNBC has. global markets via int'l relations. okay.

this is more about one youtube video I saw. got the link from a tea party guy on twitter. I like when "third party" "conservative" and "anti-big bank/anti-federal reserve" converge. okay. this clip is pretty entertaing. i think it is.

lamestream communications

2010-03-07T10:19:00.000-08:00

real quick: (preface: the footnote I tried to do below does not work cuz blogger is NOT as usable as you would think. [please help if you know how to fix!])

1. alice eve seems to be hot.

2. I am not done thinking about continued assertions or messaging from the likes of sarah palin that the mainstream media is biased. MAINLY BECAUSE there is some truth to it. okay. let's assume that the new york times leans lefty in the way they tell stories. or the way they connect dots, the aspects of stories they choose to highlight, the place that their stories create sympathy. ¹ I think perhaps it’s been this way for a long time, and it's a revered institution not just a liberal propaganda machine. (wow that was a stark contrast) but which side of that contrast you might prefer does not, I think, divide easily along ideological lines. This is because the way we consume information and the way we object to a news organization communicating in a biased way to the public, are two different mechanisms, right? not that those mechanisms ought not interface.

okay. Such potential bias as the NY Times likely has [you can nail down the quality or quantity of the bias for yourself if you like] is readily identified by the freedom-fighter conservative tea party media machine. but of course these bias crimes were different 20 years ago, right? that is, the media environment was radically different, but sure I guess in many important ways so so so much the same.

footnote
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1. I think the new york times is read by self-described "moderates" or "conservatives." perhaps because it's all about the level of literacy. if a reader is not so inclined, which liberal premises about the way the universe works are going to even stick to a certain level intellect?

win a date w/ edward wilson

2010-02-21T13:10:00.000-08:00

EXAMPLE #2: (it seems shepherd may be full of these juxtapositions.)

Edward meets Sullivan for the first time. then he’s back hanging w/ Clover just afterwards and she’s looking for the perfect husband. He says he’s the perfect husband (I think) cuz he realizes that he is in the sense she means. [His career prospects are starting to look real good. and he has a nice social support organization. His Bones connections have done well for him so far and will only help as he goes off to do PSYOPS for the Allies out of London.] aka: how's that for timing??

well, hmmmmm. how tricky is Edward w/ regard to his love life? at first blush he doesn’t seem to intend to marry Clover. he is kinda muscled into having sex with her. later, he’s pursuing a relationship with Laura, which may have gone stale but isn’t over. Laura's insecurity looms sorta big but he is distant for some reason.

then he’s gotta step up for his new found baby. Bones needs something in exchange now, I guess.

robert de niro as a director: subtle, assertive, brooding

2010-02-21T10:26:00.000-08:00

I think certain moments of the good shepherd are cool and not directly related to the whole movie being awesome. the moments I will mention are cool independent of the production design & art design being very strong, the cinematography being kick-ass or the historicity being fun. okay.

FIRST EXAMPLE: just at the moment when Edward Wilson first confirms that his professor has lied, claiming a poem to be his own, he first meets Laura. Coincidence? in this universe? ha! THEN he first meets Murach, who just observed his meeting Laura. Murach recruits Edward to spy on his professor, Dr Fredricks, who, of course turns out to be (British?-American?) intelligence, trying to find Nazi sympathisers. But that's the dance, right? FBI... foreign (but sort of "ours" anyway) intelligence... fighting the same fight, can't talk to each other... at least back then it was.

universities and whatnot

and the likes of yale? that's where that kind of organizing and/or recruiting would have been going on. the UK's been going a little crazy with their universities lately- they are worried about radical islam. and I guess they should be. and by that we always mean anti-western radical islam, right? well, that's what I mean here. and that's what britain means in terms of threat assessment.

american religious fundamentalists are kinda different from islam's, I imagine. it seems that in america, a fervent religious figure who engages in some ways in the political sphere if he's got any real juice or influence, his nationalism comes first. For islam's fundamentalists, (and we can say this about the broader islamic world, I think) one's nation is a far second to the koran. so american nationalism and militarism will continue to tend to conflict with the more sharia-minded folks in the international scene. right?

idk. you tell me. sometimes I'm more articulate. holler at me on cheezburger, aight? did i leave my cheezburger handle? it's the same as on 'pedia. gott go. gott turn off my LAN access so my system doesn't get attacked anymore for a little while. stupid movie sites.

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2010-01-07T12:06:00.000-08:00

so here's what I love about the west wing (1999-2006). stuff like the above exchange. okay, maybe I love the ethos of that exchange.

Toby's cynicism is surely that of a modern white house liberal, who, in power, encounters some real challenges from Senate Republicans. At first blush, the mentioned-in-passing pledge of allegiance measure offends the sensitivities of conventional (or dominant?) 1st amendment thought. establishment clause? free exercise clause? hmmmmm......

2010-01-06T17:37:00.000-08:00

I am coming to take over the world. I have been posting some goofy content and some more real-world stuff on a few places online & editing wikipedia for a few years now. I never got serious about "monetizing"-- however that works. now I'm using tinypic and lolbuilder like it's my fucking job. so guess what.

I am not a partisan.
karl rove is my hero.

ya know how I know I'm not? cuz that's something that's up to me. I'm not a partisan in sheep's clothing either. Not that partisans are wolf-like.

karl rove is my hero cuz of his strategic mind. He seems sorta downgraded these days but 2000 karl rove, 2004 karl rove? he was the architect. so maybe I do have to pick sides to be a successful strategist. maybe I won't be a strategist as such.

2010-01-06T15:20:00.000-08:00

I iz bloggin wit it.

I'm either gonn get crazy with some adsense real soon or get a normal job or... dag. I forget the other thing I might do.