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James Cameron doesn’t like Piranha 3-D: I tend almost never to throw other films under the bus, but that is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3-D. Because it just cheapens the medium and reminds you of the bad 3-D horror films from the 70s and 80s, like Friday the 13th 3-D. . . . → Read More: Wednesday various The word for today on my Forgotten English desk calendar is “gardyloo,” which apparently was “a common cry in former days of the dwellers in the high flats of Edinburgh, who were in the habit of throwing urine, slops, &c. out of the window; from the French gare l’eau, beware of the water.” So I guess, if . . . → Read More: Gardyloo! Scholars beware! Experts on the various fungi that feed on the pages and on the covers of books are increasingly convinced that you can get high–or at least a little wacky–by sniffing old books. Fungus on books, they say, is a likely source of hallucinogenic spores. [via] I have to admit, I didn’t immediately understand this video (a . . . → Read More: Thursday various So now it’s not “what the founding fathers meant” but “what the mid-nineteeth-century fathers meant”? Look, Iowa GOP, it seems to me that, if the best you can come up with is a version of a constitutional amendment that was never actually ratified, you’re grasping at straws. [via] Bloomsbury will e-publish a one-million-page Churchill archive. I’m imagining . . . → Read More: Thursday various I see the dead Tauntaun wedding cake. And I see the zombie wedding cake. But what I don’t see is the obvious next step: the zombie Tauntaun wedding cake. Get on it, cake-makers! The movie(s) may still disappoint, but I’m genuinely excited by the new Harry Potter trailer. Martin Scorcese, meanwhile, has never seen the Harry Potter movies. . . . → Read More: Tuesday various It’s neither especially “great” nor in any way “new,” but this great new Rolling Stones song is definitely interesting. It’s one from the vault. George Washington owes $300,000 in overdue library fines. Good luck collecting that. [via] These are protests I can get behind: Student uses Westboro Baptist Church visit as fundraiser Green Apple Books . . . → Read More: Thursday various Today’s phrase of “forgotten English,” according to my desk calendar of the same name, is “out of all ho,” meaning “out of all restraint” and “derived from the exclamation ‘ho!’ — used to stop the combat at a tournament.” Which has pretty much nothing to do with today. Aside from a late afternoon meeting about our e-commerce system . . . → Read More: Out of all ho These comic strip mashups are just terrific. [via] McSweeney’s: Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?: For agreeing to help lift the contraption, we have been given exclusive access to what experts are already calling “a device which emits sound and is not filled with bees.” It’s kind of a one-note joke. And while it’s obviously parodying the idea of . . . → Read More: Wednesday various Jeffrey Ford on undoing the will of God: Today it struck me that, considering the curse that God places on mankind by fracturing language so that we can never conspire en mass, the work of translators is, in a mythic sort of way, an undoing of the will of God. I had this day dream where . . . → Read More: Found in translation |
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