In my Last.fm shoutbox, I was recently asked by one of my readers to post more frequently in my blog, and seeing as your whim is my law, I bring you this: an essay of sorts about the last topic you’d expected me to write about!
One of the things you might not know [...]
Posts filed in Failed attempts at subtility
I’m not very good at being subtle. Thus this tag. Oh, and a lot of other people suck at it, too. And yet we continue to try. There’s the human race for ya…
A Plague! A Plague on Our Houses!
Angelic Revelation
One of the reasons why I haven’t been much active online lately, is that I spend most of my evenings watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with one or more of my flatmates. We started about a year ago, when one of them asked me to show him a really fun Buffy episode. I chose “Hush”, [...]
Atheists <3 Averröes (or ibn Rushd, if you prefer)
“In the Christian intellectual environment of the thirteenth century, apparent conflicts between argumentation in natural philosophy and argumentation in matter sof theological doctrine became exceptionally acute. The newly introduced writings of from the ancients — Greek philosophy and science, accompanied by Arabic and Hebrew commentary — rigorously set forth propositions alien to fundamental dicta of [...]
2007-11-07 — Quote of the Day
“The pagan barbarians had buried their most precious possessions with their dead. These possessions would vary, from the weapons of ordinary men and the simple bronze or copper jewelry which even poor women owned to the to the treasures of great warriors and kings, such as those superbly rich objects of Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, [...]
Movies Galore: A Summary
It’s nearly two months since my last movie review — a review, I might add, where I was unreasonably hard on the reviewed movie, as the fact that I’m in a foul mood shouldn’t really count against it. Anyway, since then I’ve watched a lot of movies: excellent movies, great movies, good movies, mediocre movies, [...]
2007-07-31 — Quote of the Day (This one goes out to my man Loki! ;D)
Di findes, der fnyser af klæ’er å overfladisk pynt, der synes d’er spilt tid og anstrængelse, æd ville tæ’ sig gåd od for ændre. Enkelte hevder sogar, æd de æd forskønne sid ytre peger på betænkelie personlihedstræk som forfænglihed, hovmod, fælskhed. Di ved ige vor fejl di tæ’r; som om loslid eller smægløs bekledning sko’ [...]
A silent prayer of thanks to the patriarchate and all male chauvinists
Oh, patriarchal social structure!
Oh, male chauvinists of the past!
I praise thee!
While thy general wisdom might leave something to be desired, and while I dislike thee quite strongly, thee have done me — and in fact the whole nation — a great service!
And while thy rancid ignorance and silly prejudices have also done us all great [...]
Diabolical spam
It’s not even 48 hours since the last time I deleted all the spam comments the spam filter has filtered out for me, and yet, this.
Seeing Red: A Case in the Study of Joss Whedon, Sadistic Genious
This has got to be one of the best worst minutes of television I have ever seen. Observe, if you will, these four moments:
1. Bliss, as Buffy and Xander make up and embrace.
2. Dread, as Warren appears, toting a gun.
3. Grief, and/or anguish, as a stray bullet from Warren’s gun penetrates Tara’s chest, and her [...]
Solaris
Me and one of my flat mates also watched “Solaris” tonight. And we both kinda wish we hadn’t.
Because this was uninteresting and boring. I won’t even try to describe the plot, except that it took place on a space station in orbit around the planet Solaris, and that strange things had happened. George Clooney’s [...]
Muahaha, de trodde de var smartere enn meg…
… men den gang ei! For der de stiller meningsløse krav til meg, vil jeg svare på en tilsvarende meningsløs måte! Bare se:
Fra “Om Semesteroppgaver Ved Institutt For Sosiologi Og Statsvitenskap”:
“Alle må referere til minst en artikkel fra et samfunnsvitenskapelig tidsskrift”
Fra innledninga til min semesteroppgave ved samme institutt:
1.0 — Innledning
“Det er et lite omstridt faktum [...]
“Have you ever quoted Shakespeare with your beloved in a dark theatre hallway?” — AS3×13 Waiting In The Wings
I gotta admit I was somewhat flabbergasted when Loki listed this episode as one of his 25 favourites, because I just remembered it as a mediocre episode with a lot of dull ballet. Man, was I wrong…
This one’s awesome from beginning to end. All the way from the first scene, where Wes confides to Cordy [...]
Tralala, tralla-lu…
Diddle duddle daddle
Dada daaaaaaaaa…
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