I thought an interesting comment was made when somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, where’s Mandela? Well, Mandela is dead, because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.
— George Walker Bush,
during a White House press conference, September 20, 2007.
Posts filed in Pessimism
Or realism, if you will. Or, if we’re to listen to Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova, being Russian. Apparently, they understand these sorts of things. Anyway, it’s basically to always expect the worst.
2007-10-03 — Quote of the Day
My Gods, I feel lucky…
… to be born in this day and age, and in this country.
As an example of the former, I choose the fact that it’s no more than perhaps two hundred years since chimneys became common in Norway.
As an example for the latter, I must say that even though I am baffled, at times, at how [...]
Gudenes Fall
Gudenes Fall, by Cornelius Jakhelln.
2007, 428 pages.
Now, this might be a little weird. Gudenes Fall (The Fall of the Gods) is a book that most likely never will be translated into English, and yet, I choose to review it in English. But hey, my English is still worse than my Norwegian.
In the year 1000 AD, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
A Clockwork Orange
I know I’ve often asked for more resistance in movies, for less comfort, and more challenges. But this is too bleedin’ much. It’s a fucking nightmare, is what it is.
Still, though, a fascinating nightmare. Kinda like a train wreck. 8.5/10.
And to think I was 11 or 12 the first time I watched it…
It’s here!
I just picked Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows out of my post box, and because I am terrified of spoilers and want this to be an unblemished reading experience, I will now commence “radio silence” until the deed is done. No Internet, no newspapers, no TV, no radio — none of anything in which [...]
“Gaid”
I’ve finally taken my language-related snobbishness out into the open, primarily because the local newspaper recently titled me as “gaid” — a horrendous norwegianification of the English word “guide”, and an unnecessary one too, as we have the perfectly servicable synonym “omviser”.
So, it might be that the Norwegian Council of Language has given the go-ahead [...]
Second day of work…
… and I’ve already been exhausted for one day, even though I haven’t really started on the tasks that actually require an effort. Damn, but I wish my sister had still been here to take care of all this pre-season stress…
Oh well. I might try to convince myself that with all this work, [...]
The Octagon
When Kalle, Håvard and myself was at the hospital yesterday, the two former ones found a cheap DVD box in the hospital’s kiosk, a box containing three of Chuck Norris’ most famous movies. And as both Kalle and Håvard think Chuck Norris jokes are hilarious, they couldn’t do anything but buy this abomination. And tonight, [...]
Good Times…
Ah, ’tis been a crappy day, in some ways.
Omniously enough, it started out alright, with me and my flatmate Håvard watching “Hush” while eating dinner. And that episode is still one of the show’s (or at least the season’s) best ones; it’s funny, it’s scary, it has major turning points in the lives of both [...]
That’s it, then.
There’s dust on your guitar, you fuck, and it’s all your fault…
In four days, I am supposed to hand in a 25 pages long project paper in the pol.sci. course I’m taking. However, being a lazy, useless slob, I haven’t even begun reading for it yet. I tried to start working on it today, but [...]
Television Shows — What Else Is There (Time For)?
Sigh.
I just sat down to plan which TV shows I’ll watch in the next couple of months, and I currently feel as if I’m in the infamous time squize, or whatever one should call it.
Because first of all, I have over half of season 4 and all of season 5 of Angel left to watch [...]
April 15 is coming up…
And with it the deadline for applying for admittance to higher education. Thus I, hopefully finishing my Bachelor in Social Studies (oooh, look at who’s learned the distinction between “studies” and “science” since last time! ), have had to come up with something I’d like to be doing next year. And seeing as said [...]
Phew.
WARNING! This post contains what most people would consider to be TMI. Consider yourself warned. The author will not take responsibility for disturbing imagery that might appear in your minds if you read on.
That’s gotta be one of the hardest papers I’ve ever written. Sure, the theory and the empirics was child’s play, eight pages [...]
If there is a God of procrastination…
So. Five days left till the term paper in “Social scientific method” is due. And I was supposed to have started working on it today. But what happened?
Well, I sat down to begin reading some empirics about gender and wage levels and stuff. I think I read perhaps a page or two, but unfortunately I [...]
2007-03-09 — Quote of the Day
“Life’s a crock o’ shit.”
- Kilgore Trout
I am worried…
Because the rate at which my sister watches Buffy? Frighteningly fast. And unlike me, she actually has a conscience to get her out of bed in the mornings, so where my staying up extremely late during my worst Angel and Buffy addictions last spring only messed up my day rythm, her doing the same messes [...]
Okay, I realise now that I might have been kinda exaggerating about the relative greatness of VM2×22 — BS7×22 Chosen
Sigh. In my last post, I claimed that VM2×22 could rival BS5×22 and stuff like that in level of awesomity. Obviously, I forgot just how much I love BS7×22.
Because this episode is filled with all that good stuff I adore. There’s that scene in the high school hallway when the Scoobies talk about what they [...]
This is what I call Science Fiction!
Just came back from watching “Children of Men” in the movies, and it was bloody awesome.
The filmatographic elements were all perfect. The camerawork, done with an unsteady handheld, gave the film a more realistic atmosphere (during one scene, “blood” sprays across the lense, kinda like in “Saving Private Ryan”, except that I don’t think it [...]
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