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Curate’s* egg. Go see it.
(*Or a priest’s, or some other religious type, holding aloft a crucific and warding off the encroaching armies of demonic pestilance, in graphic CGI.)
I probably went to see this movie in the wrong frame of mind. It’s nonsense. And if you don’t approach it too cynically†, you’ll enjoy it. At any rate, it has some power beyond the narrative, and the images stayed in my head long after I watched it, which is quite a compliment for a nonsensical movie.
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Dead good. Go and see it.
It’s been a while since I’ve been to see a smart film, and—don’t get me wrong—dumb films can be really fantastic fun. (I’m even looking forward to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy.) But sometimes it’s nice to get your cinematic teeth into a bit of film that makes you think. (That doesn’t read quite right… You know what I mean.)
So this is one of these web log things all the kids are into nowadays?
I used to have a website, but these things are so passé. Nowadays all the hip young things are blogging. Like there’s no tomorrow. Come with me now on a jouney into blog…
In common with other blogtastic experiements in on-line, self-publishing, ground-up journalism, this will be my small part of the web, filled with narcissistic navel-gazing and things that I think are worthwhile, damnit.
3:10 pm The Rev. Billy Graham says he’d forgive Clinton if it’s indeed true that the president had sex with Monica Lewinsky and then told her to lie about it. “I forgive him … because I know the frailty of human nature, and especially a strong vigorous young man like he is,” the preacher told NBC. Even though he acknowledged that the daily pressure of high office may bring temptation for a man who has a personality that would make women “go wild,” Graham said authority figures such as the president should be held to higher moral standards than average folks.
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Cells from infant foreskins, used to grow human skin in vats of bovine collagen. About a month too early for an April Fool’s joke… so it must be true. Says a sales rep for the Canton, Massachusetts company, Organogenesis:
“People think I’m joking when I say we grow human skin, until I whip out a dish
of it from my briefcase,“Skin’s a fun tissue to work with.”
The full story’s on Wired News.