Red Cross Shoes

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 11:38 PM
redcross1942

which, as far as I can tell, had nothing to do with the American Red Cross. Talk about using any excuse to make money :-P From Life Magazine 1942

a few minor notes

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 3:33 AM
- one of the best triple features ever tonight at the Castro: 'Love Kills in the 90s' with True Romance, Natural Born Killers, and The Doom Generation
- when I get my next paycheck I am finally just going to fucking buy the original 'World Gone Wild' poster that has been on eBay for the past like two years and which I have been lusting after for just as long GOD DAMN IT
- I mailed in my birth certificate application form thing today and also mailed a box of awesome to the Cait and also got glitter and stickers at the craft store, no lesbo.

Workshop: 1916

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:06 AM

Circa 1916. "Hackett Motor Car Co., Jackson, Michigan." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. Another view here.


Personality Mapping: 1954

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 4:06 PM

It's November in 1954 and you're an 8 year-old boy; given the following options, what do you do?

a) Watch TV;
b) Play with cool toy MG sports car;
c) Unroll giant set of maps and trace the borders of Czechoslovakia.

Made sense to me then. Actually, I still understand it. View full image.


Disney's A Christmas Carol / **** (PG)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"A Christmas Carol" (PG, 95 minutes) An exhilarating visual experience that proves for the third time Robert Zemeckis is one of the few directors who knows what he's doing with 3-D. The story that Dickens wrote in 1838 remains timeless, and if it's supercharged here with Scrooge swooping the London streets as freely as Superman, well, once you let ghosts into a movie there's room for anything. In motion-capture animation, Jim Carrey does the movements and voice of Ebenezer Scrooge, never thinner, never more stooped, never more bitter. The A-list cast also includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins, Robin Wright Penn and Cary Elwes. Four stars

Precious / **** (R)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"Precious" (R, 109 minutes). School is an ordeal of mocking cruelty for a fat teenager, and home is worse. Precious avoids looking at people, hardly ever speaks, is nearly illiterate, is pregnant. One of her teachers (Paula Patton) and a postal worker (Mariah Carey) see something in her, or simply react to her obvious pain. They try to coax her out of her shell. She's not stupid, but feels defeated. Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe gives a powerful performance in the title role, and Mo'Nique is frighteningly effective as her abusive mother. Directed by Lee Daniels, based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire. Four stars.

The Men Who Stare at Goats / ***1/2 (R)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" (R, 93 minutes). A weirdly funny comedy that seriously claims to be based on an actual U.S. Army interest in using paranormal soldiers as a weapon. Ewan McGregor plays a reporter who encounters George Clooney, a "Jedi Warrior" graduate of these secret program; flashbacks show Jeff Bridges as an officer who seems very much like The Big Lebowski. Could they kill goats by staring? Well, if you can bend a spoon with your mind, why not a rifle? Three and a half stars

The Box / *** (PG-13)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"The Box" (114 minutes, PG-13). A preposterous but never boring sci-fi movie where a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella) gives a couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marston) a box with a button on top, and tells them if they oust out they'll get $1 million in cash -- but someone unknown to them will die. Well, what would you do? And then the plot really gets wild. Stay way if you expect it to add up and make sense. You're entering…the Twilight Zone. Three stars.

(Untitled) / ***1/2 (R)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"(Untitled") (R, 96 minutes). A good, smart comedy about the fringes of the New York art world, starring Adam Goldberg as an impossible experimental musician and Marley Shelton as a chic Soho gallery owner. The art on display is good enough to be plausible, and weird enough to be funny. It's worthy of the best Woody Allen, and Adrian is not unlike Woody's persona: A sincere, intense, insecure nebbish, hopeless with women, aiming for greatness. Directed by Jonathan Parker. Three and a half stars

The Fourth Kind / *1/2 (PG-13)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"The Fourth Kind" (PG-13, 98 minutes). Nome, Alaska (pop. 3,750) has so many disappearances and/or alien abductions that the FBI has investigated there 20 times more than in Anchorage. So it's claimed by this pseudo-doc that goes to inane lengths to appear factual. Milla Jovovich is good as a psychologist whose clients complain that owls stare at them in the middle of the night. One and a half stars. One and a half stars.

The Horse Boy / *** (No MPAA rating)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
"The Horse Boy" (Unrated, 94 minutes). A four-year-old Texas boy with autism has angry seizures and isn't potty-trained. His parents fly with him to Mongolia, drive nine hours into the steppes, and then journey by horseback to a sacred mountain where he undergoes a miraculous cure at the hands of shamans. A remarkable story, but containing unanswered questions. Three stars.

Great Movie: Mon oncle d'Amerique (1980)

  • Nov. 7th, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Three children are born in France. One, Rene, is the son of struggling farmers. One, Janine, a daughter of proletarians. The third son, Jean, is born in a manor house to wealthy bourgeois. These children grow up, are educated, find occupations often against the will of their parents, and enter relationships. They don't much think of themselves as laboratory rats, but they might be surprised how consistently their behavior is consistent with the involuntary responses of a rat. This observation is not intend as an insult to them, or to the rat.

Another week in the life of GURPS

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 8:33 PM

Time for the first update of November 2009. Wow, November. GURPS goings-on this week included:

• We released a freebie that I hinted at ages ago: GURPS Infinite Worlds: I.S.T, by Steve Kenson and Kenneth Hite ([info]princeofcairo). Are you a fan of Bob Schroeck's GURPS International Super Teams? Would you like to use it with Ken Hite's GURPS Infinite Worlds campaign frame? This item should help you out!

• Actually, we released two freebies. The second was GURPS Range Ruler, by T Bone. This is a cool little tool for gamers who use tactical combat. It's just about all you need to go mapless with your figures, if that's your thing.

• We reviewed the rough PDF of Pyramid #3/13: Thaumatology. I think that the title, which hints at GURPS Thaumatology, explains itself. That should be out later this month.

• And . . . my GURPS Low-Tech edit is at the 92% mark by page count. This week, I mainly tackled vehicles: carts, dugout canoes, reed rafts, sleds, wagons, even surfboards. If you need a small vehicle for your adventuring party, chances are good that it's here. (Big ships will be in the GURPS Low-Tech Companion volumes.)

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