- Kewl. Freedomista cartoonist Scott Bieser has a new online graphic novel. His first solo effort.
- Even in this era of manipulative bill-naming, this pretty much takes the cake. I wish ’em well. But sheesh, grownups don’t need propaganda names like that.
- Former presidential aide murdered and dumped. Okay, it’s not likely to be another Vince Foster case. Still. It’s getting weirder and weirder.
- So Obama is for “change.” And he’s trying to project a more pro-business image (yeah, right). The answer? Well, according to a lot of high-level speculation that means putting another Chicago pol and banker in a top position. Barak, dontcha know that in this era, bankers — especially of the JP Morgan variety — aren’t businessmen? They’re just … well, it wouldn’t be polite to say. Oh well, look on the bright side. At least he’s not another Goldman Sachsmanite.
- For your health (and better sleep). I’ve never tried it, but could be interesting.
- I finally got to see Inception last night. Too bad it had to be on a 22-inch monitor. Wow. Visual trip. Intricate plotting. Pretty good moviemaking all ’round — even if I could barely tell what was going on for the last 45 minutes. By then, it didn’t really matter; I was just hooked.
I’ve been following Escape From Terra(also by Scott Bieser) for quite a while now..Quantumvibe looks like another one worth keeping up with. Some movies are meant to be seen in a theatre,and Inception was one of them-it’s a big screen film. There’s nothing wrong with a catchy phrase, but there’s a big difference between catch and goofy..
I’m still not sure what happened in Inception, but I watched all of it anyway….LOL…..
Mr. Wheeler was a classmate of my fathers, they worked together many times and served in vietnam together for a short time. I have met him several times over the 80’s (katie was cute and well out of my league) and played in their back yard.
From all accounts it is getting very weird. The video is very disturbing, he is showing all the signs of confusion or a medical condition, why an ambulance was not called is beyond me. I would have just from how he was moving.
DrillSgtK — very small world. I would never have imagined that anybody here would know him.
I agree with you; something was so plainly wrong that it’s strange that nobody tried to get help for Wheeler. Or at least to sit him down somewhere and try to contact his family. Something.
thing really stinks
I’ve tried to make it through INCEPTION three times now, and failed. I just find it boring and pretentious, and far more impressed with itself than I could ever be. Part of this is a basic dislike of dream-based narratives, part of it is a basic dislike of Nolan’s ponderous, dreary and utterly drab ‘visual style’.
Geotge Potter — That’s how I felt about Nolan’s Dark Knight. OMG, what a boring, overblown, pompous pile of nothing. I couldn’t believe that millions of people thought it was a great movie. Only the sound of crunching popcorn in the theater kept me awake. Inception? Different story. But I admit I can’t easily say why.
I felt the same about The Dark Knight, though I rather enjoyed Nolan’s previous entry, Batman Begins. It had a far better script (based loosely on BATMAN YEAR ONE, one of the finest extant comic books dealing with the character) and I was not yet sick of Nolan and Pfister’s omni-present sludge of greys-greens-and-browns that they seem to think are effective at conveying any and every mood. It also had Liam Neeson (always a pleasure to watch) and Morgan Freeman in a role that managed to give him something different to play AND slyly comment on his previous wise-old-black-man performances.
Then again, I’ve long considered Nolan’s breakthrough film, MEMEMTO, to be one of the most over-rated films I’ve ever seen. Without the central gimmick (as in, on rewatch) the film lacks anything interesting: the fractured storyline , sans narrative-memory device, is just a dreary melodrama about unpleasant people doing unpleasant things.
INCEPTION has much the same problem, IMO. Once the central gimmick is made plain (and dreams? Please. Done to death, sir.) it’s just uninvolving. And I, personally, didn’t see what was all that amazing about the FX scenes. I was left with a big grey-green-brown gimmick picture about….unpleasant people doing unpleasant things. 😉