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I think it's much more interesting that by accusing the Nobel Committee of awarding the prize for "not being GWB" they've backdoored that very premise some legitimacy.

By implying that, they are making the case that the presumably learned and wise people responsible for voting on the prise find "not being GWB" sufficient cause; and that vis-a-vis GWB really was that bad.

This has caused me to speculate that "every time a wingnut screams, somewhere a sane thought gets it's wings."

I kinda find that encouraging.

As a side note, I take the Nobel Committee at their collective words that moving "the most powerful nation on earth" (as we like to think of ourselves, NOT quoting the committee) into a more constructive role in world affairs was cause for a majority vote of committee members.

Congratulations to President Obama AND all the other Nobel Prize winners this year.

PNH @ #23

Thank you.

My faith is convoluted at best...and that was, without a doubt, the
most personally affirming quote I've read in years. It buoyed up my
love for both men immeasurably in a few sentences.

I've been out of contact with the general world for so long, I didn't know he'd passed away until I happened on this thread.

"The City and the Stars" was the first ACC novel I ever read.
"Rendezvous with Rama" was the second. I re-read each of them once a
year. Each has left me staring at the stars at night more times than I
can count.

It is very unsettling to me to know that another of my favorite
authors has passed back into the collective energy of the universe. It
is so strange that contemporary things pass into the possession of
history and memory.

True to my word, we made this last night for dinner. My only substitution was home made Alfredo instead of the pre-jarred variety (we didn't have a jar handy or I certainly would have used that).

Three adults and two picky six-year-olds give it thumbs up and requests for "more please." When talking about my children, you have no idea how amazing that is.

So in that spirit, as far as delicious-easy-cooking recipes go, I'll just say "more please."

I will be attempting to reproduce this experiment in gastronomic pleasure at my own lab across the continent. We should compare our conclusions in the morning.

i.e. that looks so good I'm gonna make it for dinner myself.

"The Second Coming" frustrated me to almost no end. There were just SO MANY things I would have done differently and I kept finding myself yelling at the characters. So it draws a "meh" rating from me.

As for "Revengers Tragedy" it wasn't just the accents, but also the shear kinetic-ness of some of the scenes combined with really rapid delivery. I'm thinking particularly of a scene in a Barcelona nightclub. I could manage about three words in five; enough to follow but enough to be confused too.

The grand soliloquy here and there, no problem. Six guys with roughly similar accents and voice tones was just brutal. I could sort out Eccleston and Izzard most of the time, but the rest started getting really "soupy" for me.

Let it also be said to anyone who hasn't seen it, that it is by almost any standard, really really weird.

Hero's with dead people's heads weird. Reverse Oedipus Complex weird. Post-apocalypse Jacobian English weird.

And I thought the weird was good. Really really good.

Shadowsong @ 81:

I LOVED "Revengers Tragedy" when I saw it at a film festival a few years back. As a serious Eddie Izzard fanatic it was a great surprise.

I'd have to say though, it would be a TON better on DVD...the combination of archaic dialog, strong accents and truly rapid-fire delivery made some of the intense sections difficult to follow. Pause and rewind are our friends.

Earl @ 47:

I didn't see anyone else answer this so I thought I would tell you what an English colleague told me last year. Take the following with a huge grain of salt.

The short answer is that it was a reference to the honorable act of providing the condemned a "last meal" before execution. Because the gunpoweder plot was seen as ultimately a Catholic act, the ultimate responsibility lay with the Pope.

Basically giving him the lowest common denominator of English foodstuffs at the time (a penny loaf and a farthing of cheese) and then executing him in pretty much the most horrific way kids could think up (burning him until his head exploded).

Because we all know he's not REALLY dead until he's GRUESOMELY dead.

If any of that is pure ballocks I fully expect any of the literally scores of people on this board who know better to correct me.

I remember the only time I visited Warren (I was 16 I think) and I saw "the rocket" in front of the courthouse. My first thought was basically "Atlanta may be ready for the yankees to come back, but this place is ready for the flying saucers!"

Which, truth be told, probably should have been a short story a long time ago.

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