You know, "Forrest Gump" is a rewrite of "Candide." At times I suspect the makers of the film adaptation were in on the joke, and debating that is the most interest the movie has for me.
Teddy Harvia drew an Aztec relief of a woman writing a postcard while on the chopping block: "Dear Mom: I got the job."
Hey! I'd be delighted to have a GMail account if they're not depleted yet.
I miss Redd. I once wrote an elegy in FAPA on the imminent death of my dwindling No. 2 pencil, and he wrote me a very nice letter just to single it out for comment. I had set myself to attempt something memorable about a little triviality; I think only he may have picked up on that, and I treasured the response.
You already had my vote, anyway.
My friend Roy Anthony--who some of you might remember as the production designer for Fanthology '87--was, like me, once an employee of a television news operation. Now that he's back to teaching, he runs a small video production business on the side. I imagine he would find all these tools quite useful.
I know Roy Anthony. I worked with Roy Anthony. Roy Anthony is a friend of mine. And Roy, sir, is no Peter Jackson.
Appearances aside.
"Were the French happy under the Nazis? It's the same thing here."
--Ismail Mahmoud Mohammed, U.S.-appointed police chief of Samarra
Pity this administration wasn't in the hands of someone who had some actual experience of war.
Frankly, this reminds me something the Bad Guys would inevitably be shown doing in one of our WWII-era propaganda films.
At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised (on two counts) to learn that our troops were supplied with Zippo lighters.
Curiously enough, many of these same labels (Concord, Shanachie/Yazoo, Spin Art, Matador, Epitaph) participate in eMusic.com, one of the first legitimate online music subscription services, which beat the major labels to the punch by offering nearly unlimited downloads for as little as $9.95 a month. I've certainly already downloaded more music than I'll ever finish listening to from them, and they never had to threaten me with legal action to get me on board.
An update on our continuing efforts to make the world safe for democracy:
http://www.military.com/NewsContent?file=FL_killed_081103
I suppose the e-mail did get into wider circulation after the recipient shared it with her friends and contacts, as usually happens, but there are other ways e-mails intended to be private get into broader circulation. At one time my company provided access to an e-mail system to all of our customers, and, as it happens, some were using it to pass personal messages. You selected your recipient by picking their name from a list...or, you could inadvertently select all the recipients that came up on that screen's worth of names. That is how I and my co-workers whose last names started with B-R-A received an e-mail from a woman at one of our client companies who was apparently having a clandestine extramarital relationship with a co-worker. (For what it's worth, she all but used the exact phrase "I will not be ignored!")
Well, as the White House position on military pay and death benefits couldn't make clearer, our boys are fighting and dying for the right of fatcat investors to have their dividend taxes cut...
Zacarias Moussaoui has lawyers, and this is a guy accused of being one of the 9/11 plotters, not someone who contemplated the idea of a dirty bomb. Richard Reid got lawyers. The guys in the Buffalo cell got lawyers, and a trial. Why doesn't Padilla get a lawyer? It looks more and more that it's because the government has no real case against Padilla (just as the timing of Ashcroft's announcing his arrest,more than a month after the fact, as "breaking news," looked pretty fishy). And that's the beauty of declaring an American citizen arrested in Chicago an "enemy combatant": the less of a case you have, the easier it is to hold him forever without having to worry about one.
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