Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Yay for us! We are awesome!
However, in the interest of full disclosure, we are fans of Goldeneye, Contract With America and Darth Maul.
Be that as it may, of all the decades in which one may get oneself stuck, this one doesn’t rank too high does it? There was kind of an undertone of “if we just get rid of anything that’s manly we’ll be all right”…that’s what I get out of it, anyway. Bill Clinton, Thelma & Louise, oh and let us not forget that Country Music and Pop got together and had some bastard love-child that’s still hanging around like a bad smell…
We did have some “masculinity” in the nineties that was on a popularity crescendo, but it was all gritty, urban, narcissistic, self-centered, ungentlemanly, loutish. No chivalry, all thuggery. Useful for one thing: Appealing to the female libido, in females who happen to be immature and stupid.
As far as the feminine mystique…this decade completely sucks ass. Sorry, there’s no other way to put it. When it began, the big-hair look was still in vogue. When it went out, all the women were trying to cut their hair like Hillary Clinton. That, right there, is a flunk. I’d say that even if I thought Clinton’s politics were completely wonderful. That hair style, that “rodent with a bowl cut,” is not appealing because it isn’t supposed to be. It is inherently negative. It’s an I-don’t-do-anything-to-make-men-happy haircut. It imbues all of the anarchy in an open rebellion but none of the balls. It is the hair equivalent of a petulant child, maybe a slightly mentally impaired one, sitting in a corner and grumbling about something. Let’s not even get into the pant suits.
And I have long maintained that from 1997 to 1998, not a single decent movie came out except LA Confidential.
My income doubled, almost. But that’s the way it should be.
All in all, not a good decade. And yeah, the web page bells-and-whistles are rancid, some of them should be punishable.
Does this site use tables?
Does this site use frames?
Does this site use inline formatting?
What about .gifs?
Does this site auto play music?
Does this site use marquees?
What about blinking text?
What about a hit counter?
A guestbook?
A “make this your home page” button?
No to all of the above, and that is the correct answer.
Thanks to Daniel for the link.
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50% for me. Yup, I’ve used tables. Blogger, I think, uses frames. Inline formatting (uh, whatever that is. I change fonts in the middle of a sentence?) And yeah, I occasionally use a gif.
Not sure how it let you off without a “hit counter” … because I know you have access to that information somehow.
But. Meh. They also used “text” in the 90’s. And the whole bloody thing is in HTML, for Chrissakes! And people look at it with a “web browser”. I’m not gonna fret about it.
And GET OFF’A MY LAWN!!!!!! 🙂
- philmon | 01/14/2011 @ 15:33I often think I would been happier living in the 50s, frankly. Seems to me like it would have been a darned good time to be alive.
- cylarz | 01/14/2011 @ 20:59Gonna call you on the decent movies in ’97-’98; there was at least one other film that came out in ’98 that was genuinely great — Dark City, directed by Alex Proyas.
Did everything The Matrix did with questioning the nature of reality and man’s responsibility to participate in his own salvation, more subtly and more artistically with better music (albeit with less kung-fu bullet ballet) — and did it first.
One caveat — if you rent the theatrical release, mute it during the first forty-five seconds or so, so you ditch Kiefer Sutherland’s opening monologue, which was a retroactive insertion on the part of studio heads. A totally unnecessary spoiler.
- Stephen J. | 01/15/2011 @ 08:09Fair enough, to the Netfix queue it goes.
- mkfreeberg | 01/15/2011 @ 10:13