And the review comes complete with photos and everything. He said it was his first real attempt at a serious movie review instead of just throwing popcorn at a flick. Check it out! Here is a blurb: Since I first saw Braveheart, almost 9 ye

Saturday we hit the 50s in temperature...No winter jacket needed, so it was time to head out! It wa a fun and sunny day, and I didn't get scarcely any nerd work done. Oh well. Signs of Spring A friend reported her first robin sighting of the year -

Fresh off the news from the old country, here's the headline: 1.2 million form human chain in Taiwan: Anti-China protest billed ‘Great Wall of Taiwan’s democracy’   Hoo boy, Beijing's not going to like THIS! Anti-China, pro-democracy de

It's a sunny Saturday morning and I have a few stolen moments of laziness (I refuse to do nerdwork just yet!), so here's the last installment of the California Dossier. (For those of you who might be interested, here are the links to Part

Consider it a "PS" to all the journal entries. Note: My cousin the groom had a poem of his in the program, and another cousin read one of his poems at the reception. And y'all are already familiar (and painfully so) of the Sibling's poetry and my ow

TGIF, gentle reader! I just got back from a late workshop at school that involved a New York City tax attorney and a Pekingese. I'm not making this up! Maybe I'll explain in another entry. BUT, for Friday fun, check out this satirical chart from "Th

Enough garbage about the Ivy League. (Read: I've started feeling guilty about not working on my diss proposal, so let's stop talking about school, shall we?) Let's try to finish up the California Dossier about the weekend in the Land of Fruits and N

A pretty funny piece out of today's paper from Hahvahd: "A Harvard Boy In Love: Why Ann Coulter is Hot -- Intellectually." By a senior economics major undergrad guy.  

No, really. The Ivy League is a weird place generally, and I know that first-hand. But one of the things that makes it weird is that there are unexpected flashes of conservative common sense that appear in uncommon places. Yes, even in the hotbeds o

Yup, he's on my campus today. I'm not going to see him since I'm up to my eyeballs in read nerdwork. Shoot, I didn't get to see Colin Powell either, but that was because I lost the ticket lottery. But yes, lefty loon Al Franken is here today, giving

Seriously, this time. No satire. An observation. As of right now, RottenTomatoes has 113 reviews of this movie, with 58 for and 55 against. A pretty even split. But it figures, though, that with a film like this, you'll either love it or hate it. Th

Amphitheater City, USA (CNN -- Centurion Nuntia Network) -- Roman centurions take to the streets in demonstrations against alleged anti-centurionist elements in the Mel Gibson film "The Passion of the Christ," which opens today in theaters nationwide

Of course, the theater isn't the ONLY place to head on Ash Wednesday (Mardi Gras is over, people!), but Mel Gibson's long-ballyhooed film "The Passion of the Christ" opens today. And the reviews are pouring in already. So far, RottenTomatoes has th

Out and About! Day 1! Seafood Todai For Morning mostly taken up with a whole bunch of family stuff, though we did end the errands with a big visit to Todai, which calls itself "The Mother of All Seafood Buffets." And they are not kidding! Plus,

Photos will be online soon at the Sibling's homepage, so y'all can pop over there for a look sometime. I'm just a cheapskate grad student who opted for the free blog service, which won't let me store images on my account. But going on! Getting There

More great moments in the Ivy League. I just got this rather grim-sounding announcement, from the student health center people (aka the "Quack Shack"): Dear Students, I am writing to you with some urgency in my role as the Chief Medical

Just back from Cali. Too tired to give you the full write-up tonight, so I'll just leave you with a thought as I head off for the night: 3 words -- OK, four words -- if I ever get married: Elope. To. Vegas, BABY!  

Hi everyone, just got home from another verrrrrrrrrry long day at grad school, where once again I demonstrated my scintillating wit and impeccable social flair. Uh, riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. This afternoon we had a coffee reception thing, and right when

Oh, gentle reader, check this out: WASHINGTON (Mehr News Agency) -- The office of Senator John Kerry, the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary in the U.S., sent the Mehr News Agency an e-email saying that Kerry will try to repair the d

Hilarious collection of images. Check it out: Rumsfeld Fighting Technique: the 1000 Styles of Rumsfeld Oh, and lest we forget, in "The Last Samurai" the warrior was also a poet. And, apparently, Rummy is too. A friend of mine pointed me to this boo

Last night's Mel Gibson interview with Diane Sawyer was just stupendous. Amazing. I'll maybe blog on it later, but here's the interview of Mel Gibson's Passion if you haven't seen it, along with a full write-up. Go read the whole thing. Or better,

And there's a logical proof for it too. Here's the latest from Cloudcuckooland Columbia: Does God Exist? Yes, Mathematician Says Aristotle and Descartes would be pleased to hear Dr. William Hatcher proclaim that even God Himself cannot defy logic.

Good morning, gentle reader! I was reading over the e-papers with my coffee this morning, and found this intriguing article in, to my bemusement, the New York Times: Arabs in U.S. Raising Money to Back Bush Here is a great blurb from one of those f

Just got this from the Sib: Angel to End After 5 Seasons Here's the official WB press release. First "Buffy" ends its run, then "Firefly" gets axed. Now "Angel." At least I still have my "Alias," but it's getting to be the only show I've got left!

I probably should be reading about dead Romans. But it's a sunny afternoon, and I'm slacking off. I have decided, though, to see if I can't channel my slacker energies into some disaffected-intellectual poseur poetry (ha!). The Sibling and I have b