When I clicked onto a Tetris site this morning, a flashing bright-red ad at the top of the page blared an offer to reveal to me data on my criminal record.

I felt insulted and repelled by this unsolicited invitation to supply non-existent information, but I continued with my Free Tetris activity… Read full post »

pigsarms.com.au 

"And I Am Unanimous In This!"

In the late 1950s, Winston cigarettes introduced an ad campaign that ignited a nationwide discussion about proper grammar.  Much ado was made of the fact that “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should” instead of &ldqu/… Read full post »

THE GUARDIAN
 "Big Coal" (Season 3/ Episode 2)

Script: David Hollander and Nick Santora
Director: Mel Damski
Cinematography: James R. Bagdonis

Cast:  Simon Baker, M. Emmett Walsh,
              Henry Gibson, Nick Searcy

Th… Read full post »

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/maggie-speaks-the-littles_n_201595.html

Several years ago, impressed by a documentary about Ayn Rand, I prepared a unit on the author and her philosophy of Objectivism for a college seminar of adult learners… Read full post »

      
donaldsweblog.blogspot.com  vtropes.org  en.wikipedia.org 

G. B. Shaw           A. Rand             K. Marx

 I. P… Read full post »

 
democratic-republicans.us
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078678/  

 Roots: The Next Generations (1979) could not be made on non-cable TV today and, even for cable, its topics and language may be too "Zinn" a straightforward '70s TV epic.  Its cha/… Read full post »

 hairremoval.about.com  ndygear.com historywillabsolvemike.blogspot.com

The older I get, the more necessary it becomes for me to pluralize the phrase "the younger generation."  Because what I used to recognize as "the younger generation" now has even young… Read full post »

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physics.arizona.ed; islamickorner.netu; foodbubbles.com; notapinkgirl.wordpress.com; central-… Read full post »

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XIV.

ledomaine.com.au; cartoonstock.com

XV .

  %IM… Read full post »

 VII.

webstaurantstore.com; archiexpo.com; dvdbeaver.com

VIII.

damav.com; highmarkkennel.com; en.wikipedia.org

IX.

arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com; en.wikipedia.org; blog.craftzine.com… Read full post »

EXAMPLE OF HOW TO SOLVE A REBUS 

 
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 I.

 
thedevilanddanvojir.blogspot.com

 Rick Santorum Doesn't (!) Shoot Mr. Obama
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/as-santorum-fires-gun-woman-shouts-pretend-its-obama/

 
boxofupticks.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpRIjY58vy0

 Call a Congressional witness… Read full post »

en.wikipedia.org 
RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance photograph
of the MRBM launch site in San Cristóbal, Cuba (1962) 

Let’s try to fathom a situatio… Read full post »

  Topol, John Gielgud, & Tom Conti
in Brecht's Galileo (Joseph Losey, 1975)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-oJcnHVqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlMTxjY3NrY&NR=1  

                &nbs… Read full post »

  Speech!  Speech!

wellyousaythat.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxhuk-Xrsmg 

David Niven and the streaker, Sally Fields in awe at being liked, Jack Palance doing one-armed pushups.  Special moments at award shows are increasingly a rarity.  Instead of &ldq/… Read full post »

  
x264-bb.com 
Agora
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37L3mbAjw-s

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(film) 
• http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/persecution/pch0251.htm

The other day I bought a DVD of the movie Agora for a very good price.  (Yes, my 20th-/… Read full post »

 
tvcream.co.uk

Before cable established standards for trenchant amorality with such series as The Sopranos, Damages, Dexter, The Wire, and Breaking Bad, the BBC cornered the market decades earlier.  Yes, there are the excellent soapers, like the superior b&w Forsyte… Read full post »

catman.ca

 

Fancy Dress in Celluloid
http://periodmovies.blogspot.com/ 

 When I taught middle-aged corporate employees with the usual biases against b&w movies, documentaries, foreign films beset by subtitles, and (god help us!) silent movies, it was always a p… Read full post »

 
toonpool.com

When Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet  played in upstate New York in 1968, girls rolled in the theater aisles--screaming as hysterically as bobby soxers when Sinatra performed during  World War II(http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,12776… Read full post »

                                                  &… Read full post »

 
slacktory.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html

America's Evangelical Jihad has rejected two Mormon candidates in the 2012 Republican primaries, because neither Joseph Smithie adequately represents the prevailing zealots' preferred bran… Read full post »