Didn't they have those in "Face/Off?" A future in which all gunfights begin with doves flying in slow-motion through a church seems worth a small sacrifice of our liberties.
Sounds fine by me. In other news, the battle over Anna Nicole Smith's body to go into closed (FINALLY!) hearing. Any guesses where she will get buried?
I thought liberals loved EVERYTHING that goes in AMSTERDAM, Netherlands?!
3: Any guesses where she will get buried?
I think you should e-mail this question to Matt Tabibi.
5: I already know what my tax dollars pay for, so I feel no guilt that I would like to see Britney Spears hump a fire hydrant.
Oh, please! As if no one is following Anna Nicole Smith here?
3: Why the hell doesn't the judge get creative and order her body chopped into small pieces and embedded in classy charms for bracelets, necklaces, etc.? Then they could be auctioned off to establish a trust for the kid.
(And if I didn't already, I retract my comment of some time back. Given the slimeballs surrounding her, she had to be unhappy.)
ogged, these people I don't recognize keep popping up. Could you turn the comment moderation back on?
Hot off the press from Pam Spaulding: "Utah governor to sign bill to allow ban of gay-straight student clubs." Doesn't the U.S. Constitution confer to everyone the right to freedom of speech AND freedom of assembly? Or am I just dumb and naïve?
Here is Pam's link: http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=0FF3D4BE6657CD76E536DC03F9E554C5?diaryId=823
And here is Bean's link to "Hate marches in Utah:" http://abirdandabottle.com/
7: There's just nowhere for it to go after that clown-makeup video.
2: Don't be absurd. In Face/Off the entire prison (disguised as an off-shore oil rig) was a magnet and the prisoners had to wear electro-magnetic boots which were always being tracked and could be turned on at any time.
Dead-leader temp. pseuds were fun when we first tried them, but I'd be for banning them now. They've gone the way of flashing at Mardi Gras.
You are so right. Our science has yet to achieve Woo's vision. We can all hope, nonethelss, for a future pervaded by violence and heavy-handed symbolism.
Yeah, Ogged, let's go all LGF and make this shit exclusive! (Now that I'm in and all. And I am, right? Right?)
Didn't Woo direct Broken Arrow? That movie sucked.
Come on, baa, you have to admit that if time slowed down everytime something momentous happened, that would be sweet.
20: It does. Didn't you notice that?
I haven't been following the Anna Nicole Smith thing at all but I can't believe we haven't discussed the spectacular crazification of Britney Spears.
20: Although in a John Woo future, time would have to slow down everytime something normal happened, too, like getting... out... of... a... car. (Hey, is that a dove? Oh look, the wind is tugging dramatically at my fashionable trenchcoat.)
ogged - you commented on this thread at least:
http://www.unfogged.com/archives/comments_6256.html
P.S. Britney Spears is back in rehab again (for an hour at least).
23: That happens all the time to us cool people. We can really feel the drama of our own presence.
21: Ah, rob, you've nailed the problem. Time does slow down, but it slows down uniformly, so we don't notice.
Oh, I know. I was just describing my morning, there.
Now I shall go out and grab a coffee. Dramatically.
Britney allegedly shaved her head so K-Fed could not get a sample to prove drug use -- his attorneys are threatening to go to Court and ask for full custody of the kids if Britney does not stay in rehab this time:
http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/22/britney-back-in-rehab
Honestly, the Britney Spears downward spiral makes me feel a little icky when I'm watching it. And yet, I haven't looked away.
Isn't this true of most of the things you watch, Apo?
Same with me about Spears. Though I have turned away. If you're squeamish about watching people get embarrassed, I don't know how you can watch what's going on with Spears without wanting to hurl.
At least this knee brace isn't like that a nitroglycerin capsule bomb implanted in the head from Mission Impossible III -- poor Keri Russell -- again, I thought all liberals loved EVERYTHING that goes in AMSTERDAM, Netherlands?!
31: No, I'm mostly devoid of empathy.
Could Winston actually be one of these robotic knee braces run amok? Pay attention to your science fiction, people. That shit's prophecy.
30: You just cannot stop watching her videos?
Unless I am stuck in some Matrix-type alternative reality, I am not a robot.
Spear' problem? -- Relationships. No Federer, no problem.
29 - The drug testing thing actually makes sense. Although I kind of wanted to believe that article that came out the other day that said she did it because she had lice.
1: Britney couldn't land Federer without a mind control ray.
2: Federline has come out looking like the sane and responsible one in the mix.
The screwed up thing about the Spears hysteria is that seems pretty clear the constant presence of paparazzi is helping to push her over the edge. The whole celeb-watching apparatus just creeps me out after a certain point.
Uh, 1 and 2 are in response to 38, not comments 1 and 2. This sinus headache is making me delirious. I need to go home.
Why couldn't Britney land Federer without a mind control ray?
Oh, he said "Federer" instead of "Federline" -- are you suggesting that Roger is gay?
2: Federline has come out looking like the sane and responsible one in the mix.
I doubt she'd be able to operate a mind-control ray even if she had one.
There does seem something monstrous and sacrificial about it at some point, like that poor girl singled out for ritual sacrifice in The Rite of Spring.
On another celeb note: Harry Potter horse sex may be coming to Broadway.
Fieldtrip!
are you suggesting that Roger is gay?
No, just out of her league.
Any guesses where she will get buried?
I'm betting that her body is preserved and set to permanently lie in state, just like Lenin (albeit with somewhat more aggressive admission fees). As for where the tomb would be located -- well, I'm open to arguments, but my vote goes to Orlando.
I think that part of the selection of Spears or Aguilera or Mariah Carey involves finding a girl who is talented and pretty but not so superior that she intimidates people. Having flaws makes them more approachable and more marketable. The girl next door, but not in an entirely good, way.
By the way, I forgot the name "Mariah Carey" and found it right on the top with the Google "mixed + race + songstress + boobs". Do I understand pop culture or what?
I prefer Stravinsky's Oedipus rex personally.
As for where the tomb would be located
I suspect Golden Palace Casino will end up buying it.
35: Been done long ago. There's an old SF story with a guy who "cured" his alcoholism by wearing a locked-on helmet monitoring system with spike to be fired if the level went beyond some limit.
Not to worry. It's all for your own good.
48: Yuck!
49: Britney is better looking than Roger's current girlfriend.
50: I'm guessing somewhere in Florida too.
Notice that it only works if they're trying to escape surreptitiously. If they just break out and run, they can still shoot them, presumably, and, you know, no harm no foul.
I mean, on technological innovation.
apostropher:
http://www.tennis.info/images/AussieOpen2004/11Fri/FedererGirlfriend2163.jpg
49: Britney is better looking than Roger's current girlfriend.
Discussed here.
Winston, I have a version of Oedipus that I can't stand to listen to because the narrator has the fruitiest, most pompous Monty Python / BBC voice I've ever heard.
17: We can all hope, nonetheless, for a future pervaded by violence and heavy-handed symbolism.
the gwb presidency in a nutshell. hurray, future!
My mistake above; the Anna Nicole Smith hearing is back in open court -- LIVE on FoxNews!
52, 60: I've never heard that performed.
63: Full Disclosure: I know at least one reviewer didn't appreciate it either http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7D71E38F933A15752C0A966958260
I might like the piece, but it was ruined for me by the narrator.
Aguilera's Candyman is actually pretty fun. I don't know anything about her, and that alone gives me the impression that she's about ten times as smart as Britney Spears.
Yes, Aguilera appears to have righted herself adequately in the last few years.
My kids pointed out to me that Britney, Aguilera, and Justin Timberlake were all from out of the new Mouseketeers, about ten years ago. I'd had no idea there was such a thing. I helps explain their odd prominence though.
I think there is no topic so bizarre that Ogged can't link to some old thread and say "discussed here".
There are only two kinds of people in the world I can't stand: those who are intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch.
Are we still talking about Anna Nicole? Is the consensus that this Howard K. Stern character killed her and her son? I think that's the way to bet.
No, I haven't been following the story. Honest! But I did read all about when she died.
While time is slowing down every time something dramatic happens, will some protagonist be able to take advantage of the situation by making out with the unresponsive slowed-down Others?
If by "some protagonist" you mean me, then, uh, I've been advised not to comment on the question by my attorneys.
Somebody should start a blog called "Protein Agonist". Or not. 'Postropher, you will do nicely for the role, allowing me to distance myself from the whole disturbing notion.
The next logical step in crime control has actually been set forth in Piers Anthony's classic 1968 "The Ring":
"After a youth spent trapped in space exile, Jeff Font returned to Earth to seek vengeance against the planetary mogul who had framed and destroyed Jeff's family. Jeff's plans backfired: he was captured, drugged, rammed through a computerized court system, convicted. . .and ringed.
The ring. The ultimate high-tech civics lesson. A surgically implanted electronic monitor that automatically caused unendurable agony when a convict strayed from righteousness. A ringer would do no evil, think no evil, see or hear evil without ratting to the robocops--nor defend himself or others from insult or injury.
And in a corrupt world of licensed sin and satanic parties, floral estates and city-sized slums, ringers were the ultimate victims. But the ring's data banks hadn't factored in Jeff Font's strength...courage...and his will to fight society, the world and the agony of the ring to unravel the plot that entrapped him, and see justice done."
Brittany may be crazier than Fed-Ex, but he is way more evil.
I'm betting that her body is preserved and set to permanently lie in state, just like Lenin
They'd better get on that while they still can.
a corrupt world of licensed sin and satanic parties, floral estates and city-sized slums
Piers Anthony even foretold 21st-century Amsterdam 40 years earlier!
