If anyone's in the Triangle area of NC, it's showing at the theatre in Durham where I work (see the link). Sadly, very few people have come to see it so far; the film closes Thursday.
(Please pardon the random shilling.)
Shilling is good. People should go see it, but often they don't know when or where.
Hmm. Will it be playing in SF next week, do you think? Or maybe I'll take my dad to see it in Sacramento.
Your mom comes out to see you and this is the fare you offer? Wow.
Will it be playing in SF next week, do you think?
You can call and ask.
Your mom comes out to see you and this is the fare you offer? Wow.
That and the French Laundry.
That and the French Laundry.
The agony and the ecstasy, I guess. Or--given what I think is the order of events--maybe "Welcome!" and "Don't let the door hit you on your way out."
I believe your objection was dealt with in the first sentence of the post, Timbot. Anyway, my mom is a news junkie and given the choice between Persepolis and Taxi to the Dark Side, she chose the latter.
I believe your objection was dealt with in the first sentence of the post, Timbot.
Fuck! I think I might actually have to concede that.
Anyway, my mom is a news junkie and given the choice between Persepolis and Taxi to the Dark Side, she chose the latter.
Re-watching a Disney classic is just out with you guys, isn't it?
I saw this in the theater about a month ago and I was just too depressed to write anything up about it. It's a very, very good film, in that it is very good at what it does, which is made me physically, viscerally sick.
You just become numb after a while though, so at least the crying stops about halfway through. Christ.
What we have done to these people is truly demonic, and I can't help somehow feeling responsible. It's just hellish.
In fact, I think if I wanted to truly make someone feel awful, I'd sit them down with first a watch of Taxi to the Dark Side, and then PBS FRONTLINE special "Bush's War", of which the second half is airing tonight.
If I ever see Rumsfeld, I think I would just want to yell "Fuck you! FUUUUUCKKK YOUUUUU!"
Asshole.
I don't know if that's a good idea, leblanc. This American Life had a great, funny story about an Afghani-American guy who did much less who got tangled up with Rumsfeld. It's a long bureaucratic nightmare.
Re-watching a Disney classic is just out with you guys, isn't it?
Disney was a Nazi, fascist.
Which means the iconography ought to feel familiar.
Seriously, though, you guys should watch this FRONTLINE thing. I got tired and missed the last 15 minutes, but it was damned good (although very angry-making).
You guys want to be depressed? Consider this guy:
LEWISTON, Maine - Safaa Wadi moved to this former mill city after his life was threatened in his native Iraq while serving as an interpreter for the US Army. He expects to soon head back to Iraq - not as a civilian interpreter, but as a US soldier.
Mr. Wadi arrived in the United States in September with a special immigrant visa for Iraqi and Afghan interpreters. But with his savings nearly depleted and unable to land a decent job, Wadi enlisted in the Army. He begins training in South Carolina Monday.
Right. Not only are we allowing in a pitifully tiny number of Iraqi translators,* but they're not well served by the existing refugee infrastructure when they get here. To the point of going back to the war --- the mind boggles.
*Crooked Timber and Alex Yorkshire Ranter have been among those doing far more advocacy on the Brit side.
15: Disney was a Nazi, fascist.
Disney was a mother-hating Nazi, misogynist.
18: So he's patriotic! What's wrong with that?!??
(Thanks for the heads up, LeBlanc. I'll see if I can get that on the teevee tonight.)
Haven't seen it yet, but I hear good things.
Speaking of being depressed about this crap, see Dahlia Lithwick very accurate description of today's Supreme Court arguments in Omar & Munaf. I wondered if my "dude, Justice Stevens totally jumped us, this is not good" reaction was a function of actually being there in person & knowing the person arguing--seemingly, it wasn't.
Thanks, Katherine, for the link. IIRC Roberts used to recuse when Garre argued, but I guess he thinks it's been long enough.