I thoroughly enjoyed “Live free or die hard”. Almost as much or more than I have enjoyed the past 3 “Die Hard” films. It’s a bonafide entertainer, and these kind of bombastic entertainers have been slow to come this year. John McClane is back , older, wiser, we presume, but still the same dry wit, […]
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Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless” episode
Heather Havrilesky has an interesting take on Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless little pig” episode at Salon.com . She writes : “Rude, thoughtless little pig” was mild talk in my family, the kind of thing you might hear when you forgot to take out the trash. For a few years when my older brother was in high […]
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Going through the posts at feministing.com , this one made my eyes nearly pop out of my head.It has 4 college boys holding up a poster for an “Intramural Rape League” . Besides the fact that this is an unbelievably atrocious idea, I can’t imagine that there were sane people around who went along with […]
Read the rest of this entry »A different kind of hoo, hah !
Saw this via feministing.com , but here’s the link to the article. “A theatre in Florida has had to change the title of a charity production of The Vagina Monologues on its marquee, after a woman complained that it was offensive. The new name? They’ve decided on ‘The Hoohaa Monologues’.Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach, Florida, […]
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Reading Indigo Warp’s take on the Indian family, I see many different repsonses, sort of contesting differences between cultures, and subtly (or overtly) stressing that “our” culture is best, because we can readily point out the flaws in a foreign culture. However our culture doesn’t become better by criticising other cultures. And you can criticise […]
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I have a new found appreciation for Yoga. And it’s all due to marketing, here in the US. People do it, people take classes, and understand it as a means of achieving their physical fitness goals. You have Yoga aids, like the strap, the block. You can use a Yoga mat. You can wear “Yoga” […]
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