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You have to read what Fox News had to say about the London bombings…
0 Comments Published by grey July 9th, 2005 in postsfrom Guardian Unlimited:
Fox News slammed over ‘callous’ line
Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday July 9, 2005
The GuardianRupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel was under fire yesterday for comments by some of its leading journalists in response to the London bombs.
Speaking about the reaction of the financial markets, Brit Hume, the channel’s Washington managing editor, said: “Just on a personal basis … I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought ‘hmm, time to buy’.”
The host of a Fox News programme, Brian Kilmeade, said the attacks had the effect of putting terrorism back on the top of the G8’s agenda, in place of global warming and African aid. “I think that works to our advantage, in the western world’s advantage, for people to experience something like this together, just 500 miles from where the attacks have happened.”
Another Fox News host, John Gibson, said before the blasts that the International Olympic Committee “missed a golden opportunity” by not awarding the 2012 games to France. “If they had picked France instead of London to hold the Olympics, it would have been the one time we could look forward to where we didn’t worry about terrorism. They’d blow up Paris, and who cares?” He added: “This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics - let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.”
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from Guardian Unlimited:
Canada approves gay marriage
Associated Press
Wednesday June 29, 2005Canada last night became the third country in the world to approve gay marriages when MPs passed a historic bill granting same-sex couples equal rights to those in traditional marriages.
The bill was passed by the Canadian House of Commons despite strong opposition from religious leaders and conservative MPs.
Gay marriage is already legal in seven provinces in Canada, but the new legislation grants same-sex couples the same legal rights as heterosexual couples nationwide. The Netherlands and Belgium are the only other countries to allow gay marriages.
Okay, kids, so, the big news: we’re buying a house. It’s located at 69 Hughes Street in East Haven (ugh—it seems that all the things that make East Haven the armpit of the east coast also work to make it a cost effective place to buy a house… dammit—it’s okay, though, ’cause we’re gonna hang a banner from the front of the house exclaiming our hatred for the town just so people aren’t misled by our purchasing a home there).
Baby Hughie (as we’re calling her), was built in 1936. She has four bedrooms, one bathroom, 1,308 square feet of floor space, and she’s on a 0.13 acre lot. She’s got a fireplace, a deck, a sunroom and some other stuff. Our closing is Thursday, July 28.
Anyway, we’ve got pictures:
The Directors Label returns on September 13th 2005 with simultaneous releases from four more of the world’s most acclaimed directors: Mark Romanek, Anton Corbijn, Jonathan Glazer & Stéphane Sednaoui, once again produced by Richard Brown for Palm Pictures.
Palm Pictures launched the directors label in October 2003 with a groundbreaking format showcasing the individual creative talents of three of the world’s most maverick film-makers, by mapping their ascendancy through the world of music and advertising.
These DVDs are a unique director-created and compiled series featuring music videos, shorts and commercials, special features including interviews, alternate versions, unseen short films & documentaries, behind the scenes footage and commentaries from various featured artists and collaborators. They are specially packaged with never before seen photographs, storyboards, drawings and interviews and have helped define what is expected of today’s music DVD releases.
The Directors Label and Palm Pictures are also proud to announce that all three of the debut Directors Label DVDs from the series’ founders—Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry & Chris Cunningham—have been individually certified gold.
69 Hughes Street, baby, 69 Hughes Street.
What a day. More later.
Four point oh, baby, four point oh.
More later.
‘Queer Eye’ Is an Eye-Opener for Students, Study Shows
0 Comments Published by grey April 18th, 2005 in postsfrom IMDb.com’s Studio Briefing:
University of Minnesota researchers have concluded that TV shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Will & Grace, and Six Feet Under have had the effect of reducing prejudice against homosexuals among viewers. Some 150 students participated in the study, conducted by communications professors Edward Schiappa and Dean Hewes and graduate student Peter Gregg. “If they find gay characters attractive, physically or socially, this can contribute to them reducing their levels of prejudice,” Schiappa told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “We’re not talking about changing bigots into saints here. We’re talking about an overall scale of 10 to 20 percent of subjects whose attitudes changed.” However, several religious groups maintain that such programs are designed to promote a gay agenda. Tom Prichard, president of the Minnesota Family Council, told the newspaper that if they “are trying to condone the lifestyle, that’s what I would object to.”
Okay, a couple quick things:
1. The Yankees freaking stink. I guess that’s pretty apparent, however.
2. Gary Sheffield should a.) have been ejected from that game in Boston and b.) definitely be suspended. It appears as though neither of those things are going to happen, however. Here’s the thing: Sheffield’s job in that situation is to do absolutely nothing. Walk away. Not shove the guy off of him. Walk away. Regardless of what the guy did. As long as Sheffield isn’t in danger of being severely injured (which was certainly not the case as the guy was no longer in contact with him) he needs to walk away and let security handle it. There is no situation where a player should ever act violently toward a fan. That and betting on games are the two most serious infractions against the game that a player can make. Frank Francisco, the Texas reliever who threw a chair at a fan last year, should’ve been permanently banned from the game. As should Ron Artest and Jermaine O’Neal and every other player who laid a hand on anyone in the stands that night be permanently banned from the NBA. I don’t understand how more people don’t feel that way.
The world, I mean. Why is the world this way? Is hunting and building that important?
“If we do nothing … as many as one-quarter of all today’s primates will be dead within 20 years,”
So, I ask this. How can we do nothing??
Sorry.
Sorry I am not fun anymore. I wish I was. I suck.
You think it is fun being me? Saying no? Wanting sleep? It isn’t.
Imagine if YOU couldn’t see your favorite band, because YOU might shake all over and go unconscience, or if you didn’t feel like going to a movie, because YOU haven’t felt well in a week (or even four or five years).
Sorry. I know this sucks for you.
You gotta believe. . .
It sucks for me, too.
The 21 drafted players on the beanies roster:
C J. Kendall, OAK
1B A. Pujols, StL
1B D. Ortiz, BOS
2B M. Giles, ATL
3B A. Béltre, SEA
SS D. Jeter, NYY
OF C. Figgins, LAA
OF H. Matsui, NYY
OF S. Green, LAD
OF J. Drew, LAD
OF S. Finley, LAA
SP T. Hudson, ATL
SP C. Zambrano, CHC
SP B. Radke, MIN
SP F. García, SEA
SP G. Maddux, CHC
SP Ja. Wright, NYY
SP B. Webb, HOU
SP R. Lopez, BAL
RP B. Wagner, PHI
RP T. Gordon, NYY
I truly am the girl who loves Tom Gordon, but I was forced to make a roster change.
That’s it.
That’s the spirit.
Thank you for your honesty.
Now fuck off and die,
You fucked up slag.
Okay, tonight was the live draft. Eight teams in the league this year. Small leagues make for tougher competition.
Here’re the 21 players on the preseason Scottish Bugs roster:
C J. Varitek, BOS
1B J. Thome, PHI
2B J. Kent, LAD
3B D. Wright, NYM
SS K. Matsui, NYM
OF B. Abreu, PHI
OF J. Edmonds, StL
OF C. Lee, MIL
OF B. Giles, SD
SP R. Johnson, NYY
SP J. Peavy, SD
SP Ol. Pérez, PIT
SP M. Mussina, NYY
SP Od. Pérez, LAD
SP Z. Greinke, KC
SP J. Bonderman, DET
SP J. Weaver, LAD
SP B. Arroyo, BOS
SP T. Lilly, TOR
RP Fr. Rodríguez, LAA
RP K. Foulke, BOS
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.
Our driveway being plowed at 4:20am on Thursday.
Unless you can afford to pay someone to plow, don’t buy a house…
Okay, here’s the thing: Easter is not a real holiday. It just isn’t. I could leave it at that, but, just for fun, let’s prove the theorem…
First, we’ll need to establish the criteria by which real holidays distinguish themselves from the others. Here are the three I’ve come up with:
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1. The holiday celebrates something that we’re all basically forced to acknowledge for one reason or another.
2. The commercialization of the holiday has reached a point where it’s an inescapable part of our popular culture.
3. Schools and most businesses are closed because of the holiday.
By those criteria, then, here are the real holidays:
I thought it might be semi-interesting to post the photo from which our header image was snipped:
That’s Ruben James, the most photogenic of our fish.
Okay, kids, here it finally is. This site has been aching for the assistance of a content management system for, literally, years longer than there has been such a thing. So, now it has one.
Welcome, officially, to greybean.com v4.5 lite. I’m leaving the ‘lite’ moniker attached despite the fact that this site is already much more richly concentrated with information than it’s ever been. It just doesn’t have the same sort of useless bells and whistles that it has in the past.
The site is powered by WordPress, an open source, and very powerful, CMS. Its look, feel and functionality are based on Michael Heilemann’s incredibly popular Kubrick theme. Expect the look of the site to change semi-frequently over the next few weeks or months as I learn more about WordPress, Kubrick, PHP and CSS. I’ll put up a more detailed colophon in the very near future.
So, what does all of this really mean?
Read this article from MSNBC.com:
Calif. judge strikes down gay marriage ban
Ruling says there is ‘no rational purpose’ for limiting unions
The Associated Press
Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET March 14, 2005SAN FRANCISCO - A judge ruled Monday that California can no longer justify limiting marriage to a man and a woman, a legal milestone that if upheld on appeal would pave the way for the nation’s most populous state to follow Massachusetts in allowing same-sex couples to wed.
As you may have seen, the cover art for Criterion’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou DVDs hit the internet this week, and I found myself terribly disappointed with it. And that got me thinking about just how good Criterion’s covers always are.
The Criterion Collection covers are consistently hands down the best in the industry. There’s no other studio who so willingly eschews commerciality (read: star headshots, standard poster art–usually with star headshots superimposed, taglines and the like) in the interest of compelling design. This might be related to how low the commercial value of some of Criterion’s product is, but it usually follows through to their more widely known titles as well. Here, let me do a little comparison for you of Criterion cover designs and their corresponding Hollywood studio designs (and I’ll just use bigger, more commercial titles to better illustrate my point). The major studio’s art is on the left, Criterion’s on the right:
All right… So, welcome to the new, much stripped-down greybean.com: version 4.0 lite. You’ll notice a few things. First, this is the only real page of the site. As I put together other pages (a page of photos and some downloadables’ll probably first, if anything ever is), I’ll add them. You’ll also notice that the, uhh, ‘bean’ (as in greybean) page no longer exists. She’s gonna need to provide some content if she wants to motivate me enough to get it up on here somewhere. My plan is to use some blogging technology like MovableType to streamline her updating process, but we’ll talk about that another day. Also, you’ll notice that the popup window is gone and that the site now stretches to fill your browser window. Isn’t that nice? The idea here is twofold: 1. I want the site to be as easy as possible for me to update in the hope that that’ll make me update it more often. We’ll see if that happens, eh? And 2. I’ve simplified everything to the point that all of the information that was hidden behind various menus, and navigation schemes, and invisible layers and blah, blah on the old site is all plainly visible on this page at all times. Nice.
Now, here’s what’s happened since the last time I made an update:
Okay, here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened since my last update: 1. I started school full-time at Paier College of Art in Hamden, 2. I quit my job (sort of), 3. my dad’s been in and out of the hospital (he’s out right now), 4. I got married (twice) and 5. I had my honeymoon (sort of). Not too shabby, right? And tomorrow I start my new (sort of) job.
Uhh, there’re pictures of the wedding for your perusal. It was basically perfect. Which I didn’t think was possible. I mean, we did cut the wrong cake, but I don’t think that really matters.
It poured on Monday, by the way.
Updated most of the sidebar menu option dealies over there —->. Check ‘em out.
As if to make up for the last two weeks, it’s a Monday night and it just started pouring while I was taking out the trash.
Updates have been made to the ‘recent views’ and ’scottish bugs’ sections to the right. Also, check out trailers for Open Water and Danny Deckchair (which are showing before Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Orange Showcase Cinemas). Oh, and there’s a movie called Kinsey which looks interesting.
I have a few movie trailers for you: Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator is an early favorite for this year’s Xmas movie. The Hunting of the President definitely looks like an interesting documentary that I’m gonna want to see once I get into Bill Clinton’s My Life (which hits stores next Tuesday). And there’s a new trailer for Robert Zemeckis’s The Polar Express which definitely has an interesting look to it. I’m a big fan of the Chris van Allsburg, I just hope the animation doesn’t turn out to be crappy and distracting. Oh, and another candidate for the Xmas movie would seem to be Marc Forster’s Finding Neverland, depending on when it reaches wide release (it’s slated for a limited release on 10/22/2004).
This might be two Monday nights in a row without rain. I haven’t gone out there yet, though, so I could be wrong. It did rain this morning, however.
A couple things: 1. Ocean’s Twelve has a website and a teaser trailer (if you can call it that). The teaser has a pretty awesome look to it, but don’t think you’re gonna learn anything about the movie. Or even see a single frame of film. Nevertheless, I cannot wait.
2. thedigitalbits.com is reporting a September 28 street date for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Also, it’s listed at a $29.98 SRP. Considering that it’s a Universal title you can expect that to mean that it’ll be a two-disc deal.
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Quickly: it’s Monday night and it didn’t rain. Whoa.
I just added the ‘future stimuli’ section in the menu on the right. Check it out.