goddamn intellectual property
by jebni on February 28, 2006
Oh well, CafePress just pulled most of my merchandise at the Antipopper Store for potential copyright infringement. It’s not really a surprise — I’ve been waiting this to happen ever since I turned Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s “Magneto Was (…)
sad
by jebni on February 27, 2006
Octavia Butler is dead. [ tags: science-fiction, octavia-butler ]
assimilate or get out
by jebni on February 27, 2006
Lacking finesse, obviously, but I couldn’t resist. [ tags: race, nationalism, john-howard, assimilation, racism, australia ]
drowning
by jebni on February 17, 2006
Last night I went to my first Cantonese class, in anticipation of our sojourn to Hong Kong later this year. (Having to pay to learn Cantonese is a cringeworthy matter for me and I guess many other alienated children of (…)
the speed of modern life
by jebni on February 17, 2006
More on Turin from Mark Vallen: While watching the televised opening ceremonies for the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, I was stunned to hear the anchorman casually mention the fact that the stadium had been “built by Benito Mussolini,” a fact (…)
saving face for the city
by jebni on February 12, 2006
I happened to catch a bit of the Olympic figure-skating tonight over dinner — my pesto will conquer all — and marvelled at the fundamental tackiness of it all. (As the Manics say, “Torville and Dean’s Bolero / redundant as (…)
negotiations
by jebni on February 11, 2006
The other day I was introduced to some people with whom I expected to have little in common, and yet we quickly established that we were all Firefly fans. It was so weirdly sudden, and almost unspoken! The exponential dance (…)
feel tank
by jebni on February 3, 2006
After three years, I feel like this blog is looping endlessly, on a one-track meditation. I know I’m pushing it, but we’re back to what I had to say about Solaris, yet again (sorry, I re-watched Soderbergh’s version on the (…)