Dictionopolis in Digitopolis/A Dragon Dancing with the Buddha 2005-2013

Saturday, September 20, 2008

I can't think of an excuse for posting this picture

But I don't really have to, now do I?

Hating John McCain: Now, it's personal.

Universal Pictures has recoiled at the cost of the 3-D animated movie adaptation of the adventures of Tintin by two of Hollywood's top directors, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

The two legendary directors submitted to Universal a 130 million dollar budget to produce a trilogy of films based on the beloved Belgian comic-strip boy reporter.

Now, look. Spielberg's had his ups and downs with me, but if ever there was a picture he was born to make...and anyway: My feelings about some of them aside, since 2001 he's produced and/or directed more than a dozen movies with a combined gross of $1806.3 million.

And he's the winner of multiple Oscars, as is Peter Jackson, whose box office total (for the same period) is "only" $1249.3 million. And that's with Jackson directing and/or producing a third as many films.

(Figures via Rotten Tomatoes)

You know the economy is really in trouble when a movie studio won't back a film project based on one of the most succesful comic book series in the world; with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson attached.

Yet that is what has happened.

Thank you, John McCain, thank you so very much...

John McCain = George W. Bush.

It's not funny, because it's true.

Very well, if you insist.

Do You
Originally uploaded by Dia™

This girl makes me feel old, ugly and talentless

She just turned 17, for frick's sake...

Divinity
Originally uploaded by Diana Pinto

B-List outtakes
Originally uploaded by Diana Pinto

Vampires Beckon (Yearning for Lestat)
Originally uploaded by Diana Pinto

A good Green, pretty in Pink

Say Ooh / Say Ahh

Say Ooh / Say Ahh
Originally uploaded by -Sarah

Some would call this karma. I call it justice.

"Hello, Seth..."

WOW, I'm anticipating this movie like I don't think I've anticipated a movie in 20 years.

I think this is what they call "Eurotrash."

But whatever it is, I love it.

(it's also actress Emmanuelle Beart)

Some pictures by Matt Irwin Photography

There's more (much more) here.

House, AP

(American Pimp)

Friday, September 19, 2008

On the other hand, Julianne Moore would appear not to need no saving from nobody

Once again I am filled with the macho bullshit desire to "save" Leelee Sobieski.

Why? Because she used to look like this:

Only now she looks like this:

And that makes me sad.

Scientology on the Great White Way (edited to add photo)

So, Scientology. Some call it a church, some call it a scam. Well I'm certainly not going to get into that. However, I was amused to see that protesters outside the Broadway Theatre in which Katie Holmes is appearing in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons

held up posters and flags bearing slogans, including, "Run, Katie, run! And take Beck with you" and, "Free Katie, keep Tom [Cruise]", reports The Sun.

I couldn't agree more.

Free Katie!

(protest photos here)

I'd have thought at least one of you would've guessed this, if only because you were playing the odds

Those legs belong to Anne Hathaway.

Sleep tight, America.

Oh, shit.

Ok. You know how McCain loves to ramble on about how the "surge" has worked to reduce violence in Iraq? Well...this would be funny, except that it isn't, at all.

A new study of satellite images shows evidence that "the surge" was not the key factor in the violence dropping off. What was? Two words that should cut like knives to the spirit of anyone who loves freedom; hates tyranny & repression:

Ethnic cleansing.

heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

"By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement.

"Our findings suggest that the surge has had no observable effect, except insofar as it has helped to provide a seal of approval for a process of ethno-sectarian neighborhood homogenization that is now largely achieved," Agnew's team wrote in their report.

Here she comes to save the day

It appears that some people (press and others) have been calling Sarah Palin a Wonder Woman. Someone had the great idea of asking Lynda Carter what she thought of such an equation. Turns out...

She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. ...a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hilary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin.