Has anyone done a best of the 90s yet? Got to get in on the ground floor of this one. First impression, decade was a hell of a lot better than the 80s. Top Ten, no particular order: Goodfellas Breaking the Waves The Sweet Hereafter Deconstructing Harry Sonatine Pulp Fiction The Dreamlife of Angels The […]
Month: March 2005
Damn, blogger ate the first draft of this post. Doesn’t matter, I’ve got little to add. Just do what the title says. Important and profoundly correct. I hope people that have the ability t
I pay an inordinate amount of attention to LGM’s position in the Ecosystem, and it’s nice to see that we’ve achieved the long-held goal of passing blogosphere giant Buy a Degree/Bu
Dave and Scott have spoken; I don’t have much new to say. I’ve decided to cheat in two ways. First, I decline to rank my top ten, as my mind changes on a daily basis. Second, I’ve included the LOTRs as one film. I’ve included the number of appearances on an LGM list in parentheses. […]
Via Yglesias, I see more circumstantial evidence for the blogospherical psychoanalysis of Marshall Wittman performed by Paperwight and myself. Nothing like a tiresome, pious scolding of the left f
The worst part of student plagiarism isn’t the fact that some students will escape my classes with decent grades for no work. The worst part is that I have to be suspicious of every well argued,
Just for fun, I thought I would add my own top-10-list-of-the-zeroes-so-far. There’s a fairly high degree of overlap with Dave’s list (when in doubt, if a film seems to be getting mentioned by a lot of people I’ll move it to honorable mention, so the first films on the last I like about as much as […]
Fafnir generously offers us the founding myth now being proffered by a majority of the Republican Party, including at least one Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Now, if you’re the ki
Shorter E.J. Dionne: Because the Republicans have successfully misled the electorate about their extremely unpopular abortion platform, the Democrats should respond by substantively changing the abor
I’m not in a productive mood as I’m just waiting around until it’s time to go see Slint. I doubt anyone cares much, but I’ve got my own top 10 movies of 2004 post pretty much ready to go, but it’s being held up until I see A Very Long Engagement and A Sea Inside, […]
As a matter or general policy, I try to avoid making assumptions about the motives of others, especially those I’ve never met and don’t know. Still, it’s hard to see how Paperwight d
Part I Goeben was completed in August of 1912. It displaced 19000 tons, was 526′ long, could make 26 knots, and had an armament of 10 11″ guns. For some comparison: USS Arizona: 31400 tons