(A Filthy Lie)
I heard Reynolds produced a new Broadway musical, loosely based on T.S. Eliot’s book of poems, “Old Hobo‘s Book of Puréed Puppies” or something… (see extended entry)
Archive of entries posted on 4th November 2005
Two Things That Should Be Supreme
Question of the Day
Entertain Me!
Fun Trivia
Is It Time for Religious Intolerance?
As Americans, we instinctively respect the cultures of others because that’s what we’re taught, but I was reading this post by La Shawn Barber (hat tip to Malkin) and got thinking that I really should do a critical look at Islam. Is it possible that the Muslims who are for peace and tolerance are the ones who aren’t following the teachings of their religion. Should we wake up and actually start condemning not just the terrorists, but the religion as well?
For something as serious as that, I’ll have to actually do some research. Any book recommendations such as good translation of the Koran and some good books discussing Islam?
Friday Catblogging
Since it’s Friday, I thought I’d spread the joy of humor-free, apolitical Friday Catblogging to IMAO (aka “I-MEOW”).
Today, it’s Edloe The Grumpus sniffing a mini-pumpkin:

If you’re not sure how this absurd scene pertains to IMAO, since IMAO is famous for that “political humor” thing, it doesn’t. If you must have some semblance of politics or humor in everything you read here, just assume that Edloe is… um…
Help me out here. Make your suggestions in the comments how this scene is, in fact, a political allegory.
(For more animal goodness, try Friday Ark today and Carnival of the Cats on Sundays.)
Frank Reviews Ebert’s Reviews
It’s Friday, which means it’s time to review Ebert’s movie reviews. Ebert is my favorite movie reviewer and is often quite funny when trashing a film. He sometimes, to my great annoyance, inserts silly liberal political jibes into reviews for no reason.
Now, I usually rate movies out of five stars (I really think Ebert needs a fifth star because he’s given out too many four star rating), but I’m going to follow Ebert’s tradition and rate his reviews out of four stars (i.e., reviews can range from zero to four stars with increments of half a star).
Ebert’s Review of Chicken Little
While he did express quite well how this movie pales in comparison to other recent animated flicks, he just wasn’t very entertaining while doing so. I didn’t even crack a smile once. Two stars.
Eberts review of Jarhead
I found this review quite compelling, and was riveted in reading it until the end. I also feel he gave me a good idea what to expect from the movie (and, from that, I don’t plan on seeing it). I give bonus points for Ebert mentioning the current war non-gratuitously and not making a political point out of it. Still, he used a swear I don’t find appropriate for newspaper reviews, so I must deduct half a star. Two and a half stars.
The rest of the movies I never heard of and thus didn’t care about, but one was about suicide bombers so I thought I’d read that review.
Ebert’s Review of Paradise Now
While this movie is about Palestinian suicide bombers, he spent a good part of the review musing about how atheist suicide bombers might make a neat subject (Ebert is Catholic for those wondering). He spent a good part of the review talking about the background of the movie and forgot to even say whether he likes the film or not so you can only assume he liked it from his three star rating. One and a half stars.
Not a great set of reviews this week. Tune in next week for more reviews of Ebert’s movie reviews.
Likelihood of Confection
Ron Coleman says Free speech only comes in one flavor. I hope it’s strawberry, or maybe chocolate.