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Jan. 17th, 2006 05:47 amMilitary Posters of the Twentieth Century. Lots of magnificent Soviet posters. Everyone else's work looks positively tepid compared to the WWII Soviets. Their posters just radiate ferocity.
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I'm surprised but pleased with El Baradei. If he'd taken this kind of attitude toward Hussein, we might have avoided war in Iraq.
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So, last weekend das Goof and I went out to see the new Wallace and Gromit movie. I was pretty sure going in that I'd like it, but even so it exceeded my expectations. The style struck me as being very much like a Hammer film. It's got that same kind of atmosphere and pacing, but a Hammer film that takes place in the deranged Wallace and Gromit universe.
For some reason the 'bouncy Tottington Hall' cracked me up completely :D The bunnies' noses bothered me, but I think they do everyone. I wonder if there's some particular reason they were made like that?
You can get actual Wensleydale brand cheese, it seems. I knew there was a blue cheese called that, but had no idea it was an actual brand.
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Today I went to the Kroger, meaning to get some beef and catfood. Instead, they had excellent Yellowfin steaks on sale, so I got some of those instead. They almost always have some meat or fish on deep discount. When I got home, the tuna had leaked into the bag, so that the cans of catfood were all sticky and soaked. I left them in the bag, and made sashimi out of the tuna. I didn't offer any to Flaster, because he's a weird cat, and never eats raw fish.^1 Anyway, as I was eating, he found the bag, and went nuts with it, dragging it all around the kitchen, and licking out the congealing juice. He wrestled with it, tore the bag apart, and scattered catfood cans all over the kitchen. I let him go at it until he got tired. Now I have to mop the floor than I waxed yesterday because it's all sticky already, but it's worth the entertainment value.
^1 He doesn't actually like much of anything except for catfood, the water from canned tuna, tomato sauce, and salsa con queso. Sometimes he gets a dollop of salsa on his kibble. Odd cats seem to be a family tradition. My mother's cat will eat hot peppers, then go and drain her water bowl. She also likes peas, as mom found out the hard way when she went one day to answer the phone, never suspecting that her peas were in danger from the cat.
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I'm told that oily fish such as tuna has a marked antidepressant effect. That may well be, as I usually feel remarkably relaxed and secure after a meal of tuna or salmon.
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Today I was watching a fellow on TV discuss his new book on the Lincoln assassination. He was contending that current theories on the assassination must inevitably be more accurate than past theories, just as future theories must inevitably be more accurate than present theories. Now granted that as time goes on, some original source material will be turned up that wasn't available before. What he seemed to be arguing, though, was that present authors have the advantage of reading previously published books, which makes their theorizing more scholarly. That seems a completely fantastical (and not in the good sense) method of doing history to me. By his reasoning, the further you are from the actual event, and the more people your information has been filtered through, the more reliable it will be.
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I saw a picture of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladymadrian's friend Twist Mouse today, and as rumoured, she does look like a plausible candidate for the Wampus Woman's long-lost sister.
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I'm surprised but pleased with El Baradei. If he'd taken this kind of attitude toward Hussein, we might have avoided war in Iraq.
*****
So, last weekend das Goof and I went out to see the new Wallace and Gromit movie. I was pretty sure going in that I'd like it, but even so it exceeded my expectations. The style struck me as being very much like a Hammer film. It's got that same kind of atmosphere and pacing, but a Hammer film that takes place in the deranged Wallace and Gromit universe.
For some reason the 'bouncy Tottington Hall' cracked me up completely :D The bunnies' noses bothered me, but I think they do everyone. I wonder if there's some particular reason they were made like that?
You can get actual Wensleydale brand cheese, it seems. I knew there was a blue cheese called that, but had no idea it was an actual brand.
*****
Today I went to the Kroger, meaning to get some beef and catfood. Instead, they had excellent Yellowfin steaks on sale, so I got some of those instead. They almost always have some meat or fish on deep discount. When I got home, the tuna had leaked into the bag, so that the cans of catfood were all sticky and soaked. I left them in the bag, and made sashimi out of the tuna. I didn't offer any to Flaster, because he's a weird cat, and never eats raw fish.^1 Anyway, as I was eating, he found the bag, and went nuts with it, dragging it all around the kitchen, and licking out the congealing juice. He wrestled with it, tore the bag apart, and scattered catfood cans all over the kitchen. I let him go at it until he got tired. Now I have to mop the floor than I waxed yesterday because it's all sticky already, but it's worth the entertainment value.
^1 He doesn't actually like much of anything except for catfood, the water from canned tuna, tomato sauce, and salsa con queso. Sometimes he gets a dollop of salsa on his kibble. Odd cats seem to be a family tradition. My mother's cat will eat hot peppers, then go and drain her water bowl. She also likes peas, as mom found out the hard way when she went one day to answer the phone, never suspecting that her peas were in danger from the cat.
*****
I'm told that oily fish such as tuna has a marked antidepressant effect. That may well be, as I usually feel remarkably relaxed and secure after a meal of tuna or salmon.
*****
Today I was watching a fellow on TV discuss his new book on the Lincoln assassination. He was contending that current theories on the assassination must inevitably be more accurate than past theories, just as future theories must inevitably be more accurate than present theories. Now granted that as time goes on, some original source material will be turned up that wasn't available before. What he seemed to be arguing, though, was that present authors have the advantage of reading previously published books, which makes their theorizing more scholarly. That seems a completely fantastical (and not in the good sense) method of doing history to me. By his reasoning, the further you are from the actual event, and the more people your information has been filtered through, the more reliable it will be.
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I saw a picture of
ladymadrian's friend Twist Mouse today, and as rumoured, she does look like a plausible candidate for the Wampus Woman's long-lost sister.
