Blogging, indeed! Ironically I actually got the flu not too long after posting all that schwein stuff, but pounded through final papers and have been keeping busy during these first weeks of summer by building models and generally doing nothing important.
Though I have certainly been watching movies, about a movie every day I suppose. I did the same during winter break, and back then I started keeping track of all the movies I watch (in their entirety, so the three times I've watched 30 minutes of Get Smart don't count). You can see all the flicks over there on the right, in chronological order starting from 12/12/08. Films with an * were seen in the theater. I'll try to keep the list updated - hey, gives me a reason to keep visiting my own blog!
Listening: Mindless Faith, Medication for the Misinformed
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
+ NEWS: AHOGOLYPSE +
"World Takes Drastic Steps ..."
So this drunkenly escalating swine flu epi/pandemic has apparently become big enough for me to not only click on a yahoo news link, but in fact want to post something (an unfortunately rare event) ...
Two Things
1) All this killing of pigs around the world when the only link to the hog is in the name - and like the article notes, THEY are contemplating changing the name to avoid all this madness. I only note it for the apparent surprise that people would take a name to actually denote some connection to reality (avian flu in fact being connected to avians), rather than as some arbitrary signifier. Go fig.
2) I've been doing increasingly more work with the idea of quarantine in (science fiction) film of late, so it's spooky to see all these biological security measures being put into place - particularly when the usefulness of so many are unknown, like those bio-scanners (covering The Host in my class this week, and yep, US bio-scanners in there too ... for a totally fictional virus to boot).
"'You can't protect yourself — not in the way that people are traveling nowadays,' said Karin Henriksson, 56, of Stockholm. 'Then you would have to put the entire population in quarantine. And you can't do that, can you?'"
Can you? I've got a paper on Doomsday underway, and they certainly do there, with horrific results.
Listening: Noisuf-X, The Beauty of Destruction
So this drunkenly escalating swine flu epi/pandemic has apparently become big enough for me to not only click on a yahoo news link, but in fact want to post something (an unfortunately rare event) ...
Two Things
1) All this killing of pigs around the world when the only link to the hog is in the name - and like the article notes, THEY are contemplating changing the name to avoid all this madness. I only note it for the apparent surprise that people would take a name to actually denote some connection to reality (avian flu in fact being connected to avians), rather than as some arbitrary signifier. Go fig.
2) I've been doing increasingly more work with the idea of quarantine in (science fiction) film of late, so it's spooky to see all these biological security measures being put into place - particularly when the usefulness of so many are unknown, like those bio-scanners (covering The Host in my class this week, and yep, US bio-scanners in there too ... for a totally fictional virus to boot).
"'You can't protect yourself — not in the way that people are traveling nowadays,' said Karin Henriksson, 56, of Stockholm. 'Then you would have to put the entire population in quarantine. And you can't do that, can you?'"
Can you? I've got a paper on Doomsday underway, and they certainly do there, with horrific results.
Listening: Noisuf-X, The Beauty of Destruction
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