Mr. President, explain yourself

Right now there are people all over America who were “lucky” enough to get through customs at our airports, in our country  – you know, land of the free and home of the [chickenshit CHEETO–headed buffoon]   brave who know that whoever they left behind in the country they left behind – parents, children, grandmothers grandfathers, aunts, uncles, grandchildren,…

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For 24 years people have been trying to kill me. People who know how.

The incomparable Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Charlie Wilson’s War – (SCREENPLAY: Aaron Sorkin) The Helsinki Job Yeah, the 3,000 agents he fired – each and every one of them first or second generation Americans – is that because they lacked the proper diplomatic skills or did Turner not think it would be a good idea to have spies that speak…

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Регина Спектор

“It’s like, you can’t divide yourself up.” (Despite the interviewer annoying me) this is a really good interview with an awesome translation —          · thanks to the très bon translation by fromRUwithsubtitles · — so I’m going to post it. Even if you are unaware of who Regina Spektor/Регина Спектор is, this interview seems so important right now. So…

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NERD Conference… excuse me, “Summit” Δ Proposal Deadline

Proposals for NERD due 1 February  at 23:59h, that’s definitely EST, so what? 18:59 UTC, I think? It looks a bit scarily corp-ed, but it’s coding & it’s at UMass Amherst, so worst case scenario, the weed’s not as good? I don’t know if Beadman is gonna be there. I haven’t talked to anybody yet. I’m…

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Equal Time for Frances McDormand- Almost Famous

Since I played the Philip Seymour Hoffman scene I had to do give it up for Frances McDormand kicking ass. “Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”                                  -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe