Philip K Dick fans, rejoice!
Linklatter VOWS a faithful adaptation!
‘Waking Life‘ style goes exponential!
I just bought panty-liners.
Sploooooooge.
😀
“A Scanner Darkly” Trailer Finally LIVE!!!
February 19th, 2006More ‘Revolutionary’ Speculation…
February 16th, 2006Folks are still posting in this old thread.
Shows how devout gamers can be, especially when it comes to ‘hardware religion’.
This new thread came in today.
I’ve kept the lips zipped for months now – still stinging from last time.
Three months and counting ’til we know either way.
Curiouser and curiouser…
b
Who Watches…?
February 16th, 2006And is this a good enough ‘reason’???
BS gets VD!!!
February 14th, 2006
Roses may be red
And violets may be blue
Still…BS loves you
😀
Hallmark Holiday Origins
February 14th, 2006(posted by Adhesive on the BS Forums)
“As early as the fourth century B.C., the Romans engaged in an annual young man’s rite to passage to the God Lupercus. The names of the teenage women were placed in a box and drawn at random by adolescent men; thus, a man was assigned a woman companion for the duration of the year, after which another lottery was staged. After eight hundred years of this cruel practice, the early church fathers sought to end this practice… They found an answer in Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some two hundred years earlier.
According to church tradition St. Valentine was a priest near Rome in about the year 270 A.D. At that time the Roman Emperor Claudius-II who had issued an edict forbidding marriage.
This was around when the heyday of Roman empire had almost come to an end. Lack of quality administrators led to frequent civil strife. Learning declined, taxation increased, and trade slumped to a low, precarious level. And the Gauls, Slavs, Huns, Turks and Mongolians from Northern Europe and Asian increased their pressure on the empire’s boundaries. The empire was grown too large to be shielded from external aggression and internal chaos with existing forces. Thus more of capable men were required to be recruited as soldiers and officers. When Claudius became the emperor, he felt that married men were more emotionally attached to their families, and thus, will not make good soldiers. So to assure quality soldiers, he banned marriage.
Valentine, a bishop , seeing the trauma of young lovers, met them in a secret place, and joined them in the sacrament of matrimony. Claudius learned of this “friend of lovers,” and had him arrested. The emperor, impressed with the young priest’s dignity and conviction, attempted to convert him to the roman gods, to save him from certain execution. Valentine refused to recognize Roman Gods and even attempted to convert the emperor, knowing the consequences fully.
On February 24, 270, Valentine was executed.
“From your Valentine”
While Valentine was in prison awaiting his fate, he came in contact with his jailor, Asterius. The jailor had a blind daughter. Asterius requested him to heal his daughter. Through his faith he miraculously restored the sight of Asterius’ daughter. Just before his execution, he asked for a pen and paper from his jailor, and signed a farewell message to her “From Your Valentine,” a phrase that lived ever after.
Valentine thus become a Patron Saint, and spiritual overseer of an annual festival. The festival involved young Romans offering women they admired, and wished to court, handwritten greetings of affection on February 14. The greeting cards acquired St.Valentine’s name.
The Valentine’s Day card spread with Christianity, and is now celebrated all over the world. One of the earliest card was sent in 1415 by Charles, duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London. The card is now preserved in the British Museum.”
We’re just some guys…
February 13th, 2006…and we’re having a good time.
(One more vid from the Lonely Island crew before we return to our regularly scheduled political pandemonium 😉 )
The House that YOU built…
February 12th, 2006After some troubling ‘exits’ by regular board-lurkers, and no small amount of emotional and ‘tribal’ drama, it looks like we’re finally moving – as a COMMUNITY – to give our hallowed halls the faintest vestiges of structure.
FAN FORUM MODERATORS ELECTION!!!
I really hope that all of you – regular visitors and old-timers alike (Bleh, CotC, Couchie, Nick, Mindless, and Psy…I’m looking at you 😉 ) – will take part in the nomination and voting process for new BS Forum Moderators. And before you get a shortness of breath…this is NOT about restrictions, or ‘rules’, or any traditional sense of heirarchy. It’s about letting YOU take control of what YOU have built – nudging and nurturing it further towards its true nature – while allowing old friends and new explorers a satisfying (re)discovery.
It’s clear that our wee mental oasis has evolved well beyond the scope of Saints itself, with the potential to again become a thriving platform for ideas, expression, and emotional exchange. It’s time to pass the wheel to those who can steer through choppy seas, chart a strong course, and face the long horizon undaunted. (wow…this really is starting to sound political :P)
I’m looking forward to returning to these shores with fresh perspective – as a welcome guest, and eager contributor.
Much respect…and hopes for a shining republic of many.
B
Comicon Revisited
February 11th, 2006With Wondercon in full swing, and top-secret booth designs changing hands before July’s big show, I decided to track down this sweaty-faced gem from our pals over at Cartoon Mogul.
A full-res version appears on the updated DVD set…completely worth it for the bimbo brigade at segment’s end. 😀
Share the love – and stay tuned for an imminent announcement from a fledgling ‘democracy‘.
Peace
b
Berlinale!
February 10th, 2006
(posted by tobias)
In answer to the burning question I know is on all of your minds these days – namely, how is tobias going to spend the next week or so?… well, it’s the film festival time over here, and not just any film festival but (I am told) the biggest and some say best of them all, the mighty Berlinale. Some highlights we will be checking out this week:
Brothers Of The Head, about Siamese twin punk rock stars (do you really need to know more?)…
Tintenfischalarm (Octopus Alarm), in which a German hermaphrodite named Alex describes the suffering of intersexual children at the hands of those determined to force them to adhere to social norms…
Vitus, from Switzerland, tells the story of a boy who has hearing like a bat, plays piano like the young Mozart and reads the encyclopaedia at kindergarten but prefers to spend his time tinkering in his idiosyncratic grandfather’s joiner’s workshop, and dreaming of flying…
Kan Shang Qu Hen Mei (Little Red Flowers), about a four-year-old individualist at a Chinese kindergarten in 1949…
Der Rote Kakadu (The Red Cockatoo) set in 1961 Dresden, in and around the famous club of the same name, that dared to play music from the West – something unheard of in the GDR at the time…
We’ll also look in on All About Eve and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, from the retrospective series; I’m Your Man, the documentary/concert film about Leonard Cohen; and Big River, a Japanese/Pakistani road movie set in the American Southwest. Should be an eclectic and stimulating week! If I feel inspired I’ll blog the hits and misses as we go along…
Pass the Chronic…WHAT?
February 9th, 2006When testing how the bliggety-blog plays embedded vids from You-Tube, what else did you think we’d start with?
Awesometown. 😉
