Brian Kerr

Molecular? Mimetic / memetic; mephitic!

Update: Moreover.

Looks like there is a schedule online for this year’s Top of the Park, being that part of the dopey Ann Arbor Summer Festival which is held on top of a parking structure. As always, an inane salad of kid-safe music and random film screenings comprises the three-week event. Since the film selections are pretty crappy this year, the present author’s attendance will likely be slight.

(tags: annarbor movies music)

Let’s celebrate with a memory that says actually an awful lot about you and me — recall the time we accidentally poured the windshield washer fluid into the engine coolant compartment in my old Celebrity? (May we all live long enough to see the day when cars come from the factory with the hoods welded shut.)

Anyways, cheers!

(tags: self)

In the first sequence of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith Anakin Skywalker defeats Count Dooku in lightsaber combat by slicing off his hands; Anakin then promptly beheads Dooku and — just as promptly — admits the Jediesque error of slaying an (ahem) “unarmed prisoner.”

Movie continues onwards for two more hours, and everybody –

(tags: movies)

Wikipedia tells us that my birthday is shared with Dennis Hopper, Bill Paxton, and (brace yourself) Bob Saget; it’s also the day that Lawrence “Accordionist of the Planispheres” Welk ascended.

(tags: self)

Not a new idea, but well-said and relevant, from yesterday’s Note:

We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraq is truly staggering.

And/but we are sort of resigned to the Notion that it simply isn’t going to break through to American news organizations, or, for the most part, Americans.

Democrats are so thoroughly spooked by John Kerry’s loss — and Republicans so inspired by their stay-the-course Commander in Chief — that what is hands down the biggest story every day in the world will get almost no coverage. No conflict at home = no coverage.

(tags: politics)

Q: “How did you get here?”
A: “Well basically there was this little dot, right, and the dot went bang and the bang expanded, energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday.” — Naked

(tags: movies)