Hillary Clinton claims that snipers fired on her when she visited Bosnia, and videos clearly show that she was greeted by a little girl who read her a poem about peace.

It's an obvious mistake. There are few things worse than the poetry of little girls, especially about peace. 

Hillary, jet lagged and weak, might just have felt that she was subjected to sniper fire, or simply wish that she had been ...

Tom Waits, A Megaphone, & A Song

Chocolate Jesus

Yeah, but it's cool...

DOOMSDAY It's pretty much scene quotes from Escape from New York and The Road Warrior and bits and pieces of other 80's exploitation movies. But. It's stylish and tense and Neil Marshall (director of scariest movie in years -- despite being another quote festival -- The Descent) seems to know exactly where the camera should go. And then there's lead actor Rhona Mitri. You could make a movie that's 90 minutes of just having the camera filming her walking around. And she's stylin' in the Snake Pliskin Eyepatch. I'd say it's actually a better movie than EFNY (an overated movie that's mostly about Kurt Russell's sneer), but not quite up to the mythic brutal beauty of the Road Warrior. There's a clever fairy tale built into Doomsday -- a princess returns to reclaim her kingdom -- its' a badass princess and a kingdom of cannibals, but that's sort of cool too...

Waiting for the Magic (MACgic?)

My new Mac Mini arrived two days ago.

 

It's smaller than a cigar box, and looks like something you'd store plutonium slugs in.

It worked very nicely, right out of the box.   It runs Adobe Creative Suite 3 without a hitch.  It's nifty.

 

But nothing else seems to be happening.

 

My life has not changed.

 

There has been no dancing.  The view from my window is still the same.

I haven't had any epiphanies, breakthroughs or gnosis.  

My muse is still spending most of her time watching the Cartoon Network while eating Pirate's Booty.

I haven't made any new friends. 

 

I still have hopes.  It's a MAC after all.  Something magical will happen any time now…