Current Terror Alert

Stolen from Lumberjack's Blog.

THE COMMON REVIEW: FASHION DISASTERS OF ACADEME...WHY WE LOOK SO BAD?

"Glance around a room at a professional meeting.  We look like refugees. And not refugees from an interesting culture. Refugees from Scarsdale in 1983 or Boise in 1994. Men and women in academe are equally inept at choosing clothes.  Female professors look like circus ponies, wearing feathers, tassels, and suits designed by the folks who make clothes for drum majorettes and our men look like inmates only recently released from federal penitentiaries, forced to wear clothing 30 years out of style."

-  Regina Barreca, University of Connecticut.

Read all about it here: http://www.greatbooks.org/tcr/barecca23.shtml

SF CHRONICLE ARTICLE ON DON'S FILM "SECOND CLASS VETERANS"

By: Annie Nakao
Date: Sunday, 11/2/2003

Check your local PBS station listings for broadcast times!
(Unfortunately, I don't think it is playing in Honolulu.  *boo*)

The End of the World

http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf

How many seconds did it take you?

"According to medical experiments: If you can find the man's head
within 3 seconds, your right brain is developed better than normal
people. If you can find the man's head within 1 minute, you right
brain is developed normally. If you can find the man's head within
1-3 minutes, your right brain is slow in reacting, you should eat
more protein. If you find the man's head in 3 minutes or
more, your right brain is a disaster... extremely slow in reacting, the
only suggestion is, please watch more cartoons to help normally
develop your right brain."

I got some mad cravings for Jimbo's yaki udon.  Must be the sauce.  Mmm.  Mais helas, the restaurant is closed for two weeks for renovations!!  *grr* 

The First Lady, who is travelling throughout Southeast Asia with Bush, reads "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Who Do You See?" to Elementary school kids in the Philippines.  She was originally scheduled to read Silverstein's "The Giving Tree," but apparently, "US Officials" thought that it would be too difficult for the Filipino children to understand. Hmmm.  Or is it really because of the somewhat "subversive" symbolism in the story (i.e., Taking Boy = US? The Apple Tree = Philippines?).  Hmmm. Hmmm.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/detail.asp?onNews=1&GRP=A&id=20963