Yobbo links to what he finds an interesting discussion. I don’t know, it kind of weirds me out, and I only wanted to observe that as far as I was able to read before I got bored, it was all men discussing this. Fancy that. Ah well, the other thing that comes to mind is that this reminds me of a section in the Dungeonmaster’s Guide in old 1st edition AD&D where the author goes to great pains to explain just how many opponents (of each size) can attack a single character at the same time. Ha, so that was …
Month: March 2005
Yet More Stupid Remakery
Little question: Why does mainstream American TV refuse to run English-language comedy from England? I’m not going to say British comedy is the best in the world, or that no American comedy is good… though, of late, most anything I’ve seen that is funny has come out of Britain, not America. And I really, really have a hard time imagining any
This Bugs Me
Unlike Tithonius, I am not really into the old Loony Toons. I never enjoyed them that much, rales of the Road Runner aside. Still, I can’t help but be put off by the fact that when Warner Brothers needs to make a few hit shows, it decides to give “a new look” to Bugs Bunny and his friends. I mean, what happened, did everyone creative die in 1972 or something? Really, come on! Does everything have to be a remake, reenvisioning, reimagining… a re-hash? It’s not as if they couldn’t come up with a killer cartoon, with new characters, after …
Great Kids
My 8:30am morning class on Wednesday is a wonderful bunch of kids. They’re young, so very, very young. All college sophomores, advanced level, and really nice kids. They’re still getting used to me, and my class, but they’re the kind of students I dream of when I am teaching a class of unresponsive zombies. They get into the discussions, when they change partners it doesn’t feel as if they’ve been traumatized by the experience, they ask questions when they don’t understand something, or are having trouble expressing an idea in English for the first time… They’re a great class, which …
Dear Reader, What is your think about the Takeshima Day?
Today a student asked me what I think about Takeshima Day and the Dokdo issue. I didn’t want to get into how it’s (a) not a new issue, (b) his country’s biased-assed press (or was it hus buddy who told him the story?) seems to have misled him by making it out to be “the Japanese government” that has declared Takeshima Day, when it’s the little backwater Shimane Prefecture that did it, (c) wow, newspapers are sure selling and nationalist sentiments are sure hot now, aren’t they, and hasn’t he noticed a cycle to this whole pattern? I mean, this …