My Ghetto-@ss Neighbor

My next door neighbor is currently on the phone.

But she's sitting next to the window.

The window is open.

She's not speaking quietly.

Another woman somewhere nearby has shouted "SHUT UP, B*TCH!"

People have been knocking on her door, and saying they live here too, and please speak more quietly. Knocking loudly. She hasn't answered.

She's been on the phone the whole time.

I can't understand much, but I've heard gweilo, and b*tch, the secon...Read more

Movie Review: Super Typhoon//超強台風

I've been watching some HKIFF films. Not as many as a lot of people would think, but a few. I may write reviews, I may not. Explanation to follow.

I also caught a Filmart screening. When I saw the poster forSuper Typhoon, I figured at least I ought to check it out, since I was certain that a Chinese disaster film would be different from an American one or a Japanese one, etc.Then I ...Read more

This is not a CD title

It's the subject line of a spam email I got. But it still somehow rings with a certain grace, gravitas, and grin-inducing (grinducing?) grandeur:Postpone your love bomb's explode‏ Which naturally leads me to think of this song:I apologize for the video, but it had the best audio version of the song. And it wasn't some adolescent's masturbatory, jingoistic splicing together of a great song with CNN footage of military action in Iraq, etc.

Hulu-doo-doo

Never let the truth get in the way of a good propaganda drubbing...

In my last spleen vent/money shot, I took China to task for their incessant scapegoating of Japan, centered around a tag line on a promotional poster for a TV show about the Huludao reparation of Japanese citizens to Japan from China after WW2 and what a magnanimous thing it was for China to do.

I was stupid enough to look it up. Ignorance is bliss.Look what Wikipedia says:**** The Japanese Repatriation from Huludao (Japanese: 葫芦島在留日本人大送還 or simplified Chinese: 葫...Read more

Battlestar Didactica, or Who Beat Whom?

Considering they defeated Japan in WWII (it says so in and Donnie wouldn't lie...), you'd think China would finally give this dead horse a rest.

But nooooo... Saw this at Filmart: It's 2009. Which means it's ridiculous.

China's constant blather about Japan (rabid nationalism is just a cheap pressure valve for energy that would otherwise go into crit...Read more

Welcome to New England - Keep Your Smart Remarks to Yourself

New England for Dummies:The next person who asks me/assumes/insists that Rhode Island is part of New York is gettingshot . "Didj'eat?" "Nah, my friggin' mother made me wash the driveway."

"Wanna get a grinder?"

Dunkin'

F@#$ing

Donuts

Any questions? Shut the f@#$ up.

All I Want for Christmas

Is this Pauline Chan box set.

10 movies.

On Blu Ray. Well, 10 movies in packaging that uses Blu-Ray graphics. I can say that with 100% conviction. As for whether or not they're Blu-Raydiscs, well, I ain't so sure.Just between us (and the internet), I'm finding that the necessary research for my Media, Sex, and Violence class is beginning, more and more, to depress me. I&#...Read more

Confessions of a Dope Fiend

In many ways, no one is more surprised than me that I ended up an educator. I was one of the worst students in history.

Not because I was stupid, but because I didn't care to be in school and didn't care who knew it.

I just wanted to be left alone to sleep, because I'd been up all night watching movies or fending off hallucinations.

Not to mention that my parents sent me to a weird little private school for grades 6-9. I graduated in a class of 4. I was fluent in French and had read about 40...Read more

Fun with Words

I am fascinated by the ways languages work. Somehow "Caution" is expressed as 'little heart' in Chinese:小心That's confusing enough. But can anyone tell me why the phrase "Having a good vacation"假 Vacation/ 陽 Positive/具 Having

(or is it "Vacation possessing positive qualities")

expresses what it expresses?

Go here: http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/

And feed it this: 假陽具It just makes me want ...Read more

Movie Review: Dragonball Evolution

DISCLAIMER: The following entry contains profanity and sexually explicit language. I'm not apologizing for it because I am very upset and with good reason.

The Movie Night Masochists took one for the team tonight.

I won't tell you where we took it, but that will soon be self-evident.

Without benefit of beer or fish skins, we actually sat through Dragonball:Evolution, one of the worst and most offensive (because it does it in so  many ways) films I have ever seen.

And I've seen a...Read more