LA CORNE DU COCU, a full-service upscale Franco-Andorran bistrot actively traded on NASDAQ, is seeking clean, energetic, full-time servers who are unlikely to complain about sexual harassment. Must have at least one year serving experience in a élite environment, look good in tight black slacks, and good-naturedly tolerate the sous-chef’s …
Congratulations! You’ve purchased Deep Cell, the first video game to feature Total Immersion Play (TIP). This incredible interactive experience is unprecedented in video console technology, and will place you inside the mind of a deadly anti-terrorist special operative in a way you would never have imagined possible from a game. …
LADY OF THE LAKE OVER DAYS OF THUNDER 17 – THE CHASE SCENE Sign of the Big Showdown. Auspicious box office. No problem. 1 A car damaged. Good editing. Get up and go for popcorn. 2 Boy meets girl. 3 Boy loses girl. Boy chases girl, finds self. Good dialogue …
“Good even, gentle patrons: welcome all who span the Globe to see me here withal. Tonight, a treat not meat or meal, but words awaits you here: this Winter’s night, a tale shall spread before you, not…” “Not fit for man nor beast, you mean? Not fish nor fowl nor …
The longer the seemingly intractable confrontation over what is euphemistically termed “gun rights” in America drags on in these bloodied days, the more it becomes clear that what is really in play is the classic American dichotomy of Libertarian vs. Prohibitionist. The rhetoric coming from both sides, from gun-control liberals …
Another May Day come and gone and the foundations crumble just a little more. What has the working class won since we last celebrated the busman`s holiday? What gains has it made, what victories has it won beyond the daily fight to stay alive and toil another day? Even the latter, …
We were our century’s cowboys; explorers of inner space, the last adventurers. We charted the only empty terrain left under heaven or on earth. We were the superstars in a world without borders, and yet to look at us today, you’d think we were nothing more than criminals. With legalization …
ATLANTIS. First of all, it’s Atlantis. Not Atlantis City. The minute you guys open your mouths and say “Atlantis City”, we know you’re just some fish-gilled, gawking tourist from Lemuria or something. Second, we don’t have gambling here. That’s Atlantic City. METROPOLIS. There’s more to see here than fucking Superman, …
I am the truth-speaker, the teller of tales, the long tall saddleman. I know the secrets, the lies, and the things that are kept inside. I know who threw their clock out that window, and why. I know why Bill doesn’t get too many giraffes in his bar, even if …
GENESIS CHAPTER 2 19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air, and even the plastic representations thereof for display in the windows of Japanese restaurants; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called …
It looks like the Russians let us down again. Of course, it was the bloody Russians letting us down in the first place that put the four of us here, in a second-rate room in a Hyatt Regency that disgraces the words “Hyatt” and “regency”. It was because they couldn’t …
I sat down to write a review of Terrence Malick’s latest film, To the Wonder, with the goal of speaking only of the work itself, an approach I have often found valuable in music writing: by trimming off the fat, by burying the excess, by considering only the art under contemplation …
GEN. 1:1. Dear Diary, Mr. Phillips wants us to create a whole planet by next Thursday. This is totally unfair. Like I have time to do all this. I’m not on the Scientific Decathlon team. Why should I have to create a planet? I just want to cheer. I shouldn’t …
Texcoco wingman Kevin Malixtepinqa announced his retirement last week after thirteen seasons with the squad. He led the league in goals for for six seasons, including two consecutively in 1502 and 1503. An anterior cruciate ligament injury hobbled him for the last two campaigns, and he made the announcement after …
As you may remember, at the start of the war against Iraq ten years ago, Donald Rumsfeld was asked about the widespread opposition to the invasion, especially in Europe, which stood in marked contrast to European support for previous American military endeavors. His reply: “Now, you’re thinking of Europe as …
