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Governator: “Ve Must Have Sexy Bridges, Sexy Schools.”

Recent video of Ahnold talking about the need to spice up the way we talk about infrastructure.

To loosely paraphrase, “C’mon! C’mon! We must have the big blockbustah, super powerful, nuclear, gigantic, molecular destructionating of our sewage systems! Get to the choppah! The choppah! I have Supah Powerful bricks with mortah! C’mon! Leesten to me! Leesten!”

Is Filmmaking Bullshit?

Generally, I’m a huge fan of cinema. Then, tonight, I stumbled upon this incredibly captivating amateur video of a camera on a sushi restaurant conveyor belt. No acting, no editing, no production, and yet a remarkably revealing piece. Maybe we’re all just voyeurs who consume anything we’re presented with.

I really get caught up in the relativity of the piece. Are the people moving, or the camera? Yes, we know the actual answer, but functionally either could be true.

Cinco de Marcho Approaches

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It’s a new month, and you know what that means… Only four days to Cinco de Marcho! I was damn near sure I’d made this term up until I googled it and saw the myriad web pages already devoted to said fake holiday. There are too many silly thinkers on the internet, I tells ya.