The one-liner take-home universal message of this film is: war fucks people up. The Brotherhood of War (Tae Guk Gi) starts off looking like a sappy patriotic tearjerking war drama that follows the fate of two brothers who are swept up into the Korean War, with the main story line being the elder brother’s love [...]

Jet Li kicks Glaswegian ass (yang) and gets sentimental with a piano (yin). More than a martial arts flick, less than an Academy-award winning drama, Unleashed, or Danny the Dog as the film is known in Europe, tag teams writer-producer Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Professional) with fight choreographer Woo-ping Yuen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden [...]

The Red Rubies played their last game of the 2005 season this evening and finished 0-11-1. I don’t even know what the final score was (I’m guessing 17-4). Despite the score, they played real well. It’s always just one or two grandslams that do us in. In any case, coaching was great fun and I [...]

Safa got decked out in bikini, cover-up, and sunglasses to go out shopping and swimming with Mommy today. She struck this pose and all I could think was “Egads! And she is only six years old….” The media nowadays is to blame for precocious youths. Speaking of precocious, Safa got her test scores back for [...]

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a virtual petting system whereby humans can pet chickens over the internet. I kid you not. The way it works is that the humans can pet a mechanical chicken doll that is moving in sync with a real chicken in a remote location that has a [...]

Salon Stephen is where we all get our hair done, but not by the much-in-demand Stephen himself. The wonderful Chloe does ours. I took Safa there today and we both got our locks trimmed. Obviously Safa is more work than I am, and yet my cut cost more. Go figure.

I’ll spare you a photo of the actual turkey shit and give you just the turkey. Yep, just when I think I’ve seen the last species possible around the house, I find out that the big ugly piles of shit at the edge of the pond, on my nice lichen-covered Arkansas fieldstone, are from a [...]

Here we have a Japanese mom acculturating her son to the taste of fried whale meat, thinking that this delicacy is part of a centuries-old Japanese culinary tradition. Well, the whaling lobby in Japan will have you believe that even though it isn’t true. There’s nothing too traditional–at least not widespread traditionally–in Japan about eating [...]