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Sophie Says Sooth (2003.01.27): "When the message reaches the end of the nerve cell, chemicals known as neurotransmitters spill out into a space (synapse) and stimulate the receiving areas (receptors) on the next nerve cell. The signal passes from nerve to nerve very quickly until it reaches the brain, where the message registers as pain (and you say 'Ouch!')."
Sophie Says Sooth (2003.01.20): "The geeks are the people who no one was really all that nice to when you were teenagers, but now you all work for someone who used to be one. Odds are, they still are geeks, but in the real world, that's a lot more desirable an asset than being able to throw a long pass or tackle someone. Not one corporate meeting that I've ever been to has ended in feats of strength."
Sophie Says Sooth (2003.01.13): "There is nothing wrong with having a large Adam's apple; it really doesn't do anything, anyway. The only time that this really is a hindrance to a man is when he is doing his utmost not to look like one. It's a dead giveaway that will ruin the most convincing of drag performances."
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Flick Chick - "About Schmidt," "The Two Towers" & "Adaptation": "Not only does it have a plot, it has a plot within a plot, and it is based on true life adaptation of itself from a book that it has nothing the majority of the movie. Sound confusing?"
Flick Chick - "Die Another Day" & "Maid in Manhattan": "James takes on bad guy and bad girl and saves good girl. James triumphs in the end in a blaze of fiery glory and has more sex. When a helicopter is seen in scene 42, there will be a big helicopter stunt in scene 43."
Flick Chick - "Catch Me If You Can" & "Chicago": "Jones' musical stage training really has paid off, ten fold. The only weak point in the casting was Richard Gere. His songs just fell flat and he is too severe for this part. I wish they could have found an actor who was capable of pulling off the numbers versus someone whom they could highlight on the marquee."
Oz: The Complete First Season: "Oz walks the fine line between homoerotic soap opera for men and a quasi-realistic exploration of the power structure inside one of America's maximum security prisons. While Oz possesses a premise that would make it a definite franchise show (as well as one that would get various parental watchdog groups up in arms and out for blood), it remains the red-headed stepchild of HBO."
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Music in 2002: And So On: "This is music about the inside of a 16-year-old girl's head, soaked in peers and suffocating in small town Canada. How dare we ask it to be not-16 when it's 16-ness is so vital and crisp? Were we never 16? Did we never invest ourselves in crushes and warn the world we were coming so watch the fuck out?"
Music in 2002: Top 15 Albums: "I don't think more than two of these records would have made last year's top ten. In a year crowded with good records, 2002 had little greatness to offer. It was a time in which disposable music dominated -- I can't remember why I bought some of the records I bought this year."
San Diego Comic-con 2002: Part 1: "A lot of it sounded like standard conspiracy theory bullshit; I would like to believe him about the income taxes, though. Apparently it has something to do with the improper ratification of the 16th Amendment and taxing our privilege of earning money."
"Glamour Hose": A 14-piece photographic series from Natalie Meyer
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2003/01/31
Time for more reviews to guide your weekend filmgoing experience, so long as you're going to see "About Schmidt," "The Two Towers" or "Adaptation." I probably am going to see "Adaptation" this weekend and I think you all should do the same. Then we can rent out the Radisson, get some take-out and have a lengthy discussion.
posted at 14:36
2003/01/29
At least the blood on Kissinger's hands was from a different fucking conflict. For fuck's sake. Five Degrees of Osama
In December, President Bush named Thomas Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, chairman of an independent commission examining the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But FORTUNE has learned that Kean appears to have a bizarre link to the very terror network he's investigating--al Qaeda.
Here's how the dots connect: Kean is a director of petroleum giant Amerada Hess, which in 1998 formed a joint venture--known as Delta Hess--with Delta Oil, a Saudi Arabian company, to develop oil fields in Azerbaijan. One of Delta's backers is Khalid bin Mahfouz, a shadowy Saudi patriarch married to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters. Mahfouz, who is suspected of funding charities linked to al Qaeda, is even named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by families of Sept. 11 victims. True, Hess is hardly the only company to cross paths with Mahfouz: He has shown up in dealings with, among others, ultra-secretive investment firm Carlyle Group and BCCI, the lender toppled by fraud in 1992.
Kean, who was unavailable for comment, may not have been aware of the Mahfouz connection. But Hess spokesman Carl Tursi did reveal another interesting coincidence: Three weeks before Kean's appointment, Hess severed its ties with Delta.
posted at 22:04
2003/01/28
You didn't think a top 15 list was all I had to say about the year in music, did you? Fools! My further digressions are now available to you and I suggest you learn and embrace them.
posted at 16:33
2003/01/27
Remember when we needed to destroy Vietnam in order to save it? Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage
They're calling it "A-Day," A as in airstrikes so devastating they would leave Saddam's soldiers unable or unwilling to fight.
If the Pentagon sticks to its current war plan, one day in March the Air Force and Navy will launch between 300 and 400 cruise missiles at targets in Iraq. As CBS News Correspondent David Martin reports, this is more than number that were launched during the entire 40 days of the first Gulf War.
On the second day, the plan calls for launching another 300 to 400 cruise missiles.
"There will not be a safe place in Baghdad," said one Pentagon official who has been briefed on the plan.
"The sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated before," the official said.
posted at 22:58
Sophie's getting down with the science this week, bringing forth a treatise on itching and anesthesia. Go, and be comforted.
posted at 17:08
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