Now You're Sorry?

I think this is called "buyer's remorse".

People should vote with their brains, not with the tingly feeling they get in their spines when they hear an "eloquent" black guy speak.

Up

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Animation

This movie managed to construct a more interesting and emotionally stirring love story in ten minutes than Baler and Benjamin Button could in more than 4 hours combined.

Then, they followed it up with an adventure story with so much heart it makes "Rudy" look cynical. Here is how you create a blue-collar hero.

This movie talks about serious things, like dealing with death and memory, without talking down to the children in the audience. This is an art painfully lacking in any other Pixar competitor. They make Dreamworks look bush league by comparison.

If I were teaching about story-telling in movies, I would require this film for students over the very very best and multi-awarded films of our most pretentious auteur savants.

Pixar can do no wrong. I can't wait for their next release.

Best movie of the year so far for me.

Oh, and Pixar...stop making a grown man cry...dammit...*sniff*

Marketing Genius

You've got to give it up to whoever ad agency Frenzy hired to do its condom ads. The use of costumes, the models, the lighting, the premise...sheer genius! They've achieved something in one spot that normally takes an entire semester of sex education to achieve.

They've made sex unsexy!

Good job!

Some "Magna Carta" Of Sorts

Okay, so the Philippine Congress just passed some gigantic "Magna Carta" for women. I'm not up to speed on the details, but at least I haven't seen any "reproductive rights" being crowed about so far. But there is one thing.

According to the Inquirer (print edition for today), this law will disallow the firing of single women who stumble upon the magic of pregnancy. Of course, this is specifically aimed at religious schools, for whom such sleeping around is considered a scandal. Considering that Congress is comprised by people for whom whoring the tattered remains of their dignity is second nature, I highly doubt there will be any sympathy for these religious schools.

Personally, I do not believe that this law ought to infringe upon the right of a corporate entity to define itself. If a religious school wants to fire a teacher for slutting around (and it is usually for this...the pregnancy thing is just because it is the surest indication of it, and the only time the teacher gets "caught"), then they should have all the right in the world to. If equality is the issue, then I would propose that the same stringent measures be applied to male sluts as well. You impregnate a woman out of wedlock (or far worse, a student), you ought to get the boot in the ass too. 

We're Useful After All

I'm a rather cautious fan of Salon's Camille Paglia. She writes sensibly about aesthetics, and is probably the smartest (or least idiotic) politicized lesbian in the US. Being libertarian, she has some kooky and questionable views, but even then, she is fiercely honest. (This is a pro-choice woman who urged other pro-choicers to finally accept that abortion is indeed murder, then simply try to live with it.) However, this just made me laugh.

After a lifetime of observation, I must regretfully conclude that men make everything hotter -- whether in gay or straight porn. I don't mean men have to be concretely present, only implied as the ultimate audience for primo sexual display.*

Yeah, if all the world were ruled by lesbians, they'll still need us to make and quality-test their porn. Let's see other lesbian writers admit that! lol!

* The context of the comment was that she's stating that the best lesbian scenes ever made were, ironically, enacted by straight women, most often for the benefit of men. To see it, you have to scroll until near the end of the article.

What Does Moron Ass Taste Like?

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This is How You Do It

I have found a counter-story to that awful and disgusting essay from the Atlantic that I highlighted a few weeks back. You know, the one with that idiot who divorced her husband because he wasn't giving her the stomach butterflies anymore.

This is an essay wrote by Laura Munson for the NY Times (*gasp*). She's some sort of writer who lives on a farm...I'm not entirely sure. All I know is that she sounds like the most kickass wife in the world.

But wait. This isn’t the divorce story you think it is. Neither is it a begging-him-to-stay story. It’s a story about hearing your husband say “I don’t love you anymore” and deciding not to believe him. And what can happen as a result.

I think the story speaks for itself. Pope John Paul II once spoke of a "feminine genius". I think I now have a better idea about what that is.