Filmwise Timewasters

Here's this week's Invisibles quiz, #65, here are the answers to last quiz. While you're there, check out their latest Visuals quiz, The Eyes Have It.

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And this should help to be more like Zillah!

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My brain is pudding today, so I shall have to resort to a quiz. I like this one, though:

You are most like Zillah who drank too much gin! Created by Thren. Which Gashlycrumb Tiny are you?

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How the hell can someone do this to another human being? To be so callous, so cruel? I cannot comprehend that level of indifference.

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"Is it cruel and unusual punishment to deprive an American of his right to watch television?"

It would certainly teach me a lesson.

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As Scully said, "The answers are there. You just have to know where to look for them." From The Atlanta Journal:

The city's most famous knight has an equally famous new wife -- at least in his new video. Actress Elizabeth Taylor plays Elton John's significant other in the upcoming video for "Original Sin," the third single from the singer's critically acclaimed album, "Songs From the West Coast."

posted at 11:53 PM | link |

Huh?

Overheard while watching television: "Elizabeth Taylor is soon to become Mrs. Elton John." I'm sorry but, quoi?

I have to find out what this is all about...after Six Feet Under.

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"Oo! That smells nasty!"

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I'm not really sure what this quiz, Who's your odd British actor, is purporting to say; am I like Tim Roth? Or do I want to shag him?

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All, essentially, in the name of God:

In rapid succession Tuesday, a Palestinian man opened fire on a crowded Tel Aviv nightclub, a suicide bomber blew himself up on an Israeli bus, gunmen ambushed Israeli motorists in the West Bank and a mysterious blast went off in the Gaza Strip. [Yahoo]

Hundreds of U.S. troops and waves of B-52 bombers pounded snowcapped mountains Monday and early this morning in Afghanistan, where a recently built-up force of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were mounting a furious defense near the Pakistan border. [USA Today]

More than 570 people, mainly Muslims, died in six days of violence in Gujarat state that erupted when a Muslim mob burned 58 Hindu pilgrims alive in an attack on a train last Wednesday. [Yahoo]

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NYTimes op-ed by Ted Koppel, defending the relevance of ABC's "Nightline" in the wake of recent negotiations between the network and CBS's Letterman. It is a very sad day in American culture when someone like Koppel has to defend, to his own network, the relevance of a hard-hitting, journalistically superior news program in what is essentially war time.

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Key West III

Yet more photos from the Key West trip.

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"All video games, or at least the ones I have seen, tend to ... involve some combat of some sort," Pierce says. "And Ethnic Cleansing is like that, too, but it is different, in that it tries to raise the racial consciousness of the player."

However abhorrent the existence of these games is, the implication that open source programming shares responsibility for their existence is just plain irresponsible; next they'll be accusing the printing press of enabling these hate groups in the distribution of their message. The tools are available to all of us. If we don't use them to further a better agenda, then that's our own fault.

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Not Necessarily the News

Mo Rocca's Top ten ways to keep Letterman at CBS. Hehe.

[thanks tvbarn]

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Tonight on TV

Two of my favorite television shows are returning with new episodes tonight and they are on at the same freakin' time. The X-Files returns from a long hiatus with "Provenance", the first of a two-parter, tonight at 9:00 P.M. I'm excited about the episode if only because we're getting some actual continuity with the return of the Biogenesis-ship. Woohoo!

Season 2 of Six Feet Under premieres on HBO tonight, also at 9:00. Thankfully, HBO and HBOPlus rerun the episodes ad nauseum during the week, so I'll have plenty of opportunity to catch it in the next couple of days. If you end up watching either of these shows, enjoy!

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