Posts Tagged ‘principles’

Odin’s Frican Balls: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Beowulf

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The key to Robert Zemeckis’s recent film Beowulf is to understand that it’s an old man’s story. Not so much a story about an old man, as the sort of story an old man would want to tell the youngsters around him. And not a story told by just any old man, but by one with a great sense of humor, a great sense of regret, and a great memory of what it’s like to be young. (more…)

Quote Eco-Warrior Attacks Big Families Endquote

Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Dave Toschi: And man is the most dangerous animal of all?
Arthur Leigh Allen: That’s the whole point of the story. (more…)

Atlas Plugged: Defending Iron Man from Gold Woman

Monday, May 5th, 2008

“Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.” -Hermann Goering (more…)

On Making Things in One’s Head (First Principles)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Welcome to the guest house of my head. (more…)