Donnie Darko. DVD. Written and directed by Richard Kelly, 2001. 9/10 I am bewildered. I do not want to sleep. I do not want to do anything else. I just want to sit and think about it. I don’t understand this movie, but I love it. This is some kind of cult movie, as far [...]
Today I’ve posted the frontmatter and introduction of my PhD thesis on role-playing videogames, which now has “its own page here.”:http:/benhourigan.com/phd-thesis I’m really hoping to get some feedback on this, especially from gamers. Some reasons why you should read the thesis as I serialise it, so you can give me comments: * It’s the only [...]
Today, dogpossum posted what is, so far, the most antagonistic comment related to my site that I’ve yet received. Her blog doesn’t have permalinks, so you’ll just have to search for 17 March 2005. Currently, though, it’s at or near the top of the blog. I don’t mind antagonism. In fact, I know that just [...]
From “Dict.org”:http://www.dict.org 1 definition found for pugnacious From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : Pugnacious \Pug\*na”cious\, a. [L. pugnax, --acis, fr. pugnare to fight. Cf. Pugilism, Fist.] Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. Notice that I changed the title of this blog. I am now taking on all comers in an epic battle [...]
With legislation to ban compulsory student unionism currently before parliament, student groups are protesting “on the streets”:http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/16/1110913665403.html, on posters stuck around campus, and “to the press”:http://theage.com.au/news/National/Student-union-says-fees-abolition-a-jokes/2005/03/16/1110913641956.html to keep union membership compulsory. Even “Vice Chancellors are expressing concerns”:http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/16/1110913665400.html. I find it staggering that people would protest against their own freedom of association. Okay, if you appreciate [...]
You could hardly fail to notice that after a flurry of posts, I haven’t made many recently. In the World of Warcraft, players often signify that they are “AFK”: Away From Keyboard. I have been Away From Blog. This is likely to continue. Progress on the second draft of my thesis has been slow. Contributing [...]
The Incredible Melk’s Spanking Fashion Parade. 9/10 Last night I overcame a bout of lethargy to go out to the Kitten Club and see a show my friend “Mel”:http://wildyoungunderwhimsy.blogspot.com/ was putting on. It featured some outrageously stylish catwalking from the models (including at least one who really looked like an actual, perfect ten, model), as [...]
Before Sunset. DVD. Directed by Richard Linklater. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2004. 7/10 This movie is the sequel to Linklater’s earlier Before Sunrise (1995), in which Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an American, meets young a young French woman, Celine (Julie Delpy), on a train to Vienna, and spends a night with her before they have to part [...]
For those inclined to use the word “conservative”:http://en.wikipedia.org/Conservatism without thinking carefully, “my last post”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2005/03/01/proposed-japanese-constitution-to-restrict-basic-freedoms/ expresses a classically conservative sentiment. I’ve just said Japan should keep things the way they are, because the status quo is better than the alternative, according to my values. I’d call myself a libertarian overall, but I can still hold politically [...]
Clampdown on freedom eyed in LDP’s Constitution The Japanese “LDP(Liberal Democratic Party)”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Democratic_Party_%28Japan%29 is probably scared of finally losing government for the first time ever, after their main opposition, the “DPJ(Democratic Party of Japan)”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_Japan (DPJ) won 178 seats in the general election of October 2003. So it is drafting a new constitution for Japan which will [...]
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