Attention all SUV owners: Todd David Whitmore examines them in relation to Catholic social tradition and comes to the conclusion that they’re all about image and not about safety. Which isn’t exactly a genius concept or anything, but I liked the unique approach. Ahhh, Notre Dame.
Author: Kris
Huh. Not only is the University gearing up to make significant repairs to the Stadium, but they’re also suing the architect and engineer to try and get them to foot the bill. I guess that water leak at the first game was more serious than we thought…
I agree with all of Max’s comments about teachers having favorites, and I’ll just add one more thing. I’ve got several friends who currently teach high school, and I get the impression that “favorites” are sometimes the only thing that keeps a teacher going on a bad day. When my buddy Andrew is struggling through another freshman Geometry class with a room full of obnoxious 15-year-old boys, it’s vital that there’s at least one student in the room who can be counted on for a smile of commiseration and an answer to keep the discussion going. It’s got nothing to do with the student’s grades or athletic ability and everything to do with their attitude and respect for the teacher.
Oh all right. I couldn’t resist. Ironminds’ reactions to the inauguration were just too funny. My favorite: “I hear we’re now 4 1/2 point underdogs against Iraq.”
As you might have noticed, I have resisted the urge to comment on that fiasco… except to say that I think blocking all Clinton’s last executive orders is a damn dirty trick. The man hasn’t even been in office for a week and already he’s pandering to corporate interests at the expense of America’s natural resources.
I enjoyed Gina Arnold’s Salon article about “Badass girls on film”, but I thought that the comment about “latent lesbianism” on Buffy showed her ignorance a bit. There’s actually explicit lesbianism in the show in the form of Willow, but she was never the ass-kicker that the article describes. Arnold wants to claim that by labelling tough girls like Xena and Gabrielle “dykes”, it makes their feats seem less threatening to men. But she includes Buffy in that group, who (while SMG might well be attractive to women) has always been 100% boy crazy. In fact, I think Buffy (the character) is so popular because she’s this tiny little heterosexual waif that defies convention and kicks ass. Willow’s relationship with Tara is completely different, though, and neither of them look anything like the stereotypical “dyke” that Arnold presents. It’s like she read an article somewhere linking “Buffy” and “lesbian” and just threw that little comment in without bothering to check with anyone who actually watches the show.
Whoa! Some guy has a million Atari games to sell! If only I had managed to save my aunt’s console from the family garage sale…
Sorry about the lack of updates. An old friend was in town, and (as expected) my sniffles finally developed into a full-blown cold. All in all it was not a weekend conducive to blogging… I’ll make up for it today. 🙂
I applaud Miramax for trying something new, but I don’t really think they’re giving the “movies-over-the-Internet” thing a fair trial. I mean, Guinevere???. I don’t even wanna think about Sarah Polley gettin’ it on with Stephen Rea, let alone spend half an hour downloading 500MB of it to my computer. Yuck.
Sorry, Max. I hate Andy Dick. The only time I ever found him funny was when Chris Kattan was impersonating him on Saturday Night Live. (Andy himself apparently didn’t see the humor.)