Refenestration Daily.
In this review of Windtalkers, Fred Topel's starts off the review by saying:
John Woo’s latest film is not a Hong Kong style collage of bullets and people jumping through the air in slow motions. [...]
Oh, it’s not? Hmm, I'll have to cross that one off the list, then ;).
And, for those curious, I'm a definite fan of the “collage of bullets” genre (such as John Woo’s Hard Boiled).
In a comment to the “Fifty ways to love America” post, Mike writes:
What's with you and Britain all the time? I thought you grew up in Pennsylvania.
Well, Mike’s right — I did grow up in Pennsylvania, specifically Pittsburgh. However, though my parents are now American citizens, they grew up in South Africa, which was formerly part of the British commonwealth. So, like Australia or other former-commonwealth countries, South Africa has many of Britiain’s customs and culture.
At any rate, maybe that’s why I score “40% British” on the “How British Are You?” page ;).
I was in the kitchen at work yesterday when I noticed that, on their Lipton Tea box, there's a picture of Mary Lou Retton with the caption saying:
“I’ve always loved the ‘Brisk’ tea taste of Lipton and now there’s great news about its role in a healthy lifestyle. [...] ”.
Man, she must be into her 16th minute by now
As far as tea, though, Lipton is all right, but I prefer other teas. Specifically, my tea of choice is “Tea, Earl Grey, Hot”. Fortunately, I also discovered Julie Catanzaro’s Earl Grey reviews. And, that lead me to my current favorite, Earl Greyer from The Republic of Tea (with extra oil of bergamot, woohoo!). As I drink two to three pots of tea a day, I was glad to see that The Republic of Tea also sells Earl Greyer in bulk (about $30 for 250 tea bags, available in regular or decaf). Or, if you only drink tea occasionally, smaller quantities of Earl Greyer are also available.
Matthew Engel, a writer for The Guardian writes about “Fifty ways to love America” from his British perspective. As you may expect, some of the items such as “baseball” (#10) and “Michael Jordan” (#48) are unsurpring.
What fascinated me most, though, was the whole British perspective on life in America. For instance, #47 is “barbecues” — don’t Brits have barbecues? I mean, doesn’t everyone have barbecues?
And, for that matter, would it be correct to negate the items to get the British equivalent? I mean, #17 is “walk-in closets” but, what, Brits don't have walk-in closets? And, they don’t have much hot water (#17), either? In the end, though, #37 is probably my favorite ;).
Today's quote of the day is from this Slashdot thread which somehow got onto the topic of Pontiac’s Aztek
The commercial for the Aztek should read:
Aztek. The bounding box for the Ford Focus.