"Ramming Speed!!!"

maybe it's a covert performance art piece involving the coming-into-being of 10,000,000 fruit flies. you know, some kinda Heideggerian schtick.

or as Groucho said: 'Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana!'

Operation: Blowing Space-Stuff Up Real Good!

has it relocated here?

http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks

(Thanks, BBC!)

thats a pretty sweet video, thanks ms. jardin.

i didn't find it patronizing, maybe because of seeing similar kinds of visits to the place where my dad spent most of his last couple years. he and his friends there genuinely enjoyed them --the singers, comics, minor local celebrities who'd drop by-- and also the occasional beer on 'pub night' and old movie marathons.

generally, as a culture, i think we've become so jaded, so inundated with 'irony,' so self-absorbed that seeing such unashamed kindness, tenderness, and such simple pleasures seems to make us squirm.

not me: i cried. (a little.) mostly because it reminded me of my dad and mom, and made me forget about myself, if only for a minute and a half.