Just finished watching Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, an anachronistic look at the queen who was too young to die but, from what I saw in the movie, lived long enough to get married, indulge herself in all possible ways for the times she lived in, birth three children, lose one, have an illicit affair with [...]
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
Posted in Blogged, tagged marie antoinette, review on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Quick Post #1
Posted in Blogged, tagged bjp manifesto, links, richard dawkins quote, wendy cope on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1) From the BJP election manifesto, this is how they introduce their candidate for PM (italics mine own):
Shri Advani has an exemplary record of service to the nation covering over six decades. A leader of impeccable integrity, he was one of the chief crusaders for democracy during the Emergency (1975-77) and spent 19 months in [...]
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Posted in Blogged, tagged links on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few hastily jotted down notes before I get to watching Battlestar Galactica:
1) A quote by Craig Arnold from this article on love poetry on Poetry Foundation:
“I’m thinking about the duet that Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman sing on the rooftop in Moulin Rouge, which is just a pastiche of trashy pop songs, and in some [...]
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