Charlie, Dunked

June 30, 2009

Here is our cat Charlie shortly after the catastrophe. It looks like he got totally immersed in water, or had a bucket of water thrown over him, or maybe got sprayed with a hose. I don’t know exactly what happened, I wasn’t there. I only know that I came home and there he was, on […]

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Reviews Too Late: The Assassination of Jesse James

June 29, 2009

This may be one of a very few films ever to be doomed by excessive devotion to its literary source material. (Watchmen might be another.) The full title, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, isn’t the sort of name that Hollywood gives to its films: it’s taken from the the Ron […]

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Standing By

June 29, 2009

The Iranian revolution has entered a grim and secret phase. Grim, because the news is of mass arrests, protests being smashed, demonstrators beaten. Secret, because the situation may be resolved— or not— by maneuvers within the Iranian power structure that are opaque to those of us in the West. Still, the cries of “Allah o […]

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Art Film

June 27, 2009

Women as well as men, everyone watching this film will feel the dissolution of all their certainties, all their illusory grasp on the world… but after you fall into a brazen despair that the walls of reality have become toxic ice cream of a million flavors, you will gasp with a greater realization: that once […]

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Hostage Facility

June 24, 2009

All the thinking I’ve been doing about Iran in the last week has brought to mind something that I always thought was kind of obvious, which is that Iran talks big and swaggers rather a lot for a country that has a built-in on-off switch. By which I mean Kharg Island. Kharg Island lies about […]

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Levy on Iran

June 24, 2009

Bernard-Henri Levy on Iran:Whatever happens from this point on, nothing will ever be the same in Tehran. Whatever happens, if the protest gains momentum or loses steam, if it ends up prevailing or if the regime succeeds in terrorizing it, he who should now only be called president-non-elect Ahmadinejad will only be an ersatz, illegitimate, […]

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Simple Ways

June 23, 2009

Simple ways to help Iranian free speech.

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Another Long Day

June 23, 2009

Another long day trying to keep up with events in Iran. For those who wish to help Iranians and dissidents in other nations evade surveillance, check out the Tor Project. Originally a project of the U.S. Navy and now spun off into a freeware company, Tor— strangely sharing a name with the largest US science […]

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Outside Shot at an Oscar

June 22, 2009

The other day I found myself on the set of a low-budget film.In recent years I’ve become interested in video technology for the masses, and how nowadays you can not only make a YouTube video for the change you vacuum up from behind the sofa cushions, but an entire movie. I think the production budget […]

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Courage

June 19, 2009

I haven’t been posting for a couple days because, well, I have this life. I have friends, family, and a freakin’ job. All of this keeps getting in the way of my Internet! I realize this is overturning the natural order, but I’m all perverse that way. I’ve been following the Iranian revolution via the […]

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