Thursday, April 24, 2008

Links and Miscellany

While I can't bring any original content today, I want to drop in for a word or two, a link, maybe a photograph, marking a terrible trauma. This terrifying beast -



- nearly crippled me. Visiting Ye Olde Homestead, one of my nephews showed me where he and his pals had found a goose egg over the winter - while we were examining the old nest, all of a sudden, this bird came at us, beak out and honking - we lit for the territories! alas - trying to run on a bed of pine needles wearing a pair of slip on "comfort mocs" is a recipe for disaster, with or without a pissed off Canada Goose on your heels, though I got away with nothing but a bad charlie horse. Thankfully the brute was more interested in defending the (long gone) nest than exacting vengeance, so he just stood there and honked...

Anyway: that's a poor introduction to a slate of pretty intriguing links:

Girish asks: Why do you blog?

Kristin Thompson discusses Fair Use of film frame reproductions.

Damn near everybody talks about Armond White whining about the internets. And critics. And whatever else he can think of. I'll forgive him because he's one of the few critics to take Darjeeling Limited as seriously as it deserves.

Oh yeah - Cannes! Lineup, courtesy of Anne Thompson.

And finally - to prove I have not been completely idle: pop over to Film & Discussion to take part in a poll - where does Woody Allen belong on the Sarris scale of film directors? Nor should you forget Film at 11's blogathon - harness the hive mind to create a guide to post 1968 auteurs! Join the hive mind, etc.!

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