Memoirs of a Geisha is probably one of the best films to come out this year. It tells the story of a Japanese girl with bright blue eyes who is seperated from her family and sold to a Geisha house to work. Her suffering seems endless when a much older Geisha rival nearly destroys her [...]

US authorities have been secretly monitoring radiation levels at Muslim sites amid fears that terrorists might obtain nuclear weapons, it has emerged. Scores of mosques and private addresses have been checked for radiation, the US News and World Report says. A Justice Department spokesman said the programme was necessary in the fight against al-Qaeda. Nearly [...]

Munich starts off with the killing of Israeli athletes at the Olympic village in the 1972 games at Munich. The rest of the film tells how a Mossad agent is chosen to carry out a series of assassinations on the 11 Palestinians he is told are responsible for the killings (aka Operation Wrath). Eric Bana’s [...]

I posted a while back a few Def Poetry videos that I found interesting. This one is from Taylor Mali who did “Totally Like Whatever”, or what I dubbed: Speak with Authority. He is both a teacher and poet from New York. This piece here is one my favorites. In Mp3 format How to Write [...]

Today I read the following: …Unfortunately, wildflowers are not the only thing you see along the highways and byways of Jordan. Black plastic bags are everywhere. A student told me in jest that the black bag carried by the wind is the national bird of Jordan and the white plastic bag is his mate [source] [...]

I am trying desperately to coin a word before I leave this blessed Earth. So in what may be my 300th attempt these past few years I have created the word BlogBlock. BlogBlock is writer’s block for bloggers. There are however differences and similarities. Writer’s block is a writer’s inability to write because nothing inspires [...]

Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni play Dick and Jane, two suburbanites who have it made with a nice home, car and jobs. However when Dick is made VP of Communications the company he works for tanks as a Enron-like scandal is revealed (the story takes place in 2000 so hint hint). So Dick is out [...]

I feel like I havn’t blogged about anything for awhile. Maybe because I’m avoiding politics. I’m trying to enjoy this week before I start cracking the books again. So I’ve been out of the house as much as possible, mainly downtown Toronto and watching movies. Even though it’s pretty cold outside (refer to waterfall), the [...]