Month: February 2010

I’d attach a picture, but it wouldn’t come out very well… 😉

[via kottke.org]

This great article on John Hughes has a bunch of great recollections from Brat Pack actors and others.  One interesting tidbit from Molly Ringwald, though:

When The Breakfast Club ended, he started writing a script called Lovecats, because I played him that song by the Cure… Anyway, I played this song for John, and he started writing a script, and he gave me a mix tape of what the soundtrack was gonna be. Which was pretty much Dave Brubeck, with the last song by Bob Dylan.

I thought I heard a rumor that this script might actually get made into a film, but maybe the rumor just involved the existence of the script. As much as I’d love to see another John Hughes movie, for me it just wouldn’t be the same outside of the ‘80s milieu in which it was undoubtedly grounded…

“With just five applications–five, free applications–you can do anything you ever wanted to do across a network connection.”

Woo hoo! USA! USA!

I got to watch some great hockey today between this game and the earlier Russia-Czech Republic match…

“The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling ‘My Way’ in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the ‘My Way Killings.’”

I guess Tiny Tim never visited the Philippines… ;-p

“The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.”

Holy crap!  I had no idea…

“The great Trans Siberian Railway, the pride of Russia, goes across two continents, 12 regions and 87 cities. The joint project of Google and the Russian Railways lets you take a trip along the famous route and see Baikal, Khekhtsirsky range, Barguzin mountains, Yenisei river and many other picturesque places of Russia without leaving your house. During the trip, you can enjoy Russian classic literature, brilliant images and fascinating stories about the most attractive sites on the route.”