May 2005

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• talkies

  main course - in response to saladin dressing

  05.19.05 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Let me say it people, even at the risk of eternal damnation. I liked Kingdom of Heaven.
  I even liked Orlando Bloom’s second assay as a blacksmith. Has everyone forgotten ‘Pirates of the Carribean’ already?
  So am I, like Saladin, now destined to be a heathen in Limbo?
  What I like about the film [...]

• homistan

  Softer Side of Freedom

  05.18.05 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Freedom, as they say, is growing in leaps and bounds. And, one of the places it is leaping right over is Pakistan. In an announcement leaked to press, and surprising only to the South Asia Desk at State, The General has decided to “stand for elections after his current term expires in 2007″. Of course, [...]

• talkies

  Saladin Dressing

  05.16.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  It is through Richard the Lionheart that we get Saladin [neÈ Salah ud Din Ayyubi] into Western cinema. In most cases, these were small roles or even just dialogue. His character was peripherally important to the story of King Richard - the noble savage who personified the purity that eluded King Richard’s crusading brethern. Hence, [...]

• imperial watch

  Book Rage

  05.13.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  In Gitmo, reported Newsweek, “Interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed a Qur’an down a toilet”. Since the publication of the report, 9 people have died in Afghanistan in widespread protests [in Jalalabad, they burned the Pakistani consulate]; the protests have spread to Pakistan; and to Indonesia; Shaukat Aziz is mad; the Saudi’s are [...]

• imperial watch

  In Our Schools

  05.12.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  A good friend forwards me a link to this press release. It is but one of many Focus on the Famiy type missives littering the net, my inbox, my mailbox, and my television screen.
  The press release posits a diametrical opposition between Evangelicals and gays, but also takes as given that which is to be [...]

• optical character recognition

  Some Notes

  05.11.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Note: Ralph Luker cements his name in the future history of blogging by writing a wonderful article for AHA’s Perspectives. He was kind enough to recommend me for a how-to piece. While I am thrilled to see my name in AHA’s publication, I am weirded out by the fact that it is not my dissertation [...]