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Wednesday, 27 November 2002
Stupid White Men ::
I tried to tantalize my parents into seeing Bowling for Columbine during muted commercials in the evening TV news. I don’t think I succeeded. Dad had heard of Michael Moore; it sounded like he’d picked up and looked at one of his books in Borders the other day. After dinner, I read Jon Udell pointing to All Consuming’s book crawler, which pointed me to Moore’s Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, probably the book Dad saw in Borders.
Baudalino ::
From Eco’s Baudalino: ...
The Bourne Identity ::
Saw The Bourne Identity on the flight to NY Monday. There’s no shortage of adrenaline-inducing chase scenes, especially the car chase through Paris, which make the film entertaining on the whole. But Matt Damon has to do his best with a script that is just too unbelievable. If I recall the original Ludlum novel correctly, the character got a clue about his job fairly early on; though the mystery remained of why he was being hunted. Here we have an amnesiac character who has discovered a gun, lots of cash and passports in his safe deposit box, demonstrated uncanny skill in hand-to-hand combat and evading small armies of policemen, without it even occurring to him that he might be a government agent.
Snow for Thanksgiving ::
Mother Nature dished up an inch or two of snow for Thanksgiving here in Ithaca. It was quite beautiful in the early morning light. Another photo here.