[scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
President Woodrow Wilson served as President of Princeton University and was a leading intellectual of the progressive era. He also brought many white Southerners into his administration, and tolerated their expansion of segregation in many federal agencies. He was elected President in 1913 (two years before BOAN was made). I say all this to say Wilson was smart enough to know BOAN was chocked full of lies and he endorsed it anyway. Does that make the movie or the man more evil? ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, called it the most important movie ever made. No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened segregation in a wide swath of American life. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with us today. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy, populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith was a cinematic genius. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With the Wind is still the champ).Ã The country-by-country breakdown is pretty interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia?Ã Wow, truly an international hit.Ã Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven thousand? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intlid=avatar.htm Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
And, where was our race headed before 1915? ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: That movie changed the course of our race. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, called it the most important movie ever made. No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened segregation in a wide swath of American life. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with us today. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy, populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith was a cinematic genius. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With the Wind is still the champ).Ã The country-by-country breakdown is pretty interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia?Ã Wow, truly an international hit.Ã Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven thousand? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intlid=avatar.htm Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
This is not entirely accurate. Thomas Dixon, author of the source play The Clansman, was a former classmate of President Woodrow Wilson at Johns Hopkins University. Dixon arranged a screening at the White House, for Wilson, members of his cabinet, and their families. Wilson was reported to have commented of the film that it is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. In Wilson: the new freedom, Arthur Link quotes Wilson's aide, Joseph Tumulty, who denied Wilson said this and also claims that the President was entirely unaware of the nature of the play before it was presented and at no time has expressed his approbation of it. However, Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People explained the Ku Klux Klan of the late 1860s as the natural outgrowth of Reconstruction, a lawless reaction to a lawless period. Wilson noted that the Klan began to attempt by intimidation what they were not allowed to attempt by the ballot or by any ordered course of public action.[11] In the film, approbation for the Klan, citing Wilson's History, is directly quoted. Relentless in publicizing the film, Dixon was apparently the source for the quotation. It has been repeated so often in print that it has taken on a separate life. Dixon went so far as to promote the film as Federally endorsed. After controversy over the film had grown, Wilson wrote that he disapproved of the unfortunate production. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, called it the most important movie ever made. No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened segregation in a wide swath of American life. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with us today. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy, populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith was a cinematic genius. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With the Wind is still the champ).Ã The country-by-country breakdown is pretty interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia?Ã Wow, truly an international hit.Ã Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven thousand? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intlid=avatar.htm Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
As a point of clarification, I did not indict Lincoln Perry for the Stepin
Fetchit character. I indicted director John M. Stahl who first disseminated
the Fetchit character in the movie In Old Kentucky (1927). I see Mr. Perry
as a victim not a perpetrator.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote:
I disagree; or, I don't think it' s productive to argue Birth of a Nation
versus Stepin Fetchit. Birth was shown all over the county; whites stood a
block long lines to see it. It grossed a phenomenal amount of money and was a
hit for months on end. Like I just said in another post, even Woodrow Wilson
celebrated it as a tough truth of history. Its influence on white
thought--either justifying or engendering their thoughts of black inferiority
and savagery, and the rightness of white rule--can't be overestimated.
That black actors like Fetchit willingly lent themselves to damaging
stereotypes can't be argued. But Birth, by its nature--white actors all
playing black in poorly done blackface--showed that even without black
complicity, some whites would have found ways to depict us as little more
than animals.
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Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:47:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
Apples and oranges. Still, a remarkable cinematic achievement. I was blown
away when I saw it. Griffith practically invented modern cinematic language.
Indicting Griffith for the rise of KKK is like indicting Samuel Colt for
drive by shootings. Guilty as charged but, still, largely irrelevant.
Me, personally, would be more inclined to indict John M. Stahl (In Old
Kentucky), the first director to employ Stepin Fetchit as the Laziest Man
in the World. This image was wy more destructive to black people than
anything in Birth of a Nation.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ wrote:
Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk
and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still
with
us today.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravenadal@ wrote:
Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy,
populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all
costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on
just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W.
Griffith
was a cinematic genius.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@
wrote:
In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all
time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With
the
Wind is still the champ).Ãâ The country-by-country breakdown is
pretty
interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia,
over a
hundred, and ninety mill in Russia?Ãâ Wow, truly an international
hit.Ãâ
Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only
eighty-seven
thousand?
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[scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave!
[scifinoir2] Syfy movie title contest
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[scifinoir2] Question
has anyone seen this movie Gas-s-s-s-s that is on retroplex right now? it's about kids taking over the world after a mysterious gas kills everyone over 25. it is simply stupid, but funny. roger corman of course. they just had a scene in the junk yard where they were shooting at each other calling out old movie star names with all the sound effects of guns shooting, but they were not shooting. the guys were falling like they had been shot, but it was hilarious! Fate.
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
Rave, Great shots, but I am also now digging Zoe from Star Trek. Her Uhura was simply smoking! As for Gabby, I love her in FlashForward. I enjoyed her also in...and no one better laugh at me, but I enjoyed her in bring it on (I do have a baby girl that loves the movie). Fatem --Original Message-- From: Kelwyn Sender: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ReplyTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Sent: Jan 26, 2010 03:48 --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: scifinoir2-dig...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: scifinoir2-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
Zoe in Star Trek?! What?! Ms. Union looks great in everything: skin care commercials, Night Stalker, Bring It On... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:46:27 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Rave, Great shots, but I am also now digging Zoe from Star Trek. Her Uhura was simply smoking! As for Gabby, I love her in FlashForward. I enjoyed her also in...and no one better laugh at me, but I enjoyed her in bring it on (I do have a baby girl that loves the movie). Fatem --Original Message-- From: Kelwyn Sender: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ReplyTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Sent: Jan 26, 2010 03:48 --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: scifinoir2-dig...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: scifinoir2-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
EF, by no means am I selling Gabby short.I take Gabby anyday of the week and twice on Sunday. I was just giving another name 2 the pot. Her Wild Wild West cameo! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: efhay...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:15:12 To: SciFiNoir2 mailing listscifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Zoe in Star Trek?! What?! Ms. Union looks great in everything: skin care commercials, Night Stalker, Bring It On... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:46:27 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Rave, Great shots, but I am also now digging Zoe from Star Trek. Her Uhura was simply smoking! As for Gabby, I love her in FlashForward. I enjoyed her also in...and no one better laugh at me, but I enjoyed her in bring it on (I do have a baby girl that loves the movie). Fatem --Original Message-- From: Kelwyn Sender: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ReplyTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Sent: Jan 26, 2010 03:48 --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: scifinoir2-dig...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: scifinoir2-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
Salma Hayek in Desperado: very much worth a rental. Eva Mendez in anything. Rosario Dawson though she lacks carriage along the Z-axis...hey, wait a minute. I see a trend... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:12:41 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish EF, by no means am I selling Gabby short.I take Gabby anyday of the week and twice on Sunday. I was just giving another name 2 the pot. Her Wild Wild West cameo! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: efhay...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:15:12 To: SciFiNoir2 mailing listscifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Zoe in Star Trek?! What?! Ms. Union looks great in everything: skin care commercials, Night Stalker, Bring It On... Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:46:27 To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Rave, Great shots, but I am also now digging Zoe from Star Trek. Her Uhura was simply smoking! As for Gabby, I love her in FlashForward. I enjoyed her also in...and no one better laugh at me, but I enjoyed her in bring it on (I do have a baby girl that loves the movie). Fatem --Original Message-- From: Kelwyn Sender: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com ReplyTo: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish Sent: Jan 26, 2010 03:48 --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: scifinoir2-dig...@yahoogroups.com scifinoir2-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: scifinoir2-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [scifinoir2] Question
Neva hoid of it, but it sounds Mistie-ready I'll have to keep an eye out for it. _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Syfy movie title contest
Medieval Monstrosity And, if this wins, we all own Siffy. Start planning the revolution. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:23 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Syfy movie title contest http://www.syfy.com/moviecontest/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found?
I'm gonna have to start writing space-based fiction again, just to use some of the stuff that popping out of the woodwork. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:54:09 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found? Pluto's Little Sister Found?When it comes to objects in the Kuiper Belt, the vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, size matters. By Irene Klotz | Mon Jan 25, 2010 01:49 PM ET The smallest object ever found in the Kuiper Belt, a vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, helps to explain how these debris disks are formed. NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) THE GIST: An icy body one-third of a mile wide is the smallest known object ever found in the Kuiper Belt.The Kuiper Belt is a vast, icy ring just beyond Neptune that encircles the solar system. The discovery links solar system formation to planet-forming debris disks around other stars. The frozen worlds orbiting beyond Neptune include not only dwarf planets like Pluto and Ceres, but also a tiny, icy toehold just one-third of a mile wide. The discovery, made by a team of astronomers scouring Hubble Space Telescope observations, sets a new record for the smallest Kuiper Belt object found. Previously, the smallest known Pluto sibling was a 30-mile-wide Kuiper Belt object. The Kuiper Belt region, located about 4.6 billion miles away, is filled with objects believed to be left over from the solar system's formation. It is similar to the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, but much bigger. Unlike the asteroids that contain rock and metals, Kuiper Belt objects have icy bodies of methane, ammonia, water and other volatiles. The Kuiper Belt is particularly interesting to scientists looking for planetary systems beyond our solar system. Planets are believed to form from collapsing disks of gas and dust orbiting stars. The dusty particles begin to stick together and eventually build up larger objects. Not all make it into planets. It's the leftover ones are what we're seeing when we look at Kuiper Belt objects and asteroids, University of Arizona astronomer John Stansberry told Discovery News. The finding of a very small Kuiper Belt object links our solar system's debris disk to those observed around other stars, added University of Toronto's Hilke Schlichting, who led the team that made the discovery. We can observe micron-sized particles (in extrasolar debris disks), which are thought to be induced by collisions, from grinding down larger objects, Schlichting told Discovery News. By finding this evidence for collision grinding in the Kuiper Belt, it seems to be the missing link between our Kuiper Belt and extrasolar debris disks. When it comes to Kuiper Belt objects, size matters. Scientists can use this information to determine an object's density and what it is made from. In larger bodies, gravity plays the dominant role in shaping objects. In smaller ones, it is the strength of its materials that matters. WATCH VIDEO: Astrophysicist Andy Puckett explores the universe, especially undiscovered asteroids that could one day smack into our planet. Related Links: Taking the Kuiper Belt CensusWide Angle: Asteroids HowStuffWorks.com: Kuiper BeltPluto, Sponsored By McDonalds The discovery of just one small object is probably not going to lead to great advances. But if we started to discover statistically significant numbers of them, then we can compare the number of large and small bodies, and you can start to get a handle on the material strength of the objects. It also might tell you about the violence of the collisions, said Stansberry. Potentially, it might be a new field if we can make more discoveries like this, he added. Schlichting and colleagues combed through 4.5 years of Hubble data to find the tiny Kuiper Belt Object, discovered as it passed in front of a background star, momentarily dimming its light. These tiny objects are much rarer than you would expect, Schlichting told Discovery News. Based on the number of known objects in the Kuiper Belt, scientists would have expected to find between 30 and 100 tiny bodies in their analysis of 50,000 guide stars observed by Hubble. So far, the team has only looked at 30 percent of the available Hubble data. We only found one, Schlichting said. It shows that there's kind of a break in the size of objects in the Kuiper Belt from large objects, meaning bigger than 50
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
No, Keith, you're not alone. And no, Mr Worf, I haven't seen Rome yet. It's available on DVD through my library, and I'm in the queue to check it out. Maybe by Thanksgiving... If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:49:59 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Glad it's not just me... - Original Message - From: Mr Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 9:44:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Nope... they say that it was invented around the 1100s. But there had to be a similar word back then. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Again with you all the way, Keith. THe curse words they're using are mostly Anglo-Saxon, something that folks who live in Greece (If I've got the geography right) aren't likely to speak. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:37:09 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Looking at part of it again, the fight scenes really do border on kinda funny, the 300-style imitation is so over the top it reminds me more of the hilariously bloody fight scene with the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I mean, seriously, the blood is spattering and splatering like red
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Conan O'Brien: Free At Last!
I'll bet they're in meetings as we type this, wondering how to bottle the magic. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:37:55 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Conan O'Brien: Free At Last! I saw that it was great! Ironic that most of the talk show hosts--including the principals involved--have gotten their funniest bits in years out of this. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:16:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Conan O'Brien: Free At Last! Keith, Fallon did what was, IMO, his first funny bit the other night. He was doing a mock tribute to Conan by sneaking into what used to be his studio back when Conan had Late Night, Boyz 2 Men in tow, and singing It's So Hard (To Say Goodbye), then pouring out a 40 (of Coke) on the floor as Dr Oz, who now shoots in that studio, comes in and yells, What are you doing in here? If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:35:29 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Conan O'Brien: Free At Last! Amen! The only thing about his show that makes me laugh is when you see him running in the opening credits, as if he's late for the show. And frankly, Conan's version of that was way funnier. When he took over The Tonight Show and moved to LA, he opened with a hilarious bit that made it seem as if he ran all the way from East to West coast-in his suit and tie! - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 6:09:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Conan O'Brien: Free At Last! No it doesn't. That was just a marketing plot to show how hip he is. He's so unfunny that he could possibly be defined as ANTI-COMEDY. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: Having the Roots as his house band absolves Mr. Fallon of all sins. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: Oh don't get me started! :) Fallon is the worst waste of space on tv! Infomercials are more entertaining than his disjointed sap! On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:55 PM, C.W. Badie astromancer2...@...wrote: No, really, Mr. Worf, tell us how you really feel... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On *Fri, 1/22/10, Mr. Worf hellomahog...@...* wrote: From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Conan O'Brien: Free At Last! To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 2:44 PM Kimmel is really a writer. He needs to be part of a team writing somewhere and not hosting a show, but ABC has been trying to compete on the late night for years. Fallon is just a waste of space. On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.nethttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=keithbjohn...@... wrote: Agreed, that's why I'm glad this failed. We need original scripted TV, not more talk shows in a field already overloaded with mostly mediocre talent (Kimmel and Fallon especially). And I'm more irritated at Leno, the more I think of it. He never should have agreed to a 10 pm show that couldn't help but hurt Conan. I've said it before: if you want to bring something different to TV, how about an old-time variety show. Something like Carol Burnett updated, with skits, singing, dancing, etc. Cedric the Entertainer tried it a while back and didn't succeed. I believe Brady tried such a show, with little success. But maybe it could work as a once-a-week show. Surely Americans' tastes haven't fallen so far that we're satisfied with the likes of American Idol or Dancing with the Stars??? Or maybe a new show similiar to In Living Color? - Original Message - From: Tracey de Morsella tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tdli...@... To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com Cc: Lockhart, Daryle dar...@darylelockha rt.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dar...@..., afrikanmind@
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent
Yes! If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:34:58 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent Amen! And that money spent on billboards could buy how much food and medicine for Haiti? Matter of fact, maybe she should volunteer for something like that and be reminded exactly what the word unfair means... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:35:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent Keith, I have a word to describe it as well. Pathetic. Get over it, lady. The train has left the station. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:16:51 + Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent This is so bizarre. We passed one of this lady's billboards here in Atlanta last weekend, and I couldn't figure out who this couple was, nor why I should care about them. I find it hard to believe this lady was with this dude for eight years and didn't know he was still married. But whether she knew he was married, or whether he just chumped her by going back to his wife, this is a classless tacky move. I know she's hurting, but why do people outside of their inner circle need to know their private issues? That's the price of love: sometimes you get taken, sometimes you let yourself get taken by going into situations you know aren't right. Whatever, bottom line is she should just move on and keep their private affairs...private. Since this Brother runs Oracle and is a high level member of the Obama gang, I wonder if this will hit the major airwaves like Fox in the next couple of days...? * Revenge by billboard: Scorned lover pays £150,000 for street posters to reveal affair with Obama aide By David Gardner Last updated at 9:57 PM on 23rd January 2010 Comments (164) Add to My Stories The spurned mistress of one of Barack Obama's top economic advisers has exacted revenge by plastering details of their affair on giant billboard posters across the U.S. YaVaughnie Wilkins is said to have paid £150,000 to reveal her relationship with Charles Phillips to the world after he went back to his wife. The posters, which are three storeys high, show Miss Williams and the senior member of the president's hand-picked Economic Recovery Advisory Board below his initials and a quote saying: 'You are my soulmate forever.' Shamed: YaVaughnie Wilkins poses with former lover Charles E. Phillips in a poster she placed in New York There is also a link to a website that is a shrine to his eight-year affair with Miss Wilkins, 41. It includes pictures chronicling their travels around the world as well as intimate notes and ticket stubs from concerts, films, sports games and Mr Obama' s inauguration a year ago. One of the giant signs is posted on Broadway near Times Square in New York - one of the world's most prominent advertising hoardings. A further two have appeared elsewhere in New York as well as one in Atlanta and one in San Francisco, where Miss Wilkins lives and her married ex-lover owns a family home. Each are said to have cost £30,000 to display. The billboards baffled Americans when they first appeared – with speculation mounting over whether it was a marketing ploy or an apology. Her extraordinary actions had the desired effect. The chief executive has been forced into an embarrassing public statement in which he admitted their affair. Adventures: Wilkins set up a website of photos of the couple's world travels, including Sydney, right Powerful: Phillips, circled, is an adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama Yesterday Mr Phillips, 50, who is also president of internet giant Oracle, issued a brief three-sentence statement saying: 'I had an eight-and-a-half year serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins. 'My divorce proceedings began in 2008. The relationship with Ms Wilkins has since ended and we both wish each other well.' There has been speculation that YaVaughnie deliberately timed her campaign to coincide with a major Oracle event next week. Website Gawker noted that the company was due to host an all-day live event on January 27. Mr
RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
If that's all the show will ever be, then it would be more economical to go out and buy 300 than to subscribe to Showtime. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:00 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Nope... they say that it was invented around the 1100s. But there had to be a similar word back then. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Again with you all the way, Keith. THe curse words they're using are mostly Anglo-Saxon, something that folks who live in Greece (If I've got the geography right) aren't likely to speak. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:37:09 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Looking at part of it again, the fight scenes really do border on kinda funny, the 300-style imitation is so over the top it reminds me more of the hilariously bloody fight scene with the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I mean, seriously, the blood is spattering and splatering like red water from a burst balloon. One dude got knocked in the back of the head, and blood sprayed all over it was funny. The showrunners seem to have an almost perverse interest in showing closeups of flesh cut and spread, bodies impaled. Silly, gratuitous, unmoving. Quite a bit of nudity too, including of Lucy Lawless I believe. Bit of a shock that,
RE: [scifinoir2] I can't comprehend
No,m rave, you shouldn't. I've only had one decent review of that one from friends in my circle, of all races. It's just a strange movie, almost painful to watch in places for me. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:35:30 + Subject: [scifinoir2] I can't comprehend I am watching Revolutionary Road and I can't comprehend of a movie like that being made with black people. I should be able to comprehend that; shouldn't I? rave? _ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
I'll be needing a Sugar Mama to hook me up with the latest AlienWare rig. Guess
I should stop typing and start hitting online dating sites...
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: hellomahog...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:24:53 -0800
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single
Home
Hell with that kind of connection you would need a twin quad processor
and an array of sd memory cards to keep up. Which can be done if folks have the
money.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Don't fret, guys! With that 40-gig setup, I'll be posting here fifteen times a
second.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
From: jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
I will second that!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:54:50 -0800 (PST)To:
scifinoir2@yahoogroups.comSubject: RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest
Internet Connection to a Single Home
I'll miss you, buddy...
Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet
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--- On Sun, 1/24/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 4:41 PM
I may not be posting for awhile, as I'll be busy packing.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
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40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
Jul 13, 200775-year old Swede has recently got a 40 Gbps internet connection
directly to her home computer. She is a mum of the internet legend Peter
Löthberg and they have got money and technology to make a connection like this.
She decided to persuade internet operators to invest in faster internet
connections.
We used to see those optical fiber links and their speed used to be enough. Now
when I heard about this I want such a connection. I would feel like I can
download all the internet data in just seconds. Well, I am just joking but it
is really fast. Imagine she can download a full HD DVD in just 2 seconds.
My SATA II hard drive speed is just 3 Gbps I can't imagine how a home internet
speed can be faster than my
hard drive. It is a good thing that RAM is still a bit faster though.
The secret that stands behind this speed is in new modulation technique. This
technique allows data to be transferred to de distances up to 2,000 kilometers
directly between only two routers. This does not involve any intermediary
transponders which makes the connection even faster.
Of course now you've got to get a high quality fiber optic cable to be able to
get such speed. Moreover it will surely cost a fortune to get 40 Gbps internet
connection.
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RE: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin
I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the Rush Hour movies in particular. I loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his Police Story movies. Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in ADD terms, hit points for each blow taken/delivered. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he did in the 70s, but that's about it. The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. Like I said no plot. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw Operation Condor for the umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it for the first time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a geisha is a martial art within itself. She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the fight scenes are run of the mill wire fu scenes, but there are some exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found?
Interesting. A personal observation not related to the science of this article: the usage of the term size does matter is getting a bit old, isn't it? I hear it in all kinds of movie/TV stuff, home improvement shows, now even astronomical press coverage? Ugh. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:54:09 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found? Pluto's Little Sister Found? When it comes to objects in the Kuiper Belt, the vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, size matters. By Irene Klotz | Mon Jan 25, 2010 01:49 PM ET Pluto's Little Sister Found? The smallest object ever found in the Kuiper Belt, a vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, helps to explain how these debris disks are formed. NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) THE GIST: • An icy body one-third of a mile wide is the smallest known object ever found in the Kuiper Belt. • The Kuiper Belt is a vast, icy ring just beyond Neptune that encircles the solar system. • The discovery links solar system formation to planet-forming debris disks around other stars. The frozen worlds orbiting beyond Neptune include not only dwarf planets like Pluto and Ceres, but also a tiny, icy toehold just one-third of a mile wide. The discovery, made by a team of astronomers scouring Hubble Space Telescope observations, sets a new record for the smallest Kuiper Belt object found. Previously, the smallest known Pluto sibling was a 30-mile-wide Kuiper Belt object. The Kuiper Belt region, located about 4.6 billion miles away, is filled with objects believed to be left over from the solar system's formation. It is similar to the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, but much bigger. Unlike the asteroids that contain rock and metals, Kuiper Belt objects have icy bodies of methane, ammonia, water and other volatiles. The Kuiper Belt is particularly interesting to scientists looking for planetary systems beyond our solar system . Planets are believed to form from collapsing disks of gas and dust orbiting stars. The dusty particles begin to stick together and eventually build up larger objects. Not all make it into planets. It's the leftover ones are what we're seeing when we look at Kuiper Belt objects and asteroids, University of Arizona astronomer John Stansberry told Discovery News. The finding of a very small Kuiper Belt object links our solar system's debris disk to those observed around other stars, added University of Toronto's Hilke Schlichting, who led the team that made the discovery. We can observe micron-sized particles (in extrasolar debris disks), which are thought to be induced by collisions, from grinding down larger objects, Schlichting told Discovery News. By finding this evidence for collision grinding in the Kuiper Belt, it seems to be the missing link between our Kuiper Belt and extrasolar debris disks. When it comes to Kuiper Belt objects, size matters. Scientists can use this information to determine an object's density and what it is made from. In larger bodies, gravity plays the dominant role in shaping objects. In smaller ones, it is the strength of its materials that matters. astrophysicist asteroid WATCH VIDEO: Astrophysicist Andy Puckett explores the universe, especially undiscovered asteroids that could one day smack into our planet. Related Links: • Taking the Kuiper Belt Census • Wide Angle: Asteroids • HowStuffWorks.com: Kuiper Belt • Pluto, Sponsored By McDonalds The discovery of just one small object is probably not going to lead to great advances. But if we started to discover statistically significant numbers of them, then we can compare the number of large and small bodies, and you can start to get a handle on the material strength of the objects. It also might tell you about the violence of the collisions, said Stansberry. Potentially, it might be a new field if we can make more discoveries like this, he added. Schlichting and colleagues combed through 4.5 years of Hubble data to find the tiny Kuiper Belt Object, discovered as it passed in front of a background star, momentarily dimming its light. These tiny objects are much rarer than you would expect, Schlichting told Discovery News. Based on the number of known objects in the Kuiper Belt, scientists would have expected to find between 30 and 100 tiny bodies in their analysis of 50,000 guide stars observed by Hubble. So far, the team has only looked at 30 percent of the available Hubble data. We only found one, Schlichting said. It shows that there's kind of a break in the size of objects in the Kuiper Belt from large objects, meaning bigger than 50 kilometers (31 miles), and smaller ones. The dearth of small bodies may be evidence that objects in the Kuiper Belt are crashing and
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
That's a chicken-and-egg question: it makes them both bad... - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:28:52 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide President Woodrow Wilson served as President of Princeton University and was a leading intellectual of the progressive era. He also brought many white Southerners into his administration, and tolerated their expansion of segregation in many federal agencies. He was elected President in 1913 (two years before BOAN was made). I say all this to say Wilson was smart enough to know BOAN was chocked full of lies and he endorsed it anyway. Does that make the movie or the man more evil? ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, called it the most important movie ever made. No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened segregation in a wide swath of American life. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with us today. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy, populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith was a cinematic genius. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With the Wind is still the champ). The country-by-country breakdown is pretty interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia? Wow, truly an international hit. Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven thousand? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intlid=avatar.htm Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
One word: exacerbate - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:29:48 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide And, where was our race headed before 1915? ~rave? --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... wrote: That movie changed the course of our race. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@...wrote: And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, called it the most important movie ever made. No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened segregation in a wide swath of American life. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with us today. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy, populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith was a cinematic genius. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With the Wind is still the champ). The country-by-country breakdown is pretty interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia? Wow, truly an international hit. Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven thousand? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intlid=avatar.htm Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide
Okay, so where's the historical record that Wilson *condemned* this film? that he argued that blacks weren't as portrayed in it? I haven't ever seen those. I know the history: he said things and made moves early on to halfway help blacks (or at least not hurt us), but in short order tacitly, passively and actively encouraged further segregation in this country. And come on: saying he didn't approve the film, but only said he saw the Klan as a natural outgrowth of the lawlessness of the South? What am I supposed to do with that, accept it? It still shows a level of racism, bigotry and insensitivity endemic to white men of that time. And at some point we have to quit saying eveyrone was doing it, it was expedient, and just say it was wrong. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:36:00 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide This is not entirely accurate. Thomas Dixon, author of the source play The Clansman, was a former classmate of President Woodrow Wilson at Johns Hopkins University. Dixon arranged a screening at the White House, for Wilson, members of his cabinet, and their families. Wilson was reported to have commented of the film that it is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. In Wilson: the new freedom, Arthur Link quotes Wilson's aide, Joseph Tumulty, who denied Wilson said this and also claims that the President was entirely unaware of the nature of the play before it was presented and at no time has expressed his approbation of it. However, Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People explained the Ku Klux Klan of the late 1860s as the natural outgrowth of Reconstruction, a lawless reaction to a lawless period. Wilson noted that the Klan began to attempt by intimidation what they were not allowed to attempt by the ballot or by any ordered course of public action.[11] In the film, approbation for the Klan, citing Wilson's History, is directly quoted. Relentless in publicizing the film, Dixon was apparently the source for the quotation. It has been repeated so often in print that it has taken on a separate life. Dixon went so far as to promote the film as Federally endorsed. After controversy over the film had grown, Wilson wrote that he disapproved of the unfortunate production. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: And President Woodrow Wilson, after seeing a private screening of Birth of a Nation at the White House, called it the most important movie ever made. No surprise: he presided over a lot of decisions that strengthened segregation in a wide swath of American life. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 8:20:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Avatar Keeps Rolling on Worldwide Shot by a genius that was personally responsible for the rebirth of the kkk and the racial stereotypes about black men, and mexicans that are still with us today. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: Content aside, Gone with the Wind like Birth of a Nation is savvy, populist entertainment. If you are racially sensitive, avoid both at all costs as the narratives will suck you in. Nation is truly remarkable on just a technical basis. It is still a gorgeous looking film. D.W. Griffith was a cinematic genius. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com , Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ wrote: In terms of pure dollars, Avatar will soon become the biggest of all time. (In terms of dollars adjusted for time, sadly, I think Gone With the Wind is still the champ). The country-by-country breakdown is pretty interesting. Australia over thirty mill, France, Algeria and Tunisia, over a hundred, and ninety mill in Russia? Wow, truly an international hit. Even Turkey with eight million. But what's up with Syria: only eighty-seven thousand? http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intlid=avatar.htm Post your SciFiNoir Profile at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/app/peoplemap2/entry/add?fmvn=mapYahoo ! Groups Links http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
Doesn't do a lot for me. I stand by the women I listed below as being prettier, sexier, and more attractive in personality. But that's just me, this is truly a matter of personal taste. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Syfy movie title contest
LOL! The prize is a movie making kit. I would love to get that prize. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Medieval Monstrosity And, if this wins, we all own Siffy. Start planning the revolution. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:21:23 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Syfy movie title contest http://www.syfy.com/moviecontest/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent
That is what I am saying too. He is special Tracey de Morsella, Managing Producer The Green Economy Post http://greeneconomypost.com tra...@greeneconomypost.com Phone: 425-502-7716 -Original Message- From: everything...@nyc.rr.com [mailto:everything...@nyc.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:46 PM To: Dorothy Hamm; scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com; Keith Johnson Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart; afrikanm...@hotmail.com; Albert Fields; bettil...@msn.com; Cinq; duva...@hotmail.com; fis...@bellsouth.net; GTW; Jeffrey Ballou; Kai; kalpub...@aol.com; Kera; Leroy Hughes; Logic; Martin Baxter; Marvalous; Michael Gordon; michael v w gordon; ravenadal; rs...@yahoo.com; Valery Jean; Wendell Theophilus Smith; Whitney J Evans; williamsf...@speakeasy.net; Zanfordino Anthony; tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent I'm not saying she should have done what she did particularly because putting your business all on front street is embarrassing on her part too, but homeboy is hardly a victim. I'm not sure of the children situation but outside of that what innocent people? It seems he did her pretty dirty and led her on for a long, long time. That mess of a situation is between him her, and I guess his wife. As long as she didn't physically disfigure or seriously injure dude he needs to eat that and keep it moving. I don't feel anything for him. --Original Message-- From: Dorothy Hamm To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: Keith Johnson Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart Cc: afrikanm...@hotmail.com Cc: Albert Fields Cc: bettil...@msn.com Cc: Cinq Cc: duva...@hotmail.com Cc: fis...@bellsouth.net Cc: GTW Cc: Jeffrey Ballou Cc: Kai Cc: kalpub...@aol.com Cc: Kera Cc: Leroy Hughes Cc: Logic Cc: Martin Baxter Cc: Marvalous Cc: Michael Gordon Cc: michael v w gordon Cc: ravenadal Cc: rs...@yahoo.com Cc: Myself Cc: Valery Jean Cc: Wendell Theophilus Smith Cc: Whitney J Evans Cc: williamsf...@speakeasy.net Cc: Zanfordino Anthony Cc: tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent Sent: Jan 26, 2010 3:18 PM Yeah, I get it too. She doesn't get mad--she gets even. And if innocent people get hurt in the process..well that's too bad. I have to wonder if she would do this if her former lover had not had connections to Obama. She had to know that her action adds a bit of fuel to the republican's destroy Obama by any means fire. --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 1:37 PM I didn't think you were defending her. I get it.Weird stuff. Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:48:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent I know it sounded like I was defending her. I wasnt . I wanted to try to understand what could possess her to go off like that and not I get it. I do not think she is justified. Like I said she is a loon. I dont excuse her behavior I just think aftger reading everything I better understand it at least more than when I read the lead. I think she embarrassed herself incredibly, and did more harm to herself than him. Also she is not a well known actress, so if he left her with money as it seems that has, she wasted a lot on those billboards. Someone on the list said she may never get a man to date her again. That could be an understatement. That type of stuff scares away female friends too. Also, I do not see her getting any acting work anytime soon. If anything, I think she needs some psychiatric help. From:scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Don't think i'm letting him off the hook if that's true. I just find the response sad. i guess all this Facebook/Twitter/Internet/TMZ exposure is getting to me: everyone's putting their business out nowadays, and it's just really sad. Oh well, could be worse, I guess: she could have Bobbitted hi Sent via BlackBerry by ATT
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin
The later movies made me loose interest in him. I was initially impressed by his maneuvers and his roguishness of not being able to obtain insurance. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the Rush Hour movies in particular. I loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his Police Story movies. Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in ADD terms, hit points for each blow taken/delivered. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he did in the 70s, but that's about it. The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. Like I said no plot. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw Operation Condor for the umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it for the first time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a geisha is a martial art within itself. She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the fight scenes are run of the mill wire fu scenes, but there are some exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
Rent 300 or watch it on tv. Its not worth a purchase unless you are looking for the extras. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: If that's all the show will ever be, then it would be more economical to go out and buy 300 than to subscribe to Showtime. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:00 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@... To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Nope... they say that it was invented around the 1100s. But there had to be a similar word back then. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@... wrote: Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@... To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Again with you all the way, Keith. THe curse words they're using are mostly Anglo-Saxon, something that folks who live in Greece (If I've got the geography right) aren't likely to speak. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@... Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:37:09 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Looking at part of it again, the fight scenes really do border on kinda funny, the 300-style imitation is so over the top it reminds me more of the hilariously bloody fight scene with the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I mean, seriously, the blood is spattering and splatering like red water from a burst balloon. One dude got knocked in the back of the head, and blood sprayed all over it was funny. The showrunners seem to have an almost perverse interest in showing closeups of flesh cut and spread, bodies impaled. Silly, gratuitous, unmoving. Quite a bit of nudity too, including of Lucy Lawless I believe. Bit of a shock that, seeing Xena topless, but much better than seeing the dudes' naked bottoms. :( Also there seems to be
Re: [scifinoir2] I can't comprehend
I saw an indie film that was similar to Revolutionary Road but not exactly like it. It was set in NYC. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: No,m rave, you shouldn't. I've only had one decent review of that one from friends in my circle, of all races. It's just a strange movie, almost painful to watch in places for me. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: ravena...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:35:30 + Subject: [scifinoir2] I can't comprehend I am watching Revolutionary Road and I can't comprehend of a movie like that being made with black people. I should be able to comprehend that; shouldn't I? rave? -- Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
(sigh) He said Nia long...(sigh) Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 3:02 PM Doesn't do a lot for me. I stand by the women I listed below as being prettier, sexier, and more attractive in personality. But that's just me, this is truly a matter of personal taste. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo. com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave!
RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
Z...Huh?
Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet
From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie
--- On Tue, 1/26/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:36 PM
I'll be needing a Sugar Mama to hook me up with the latest AlienWare rig. Guess
I should stop typing and start hitting online dating sites...
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:24:53 -0800
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
Hell with that kind of connection you would need a twin quad processor and an
array of sd memory cards to keep up. Which can be done if folks have the money.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com
wrote:
Don't fret, guys! With that 40-gig setup, I'll be posting here fifteen times a
second.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
From: jazzynupe_007@ yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:11:23 +
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
I will second that!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:54:50 -0800 (PST)
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
I'll miss you, buddy...
Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet
From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie
--- On Sun, 1/24/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com wrote:
From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] 40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 4:41 PM
I may not be posting for awhile, as I'll be busy packing.
If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
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40 Gbps - Fastest Internet Connection to a Single Home
Jul 13, 200775-year old Swede has recently got a 40 Gbps internet connection
directly to her home computer. She is a mum of the internet legend Peter
Löthberg and they have got money and technology to make a connection like this.
She decided to persuade internet operators to invest in faster internet
connections.
We used to see those optical fiber links and their speed used to be enough. Now
when I heard about this I want such a connection. I would feel like I can
download all the internet data in just seconds. Well, I am just joking but it
is really fast. Imagine she can download a full HD DVD in just 2 seconds.
My SATA II hard drive speed is just 3 Gbps I can't imagine how a home internet
speed can be faster than my hard drive. It is a good thing that RAM is still a
bit faster though.
The secret that stands behind this speed is in new modulation technique. This
technique allows data to be transferred to de distances up to 2,000 kilometers
directly between only two routers. This does not involve any intermediary
transponders which makes the connection even faster.
Of course now you've got to get a high quality fiber optic cable to be able to
get such speed. Moreover it will surely cost a fortune to get 40 Gbps internet
connection.
From:
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RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
All I got out of it was 'swing, thrust, (gush!), slice, block (gush!), with slow motion on the (gush!) part...That is barely one aspect of 300. There was a bit of a hint that people of that age had more blood in there bodies... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:33 PM If that's all the show will ever be, then it would be more economical to go out and buy 300 than to subscribe to Showtime. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:00 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: KeithBJohnson@ ... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ ... To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Nope... they say that it was invented around the 1100s. But there had to be a similar word back then. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Again with you all the way, Keith. THe curse words they're using are mostly Anglo-Saxon, something that folks who live in Greece (If I've got the geography right) aren't likely to speak. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: KeithBJohnson@ ... Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:37:09 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Looking at part of it again, the fight scenes really do border on kinda funny, the 300-style imitation is so over the top it reminds me more of the hilariously bloody fight scene with the Black Knight in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I mean, seriously, the blood is spattering and splatering like red water from a burst balloon. One dude got knocked in the
RE: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found?
...And I'll still be here griping about when you and Kieth are going to put your stuff in print...Pretend you didn't hear that...as usual... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found? To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:22 PM I'm gonna have to start writing space-based fiction again, just to use some of the stuff that popping out of the woodwork. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:54:09 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Pluto's Little Sister Found? Pluto's Little Sister Found? When it comes to objects in the Kuiper Belt, the vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, size matters. By Irene Klotz | Mon Jan 25, 2010 01:49 PM ET The smallest object ever found in the Kuiper Belt, a vast, icy ring that encircles our solar system, helps to explain how these debris disks are formed. NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) THE GIST: An icy body one-third of a mile wide is the smallest known object ever found in the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a vast, icy ring just beyond Neptune that encircles the solar system. The discovery links solar system formation to planet-forming debris disks around other stars. The frozen worlds orbiting beyond Neptune include not only dwarf planets like Pluto and Ceres, but also a tiny, icy toehold just one-third of a mile wide. The discovery, made by a team of astronomers scouring Hubble Space Telescope observations, sets a new record for the smallest Kuiper Belt object found. Previously, the smallest known Pluto sibling was a 30-mile-wide Kuiper Belt object. The Kuiper Belt region, located about 4.6 billion miles away, is filled with objects believed to be left over from the solar system's formation. It is similar to the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, but much bigger. Unlike the asteroids that contain rock and metals, Kuiper Belt objects have icy bodies of methane, ammonia, water and other volatiles. The Kuiper Belt is particularly interesting to scientists looking for planetary systems beyond our solar system. Planets are believed to form from collapsing disks of gas and dust orbiting stars. The dusty particles begin to stick together and eventually build up larger objects. Not all make it into planets. It's the leftover ones are what we're seeing when we look at Kuiper Belt objects and asteroids, University of Arizona astronomer John Stansberry told Discovery News. The finding of a very small Kuiper Belt object links our solar system's debris disk to those observed around other stars, added University of Toronto's Hilke Schlichting, who led the team that made the discovery. We can observe micron-sized particles (in extrasolar debris disks), which are thought to be induced by collisions, from grinding down larger objects, Schlichting told Discovery News. By finding this evidence for collision grinding in the Kuiper Belt, it seems to be the missing link between our Kuiper Belt and extrasolar debris disks. When it comes to Kuiper Belt objects, size matters. Scientists can use this information to determine an object's density and what it is made from. In larger bodies, gravity plays the dominant role in shaping objects. In smaller ones, it is the strength of its materials that matters. WATCH VIDEO: Astrophysicist Andy Puckett explores the universe, especially undiscovered asteroids that could one day smack into our planet. Related Links: Taking the Kuiper Belt Census Wide Angle: Asteroids HowStuffWorks. com: Kuiper Belt Pluto, Sponsored By McDonalds The discovery of just one small object is probably not going to lead to great advances. But if we started to discover statistically significant numbers of them, then we can compare the number of large and small bodies, and you can start to get a handle on the material strength of the objects. It also might tell you about the violence of the collisions, said Stansberry. Potentially, it might be a new field if we can make more discoveries like this, he added. Schlichting and colleagues combed through 4.5 years of Hubble data to find the tiny Kuiper Belt Object, discovered as it passed in front of a background star, momentarily dimming its light. These tiny objects are much rarer than you would expect, Schlichting told Discovery News. Based on the number of known objects in the Kuiper Belt, scientists would have expected to find between 30 and 100 tiny bodies in their analysis of 50,000 guide stars observed by Hubble. So far, the team
Re: [scifinoir2] Question
Hmm...Sounds like a Chuckie Cheese birthday party I went to once... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Augustus Augustus jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Augustus Augustus jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Question To: Black SciFi blackscifihorrorfantasyc...@yahoogroups.com Cc: Sci Fi scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 7:16 AM has anyone seen this movie Gas-s-s-s-s that is on retroplex right now? it's about kids taking over the world after a mysterious gas kills everyone over 25. it is simply stupid, but funny. roger corman of course. they just had a scene in the junk yard where they were shooting at each other calling out old movie star names with all the sound effects of guns shooting, but they were not shooting. the guys were falling like they had been shot, but it was hilarious! Fate.
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
I've met and seen folk who look better naked and others who look great in clothes...Halle is the latter...Yeah, I know there are some who look great bothe ways...I am a school of the full-figured 60's and 70's genre No one mentioned Nola Gaye, Lisa Nicole Carson, Pam Grier (who does not need to be mentioned along with Raquel or Sophia) and a few other youngsters whom I have trouble remembering...Nope, didn't forget Tracey either (wink!)... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:48 AM --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave!
RE: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
How sweet! From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of C.W. Badie Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 6:41 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish I've met and seen folk who look better naked and others who look great in clothes...Halle is the latter...Yeah, I know there are some who look great bothe ways...I am a school of the full-figured 60's and 70's genre No one mentioned Nola Gaye, Lisa Nicole Carson, Pam Grier (who does not need to be mentioned along with Raquel or Sophia) and a few other youngsters whom I have trouble remembering...Nope, didn't forget Tracey either (wink!)... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:48 AM --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs168.snc3/19533_1334980372182_1161253702_31019682_1829549_n.jpg
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
You forgot swing thrust kick slice and the ever popular jump like Michael Jordan kill move. The arena scene would have been awesome if they had kept them at speed because the effects were very realistic. (like the leg chopping) Stopping the action to do the blood gushing was just silly. The other thing that I thought was interesting about the production was the use of green screen. This may be one of the few shows that use it for most of the shots. The rest looked like shots from the Paramount lot. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:22 PM, C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.comwrote: All I got out of it was 'swing, thrust, (gush!), slice, block (gush!), with slow motion on the (gush!) part...That is barely one aspect of 300. There was a bit of a hint that people of that age had more blood in there bodies... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On *Tue, 1/26/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com* wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:33 PM If that's all the show will ever be, then it would be more economical to go out and buy 300 than to subscribe to Showtime. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVikhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:00 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVikhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com From: KeithBJohnson@ ... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ ... To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Nope... they say that it was invented around the 1100s. But there had to be a similar word back then. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and
[scifinoir2] The Hobbit Pulls a Spider-Man?
Fangeeks are gonna have to hold their horses. The precious is on hold again. The pair of Hobbit movies has been pushed back to the end of 2012, according to Variety http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118014180.html . The studio tells the trade the best outlook for the Lord of the Rings prequels is in the fourth quarter of that year, but even that's not set in stone. First there was that drama http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b57026_jackson_ready_hobbit_action.html with Sir Peter http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c115316_Peter_Jackson.html Jackson (yeah, he was knighted), then the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien began battling over profits http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b143099_hobbit_on_its_way_there_back_again. html and now the delay is due to changes at New Line Cinema. Here's what we do know: Jackson is producing, Hellboy's Guillermo del Toro is directing http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b57325_del_toro_hobbit-forming_director.htm l and, from the looks of it, Ian McKellan and Andy Serkis will be back http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b529_mckellen_confirms_hobbit_habit.html in the fellowship for the two-parter. Plus, Orlando http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c115113_Orlando_Bloom.html Bloom told MTV http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/01/25/orlando-bloom-would-be-willing-to-retu rn-as-legolas-in-the-hobbit/ earlier this week that he'd be game to strap on his Elf wig yet again, and Cate http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/celebs/c109359_Cate_Blanchett.html Blanchett has also expressed interest in heading back to Middle-earth. http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b164103_hobbit_pulls_spider-man.html?utm_sou rce=eonlineutm_medium=rssfeedsutm_campaign=imdb_tv-movies
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin
I really liked Who Am I?, but agree with you. His humour gets a bit over the top, especially that movie Rumble in the Bronx. I know that Chan's thing is humour, but I really wish he'd do more serious stuff. His moves lent to pure drama could be amazing. It's why I prefer Jet Li: serious and seriously skilled. I was looking forward to their pairing in The Forbidden Kingdom, only to be crushed when it turned out to have more humour, and they felt the need to add a dopey white kid to the story. What a waste... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the Rush Hour movies in particular. I loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his Police Story movies. Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in ADD terms, hit points for each blow taken/delivered. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he did in the 70s, but that's about it. The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. Like I said no plot. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw Operation Condor for the umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it for the first time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a geisha is a martial art within itself. She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the fight scenes are run of the mill wire fu scenes, but there are some exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent
It makes everyone look bad when you put your stuff out here like this. Settle this stuff privately as possible and move on. Too many people nowadays feel they have to shout I was wronged! to the world at large, when women and men every day get wronged by someone they trusted. And again, I'm not sure how much of this was all him being the lying manipulator, so Imma hold judgement putting it all on him. - Original Message - From: everything...@nyc.rr.com To: Dorothy Hamm dorothyh...@sbcglobal.net, scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart dar...@darylelockhart.com, afrikanm...@hotmail.com, Albert Fields cbilmarket...@yahoo.com, bettil...@msn.com, Cinq cinque3...@verizon.net, duva...@hotmail.com, fis...@bellsouth.net, GTW gwashin...@aol.com, Jeffrey Ballou jeffreypbal...@gmail.com, Kai killa...@gmail.com, kalpub...@aol.com, Kera imke...@gmail.com, Leroy Hughes seriousnup...@yahoo.com, Logic logic1...@aol.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@icqmail.com, Marvalous mmb1...@gmail.com, Michael Gordon gord...@indiana.edu, michael v w gordon michael.v.w.gor...@gmail.com, ravenadal ravena...@yahoo.com, rs...@yahoo.com, Valery Jean valeryjea...@yahoo.com, Wendell Theophilus Smith wendellsmit...@gmail.com, Whitney J Evans sonofafieldne...@sbcglobal.net, williamsf...@speakeasy.net, Zanfordino Anthony beta...@yahoo.com, tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:45:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent I'm not saying she should have done what she did particularly because putting your business all on front street is embarrassing on her part too, but homeboy is hardly a victim. I'm not sure of the children situation but outside of that what innocent people? It seems he did her pretty dirty and led her on for a long, long time. That mess of a situation is between him her, and I guess his wife. As long as she didn't physically disfigure or seriously injure dude he needs to eat that and keep it moving. I don't feel anything for him. --Original Message-- From: Dorothy Hamm To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: Keith Johnson Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart Cc: afrikanm...@hotmail.com Cc: Albert Fields Cc: bettil...@msn.com Cc: Cinq Cc: duva...@hotmail.com Cc: fis...@bellsouth.net Cc: GTW Cc: Jeffrey Ballou Cc: Kai Cc: kalpub...@aol.com Cc: Kera Cc: Leroy Hughes Cc: Logic Cc: Martin Baxter Cc: Marvalous Cc: Michael Gordon Cc: michael v w gordon Cc: ravenadal Cc: rs...@yahoo.com Cc: Myself Cc: Valery Jean Cc: Wendell Theophilus Smith Cc: Whitney J Evans Cc: williamsf...@speakeasy.net Cc: Zanfordino Anthony Cc: tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent Sent: Jan 26, 2010 3:18 PM Yeah, I get it too. She doesn't get mad--she gets even. And if innocent people get hurt in the process..well that's too bad. I have to wonder if she would do this if her former lover had not had connections to Obama. She had to know that her action adds a bit of fuel to the republican's destroy Obama by any means fire. --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 1:37 PM I didn't think you were defending her. I get it.Weird stuff. Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:48:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent I know it sounded like I was defending her. I wasn’t . I wanted to try to understand what could possess her to go off like that and not I get it. I do not think she is justified. Like I said she is a loon. I don’t excuse her behavior – I just think aftger reading everything I better understand it – at least more than when I read the lead. I think she embarrassed herself incredibly, and did more harm to herself than him. Also she is not a well known actress, so if he left her with money as it seems that has, she wasted a lot on those billboards. Someone on the list said she may never get a man to date her again. That could be an understatement. That type of stuff scares away female friends too. Also, I do not see her getting any acting work anytime soon. If anything, I think she needs some psychiatric help. From:scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Don't think i'm letting him off the hook if that's true. I just find the response sad. i guess all this Facebook/Twitter/Internet/TMZ exposure is getting to me: everyone's putting their business out nowadays, and it's just really sad. Oh well, could be worse, I guess: she could have Bobbitted hi Sent via BlackBerry by ATT
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
Yeah man! Does it for me way more than Halle Berry. - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:04:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish (sigh) He said Nia long...(sigh) Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 3:02 PM Doesn't do a lot for me. I stand by the women I listed below as being prettier, sexier, and more attractive in personality. But that's just me, this is truly a matter of personal taste. - Original Message - From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo. com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin
I'm glad that you brought that up. That seems to be a big trend lately and I hate it! Just because they are speaking English doesn't mean they need white people in a Chinese movie. :( Totally ruins it for me. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I really liked Who Am I?, but agree with you. His humour gets a bit over the top, especially that movie Rumble in the Bronx. I know that Chan's thing is humour, but I really wish he'd do more serious stuff. His moves lent to pure drama could be amazing. It's why I prefer Jet Li: serious and seriously skilled. I was looking forward to their pairing in The Forbidden Kingdom, only to be crushed when it turned out to have more humour, and they felt the need to add a dopey white kid to the story. What a waste... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the Rush Hour movies in particular. I loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his Police Story movies. Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in ADD terms, hit points for each blow taken/delivered. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he did in the 70s, but that's about it. The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. Like I said no plot. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw Operation Condor for the umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it for the first time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a geisha is a martial art within itself. She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the fight scenes are run of the mill wire fu scenes, but there are some exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
I was never enamored of Ms. Grier (sacrilege I know!), but poor Lisa Nicole Carson did it for me! Too bad she seems to be suffering from serious emotional problems. Nola Gaye, yes indeed. And let's not forget Lola Falana and Dianne Carroll. Oh--and Sofia Vergara from Modern Family. Wow, wow, wow! Halle who? - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:40:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish I've met and seen folk who look better naked and others who look great in clothes...Halle is the latter...Yeah, I know there are some who look great bothe ways...I am a school of the full-figured 60's and 70's genre No one mentioned Nola Gaye, Lisa Nicole Carson, Pam Grier (who does not need to be mentioned along with Raquel or Sophia) and a few other youngsters whom I have trouble remembering...Nope, didn't forget Tracey either (wink!)... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:48 AM --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave!
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
I'm actually surprised at how this show's production value. It is a green screen mess... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:53:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? You forgot swing thrust kick slice and the ever popular jump like Michael Jordan kill move. The arena scene would have been awesome if they had kept them at speed because the effects were very realistic. (like the leg chopping) Stopping the action to do the blood gushing was just silly. The other thing that I thought was interesting about the production was the use of green screen. This may be one of the few shows that use it for most of the shots. The rest looked like shots from the Paramount lot. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:22 PM, C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com wrote: All I got out of it was 'swing, thrust, (gush!), slice, block (gush!), with slow motion on the (gush!) part...That is barely one aspect of 300. There was a bit of a hint that people of that age had more blood in there bodies... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:33 PM If that's all the show will ever be, then it would be more economical to go out and buy 300 than to subscribe to Showtime. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:00 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com , Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: KeithBJohnson@ ... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ ... To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Nope... they say that it was invented around the 1100s. But there had to be a similar word back then. On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Was the f-word even being used by the Britons during the time of Spartacus? - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:17:28 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin
Back to stupid suits trying to add people to a film they think will pull in key demographics. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:48:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm glad that you brought that up. That seems to be a big trend lately and I hate it! Just because they are speaking English doesn't mean they need white people in a Chinese movie. :( Totally ruins it for me. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I really liked Who Am I?, but agree with you. His humour gets a bit over the top, especially that movie Rumble in the Bronx. I know that Chan's thing is humour, but I really wish he'd do more serious stuff. His moves lent to pure drama could be amazing. It's why I prefer Jet Li: serious and seriously skilled. I was looking forward to their pairing in The Forbidden Kingdom, only to be crushed when it turned out to have more humour, and they felt the need to add a dopey white kid to the story. What a waste... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the Rush Hour movies in particular. I loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his Police Story movies. Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in ADD terms, hit points for each blow taken/delivered. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he did in the 70s, but that's about it. The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. Like I said no plot. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw Operation Condor for the umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it for the first time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a geisha is a martial art within itself. She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the fight scenes are run of the mill wire fu scenes, but there are some exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
It shows the potential what can be done. We have long entered into a new age of movie production. However except for Sin City and a few others they really haven't used it to its fullest potential. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I'm actually surprised at how this show's production value. It is a green screen mess... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:53:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? You forgot swing thrust kick slice and the ever popular jump like Michael Jordan kill move. The arena scene would have been awesome if they had kept them at speed because the effects were very realistic. (like the leg chopping) Stopping the action to do the blood gushing was just silly. The other thing that I thought was interesting about the production was the use of green screen. This may be one of the few shows that use it for most of the shots. The rest looked like shots from the Paramount lot. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:22 PM, C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.comwrote: All I got out of it was 'swing, thrust, (gush!), slice, block (gush!), with slow motion on the (gush!) part...That is barely one aspect of 300. There was a bit of a hint that people of that age had more blood in there bodies... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On *Tue, 1/26/10, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com* wrote: From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:33 PM If that's all the show will ever be, then it would be more economical to go out and buy 300 than to subscribe to Showtime. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVikhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: HelloMahogany@ gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:00 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? All hail Spartacus! :) I just watched the first episode and I have to say that the director that shot this must have had 300 on infinite replay when they were making this. The fight scenes although realistic looking in action turn to cartoons when everything is slowed down to allow the special effect blood to splatter makes it laughable. Has anyone watched the series called Rome? Spartacus ain't it. Spartacus is the dumbed down blood and guts version for teen boys that has nudity in it. I don't think that when they shot this series that the actor knew that they were going to make the serious action into gore porn. --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ ... wrote: (standing ovation) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVikhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com From: KeithBJohnson@ ... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:09:14 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good? Absolutely, I just have an issue with lazy writing on that level unless it's intentional. In Hercules and Xena, for example, the anachronistic language was intentional and sometimes funny. The god Apollo, for example, was portrayed as a magical surfer type, who even said Dude. But Spartacus, from what i can tell, is trying to be serious drama, so I just can't get past such gaffes. I've noticed more and more in recent years that problem in historical dramas. I see a lot of them where the characters are speaking idiomatically as if they're from modern American. Even if they use the time-appropriate words, the way those words are structured into phrases is just off. That always irritates me. For example, don't tell me you're giving me a well-written drama that takes place in, say, a Puritan village in the 1700s, then have a young person ask another How's it going? Lazy... - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf HelloMahogany@ ... To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.comhttp://us.mc594.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scifino...@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 7:01:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Any good?
Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin
Exactly. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: Back to stupid suits trying to add people to a film they think will pull in key demographics. - Original Message - From: Mr. Worf hellomahog...@gmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:48:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm glad that you brought that up. That seems to be a big trend lately and I hate it! Just because they are speaking English doesn't mean they need white people in a Chinese movie. :( Totally ruins it for me. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I really liked Who Am I?, but agree with you. His humour gets a bit over the top, especially that movie Rumble in the Bronx. I know that Chan's thing is humour, but I really wish he'd do more serious stuff. His moves lent to pure drama could be amazing. It's why I prefer Jet Li: serious and seriously skilled. I was looking forward to their pairing in The Forbidden Kingdom, only to be crushed when it turned out to have more humour, and they felt the need to add a dopey white kid to the story. What a waste... - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:48:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not fond of his recent stuff, the Rush Hour movies in particular. I loved his stuff from the 70s and 80s, especially his Police Story movies. Not much in plot either, but I think of the action in ADD terms, hit points for each blow taken/delivered. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:18:26 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin I'm not a fan of his. I enjoyed some of his big stunts, and the stuff he did in the 70s, but that's about it. The Geisha movie is just a bit cartoony. It isn't a complete movie really. Like I said no plot. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: If it's primarily wire fu, then I won't like it. Even when I was young, watching the Saturday afternoon kung-fu movie block, I found myself frowning at the wire sequences, without really knowing why. My first Jackie Chan flick was like manna from the gods. Just saw Operation Condor for the umpteenth time, and I still found myself jumping with glee, as if seeing it for the first time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:43:12 -0800 Subject: [scifinoir2] Movie - Geisha Assassin First off this movie is definitely Saturday matinee faire. Very little plot and mostly all action. It took over half of the movie before I learned what the main character's name is, but she is apparently out to get revenge for her dead father. This required her to attack her father's killer while dressed as a geisha. Anyone that has studied geisha would know that being a geisha is a martial art within itself. She takes on many different fighters from ninja to a monk. Many of the fight scenes are run of the mill wire fu scenes, but there are some exceptions. One scene in particular drops the wire fu and goes for realism in a hand to hand combat scene. Very nice job. But alas it is mostly martial art eye candy. :) -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] Alien Life May Be on Earth: Scientist
Alien Life May Be on Earth: ScientistAre aliens already among us? http://omnikool.discovery.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-microbes-earth.html/211439930/Top3/default/empty.gif/67504861466b74544355344143765a37?x Tue Jan 26, 2010 01:59 PM ET | content provided by Raphael G. Satter, Associated Press [image: Alien Life May Be on Earth: Scientist] According to Paul Davies, an award-winning Arizona State University physicist, alien life could be lurking right under our noses -- or even in our noses. *Getty Images* *THE GIST:* - *Some microbes here on Earth may have originated in space, according to one scientist.* - *Proving that some life forms on Earth are of alien origin would be fraught with difficulties.* -- For the past 50 years, scientists have scoured the skies for radio signals from beyond our planet, hoping for some sign of extraterrestrial lifehttp://news.discovery.com/earth/its-the-end-of-the-world-its-an-alien-invasion-no-its-a-cloud.html. But one physicist says there's no reason alien life couldn't already be lurking among us -- or maybe even in us. Paul Davies, an award-winning Arizona State University physicist known for his popular science writing said Tuesday that life may have developed on Earth not once but several times. Davies said the variant life forms -- most likely tiny microbes -- could still be hanging around right under our noses -- or even in our noses. How do we know all life on Earth descended from a single origin? he told a conference at London's prestigious Royal Society, which serves as Britain's academy of sciences. We've just scratched the surface of the microbial world. The idea that alien micro-organisms could be hiding out here on Earth has been discussed for a while, according to Jill Tarter, the director of the U.S. SETI project, which listens for signals from civilizations based around distant stars. She said several of the scientists involved in the project were interested in pursuing the notion, which Davies earlier laid out in a 2007 article published in *Scientific American* in which he asked: Are aliens among us? So far, there's no answer. And ever finding one would be fraught with difficulties, as Davies himself acknowledged. Unusual organisms abound -- including chemical-eating bacteria which hide out deep in the ocean and organisms that thrive in boiling-hot springs -- but that doesn't mean they're different life forms entirely. How weird do they have to be to suggest a second genesis as opposed to just an obscure branch of the family tree? he said. Davies suggested that the only way to prove an organism wasn't life as we know it was if it were built using exotic elements which no other form of life had. [image: garbage] *WATCH VIDEO: Will the real ET be little green men or little green bacteria? * http://news.discovery.com/videos/space-alien-speculation.html *Related Links:* -- - *Alien Abductions: Idiocy of the Worst Kind*http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-abductions-idiocy-of-the-worst-kind.html - *Man Looks for Aliens, Loses Job*http://news.discovery.com/space/man-looks-for-aliens-loses-job.html - *HowStuffWorks.com: Aliens*http://science.howstuffworks.com/alien-physiology.htm - *Kepler Telescope to Scout for Alien Worlds*http://news.discovery.com/space/kepler-telescope-alien-life.html -- Such organisms have yet to be found. Davies also noted that less than 1 percent of all the world's bacteria had been comprehensively studied -- leaving plenty of time to find unusual organisms. You cannot tell just by looking that a microbe has some radically different inner chemistry, he said. Davies' call for alien-hunting scientists to look to their own backyards came as one of the pioneers of the search for extraterrestrialhttp://news.discovery.com/space/the-search-for-extraterrestrial-polluters.htmlintelligence told the conference the job of finding proof of alien life in outer space may be more difficult than previously thought. Frank Drake, who conducted the first organized search for alien radio signals in 1960, said that the Earth -- which used to pump out a loud mess of radio waves, television signals and other radiation -- has been steadily getting quieter as its communications technology improves. Drake cited the switch from analogue to digital televisionhttp://news.discovery.com/tech/future-tv-wide-angle.html-- which uses a far weaker signal -- and the fact that much more communications traffic is now relayed by satellites and fiber optic cables, limiting its leakage into outer space. Very soon we will become very undetectable, he said. If similar processes were taking place in other technologically advanced societies, then the search for them will be much more difficult than we imagined. But Drake said scientists at SETI were excited by the possibility of using lasers to send
[scifinoir2] Liking Human Target
Thanks for the recommendation, Aubrey. I was going to skip the show because of work and an overloaded VCR, but I pulled up the recordings I had of the first two weeks and had a really good time! Like you said, it's pretty lighthearted. You never go too far into fear mode because you know the principals and their clients will all make it out safely. But it's a kick, with just enough drama and good acting to be engaging, and really good action to boot. I like that Chance sometimes really has to work in a fight: no quick karate chops for him! The lady tonight gave him a hell of a fight, and I was laughing as she was throwing roundhouse kicks in heels and that red hooker dress! The main three actors are all excellent, and I like the guest stars too. I know this show is probably nowhere near as serious as some incarnations of the comic, maybe resembling in name only, but still fun. It reminds me of the breezy, action-packed shows of old like Eye Spy, The Avengers, or The Man from U.N.C.L.E, or modern far like Burn Notice. Too bad it's on Fox. Like I said recently, all the best shows seem to be on cable, so I gotta wonder how long the network will let it go if it doesn't do killer ratings. - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 9:38:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Was that Danny Glover? Warning... It's... *fluffy* but I enjoyed the action, the auxiliary characters (my fav is Guerrero, of course, but we've had many conversations about Jackie Earle Haley's awesomeness on this loop and the character really suits him) and Chance has the right amount of low-brow Bond-esque moxy. Plus... his Japanese *was* good. Aubrey Leatherwood www.aubreyleatherwood.com FaceBook * MySpace Dime Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent
I do not think it should be put all on him. But making it like she stole him so she got what she deserved doesn’t sound quite right. I agree about the dirty laundry part. That’s just foul and makes her look Justas bad as him, worse even, because now we all think she is stark raving mad. If you are going to judge her, I think it should be airing the dirty laundry, not for stealing another woman’s man, because it sound like he was her man From: Keith Johnson [mailto:keithbjohn...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:45 PM To: everything...@nyc.rr.com Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart; afrikanm...@hotmail.com; Albert Fields; bettil...@msn.com; Cinq; duva...@hotmail.com; fis...@bellsouth.net; GTW; Jeffrey Ballou; Kai; kalpub...@aol.com; Kera; Leroy Hughes; Logic; Martin Baxter; Marvalous; Michael Gordon; michael v w gordon; ravenadal; rs...@yahoo.com; Valery Jean; Wendell Theophilus Smith; Whitney J Evans; williamsf...@speakeasy.net; Zanfordino Anthony; tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com; Dorothy Hamm; scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent It makes everyone look bad when you put your stuff out here like this. Settle this stuff privately as possible and move on. Too many people nowadays feel they have to shout I was wronged! to the world at large, when women and men every day get wronged by someone they trusted. And again, I'm not sure how much of this was all him being the lying manipulator, so Imma hold judgement putting it all on him. - Original Message - From: everything...@nyc.rr.com To: Dorothy Hamm dorothyh...@sbcglobal.net, scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart dar...@darylelockhart.com, afrikanm...@hotmail.com, Albert Fields cbilmarket...@yahoo.com, bettil...@msn.com, Cinq cinque3...@verizon.net, duva...@hotmail.com, fis...@bellsouth.net, GTW gwashin...@aol.com, Jeffrey Ballou jeffreypbal...@gmail.com, Kai killa...@gmail.com, kalpub...@aol.com, Kera imke...@gmail.com, Leroy Hughes seriousnup...@yahoo.com, Logic logic1...@aol.com, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@icqmail.com, Marvalous mmb1...@gmail.com, Michael Gordon gord...@indiana.edu, michael v w gordon michael.v.w.gor...@gmail.com, ravenadal ravena...@yahoo.com, rs...@yahoo.com, Valery Jean valeryjea...@yahoo.com, Wendell Theophilus Smith wendellsmit...@gmail.com, Whitney J Evans sonofafieldne...@sbcglobal.net, williamsf...@speakeasy.net, Zanfordino Anthony beta...@yahoo.com, tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:45:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent I'm not saying she should have done what she did particularly because putting your business all on front street is embarrassing on her part too, but homeboy is hardly a victim. I'm not sure of the children situation but outside of that what innocent people? It seems he did her pretty dirty and led her on for a long, long time. That mess of a situation is between him her, and I guess his wife. As long as she didn't physically disfigure or seriously injure dude he needs to eat that and keep it moving. I don't feel anything for him. --Original Message-- From: Dorothy Hamm To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com To: Keith Johnson Cc: Daryle ' 'Lockhart Cc: afrikanm...@hotmail.com Cc: Albert Fields Cc: bettil...@msn.com Cc: Cinq Cc: duva...@hotmail.com Cc: fis...@bellsouth.net Cc: GTW Cc: Jeffrey Ballou Cc: Kai Cc: kalpub...@aol.com Cc: Kera Cc: Leroy Hughes Cc: Logic Cc: Martin Baxter Cc: Marvalous Cc: Michael Gordon Cc: michael v w gordon Cc: ravenadal Cc: rs...@yahoo.com Cc: Myself Cc: Valery Jean Cc: Wendell Theophilus Smith Cc: Whitney J Evans Cc: williamsf...@speakeasy.net Cc: Zanfordino Anthony Cc: tdemorse...@multiculturaladvantage.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent Sent: Jan 26, 2010 3:18 PM Yeah, I get it too. She doesn't get mad--she gets even. And if innocent people get hurt in the process..well that's too bad. I have to wonder if she would do this if her former lover had not had connections to Obama. She had to know that her action adds a bit of fuel to the republican's destroy Obama by any means fire. --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 1:37 PM I didn't think you were defending her. I get it.Weird stuff. Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:48:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] OT: Scorned Lover of Obama Adviser Uses Billboards to Vent I know it sounded like I was defending her. I wasn’t . I wanted to try to understand what could possess her to go off
RE: [scifinoir2] Liking Human Target
I’m liking it too. The first episode was a little lightweight, but I like where it is going. I plan to keep tuning in From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:10 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Liking Human Target Thanks for the recommendation, Aubrey. I was going to skip the show because of work and an overloaded VCR, but I pulled up the recordings I had of the first two weeks and had a really good time! Like you said, it's pretty lighthearted. You never go too far into fear mode because you know the principals and their clients will all make it out safely. But it's a kick, with just enough drama and good acting to be engaging, and really good action to boot. I like that Chance sometimes really has to work in a fight: no quick karate chops for him! The lady tonight gave him a hell of a fight, and I was laughing as she was throwing roundhouse kicks in heels and that red hooker dress! The main three actors are all excellent, and I like the guest stars too. I know this show is probably nowhere near as serious as some incarnations of the comic, maybe resembling in name only, but still fun. It reminds me of the breezy, act ion-packed shows of old like Eye Spy, The Avengers, or The Man from U.N.C.L.E, or modern far like Burn Notice. Too bad it's on Fox. Like I said recently, all the best shows seem to be on cable, so I gotta wonder how long the network will let it go if it doesn't do killer ratings. - Original Message - From: Aubrey Leatherwood aubrey.leatherw...@hotmail.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 9:38:37 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Was that Danny Glover? Warning... It's... *fluffy* but I enjoyed the action, the auxiliary characters (my fav is Guerrero, of course, but we've had many conversations about Jackie Earle Haley's awesomeness on this loop and the character really suits him) and Chance has the right amount of low-brow Bond-esque moxy. Plus... his Japanese *was* good. Aubrey Leatherwood http://www.aubreyleatherwood.com/ www.aubreyleatherwood.com http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1400087918 FaceBook * http://www.myspace.com/aubreymleatherwood MySpace Dime http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Dime/exact_match=exact Can Nicole resist the call of the stage or the call of her heart? http://www.lyricalpress.com/imperfection.html Imperfection A tale of perfect commitment, perfect love... and perfect sex. http://www.lyricalpress.com/the_people_you_know_the_sex_they_have.html The People You Know, The Sex They Have ROMANTIC TIMES NOMINEE FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY EROTICA 2008 CAPA and PSYCHE AWARD NOMINEE FOR 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9818905-0-0
RE: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
How come you guys never bring up Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones). She sounds like she belongs in this group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Dobson From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:51 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish I was never enamored of Ms. Grier (sacrilege I know!), but poor Lisa Nicole Carson did it for me! Too bad she seems to be suffering from serious emotional problems. Nola Gaye, yes indeed. And let's not forget Lola Falana and Dianne Carroll. Oh--and Sofia Vergara from Modern Family. Wow, wow, wow! Halle who? - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:40:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish I've met and seen folk who look better naked and others who look great in clothes...Halle is the latter...Yeah, I know there are some who look great bothe ways...I am a school of the full-figured 60's and 70's genre No one mentioned Nola Gaye, Lisa Nicole Carson, Pam Grier (who does not need to be mentioned along with Raquel or Sophia) and a few other youngsters whom I have trouble remembering...Nope, didn't forget Tracey either (wink!)... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:48 AM --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs168.snc3/19533_1334980372182_1161253702_31019682_1829549_n.jpg
Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish
She was nice but she didn't float my boat when I was a kid. It was nice seeing her on Buck Rogers though. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Tracey de Morsella tdli...@multiculturaladvantage.com wrote: How come you guys never bring up Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones). She sounds like she belongs in this group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Dobson *From:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Keith Johnson *Sent:* Tuesday, January 26, 2010 8:51 PM *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com *Subject:* Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish I was never enamored of Ms. Grier (sacrilege I know!), but poor Lisa Nicole Carson did it for me! Too bad she seems to be suffering from serious emotional problems. Nola Gaye, yes indeed. And let's not forget Lola Falana and Dianne Carroll. Oh--and Sofia Vergara from Modern Family. Wow, wow, wow! Halle who? - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:40:45 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish I've met and seen folk who look better naked and others who look great in clothes...Halle is the latter...Yeah, I know there are some who look great bothe ways...I am a school of the full-figured 60's and 70's genre No one mentioned Nola Gaye, Lisa Nicole Carson, Pam Grier (who does not need to be mentioned along with Raquel or Sophia) and a few other youngsters whom I have trouble remembering...Nope, didn't forget Tracey either (wink!)... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On *Tue, 1/26/10, Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com* wrote: From: Kelwyn ravena...@yahoo.com Subject: [scifinoir2] Re:Swordfish To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 2:48 AM --- In scifino...@yahoogro ups.com, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote: Rather than Berry, I humbly suggest looking up any movie with Selma Hayek in it--the dancing scene in that vampire movie alone is worth the price of ten shots of Berry's nekkid chest--this despite Hayek keeping her clothes on! Or anything that features Sanaa Lathan, she of the incredibly cute smile and dreamy eyes that just suck one in. Or anything with Gabrielle Union, face as pretty and perfect as a living doll's. Nia Long in Love Jones is just a treat to look at too --and it's a good movie to boot. I see you and raise you: ~rave! -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
