Archive for June 1st, 2008

Indiana Jones Jumps the Shark

Spoilers, as usual. The sum and substance of my Indy IV expe­rience consisted of me repeatedly chanting at the screen: Please don’t let it be aliens! Please don’t let it be aliens! Please don’t let it be aliens! Guess what? It was aliens. Each of the first three films had a super­natural element–The Ark melted Belloq’s face, the Shankara Stones burned through Indy’s WWII Mark VII British gas mask bag, and the Holy Grail healed Dr. Jones, Sr.‘s gunshot wound. But these were all ambiguous. There was a little bit of magic, but it wasn’t explained. It was almost an after­thought, added to [ . . . ]

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Public Libraries are Hazardous to Your Health

This is a gross post. I do not often get sick. In fact, in the past 3 years, I have been sick exactly 3 times. Fortunately, they have all come at the least inop­portune times — during various breaks. I got sick two Christmases ago, and then again last Christmas, and now I’m sick again during summer break. All three times have been really insanely awful sinus infec­tions. I’m not the sort of person who gets sinus infec­tions with every cold. No, I only get sinus infec­tions when I get something–we’re talking about foreign bodies here–stuck up my nose. I don’t go around putting things up there delib­er­ately. [ . . . ]

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