March 2009
February 2009
Watch Sita Sings The Blues Online!!! →
thirteen.org
I regret not watching this when it was presented at Cinemanila last year. I’ve heard nothing but praises from this overlooked animated movie.
Film Description:
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by e-mail. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”
Great news for non-US viewers: At last, a site where we can view movies without the annoying restrictions (*coughs* Hulu).
Gonna watch this weekend!
“When you bake as much as I do, which is just about daily, you get used to your husband only nibbling at a cookie or two, or cutting the thinnest possible slice of cake and not going back for seconds, and after a while (say 20 years or so) you don’t take it personally.”
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This makes me feel much better about the fact that Seth only nibbles at my sweets. If motha-fucking Queen of Baking Dorie Greenspan’s husband cannot be changed, I guess I’ll have to accept Seth’s non-sweet-tooth as well.
(via fareastmeetswildwest)
Don’t worry, Kristin. You know Jesse, Peter, Di and I will pick up his slack!
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Bad Bad Bank
NPR posted a story about a memo written by an economist at Deutsche Bank explaining why taxpayers are screwed. The memo calls to mind a burglar who breaks into your house, takes your television, cuts himself on the way out the window, and then demands that you pay for an ambulance or he will bleed all over your rhododendrons, and sue you for having a broken glass in your house. I quote at length, from a memo excerpt posted on MIT professor Simon Johnson’s blog:
One main stumbling block to the purchasing of troubled assets has been pricing, specifically how does the government price a diverse set of assets in a way that does not put the taxpayer on the hook. However, this should not be the standard by which we judge the efficacy of the plan, because a more prolonged deterioration in the economy will result in a higher terminal unemployment rate and a greater deterioration of the tax base. As such, the decline in tax revenues will crimp many of the essential services provided by the government. Ultimately, the taxpayer will pay one way or another, either through greatly diminished job prospects and/or significantly higher taxes down the line to pay for the massive debt issuance required to fund current and prospective fiscal spending initiatives. We think the government should do the following: estimate the highest price it can pay for the various toxic assets residing on financial institution balance sheets which would still return the principal to taxpayers.
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“dirty business” by the dresden dolls.
to all the ones that hated me the most, a toast
you really had me going for a second.
Love the Dresen Dolls.
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