“OF COURSE HE’S BENEATH US – HE’S AN ACTOR.”

Peter O’Toole is gone. As you know.

I can’t add much to what’s already being said about him, so I’ll just post this clip from the first movie I ever saw him in: My Favorite Year.

"My Favorite Year -- Rooftop scene" (Watch on YouTube)

The movie overall is brilliant, but O’Toole knocked my socks off with this performance, and it got me to watching some of his other films, the best of them (to me) being The Lion In Winter, The Ruling Class and The Stuntman, among others.

Plenty O’Toole,

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I’M DREAMING OF A HISTORICALLY WHITE CHRISTMAS

This post is dedicated to Megyn Kelly.

"Akim & Teddy Vann - Santa Claus Is A Black Man" (Watch on YouTube)

PRODUCTION NOTE: This post is intended to be tongue-in-cheek.

Any colour you like,

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THE JADE RABBIT HAS LANDED

Needless to say, the lead story in Hong Kong for the past couple of days over the weekend (until the MTR broke down for five hours today) has been China’s Chang'e-3 lander arriving on the moon, and deploying the Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”) rover.





It’s easy for Americans to scoff – “Oh, moon landings? That’s so 60s.” On the other hand, the Chang'e-3/Yutu is the most high-tech thing ever to land on the moon, and its mission will score a number of firsts, to include exploration of lava tunnels that might serve as ideal locations for moon colonies.

io9 has a good write-up on why the Chang'e-3 mission is a bigger deal than some might think.

Unless, of course, it’s all a hoax.

Or a secret plot to build a secret military moon base. Or something.

Nice moon, we’ll take it,

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