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Karl

About Me

Hate The Man. Love Miss Manners. It helps to think about Sudan if you feel like a victim. Word to the wise: pigmeat from locally grown pigs is the best food in the world. I suppose if you're really dedicated to finding out more, you can look at my entry in Friendster. I'd update this thing more frequently, but do I have time? Not really.I prefer political to humanitarian analyses.I share blogspace over at jjcohen.blogspot.com.

My Interests

You know what's hilarious? If you're done making jokes about "I wish I knew how to quit you" (and you should be!), watch the 1955 David Lean Summertime (Summer Madness in the UK) for this bit:Rossano Brazzi (* Famous in my mind because of the awful South Pacific, where he says "I killed a man." Just watch it. You'll understand) "You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat. 'No,' you say, 'I want beefsteak.' My dear girl, you are hungry. Eat the ravioli." Kate Hepburn (petulantly, like a child) "I'm not hungry."

I'd like to meet:

I'm pretty satisfied.Then again, I'd like to meet Rupert Murdoch. Not sure what I'd do next. Or how I'd get away with it.That's how tough I am.Tough like a ham.

Music:



Movies:

Adam's Rib. Zardoz. Topsy Turvy. The Little Shop Around the Corner. There's No Highway in the Sky. The Great Escape. The Women (version with Rosalind Russell). The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.You know what's weird? In Stage Door, the fade between K. Hepburn being successful and the gravestone that they repeat a coupla times. Bizarre.

Television:

I like radio. BBC4's Food Programme is pretty good, too. Their Pub Trivia show rocks my world.

Books:

Anything by Miss Manners. Patriotic Gore. The Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. A. J. Liebling's war journalism. Been reading too much Zizek lately.

Heroes:

Edward Said. Pretty much anyone in the American Civil Rights movement. I mean, the people who don't suck. The lions that ate St. Ignatius of Antioch.