Whenever I see an acronym that ends in MNT, I immediately take for granted that it is a rare variety of “Mutant Ninja Turtle”. For instance, USMNT means “Underwear Sniffing Mutant Ninja Turtles” (Donatello, Waters, Carradine, Clinton, and Brass) and not “United States Men’s National Team” as context eventually reveals. What a much more entertaining […]

copyright Sony Classics I found myself suddenly capable of emitting deadly lasers from my eyes on the way home from the Paris Theatre after having viewed The Illusionist. I believe the incident to be purely coincidental… …but I did certainly find Sylvain’s Chomet‘s new aimated film a fine, fine time… While his previous film, The […]

Doesn’t look like anyone is using this flag much anymore. I’ve updated it to reflect our post-post-modern times…