Saturday, January 29, 2011
Midnightitis
B1 made me laugh tonight, when I tucked him in. He was staying awake, and I said "Hey, Buddy, do you have insomnia?" and he nodded, said "Yeah, but I think 'midnightitis' is a better name for it." I loved that.
I think I have a bit of midnightitis, myself.
I think I have a bit of midnightitis, myself.
Hats Off
I love a good Western, and integral to a good Western are good cowboy hats, right? Hell, yeah. I don't usually wear hats, myself, but I appreciate a good hat when I see one. Three of my favorite cinematic cowboy hats...
3. "You be the Josey Wales!" The Josey Wales hat is a good one. Almost enough to make me forget that he was a no good damned Johnny Reb. Good mix of practicality, looks, and no-nonsense badassery.
2. Speaking of Southerners, Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday from "Tombstone" -- great performance, anchored by a great hat worn at a rakish tilt. His hat has a bit of a big brim for my tastes, but the jaunty angle he wears it at nicely offsets it. It's a perfect topper for a gentleman scoundrel.
1. Johnny Ringo (perfectly played with psychopathic intensity by the one and only Michael Biehn) from "Tombstone" has a great hat. I think he has the best hat in the movie, mingling deadly practicality, a horsehair lanyard, and with that hint of a roguish swoop of the slim brim. Perfecto.
I covet the actors who get their pick of perfect hats, selected for them by the movie's costume designers, and surely pick something ideal for the character and the actor.
I covet the actors who get their pick of perfect hats, selected for them by the movie's costume designers, and surely pick something ideal for the character and the actor.
Heh
Wow, "slept in" until 5:00 today. Bahah!
Interesting to see all the turmoil in the Middle East lately -- given our policy of supporting dictatorships in the region for generations, we're definitely on the wrong side, relative to the protesters. Our foreign policy there was focused on access to oil; we didn't want a more democratic Middle East, because it might diminish the flood of oil that came our way, so we supported (and funded) dictatorships in the region, which then kept the oil coming. Of course, this pissed off everyday Arabs, who saw us as the pimps for their respective autocrats, oligarchs, and dictators -- and when you're giving $1.5 billion annually in military aid to, say, Egypt, it's pretty hard to pretend to be pro-democracy. Anyway, our policy there certainly fueled the Islamist movement, who just wanted us out of there. All of this points to why our country has desperately needed an energy policy, even though the benighted Carter was the only president to even try, to be serious about it. We still don't have an energy policy, unfortunately. We're still mired in the Middle East, supporting the bad guys, without a diplomatic hand to play. Oil's not the future; it's the past. So is supporting dictatorships and pretending that it has anything whatsoever to do with democracy. We need to get the hell out of that region, rather than get further mired in it.
In other news...
Good piece on SF's cultural role.
Interesting to see all the turmoil in the Middle East lately -- given our policy of supporting dictatorships in the region for generations, we're definitely on the wrong side, relative to the protesters. Our foreign policy there was focused on access to oil; we didn't want a more democratic Middle East, because it might diminish the flood of oil that came our way, so we supported (and funded) dictatorships in the region, which then kept the oil coming. Of course, this pissed off everyday Arabs, who saw us as the pimps for their respective autocrats, oligarchs, and dictators -- and when you're giving $1.5 billion annually in military aid to, say, Egypt, it's pretty hard to pretend to be pro-democracy. Anyway, our policy there certainly fueled the Islamist movement, who just wanted us out of there. All of this points to why our country has desperately needed an energy policy, even though the benighted Carter was the only president to even try, to be serious about it. We still don't have an energy policy, unfortunately. We're still mired in the Middle East, supporting the bad guys, without a diplomatic hand to play. Oil's not the future; it's the past. So is supporting dictatorships and pretending that it has anything whatsoever to do with democracy. We need to get the hell out of that region, rather than get further mired in it.
In other news...
Good piece on SF's cultural role.
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