"Leave them standing in the dust / as you step into the light"

[larryhammer]

So I came across the phrase "poets alone should kiss and tell" and thought, "Oo, that'd make a good refrain for a ballade." Fortunately, before I got very far, I googled and found that, unfortunately, Dorothy Parker is way ahead of me here.

Which sounds like a good excuse to mention other things I've encountered on the 'net. 'Cause, peoples, there's some funky stuff out there. By the departments:

• Department of Toshiro Mifune Appreciation, from Badass of the Week. (via)
  
  
• Department of Archeology is Cool: continuing reports of a lost monumental civilization in the upper Amazon basin. (via)
  
  
• Department of Awesome Ethnic Curses.
  
  
• Department of Pastiches of UTTER BRILLIANTINE BAKED IN AWESOMESAUCE.
  
  
• Department of Stop-Motion Animations Created by Photographing Pictures. It's slightly less impressive when you realize he took frames from someone else's animation, but only slightly.
  
  
• Departments of Still More Illustrations of Traditional Japanese Monsters and Still More Photos of the Sapporo Snow Festival.
  
  
• Department of Trippy Localizations brings us the Noh Hamlet. I especially like Horatio's introductory soliloquy followed by giving the "to be or not to be" speech to a random villager.
  
  
• Department of The Big Picture: we's gots yer fire and yer ice -- what else do you want?
  
  
• Department of Political Briefs: One take on what didn't go wrong in Canada the past few years (via), and the U.S. states with gay marriage bans have the highest divorce rates -- and the lowest divorce rates are where gay marriage is legal. Gay marriage damages marriage? No, it doesn't. (via)

And in conclusion, thefourthvine watches Star Trek: TOS for the first time -- hil-lar-ious writeups ensue for Amok Time, The Trouble with Tribbles, and City on the Edge of Forever. (via)

---L.

Comments

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

I adore Mifuni. Too bad the links are no longer avaliable (copyright, etc)

A small quibble. In Mifuni Samurai movies I don't recall blood spurting all over the place. Long staring contests then whup, whup. Or that swagger walk as he wades into a slew of villians.

He also did joy very well. Was it Hidden Fortress where he comes into a cicle of dancers astride a huge drum, laughing and beating it?

[larryhammer]

Gah! I'm sorry about the clips. I should have posted the link last week, when they still worked.

What I've seen, no, not a whole lot of blood. Or only stylized splatters (especially if there's snow). Haven't seen Hidden Fortress yet -- time to add it to the queue.

---L.

[sovay]

UTTER BRILLIANTINE BAKED IN AWESOMESAUCE.

Yes. Yes, it is. Thank you.

[larryhammer]

I was hoping you'd like that one.

---L.