Month: July 2004

Cleopatra Nemesis: Destroyer of Worlds

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We watched The Neverending Story last night… Diane had never seen it before, and I can always watch that movie again.

Atreyu is so so pretty. Diane pointed out that he is played by the same actor as “Boxey” in Battlestar Galactica. Obsession is a frightening thing.

I continued my tradition of renaming the Childlike Empress each time I see the end of the movie. I have always imagined the character of Fantasia (aka Fantastica) would be changed depending on the name of the Empress… so this time her name becomes Cleopatra Nemesis: Destroyer of Worlds. Break out the ‘fro picks and bell bottoms! You under arrest sugar!

I’m not sure how many people notice this, but there are an insane number of sexual double-entendres in the movie. If you are watching the movie with adults who are easily bored, point this out at the beginning of the movie to prevent them from losing focus. Falcor looks like a giant sperm, he’s kind of a child molester; the Childlike Empress is made up like JonBenet Ramsey, Noah Hathaway is so so pretty, and most of Bastian’s lines in the end sound like clips from a “break in the virgin” porno.

Imperial Hubris

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Though U.S. leaders try to convince the world of their success in fighting al Qaeda, one anonymous member of the U.S. intelligence community would like to inform the public that we are, in fact, losing the war on terror. Further, until U.S. leaders recognize the errant path they have irresponsibly chosen, he says, our enemies will only grow stronger.

According to the author, the greatest danger for Americans confronting the Islamist threat is to believe—at the urging of U.S. leaders—that Muslims attack us for what we are and what we think rather than for what we do. Blustering political rhetoric “informs” the public that the Islamists are offended by the Western world’s democratic freedoms, civil liberties, inter-mingling of genders, and separation of church and state. However, although aspects of the modern world may offend conservative Muslims, no Islamist leader has fomented jihad to destroy participatory democracy, for example, the national association of credit unions, or coed universities.

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