Monthly Archives: October 2008

Conan the Destroyer

By terje | Published: October 19, 2008
When I was reviewing Conan the Barbarian, I read a few pages of the discussions on the IMDb boards (for once they weren’t just filled with flame wars). From these I gathered that the orthodoxy in Conan fandom is to regard Conan the Destroyer as the clearly inferior movie. Consequently I started watching it with [...]
Posted in Links, Literature, Movies, Review, Speculative fiction, Weird stuff, meh. | 5 Comments

Conan the Barbarian

By terje | Published: October 18, 2008
He also strangles a chicken (well, not strangle, really) pucnhes a camel, punches a horse, clobbers the same camel again, and for a second there it looked like he was going to do something to the elephant too. Conan HATES animals. — MegamanIXI, on the IMDb boards. In Conan the Barbarian, an adaptation of Robert E. [...]
Posted in Annoyance, Discomfort, Hodge-podge rambling, Impressions, Links, Literature, Misery, Movies, Quotes, Review, Speculative fiction, Weird stuff, meh. | 4 Comments

Curse of the Golden Flower

By terje | Published: October 18, 2008
I had myself a small movie marathon last night, and as a couple of the movies I watched might be of interest to my readership (I do after all have a fairly good estimation of both you gentlemen’s tastes), I though I’d review them. First one out is Yimou Zhang’s Curse of the Golden Flower.
Posted in Awe, Goosebumps!, Great Expectations, Links, Loki, Lotta, Megalomania, Movies, Pleasant surprises, Potential, Recommendations, Review, Whoa | 3 Comments

An English villager’s complaint

By terje | Published: October 15, 2008
Ye friends to truth, ye statesman who survey The rich man’s joys increase, the poor’s decay, ‘T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards e’en beyond the miser’s wish abound, And rich men flock from [...]
Posted in A Moistening of the Eyes, Art, Awe, Education, English, Goosebumps!, History, Language, Literature, Nostalgia, Poetry, Politics, Quote of the day, Wistfulness | 4 Comments

The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth

By terje | Published: October 13, 2008
1952. 186 pages. Gollancz SF Masterworks paperback (2003). In the 22nd century the people’s representatives in the American legislature have been replaced by those of the corporations, who in their turn are the clients of a few big, competing advertisement companies whose only concern is Sales. The citizens are no longer that; they are exclusively consumers, conditioned to [...]
Posted in Ambiguity, Language, Literature, Pleasant surprises, Review, Speculative fiction, meh. | 20 Comments

The Economist Global Vote 2008

By terje | Published: October 1, 2008
The British weekly news magazine The Economist, one of the world’s most renowned news outlets, has set up a rather nifty site where people from all over the world can drop in and vote for their favourite candidate for the American presidential election this November. Go check it out; it has a lot of fun [...]
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