Friday, August 4, 2000
Godzilla Lives? (Yahoo!)
"Godzilla stomps the ground and spread around clouds of dust, being assisted by a Toho Company film production staff during the filming of Toho's 24th Godzilla movie at its studio in Tokyo." BoyCaught thinks that Godzilla doesn't look so big now, eh? (Posted by BoyCaught)gaijin a go-go
"Welcome to the Gaijin a go-go cafe. The cafe serves up western ingredients with a Japanese flair." Well, with a description like that, how can you lose? BoyCaught would like to note that no animals were harmed during the creation of this entry. (Posted by BoyCaught)Thursday, August 3, 2000
American High is outstanding
... if you're into that kinda stuff, you know: TV. Finally, a reality-based show with just the right mix of human drama, compelling narrative, and clever editing that reels the viewer in like a big fat fish. It's realer than Real World, it will outlast Survivor, and it outsizes Big Brother in the most important facet: the characters are natural, genuine, and truly interesting, yes, really interesting.In one segment, a mother tells her talented, guitar-playing daughter, who's a junior and just a so-so student at the High, 'You shouldn't go to college ...' What?! Worth the price of admission, whatever that may be. This show's here for only six more weeks, so it will be gone fast. Almost makes BoyCaught want to go out and buy a Replay TV. This time Rupert's people done good. (Posted by BoyCaught)
C-SPAN
Both online and off, C-SPAN is doing a stellar job covering the 2000 Republican Convention. Their on-air segments, and post-event interviews have been amazing; the real convention is revealed when the delegates speak as normal, everyday people like you and BoyCaught. This is a example of TV being valuable to the non-apathetic members of the public, a real minority. (Posted by BoyCaught)Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Eminem Wannabes.COMpton
Aiiight, some of it was funny ...in a David Schwimmer kinda way ... ya know, wut da dilly o? (Posted by BoyCaught)Rock, hard Dick and, uh, Bush ...
... Cheney and, duh, Georgy Dubya. Meet the 2000 Republican ticket. Monday Night Nitro couldn't have done a better job. The Rock kicks things off, and that was appropriate: this show is scripted tighter than anything WWF has ever done, well, almost. Cheney talks the political equivalent of smack, in what was ultimately a weak acceptance speech. Then they bring out a smooth lounge singer, who belts out an overly patriotic song, an anthem almost, in this installment of RePubCon. And telegenic token minorities speckle the backdrop in almost every shot. BoyCaught just loves a good political machine; they can crank out the entertainment just as good as any Hollywood studio, but in the end, it will cost you more than the price of a matinee. And speaking of token presences, what the hell happened to JC Watts? He used to be a great option QB down at Oklahoma. (BTW, C-SPAN) is large. (Posted by BoyCaught)
QOTD: “There is a lot invested in evolution, and we put a little crack in that.”
-- former English teacherBoyCaught likes taking things out of context, but Darwinism and drugs just don't mix ... oops, never mind. (Posted by BoyCaught)
America is a nation of voyeurs.
(Posted by BoyCaught)Welcome to American High (Fox.com)
"This past year, two camera crews followed 14 students at a high school located just outside of Chicago. The students were also given cameras and kept video diaries of their lives. These are their stories." Cool, televised riothero. More cheez, pleez ... just kidding, BoyCaught will take less. (Posted by BoyCaught)
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Tuesday, August 1, 2000
Powell Says Bush Can Help Bridge Racial Divide (Yahoo!)
"Capping a day when Republicans, heeding Bush's call for a more inclusive party, highlighted a series of black and Hispanic speakers, Powell told the convention, 'We have much work to do and a long way to go to bring the promise of America to every American.'" You go, Colin. (Posted by BoyCaught)Strange Bedfellows
Surely, BoyCaught is not the only one to who thinks that Day One of the Republican Convention has been really strange. Colin Powell talking about racial divides? Brian McKnight singing R&B while dancers gyrate in the background? Rapping high-school students doing multiplication to the beat? Laura Bush telling us that, indeed, reading is fundamental? On Wednesday, we'll get The Rock (from WWF) and Dick Cheney. How do all of these things connect? Oh yeah, this is the all-inclusive Republican Party. (Posted by BoyCaught)Sunday, July 30, 2000
Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs' (BBC)
"Dinosaurs were not wiped out by a meteorite or a planetary catastrophe but by a serious flatulence problem, according to a Chinese news report." Ooh, man, Rex, what did you eat? (Posted by BoyCaught)United Against Hate
"A Hate-crimes forum." A very nice site, on a very sad topic. (Posted by BoyCaught)A Diverse, Inclusive Miniseries (LA Times)
"When the lights hit the stage at the Republican Party's convention here Monday night, television cameras will focus on a class of mostly Latino students chanting a rap-like routine borrowed from their Houston classroom." These are the so-called little brown ones the older Bush talked about when he ran for, and lost, the presidency. Those Republicans are so inclusive. (Posted by BoyCaught)Real World Startup (Denver Post)
"This is the story of one such start-up in Colorado, named Ereo. It represents a new generation of companies driven by the power of venture capitalists." (Posted by BoyCaught)QOTD: “We are not doing this to find racial differences. We are doing it because we want to understand what makes a good runner.”
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Row over human cloning plans (BBC)
"The UK Government has dismissed reports that it is to give the go-ahead to growing "spare body parts" from human embryos." BoyCaught wonders: aren't things moving way too fast here? Two years ago: sheep. One year ago: pigs. Now we're already talking about actually cloning humans, albeit for clinical purposes. What next? (Posted by BoyCaught)Twin removed from 4-month-old boy's belly (NandO)
"Two Egyptian doctors have removed a growing fetus from the belly of a 4-month-old boy." (Posted by BoyCaught)Power in Silicon Valley: Leaders fail to reflect valley's diversity (SJ Mercury)
"Silicon Valley's population is growing more diverse with dizzying speed. But change is coming more slowly to the top ranks of the valley's most powerful, which remain more monochrome than melting pot." Not surprising. (Posted by BoyCaught)Friday, July 28, 2000
Yat-speak
"A Lexicon of New Orleans Terminology and Speech." Ever wonda'd wha' da hell dem whodat's uh talkin' 'bout? He's ya chance. An' rememba to suck da head and squeeze da tip. Alright, that was pretty bad. (Posted by BoyCaught)Race relations changing in the suburban South
"While whites and blacks remain largely segregated in old-growth cities like Houston and Atlanta, such physical and social boundaries are falling rapidly in the boomtowns of the South ... these new integrated neighborhoods, fashionable today, could fade out as quickly as they have emerged. When the population of one ethnic group sinks below a certain 'tipping point' - usually about 30 percent - the rest of that population then quickly moves out." Integrated neighborhoods? What? In this context, 'tipping point' is a clinical euphemism for 'there goes the neighborhood.' And BoyCaught knows that ain't new. (Posted by BoyCaught)
Anoto
"The ANOTO pen is the tool that, in coordination with the ANOTO patterned paper, enables you to transmit, store and transfer your business communiques, personal thoughts, and basically anything you want to write with a pen, to anywhere in the world." (Posted by Gadjutt)Crimes of the Century
This site is scary, and poorly designed, but morbidly fascinating. (Posted by BoyCaught)Sex Trade Enslaving East Europeans: A Survivor's Brutal Tale
(Int'nl Herald Tribune)
"Her story is hers alone, but in broad outline it matches those of tens of thousands of young women from Eastern Europe, whom criminal gangs lure each year from poverty at home into a heinous underground of modern-day enslavement in foreign countries." Riveting, and so sad. BoyCaught relates, sadly, that lots of men really are pigs. (b/w Pursed Lips) (Posted by BoyCaught)Thursday, July 27, 2000
Napster, we hardly knew ye
If the Napster case has shown BoyCaught anything, it's that large corporate entities, and their agents, can stamp out anything that poses a threat to them. In the end, they are the elephant and you are the mouse.Is this not fascism?
So what? Who cares that you have your weblog and cellphone, your big screen TV, your Viagra and your Palm Pilot. So what. If they decide you can't have it, then you won't. You only do things because you let them let you. Give in to their demands. They know you will give in, because most don't have the stomach, or the jaw for a fight. And most are not in it for the long run. Get in and get out, quick. They offer the easy way out. All you have to do is play along. Conform. Don't rock the boat. Don't ask questions. Be normal. Fit in.
Is this not fascism?
Maybe the government can hold these soulless, faceless corporate behemoths at bay. Yeah, sure: FBI is installing Carnivore down at your ISP. BoyCaught asks, again, nonchalantly: is this not facism?
Of course, Napster is just about pop music ... New York, London, Parish, eunuch, everybody talk about, pop music. :-) ((Posted by BoyCaught))
