February 2011
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“I’ve personally made this mistake recently, assuming that tickets were available...”
– Taking the 2 Hour Train to Chongqing
Bond as a girl
ubergrid:
In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show him emerging from the ocean like Ursula Andress. Sexual torture, too, if less creepy-glam than being stripped and painted gold. Vesper Lynd is Bond: never not in control, never without a plan, seducing to further her goals. She has to die so Bond can become her.
January 2011
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Private conversation is impossible in this new era →
Phone-hacking. Hidden mics. Heavily publicised show trials for citizens holding private conversations. This is beyond snooping in the public interest. This is the world of the Stasi.
A must read.