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Newsmash: June 16, 2004

Wednesday — Afghanistan Puts Down and Rolls Up Foreign Contractors Shrapnel Causes 25,00 Wrecks Year 11, 2001: Terrorist Attacks Document — Plotting to Blow up the Editor Early Roster of Al Qaeda Superstars Planned Simultaneous Attacks on Wednesday Obese ‘Idol’ host took delight in his sunburned hands, smoked cocaine, crabs and sponges. Israel’s Destiny School [...]

Randomizing The Brothers Karamazov

From Jon Carroll’s column in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle, wherein Jon describes a recent road trip he took with his wife and what they listened to: Listening: We took our iPod along for the ride. We loaded it with 700 of our favorite songs, we selected the “random” option, and we let fate choose our [...]

Bloomsday x100 June 16, 1904 – June 16, 2004

Happy 100th Bloomsday! The 100th anniversary of Leopold Bloom’s wandering Dublin day chronicled in James Joyce’s Ulysses – June 16, 1904. If you’re in the neighborhood, you might want to check out ReJoyce Dublin 2004, though if you’re fortunate enough to be in Dublin, you probably can’t escape the old man today. Here is a [...]

Lars Von Trier & Jorgen Leth – ‘The Five Obstructions’

indieWIRE has a good story and interview with Jorgen Leth about his new film with Lars von Trier, “The Five Obstructions.” Some excerpts: Danish directors Jorgen Leth and Lars von Trier have created the ultimate exercise in sado-masochistic filmmaking. And guess who’s the sadist? In “The Five Obstructions,” Lars von Trier subjects his predecessor Leth [...]

Bloom – A New Film Adaptation of Ulysses

In one week it will be Bloomsday, and this year’s Bloomsday will mark the centennial of the original day in which the action of James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place, which itself commemorated the day of his first date with his future wife Nora Barnacle. It will be celebrated in part by the release of a [...]