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100,000 lang pala e

Posted by: rina on: March 11, 2007

I was expecting a lot of things from the movie “300,” but I wasn’t expecting it to be funny. I was expecting the grand visuals, the epic story, the heroic characters, and yes, over-developed pectorals, but I wasn’t expecting it to be funny. Those Spartans have mastered the art of trash talking to the [...]

here’s hoping

Posted by: rina on: February 26, 2007

I’m not liveblogging the Oscars or anything like that (for one thing, I’m at work, nya ha), but I am monitoring the news updates. I’m not well-versed in the contenders for the major categories (I had to ask someone how come a the last king of scotland turns out to be about a ugandan [...]

a thousand words

Posted by: rina on: February 14, 2007

I wasn’t going to do a post today, but the photo in Mika’s Valentine entry called to mind a favorite photo of mine, which I first saw in Cameron Crowe’s 1992 film “Singles.” As it turns out the two photos were taken by the same photographer, Robert Doisneau. Anyway, in the film, Steve (Campbell [...]


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