Budget Cuts Force British Government To Shut Down Mysterious Seaside Village

"You will never be free until you learn to view everyone and everything as suspect. Until then, you are just a subject of society's tools, all lined up and accounted for.

In formation."

(Quote is from the much-underrated Shattered Visage.)

Django: Top or Bottom? Pitcher or Catcher?

Well, this is vexing. I'm working on an activity stream for Indieflix, so filmmakers can track when users watch or comment on their films. I'm using the ActStream app silo, which is a basic activity monitor: "actor" "verbs" "target."

But in this case, it's "film" "receives" "comment," which just sounds passive to me. The user is the actor here, not the film; the film is just a tag hung on an object in the comment pool.

It just feels weird.

It's hard to believe that in the old days, that's what passed for entertainment

So, Kouryou-chan was part of the local communistty theatre, doing an absurdly treacly kid-oriented play based loosely on maybe a page and a half of Robinson Crusoe. It was basically an excuse for the kids to dress up, sing their hearts out, and prance about on stage in facepaint.

There were two moral messages beaten into the audience: (1) Books are cool, and (2) it's not nice to eat your friends.

We went out to eat with the cast & crew after that, where the children were all way too loud, and the typical American fare was basically salt, grease, and sugar, and too much of it. I think I ate half my burger.