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Jun

I can hear exasperation in his voice at the mention of Francis Collins. I'm so tired of good ol' uncle Frank's overexposure in media.

In the same vein I am also sick and tired of the overexposure of the obnoxious Sam Harris. He gives atheism a bad name.

Jun

I'm tone-deaf. Music does nothing to me. So 歌星 has never been on my list...

追星热情 indeed. Remember I drove for 2 hours from PA to MD to see Henning Mankell?

Jun

Not "beyond." Just way off from the main road, turned sharply onto the side road, and gone deep into the woods...

Let me guess: Dr. Tiff brought a whole lot of DVDs from China? But I thought you can't get pirate DVDs through Customs any more!

Jun

我感慨的说，广大人民群众口儿都还挺正。

I don't fit in Dr. Tiff's definition of 广大人民群众.

Jun

Christian Bale is too much a barbie too.

Please see "The Machinist."

Seriously Bale is not pretty at all.

Jun

Tuna, I think. You can probably use canned salmon too.

Jun

啊？你很喜欢他吗？

我觉得他自我感觉特好，浑身上下滴滴答答的流露出＂老子是耶鲁高材生，老子比你们更有文化＂的优越感。耶鲁咋了？大晒么？而且瘦精精的，不是我喜欢的形象。

我见过他几次座谈访问，尤其是同Charlie Rose的访问，反正就是知识分子的自恋态度，但实际上跟其他美国演员一样谈吐干涩词汇贫乏，要气质没气质，要wit没wit。

Jun

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) was born into a solidly bourgeoisie family in Paris who had survived not only the Revolution of the previous decade, but the Days of Terror that followed. Jean-Baptiste's father, who had once been a hairdresser (recall the elaborate coiffeurs of the French co...

Jun

I bring up The Painted Veil not because it is deep down about a homosexual affair, but because Maugham the author is my 老偶像 and I like to analyze his stories. It just so happened that the person who gave him a lot of agony and was the catalyst for the novel was Gerald Haxton. If it were about his lo...

Jun

Jun最近有向同人女发展的趋势啊 Nope. This is not some romantic projection I dreamed up. Maugham and Gerald Haxton were a couple for decades (until Haxton died). It was a well known fact, not groundless gossip. I don't wish for him to be gay. Actually I was crushed when I first learned Maugham was gay. But he was...

Jun

Seconds later he lifted up my Laura Ashley summer dress and covered my bare stomach with kisses. :mrgreen: Wah... Mi papa, who's never traveled anywhere in the past 4 decades, saw a program on TV the other day. A bunch of Chinese travel agents gave a harrowing warning to women traveling on their ow...

Jun

In the novel, Kitty did ask Walter why he took her to Mei-Tan-Fu. And he did reply.

You know you are reading a Maugham novel when the answer to such a question is exactly as bad as you think it would be in real life.

Jun

先看电影，觉得还不错，里面的对话有不少又凉又辣的，很有毛姆之风。但是总觉得有点什么地方不对劲却又说不出。三个主演没一个能讲正宗英国英语的，倒也罢了，我也没那么势利，但最烦Ed Norton，从来就不喜欢他。在这里总算愿意降低身份演一个有缺点的人物，还是一贯地浑身上下优越感一个劲往外冒。最近把原作找来看了，难怪呢！根本就不是电影里浪漫积极主旋律那回事儿！毕竟是我的老偶像哪，原作才不是心心相印冰释前嫌此爱永存那调调呢！一边读着书里对各色人物栩栩如生的描写，一边纳闷：怎么他的中篇都是讲已婚女人红杏出墙呢？已经是第三部美国改编电影了，三部全是讲搞婚外恋的女人的 (Up at the Villa, ...

Jun

刚开始复习第一季的母舰L＆O，第二集Subterrenean Homeboy Blues，猜猜第一guest star是谁？Cynthia Nixon！跟Chris Noth一起出现，两个人都那么年轻。谁能想到他们后来又在同一剧集里合作？

Jun

最近又听来一些八卦。去年（第五季）结束时，Rene Balcer突然离开了L＆O：CI剧组，据说是因为NBC要砍制作成本，否则就取消下一季的合同。剧组里最昂贵的两个人就是他和D'Onofrio，但主演不能砍，他就自己退了，showrunner转交给手下的一个writer叫Warren Leight的人。Balcer一走我对CI兴趣也不大了，再怎样也不是原本意图中的Detective Goren的故事了。NBC这两年收视觉率很低，几乎所有的剧集都有被砍的危险，有没有第七季还难说得很。娱乐界真是充满你死我活的激烈竞争，时刻都有脑袋落地的危险。第六季到现在已经过半，我没看全，但是看到的几集，剧本的质...

Jun

This article raises some issues that we had discussed before in the thread on female musicians and mathematicians. Artemisia's Judith, when I saw it at Uffizi, left a deep impression on me. It was by far the most gruesome of all the Judiths I saw in Florence -- more violent than either Botticelli's ...

Jun

Because ... uh ... it's not the kind of star-crossed lovers type like Damage, it's sick for real. Probably male audience will hate it more than female, but ... consider yourself warned. Meanwhile let me plug for "The Last Seduction" again. Probably too cynical for your taste, but I liked it quite a ...

Jun

Just thought of a pretty BT love movie: The Piano Teacher.

Jun

豪情 wrote:我始终不明白为什么有人会喝2%或者HALF N HALF. 也许因为我是直人?
要不在乎就喝WHOLE MILK. 要在乎就喝NON-FAT. 搞的那么精确.

half and half 比 whole milk 浓多了, 因为 half and half 不是一半无脂一半全脂，而是一半milk一半cream. 它比全脂奶肥多了。

Jun

I doubt very much they use condensed milk. Only the Vietnamese coffee uses condensed, sweetened milk.

American milk, cheese, and yogurt are pasterized, which is at least part of why they don't taste as good as foreign milk.

Jun

I have to disagree with CAVA on the issue of education...

Jun

Who needs TV when reading advice columns is sooooooo entertaining???

Jun

OK, I adimit I'm ashamed of myself. I am having a heck of a good time here reading this. I'm so twisted and BT. Dear Cary, I have a best female friend who is making me doubt everything I ever believed in. BFF and I are two single working moms in our 30s, and we look great. Better than great. We are ...

Jun

Look at us -- a bunch of pathetic urban dwellers who don't know the difference between lamb and goat.

Jun

跳蚤？靠，难怪拼音输入里找不到这个字。这到不是我不会卷舌，而是根本不会念这个字！

Jun

印度素菜要吃南方菜馆，不太常见，外国的印度馆子以punjabi菜系为多，他们好象中国的广东人，流动性大而且喜欢开饭馆。我在费城郊外吃过一家素菜馆，挺好吃的，他们拿手的是dolsa，拿豆面儿做的fluffy薄饼，里面裹土豆和青豆馅或其他馅。CAVA你在伦敦能吃到比孟买还好的印度菜。

Jun

My beef with this kind of "hey, lighten up" is the self delusion. Are you telling me that this movie is NOT screaming the fear and anxiety of the modern white man? To me it's obvioiusly the macho day dreams of the wimpy white man: Feeling deeply threatened by the godless monsters from the middle eas...

Jun

白博真能喝，我再次感叹道。

Jun

some North Europeans whose countries are so full of art and science Like which ones? The glorious classic art of ... Oslo? Helsinki? Nordic people were too busy keeping themselves barely alive, when people in the south (from Egypt and Tunisia to Greece and Italy to Iran and Syria) were reading, wri...

Jun

大拉斯我虽然没去过也能想象那里的ethnic餐馆有多难吃了。

那个真是菠菜加土豆吗？我只吃过菠菜炖奶酪块。奶酪硬硬的，象豆腐。paneer cheese.

Chai 就是茶，连发音都差不多。开始我很不习惯，后来很爱喝了，不过真肥。

昨天还去那家samosa工厂买了刚出炉的面饼来着，又便宜又好吃，有嚼头，放在车里载回家，一路上香气冲鼻，直到第二天车里还残留着。

Jun

Titus Pullo I like.

Jun

Sounds like you're into the romantic epic type. The French like to make that stuff -- big and expensive and a bit of tear-jerking spice. Examples: Queen Margot, Indochine ... (wait, do they have only 1 male lead actor for these movies?)

Jun

A fig leaf.

Jun

Exactly, you are a libertarian, not a libral. Libertarians hunt moose and eat the meat. Libertarians want the less government the better. Libertarians advocate "no government funding for art." Libertarians do not believe in taxes. You're a classic libertarian.

Jun

I know, the general is a libertarian.

Jun

Not that I'm a Wagner fan (can't stomach the music), but if we use the logic of the Financial Times' writer, a German can similarly say: "Calm down, it's just music." One could also say, "If you have a little sense of humor and appreciation for art, you wouldn't make such a big fuss about it..."

Jun

我兄弟再一次指出了我老喜欢鲜艳明快颜色的庸俗本质。

What about Picasso's boy you like?

The Spanish coworker went to Guggenheim a while ago to see the comparative exhibit on Velasquez, Goya, Picassco. Oh I hate you New Yorkers.

Jun

I know! In Category 1, BT love story, I recommend Bound (well, actually it's just a lesbian love story, but pretty good).

Jun

You may think Spartan is one, and Persian is another one. When they were busy fighting, what kind of 艺术、文学、科学 has been generated?

Frank Miller's graphic novel?

(Not that I've read it.)

Jun

I kind of understand. A little bit of pain can be exhilerating.

Ten years ago I can give you recommendations in that vein, but now a list of movies I like will be a list to avoid for your taste...

Jun

Oh I see. I never thought Katie Holmes to be FISHY. She's just stupid beyond belief. Nowadays do we even have doubts about the insanity of Tom Cruise? There are lesbians who are normal and sane; then there are people, hetero or homosexual, who are totally nuts. I tend to consider Nicole Kidman as ju...

Jun

Ah but never underestimate the power of greed. I'm sure, for example, Penelope Cruz hooked up with him in hope for more glitz and connection with big studios and in turn more and better deals for her in Hollywood. Boy was she sorely mistaken.

Jun

Jealousy of ??? To me Sherlock Holmes is totally asexual. Of course I'm infantile when it comes to him. :lol: What about Nicole Kidman? I wonder about her friendship with Naomi Watts, who is currently pregnant with Liev Schrieber's child... I am suspicious of the sanity of anyone who stays with Tom ...

Jun

What do you find Kidman? I don't remember.

Jun

Damn I cannot remember the source of the NPR program about this new exhibit on sexual practices in ancient Greek and Roman societies. I heard it recently. Anyone else heard it? Homosexuality was not a taboo and was often practiced between older and younger men as a "teaching" process. Women were rep...

Jun

A British gangsta movie directed by the producer of Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrel and Snatch. I haven't see these 2 Guy Richie movies, but supposedly all 3 have the similar structure and style of converging storylines and timelines. Layer Cake was xiao K's favorite actor Dan Craig's first star...

Jun

I really liked《疯狂的石头》, but I'm not crazy about Layer Cake, even though they have sort of similar structures.

Jun

我现在看电影吧，要求能笑（大笑微笑都成），

I just watched Thumbsucker, which made me laugh.

Jun

That's exactly an example of desensitization.

Jun

OK the rest of the lecture will be summarize by Dr. Tiffany.

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