I am all for looking at things in there time. Because siletn film started in this area - and we now have a silent film museaum and theater in the neighborhood, I have seen a bunch. sterotypes - male/female , race ,otr ethnic are prtetty rampent. Plus the number of films that have drug useres ( needle) on screen is amazing. sometimes it is uncomfortabe. It should be. That doesn't mean I don't watch. Some films are good despite the sterotypes. - others might have been good films at the time, but they just don't reach a modern audience. Actually, they now have as part of the announcements a reminder that some of the things we see on screen might not be acceptable to today's audiences.

we now have a silent film museaum and theater in the neighborhood

I've seen a fair number on TCM. And yeah, some of them can get pretty embarrassing. Even into the sound era -- I saw Harold Lloyd's first talkie, Welcome Danger, over the weekend, and a fair number of Chinese stereotypes kept taking me out of the movie (the plot involves a dope ring operating out of SF Chinatown).

Sad, because there's some pretty fair slapstick in there (though eventually it gets to be a bit much).

Holy CRAP those Windsor boys are pretty. [link]

Ain't they just?

sigh.

Getting some fresh genes into that bloodline helped out a lot with the looks, even if it did shake up the family's moral certainty.

I think Harry is kind of handsome, in a redheaded jock sort of way, but William to me always looks a little freakish -- too much like if someone took photographs of his mother at that age and mathematically adjusted them to show what she would have looked like if she had been born a man.

Though bon bon's picture does make him look very nice indeed.

Didn't need to say it twice.

This is a picture of the new turf at SkyDome/Rogers Centre

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For the hockey afficionados in the crowd, apparently the little truck in the picture is called a Sandboni.

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the scarily possessive mother of a war friend of his to whom he'd made a deathbed promise (which he stuck to, caring for her until her death, but by all accounts she was batshit crazy and jealous, plus HOTT, so there was a whole twisted mothersexlover thing going on that left him emotionally fucked for a good many years)

Huh. I never knew that. That's fucked-up, yo.

Time may indeed be on your side. If you can just last another quarter century.

By then, people will start lives that could last 1,000 years or more. Our human genomes will be modified to include the genetic material of microorganisms that live in the soil, enabling us to break down the junk proteins that our cells amass over time and which they can’t digest on their own. People will have the option of looking and feeling the way they did at 20 for the rest of their lives, or opt for an older look if they get bored. Of course, everyone will be required to go in for age rejuvenation therapy once every decade or so, but that will be a small price to pay for near-immortality.

I'll believe it when I see it.

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