Rumor has it that 2004 was the Year of the Media Dragon bug, is 2005 going to be all about the Media Rooster bug?
Living like a bug ain’t easy
My old clothes don’t seem to fit me
I got little tiny bug feet
I don’t really know what bugs eat
Don’t want no one stepping on me
Now I’m sympathizing with fleas
Living like a bug ain’t easy…
Our choice of weapons is Nikon FM camera and this blog ... Most notable literary happenings besides the publication of Cold River The Year in Culture. Like everyone else, gossip lovers spent much of 2004 parsing the lives of politicians. You pretended you didn't care about Carr , Sussex Street , Abbott and Costello. And who did you think you were fooling? The year in gossip
Literature & Art Across Frontiers: Top 10 shows, bottom 5 and 5 hopes for 2005
A few writers and producers took their chances in the life raft on the sea of reality television, and it led to some of the best programming on the tube i.e. Love Claudia’s Way ...
Parting was painful when some of our favorite TV pals, including ``Friends,'' ``Sex and the City'' and ``Angel,'' signed off this year. Amazingly, the networks came through this fall with some worthy replacements. They also aired some less-than-worthy ones. Here's a quick look at what soared and what tanked in 2004.
I think it was Einstein who said that doing the same thing over and over and expected a different outcome was a definition of insanity. There seems to be a lack of diversity if you are Bohemian-Slav-Australian ...
• We won't give them another shred of publicity by naming them [Honest, clever, quirky, and engaging memoir Why I Committed Parliamentary Suicide]
• · I think that movies are mirrors, and what people find in them usually says more about the viewer than the movie Barking Up The Same Mirror; [On Monday, Dec. 20, Russia celebrated Secret Police Day Fear and self-censorship in Putin's Russia ]
• · · Classical filmmaking by Clint Eastwood, pure, simple and true. Million Dollar Baby: Boxing Bohemian I realized it never steps wrong. Never a false note. It has a purity of narrative line and a strength of performance that is classical in its perfection. I had my winner.; [Possibly the best known unproduced screenplay in Hollywood. Unproduced Screenplays Anything Dan Brown can do, Jozef Imrich can do seven times better (smile)]
• · · · The disclaimer is a tragically underused literary device. It stings me to imagine how my life, or at least my exiled 20's, might have been different had certain influential books been prefaced with warnings about the havoc they could wreak in a vulnerable mind. One should always be drunk, Charles Baudelaire advised in a poem, which was the unfortunate counsel I took to heart (and liver) for the bulk of the 1990's. In 2004, books never seemed so vital and so endangered. Unlikely best sellers spiced '04 : Double Dragon Publishing the land of hot dish ; [Media Dragon is reading Hideous Absinthe a History of the Devil while dreaming of Absinthe Sip of Seduction ]
• · · · · You won't turn to stone if you look (not even part of you, we swear) Wardrobe malfunction ; [Carol Queen wants your old porn. In the name of scholarship, of course...]
• · · · · · The really heroic thing about Jozef Imrich is that he lives in Sydney and rarely can afford to leave his bathroom mirror again . . . Mirror, mirror on the page ; Aye, Mom recounts how dog saved boy, 7