Tag Archives: United States
Sequel, then original, then book
This is the review I submitted to IMDB for the Bourne Identity. The short version: rental, unless you’ve never seen the original film or read the book and are desperate :).
Posted in General Also tagged Entertainment, Fiction, Film, IMDB, Julia Stiles, Mission: Impossible, Mystery films, Narratology, Plot, Ronin, Spy films, Suspension of disbelief, The Bourne Identity Leave a comment
Life Immitating Art?
What would you do if you were accused of a murder, you had not committed… yet? (tagline for the new Fox film Minority Report) “Jose Padilla, the American citizen accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’ in the U.S., is just one of many ‘would-be killers’ the United States has arrested, President Bush […]
Posted in Policy & Politics Also tagged Bush, Dirty bomb, Islam, Jose Padilla, Judicial Event, National security, Nuclear terrorism, Nuclear weapons, Politics, president Leave a comment
Creating Buffalo
An article in the Buffalo News today discusses how Richard Florida’s ideas about the creative class might affect Buffalo. It’s a little funny that this has been so embraced here, given that Buffalo (and it seems Florida was once a prof here) ends up the fourth from the bottom of the list of creative cities.
Posted in Research Also tagged Bill Gates, Boston subway, buffalo, Cosmopolitan, Creative class, Cyberculture, Hank Bromley, Kurt Cobain, New York, New York City, Richard Florida, San Fran, Seattle, the Buffalo News Leave a comment
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