Ayn Rand's magnum crappus is made into a movie.
Fuckin' 'ell Check this out.
Still awake?
"Take this, brother; may it serve you well."
Ayn Rand used to do it for me, philosophically speaking; but that was before I knew better...
Frederick Douglass: Find out just what any people will quietly submit to
and you have found out the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;
“Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask
anything of them.”
I read an excellent piece in the New Yorker about her not too long ago. Very interesting. An odd kind of lass, but boy - what a fan base. I kept thinking of the Bloomsbury Set (but her as Woolf sort of thing.)
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Aha! This internet stuff never fails to impress.
The cult of Ayn Rand : The New Yorker
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Oh, damn - it's not the full piece. Sorry.
...I thought most readers outgrew her by puberty...
...majestically enthroned amid the vulgar herd...
That trailer is hilarious. It looks terrible.![]()
This is it... The apocalypse.
Good grief, it had every cliche in the book. I'll avoid it like the plague. I don't expect it to be in the running for an Oscar on Hollywood's night of nights when a cavalcade of stars come out to shine.
I was actually expecting one of the characters to say "It's showtime!"
There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with toast.
One of them, however, is opening a can of corned beef with that stupid key. This cannot easily be done at the best of times, and toast is of surprisingly little use in resolving the issue.
ah... Aussie TV star gets his break in B-grade Hollywood shitbuster. Who thought it would be a step down from 'Border Protection"
Papa was a rodeo - Mama was a rock'n'roll band
I could play guitar and rope a steer before I learned to stand
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