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Brad DeLong has graphed the 2004 long term budget projections. Ignore the partisan discussion of what they mean, if you like, and go right to the graph. This is from the numbers Bush sent Congress; it's not a liberal extrapolation or anything. It's what the current administration said the numbers would be.
Feb. 5th, 2003
This picture is probably the coolest picture I have seen in years. No kidding. It's a no kidding high tech not yet perfected invisibility cloak.
Go look. Now. It's a guy standing in the middle of a park and you can see right through him. It is incredibly science fictional. It's not Photoshopped.
My MT/LJ bridge appears to be broken. My main weblog is here, which is probably a better place to read it from every point of view except the convenience of those who want to read it as part of their LJ experience. I will either fix the bridge or arrange a syndicated feed with the full posts instead of just references, but in the meantime you're missing a cool post I just made about movies.
Edit: whee, now it's working intermittently. So much fun.
Edit: whee, now it's working intermittently. So much fun.
OK. This is the movie trilogy game. It's really simple. Pick three movies that form a trilogy, but weren't meant to.
My personal favorite is this group: Henry V (the Branagh version), Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and Henry and June. The Henry Trilogy. See? It's easy.
You can go thematic, too. Heavenly Creatures, The Young Poisoners Handbook, and The Butcher Boy. The Children of the British Empire Behaving Badly Trilogy.
It's best if it's a trilogy with a weird angle, which is why the Henrys beat the Children all hollow, but the Children are an OK entry because who'd ever imagine three movies like that? Also, they don't share many other elements, although Ireland (where The Butcher Boy is set) is a bit close to England (where Young Poisoners Handbook is set). You want as little in common between the movies as possible other than the linking theme... no, that's not quite right. Elements have to either be the same (the linking theme, the location, etc.) or different. You can't have two movies set in swamps and one set in mountains, but if all three are in swamps, that'd be OK.
Anyhow, my previous entry reminded me that the Game Show of Death Trilogy is now a going concern; Battle Royale, Series 7, and The Running Man. Again, a little weak, since two of 'em are from the US -- but Series 7 is so indie it practically doesn't exist in the same world as Running Man.
I am still looking for a third movie to fill out Gangster No. 1 and Velvet Goldmine. The link between the two is left as a puzzle for the reader, but I will say that Scandal is very close to being perfect.
HKFlix.com has a new edition of Battle Royale in stock, which may be of interest to -- well, it's of interest to me. I've wanted to see this for a while. The plot is simple; a few dozen Japanese teenagers, all from the same high school class, are put on an island. Each one gets a weapon. Last one off wins. Refuse to fight and you die.
Yeah, I know. And everyone says "Oh, Lord of the Flies." But I also hear a subcurrent of Ender's Game, and I really enjoyed Series 7. So, yeah, I'm interested in this. And I've never been one to shy away from the lurid.
Oh, hm, there's a movie trilogy. OK, next post for that.