I went on an exciting outing and saw Star Trek. I loved it. Not for its plausible depiction of futuristic diplomacy or faithfulness to the canon – both of which made the original Star Trek as dull as Jean-Luke Pickard’s unpolished forehead – but for, as Laurence puts it, its extreme pace. I don’t care [...]
Archive for May, 2009
May 31st, 2009
Star Trek: The Indiana Jones of Space
Posted in Pop Culture, Reviews 
Tags: George Lucas, Indiana Jones, magic plot-resolving acorn, Matrix, Star Trek 
2 Comments »May 28th, 2009
Don’t Phase Me Bro!
Yes, that’s right, I have seen the new Star Trek movie. I went with my good friends Kyle and Laurence. Although Laurence is a major “Trek Fag”, he enjoyed the movie a lot, as did I. Well, not as much as Kyle and him, but still, considering how much I loathe the entire Star Trek [...]
Posted in Pop Culture, Reviews Tags: Don't Phase me bro!, Don't Tase me bro!, Star Trek 3 Comments »May 26th, 2009
Seven thousand and twenty one reasons to hate bus drivers… even more than you do already
I heard something shocking today. The four-week-long strike staged by the drivers of the Metrobus company in Johannesburg has still not been resolved. Apparently all drivers currently earn a monthly wage of R7 021, regardless of how many years they have served the company, and this is causing outrage amongst the hard-working Metrobus long-timers. Now, [...]
May 21st, 2009
Make Velociraptor Attacks a Thing of the Future
By now you’ll know everyone knows that at last someone has found the missing link. Finally. Well actually “Ida” was dug up by some amateurs in 1983 and was only more recently, when the University of Oslo bought it, discovered that this, “the eighth wonder of the world”, was in fact a 47 million-year-old primate. [...]
May 19th, 2009
Unsophisticated Sophistry
Something I heard about an acquaintance’s personal life (which is really none of my business and nor, therefore, yours), and the embarrassing radio performance of ANCYL spokesman Floyd Shivambu on the subject of Helen Zille being a political / literal prostitute, reminded me to comment on a speech that former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: ANCYL, anti-Islamism, anti-Semitism, Fatima Hajaig, Floyd Shivambu, Foreign Affairs, Gorilla, Helen Zille, Jewish Board of Deputies, Jews 2 Comments »May 18th, 2009
Mean What You Say You Mean To Say
You’ve heard the ANC Youth League statements about Helen Zille appointing a cabinet of male concubines et al? It’s caused quite a stir. Redi Direko interviewed Floyd Shivambu on Talk Radio 702, and it made for really interesting listening. (Check out the glorious podcast here. Plus you can check out a humorous animated version. Even [...]
Posted in Politics Tags: 702, ANC Youth League, ANCYL, Floyd Shivambu, Helen Zille, interview, racism, Redi Direko, sleeping around, transcript 40 Comments »May 18th, 2009
Aspiration and Ambition
Microsoft Vista’s speech recognition software is a big piece of crap. I remember when I saw Body of Lies, there’s a scene that starts with Russell Crowe suavely dictating to his laptop – by the end he’s composed a whole speech. Rat bastards probably had to film that sequence a hundred times and eventually fake [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reviews Tags: ambition, aspiration, Microsoft, speech recognition, Vista, voice recognition 2 Comments »May 6th, 2009
Idle Idols
So, thingy won the whatever season of SA Idols the other day. That’s about the extent of the impression that the whole thing made on me. I honestly couldn’t pick the winner out of a lineup. She (or, possibly, he) is sure to be the next big thing. Just like Heinz, what’s-her-face and the fat thirty-something [...]
