Holiday

• The Big Picture presents New Year’s 2010 as celebrated around the world.
• This is funny: The Top 10 Most Satisfactory Rap Albums of the Decade.
• What if the TSA and Federal Reserve swapped responsibilities?

• Using Xmas instead of Christmas was originally a respectful abbreviation that openly acknowledged the speaker’s belief in the divinity of Christ. It’s funny that we assume anything that looks like English’s letter X must imply antagonism or deletion in every language in which it’s used, just because we often use it that way. Sometimes a letter is just a letter.
• “Therefore, the odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past decade. By contrast, the odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about 1 in 500,000.”
• The legendary Justin-Britney post-breakup dance-off as metaphor for a really strange decade. Also, the quote in the title of this post.

Git up, git out

This is the best movie I watched this week:

Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Bertie on Vimeo.

We had a lot of confused trick-or-treaters this year.