Bale is opposed by Ledger in the next Batman film

Go ahead and enjoy this knowing that I won’t be able to for at least a month. Try not to spoil it for me in your review, okay?

Also, Bruce has posted a review of Penelope, among other recent films, and Manahan rocked another PKDick book, so get caught up already!

is at JustInKenya, but you probably knew that already.

Coming soon! [Cross posted from JustInKenya]

I was a track and field nerd for a bit of high school and know first hand the intensity of a relay race, being handed the baton, eyeing the man ahead of you, and making a plan to catch him. There’s nothing quite like it that I have experienced in my life since.

I ran the 4×800 and 4×400, which, in my day, was the first race and the last race of every meet. Talk about pressure! Those years have certainly built in me an appreciation for the Olympic games.

The 2008 Olympics start in a few weeks and I wish I could watch them. For starters, it’s the first time they’ll be completely in HD. But aside from the video quality, I would want to watch them on my own terms:

• I would not read, see, or hear a single result in any event.
• A week later I would get DVDs of entire events from beginning to end — such as every basketball game on one DVD, every track event on another, every field on another, etc. (TiVo would also work).
• I would watch the games at my leisure, with no cut aways to spoil other events, over the course of a month or two, one event at a time.

This way I can be caught up in the story of each event, of each athlete, straight through, without the NBC coverage jumping around the city to different stadiums for “This just happened!” moments.

Think about it: how can anyone truly enjoy watching 300 events going on at the same time crammed into 2 weeks? You might invest in 3 or 4 events, often getting up at 3 am to catch them live, but the overwhelming number of events and jump-around coverage make it impossible to get caught up in any event’s story.

While the media are at every event and capture the great stories as they happen, the time crunch and synchronous timing prevents them from reporting on an event satisfactorily. One must read the newspaper the next day to get a true summary of what storylines were intertwining when it came to finals time.

It’s a heck of a job to cover so many stories at the same time. It’s impossible, actually.

Can you imagine trying to watch the World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, World Cup, Final Four, Spelling Bee, Kentucky Derby, Wimbledon, and US Open all within 2 weeks?

And that’s only 10 events! There are 302 events at the Olympics!

Alas, I’ll have to wait 4 years to give my way a try on my own, since I’ll certainly miss them this year with my lack of television access.

Oh to dream a dream…

Heaven by Mobius Band if you couldn’t tell

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OSC on Obama, Environmental Puritanism, America, Sin, and other stuff

I’ve been following OSC’s take on everything for years now, and whether anyone agrees with him or not, he is a good writer and has a way of putting things.

I for one aim to agree with most of this article, go ahead and stone me. What do you think? What does your heart tell you?

I miss Starbucks.

Let’s have a Community Review comeback for this one!

Noon. Thursday. Kenya time. Village Market. Indy. Me.

Join me at the Pseudobook Review when you get the chance this weekend!