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Размножение важнее

Различия в полученных результатах исследователи объясняют следующим образом: у воробьев, живущих в штате Вашингтон, период спаривания продолжается 100, а у птиц, живущих в Калифорнии — 150 дней. Во время короткого периода спаривания птицы из северной популяции должны направить всю энергию на поведение, связанное с размножением, иначе им не удастся оставить потомство. Воробьи, живущие южнее, напротив, могут «позволить себе» затрачивать силы на борьбу с инфекцией. - Размножение оказалось для воробьев важнее самосохранения

ален делон

"Gran Torino" - "Ворошиловский стрелок" по-американски. ясный пень Иствуд круче Говорухина. играть в голливудские игры русские рожей не вышли. Иствуд кино снял замечательное, и играет хорошо парнишка. всего-то ему 78 лет, почти ровесники с Говорухиным.

"Le Samourai" - Ален Делон не пьет одеколон, но французы снимали полную хрень в 1967-м, и раньше, и позже. тут Госкино и Политбюро осечку дали, американский нуар на порядок круче. но посмотреть "Le Samourai" все же интересно хоть для сравнения.

к управляющему вселенной бля

"Посоветуйте, пожалуйста, что теперь - обращаться к управляющему дома? Спасибо." - troposfera posting in rusam

movies to watch

+ Авербах — Объяснение в любви
. Мы, нижеподписавшиеся.
. Манский, Быков — Девственность
. Force of Evil — noir 1948
. Highway 301 — noir 1950
. Jarmusch — Permanent Vacation
. Юрий Кара — Завтра была война
. Sex and the Single Girl, 1964
. The Good Night, 2007
. Райзман — Урок жизни
. Москаленко - Журавушка
. Егоров — Командировка
. Миклош Янчо — Красное и белое (1967, Будапешт)
. Фоменко — На всю оставшуюся жизнь.
. Пырьев — Свет далекой звезды, 1964
. Резников — Скучная история, 1968
. Shock Corridor, 1963
. Пчелкин — Дети солнца
+ The White Palace
. Pleasantville
. ypf
. Changelings
. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Imamura
. Vengeance is mine
. The Insect Woman
. Why Not?

Островский
. Без вины виноватые, 1945
. Таланты и поклонники
. Красавец-мужчина
. Лес
. Дикарка
. Русские деньги
. Банкрот

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

When a girl really enjoys being with a gentleman it puts her to quite a disadvantage and no real good can come of it.
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I mean it is so refreshing to listen to a French gentleman stop squeaking, that it would really be quite a bargain even for ten francs.
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Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
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Lady you could no more ruin my girl friends reputation than you could sink the Jewish fleet.
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So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.
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There is a limit to almost everything.
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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

review

Particulars

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars." - William Blake, Jerusalem

via oryx_and_crake

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The Obama Seder Tradition

The Obama Passover Seder is one of the most intimate and least likely of White House traditions. - nyt

оксюморон

достоверный источник

А. Воронский. Гоголь.

"Тургенев был подвергнут высылке в деревню за то, что в статье-некрологе назвал Гоголя великим писателем." - А. Воронский. Гоголь.

nato opium russia

блядь прямо небо самолет девушка.

NATO spokesman James Appathurai said the problem had to be handled carefully to avoid alienating local people, and the alliance continued to target drug lords and drug labs.

"We cannot be in a situation where we remove the only source of income of people who live in the second poorest country in the world without being able to provide them with an alternative," he told a news briefing. - Reuters South Africa

why da fuck South Africa if I may ask? because there's no Reuters Neptun? остальные источники Google в этом случае - Тайвань и Россия. умный у них там робот новости сортирует.

anti-Semitic NYT

Against ‘Pro-Israel’ - in a cumbersome and very circumspect way though

The way things really are

Miss Lonelyhearts is a book about what's really happening out there. Most of the people inhabiting this planet are blessed by the evolution with a cognitive bias which allows then not to concentrate on the "negative". Nathanael West, as well as his protagonist known in the book by his "pen name" Miss Lonelyhearts are both denied this blessing. They see things the way things really are. Which is, according to the "depressive realism" concept is the correct way to see the reality.

The protagonist, Miss Lonelyhearts, works for a newspaper. His work is to read letters by the newspaper subscribers, and based on them to write a newspaper column giving advice and providing support and counseling to the readers in their difficult situations. The problem with Miss Lonelyhearts is that he's so much depressed by unspeakable human suffering he encounters in the letters and life around him that he can't in earnest give any advice or consolation his readership expects from him.

In fact, the only advice he can give to his readers is suicide, but his editor says that his job is to increase the subscriber base, not to decrease it. This is an example of dark humor characteristic of Nathanael West. The book abounds with this type opf humor. It's also very poetic, and philosophical. The central chapter, "Miss Lonelyhearts in the Dismal Swamp", explains the terrible bind Miss Lonelyhearts finds himself in, both with his newspaper job - and with his life itself. West's power as a poetic prose writer and philosopher is especially clear in this chapter.

The events in this small book steadily take turn from bad to worse, and the protagonist, trying to emphasize with his readers' suffering, is murdered in the end by the crippled husband of one of the readers, who forces herself on Miss Lonelyhearts as a lover while he can't spare himself neither from her advances nor from her husband's friendship which eventually turns to violent hatred.

"Miss Lonelyhearts" should be compared with "The Loved One" by Evelyn Waugh, they have many similar characters and parallel plot developments, even though they're very different and compliment each other in many ways. "The Loved One" actually has certain common themes with another West's novel, "The Day of the Locust", too.

West was a very powerful writer, this can be clearly seen in "Miss Lonelyhearts", as well as in "The Day of the Locust". Both deserve to be much better known, but, probably, they're to dark and unsympathetic towards American public (and humanity in general) to enjoy wider recognition. Amazon

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о привычках

Когда женщина привыкает к определенному мужчине, она начинает его хотеть. Когда мужчина привыкает к определенной женщине, он начинает хотеть другую. © не я

Clinton Defends

Clinton Defends Criticism of Israeli Housing Plans
"defends criticism" - what a fucking newspeak.

The Kiss

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
baiser

Is Barack Obama an Intellectual?

I’ll even stipulate that Barack Obama is probably better read than Sarah Palin. - bostonboomer

Health Care to Millions

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself." Mark Twain.

House Approves Landmark Bill to Extend Health Care to Millions my ass