tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post7780634105722574941..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: God Bless America 2Bryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-24161315823138919362011-06-27T22:44:13.900+00:002011-06-27T22:44:13.900+00:00Burn After Reading is about the inter-subjectivity...<em>Burn After Reading</em> is about the inter-subjectivity of stupidity.<br /><br />Three years on, you <em>can</em> watch it again. On ITV2.Gordon McCabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09151162643523937086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-28316246776018160382008-10-20T09:42:00.000+00:002008-10-20T09:42:00.000+00:00The dream team was Parsons, Greer and Paulin, with...The dream team was Parsons, Greer and Paulin, with poor old Mark Lawson valiantly trying to maintain some sanity in a discussion between three of the most preposterous people on television.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-75594286931817453752008-10-20T09:17:00.000+00:002008-10-20T09:17:00.000+00:00i knew a funny subhuman chap once, known as Bongo,...i knew a funny subhuman chap once, known as Bongo, he had spent 10 years on the dole in Sunderland before being branded on the forehead and driven south to Leeds. Although he was some kind of cave troll, about 5' tall with paws and sharp teeth, incapable of reading books or wearing anything but a hessian sack, he used to watch Newsnight Review with great attention. He would derive endless Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-48791019919170761062008-10-20T08:03:00.000+00:002008-10-20T08:03:00.000+00:00I'm a patient person, so I only reach for the semi...I'm a patient person, so I only reach for the semi-automatic weapons when Germaine Greer insists on pronouncing foreign words 'correctly'.<BR/><BR/>Have you never been on it, Bryan?<BR/><BR/>If Michael Kelly's <A HREF="http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_en-GBGB232GB233&q=bryan+appleyard" REL="nofollow">description</A> of you is accurate then you're Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-83549353518294097052008-10-19T14:37:00.000+00:002008-10-19T14:37:00.000+00:00With you there, Anon, after going crazy with an AK...With you there, Anon, after going crazy with an AK47, of course.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-65539266866582719312008-10-19T14:32:00.000+00:002008-10-19T14:32:00.000+00:00Newsnight review makes me want to stab myself in t...Newsnight review makes me want to stab myself in the face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-45688452696366838882008-10-19T13:46:00.000+00:002008-10-19T13:46:00.000+00:00Ill be seeing it this week.I notice the Cohen Bros...Ill be seeing it this week.<BR/>I notice the Cohen Bros are doing<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185835/" REL="nofollow">The Yiddish Policemen's Union</A><BR/><BR/>Jews in Alaska!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-32313782394614245332008-10-19T11:24:00.000+00:002008-10-19T11:24:00.000+00:00The critics did exactly the same with The Big Leb...The critics did exactly the same with The Big Lebowski.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-53719175781556761532008-10-19T11:11:00.000+00:002008-10-19T11:11:00.000+00:00Agreed on both counts. Newman was a joy, and so wa...Agreed on both counts. Newman was a joy, and so was Burn After Reading, which I saw in the States last month.<BR/><BR/>They gave the movie a kicking on Newsnight Review the other night, which I found incomprehensible. It is a genius film - the comic flipside to No Country for Old Men where people just do stuff as people do, and there is no moral and no ending and no meaning.<BR/><BR/>The last Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.com