His parents' child

[nmg]

The garklet and I were slightly late picking ias up from her weekend desk duty this lunchtime. Why? He was watching something on the television, and refused to leave until he saw the end. Nothing special about that, you might say, but what had captivated this particular two year was Carol Reed's 1949 film The Third Man.

When we collected ias, he then regaled her with an description of the chase through Vienna's sewers.

Attaboy, kid.

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I don't care about the apparent threat of Hearst and the press barons very much in an era when newspapers are dying

Newspapers may be dying, but Murdoch (the closest we have to Hearst nowadays) is still doing very well indeed, thankyouverymuch. It's only the medium that has changed, not the outlook.

Let's do that again, with less fail this time.

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of this brilliant SomethingAwful article (std NSFW risk disclaimer), pointing out the stupidity of TIME mistaking Web 2.0 for "the people" fighting off "the man".

"It's about the many wrestling power from the few? MySpace is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp you journalistic clown."