Pirates

Student punished for spaghetti beliefs

The Flying Spaghetti Monster

A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.

But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.

Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear 'full pirate regalia' as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism.

The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive

Pastafarians follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pictured), and believe that the world was created by the touch of his noodly appendage. Furthermore, they acknowledge pirates as being 'absolute divine beings', and stress that the worldwide decline in the number of pirates has directly led to global warming.

A man in full pirate regalia

Pastafarianism gained wide attention when its key prophet, Bobby Henderson, wrote to the Kansas School Board during the height of the controversy over 'Intelligent Design' being taught in science classes. His letter, also published on his website, demanded equal time be given to the teachings of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as was given to ID and evolutionary theory.

Since then, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has gained countless followers worldwide, although there are those who remain spagnostic.

And me that I thought only Diana invented these stories

The school, in North Buncombe, North Carolina, remains adamant that their decision to suspend Killian for a day has nothing to do with his religion, and quite a lot to do with his repeated refusal to heed warnings against wearing pirate outfits.

Apprentice

All of you must remember the delusion when I went for the Apprentice and well I didn't pass the second run of interviews..
Oh well tonight it started I could have been there. I'm not, I was out with bankers wankers.. at a leaving drink of an ex colleague leaving for 3 months gardening leave and better pastures..

Really... the people there don't seem to me better than I am or more skilled.

Selling coffee in Angel described as full of wealthy residents and a thriving coffee culture.. Wow.. Angel has really been in the news lately.. Darlings the hood is getting popular!

Delusion, don't we have many in life.. oh well, at least M has got indefinite visa, yay!!!! ***jump jump *** Lady V, sorry no wedding reception, will try to have a great party darling...

You I love

Well, I bet only Le duc has seen this movie.
How did I pick it? Pure case, let's be fair, it has to do with the video shop that never has anything I want on loan, so here it is.
You I love, the first openly gay russian movie.
Totally contort, strange, but I liked it, probably because this is how I'd like to live my life, just the other way round.

A lunchtime pick-pocketing incident brings together Timofei, a spindly-limbed Moscow advertising geek, and Vera, slick and sexy anchorwoman for a TV news show. Both suffer from a certain spiritual hollowness in their roles as vanguard of Russia's head-forward lunge into capitalism. Their sex life also seems to have been eroded by the politico-economic reality ( a connection made explicit in a reference to a friend whose "virility depends on the value of the dollar").

Thus in each other the two find a perfect match. Vera even has in Timofei a partner who understands her attempts to fill the void through her addiction to food. Their passionate relationship is just about to reach the one-year mark when Uloomji, a Kalmyk lad who overcame homelessness by finding a job at the zoo feeding reindeer, falls onto Timofei's car.

Rattled by the state of the semi-conscious stranger, Timofei drives the victim back to his (Timofei's) sumptuous flat. Vera is not amused at the newcomer, and even less so when she finds the pair of them sleeping in an embrace. She takes this as an assault on her feminine power, a feeling intensified by her own doubts about her position as public face for her TV station.

Slowly, though, she starts to come to terms with her partner's bisexuality, even taking him to a gay romp and engaging in a steamy threesome with a stranger (overheard by a bemused Uloomji via a mobile phone). More than just revealing hidden sexual tendencies, Uloomji brings to the couple something of the spiritual side that they missed, and even provides the inspiration for a particularly successful poster campaign for Timofei.

But Uloomji's family are less than amused, and a struggle starts for control of the boy's life.

Vera's physical sexuality is highly stylised: one scene has her dressed in lingerie revelling in her body as she pretends, for the sake of shock value, to have just had a sex change, while in another we see a subjective nightmare of her own low self-esteem as we see her presenting the news naked.

A miniature bust of Tchaikovsky (Russia's most famous gay personality) rolling around on the floor while the composer's music blasts out of the stereo.




And they never change the sheets for the whole movie...

Can open source methodology be applied to film production?

Can open source methodology be applied to film production? Yes, says UK filmmaker and author, Matt Hanson, whose own project, 'A Swarm of Angels', is attempting to "crowdsource" the funding, production, and distribution of a $1.9+ Thankfully, projects like A Swarm of Angels go some way to proving that given the right kind of attitude and a trolley load of determination the 'wisdom of the crowd' can produce some cracking results.

The 'angels' in question here are the multitude of micro-investors that founder Matt Hanson hopes to attract to his thoroughly modern movie project. His idea: attract 50,000 punters each willing to part with £25 and then spend that money on creating a new kind of cinema.

But what do you get for your money? Well, quite a bit actually. Each pre-production decision will be put to a vote and during production community members will be paid to work on the film. The end result will then be made available free, online and made available for re-editing.


With 900 angels already signed up, the project is already well on its way, and if it's a choice between spending £25 on a one of those fake 'director's chairs' with your name on the back or a small slice of cinematic history, then we know which one we'd go for.

Movies at the click of a button

Now can you tell me why isn't yet possible to click a button pay and view a movie on the computer on the spot? Is that so difficult???
Don't want to steal royalties and hard work, but I want movies at home on the sofa.
Don't tell me it will destroy cinema goers because it won't, in any case people will pay for it..
And don't know if my group of friends is a skewed-screwed-odd one.. but I bet they see 20 movies on a trot plus they go out for some air and end up in a cinema. See but I don't really like to sit there, silent still holding comments and pee.
I go for the poppycorny but since I can buy a bag for 50p make them crunchier than theirs and have such a huge amount that I can actually fill the bathtub..( actually I really want to do it and jump in it), going to the big screen has really lost the charm ( it must also have to do with the fact that in 3 months I already reached my general year average). Ok I put a full stop here so we can all breath.
Anyway.... Discuss...
Don't come up with oh yes but Itunes sells them..

Help! My Dog's as Fat as Me

Well.. nowadays the Big Brother's model is so widespread that they stick any weirdos in a house and drag them out one by one.
The latest addition is help! My Dog's as Fat as me, in which dogs and owners as a team compete to lose weight.

Pod... Wanna apply for the next season?

Women's day

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For the ones that know how much I love smileys, you realise how great this is for me. Ok it was originally in a shape of 8 but couldn't really reproduce it here.
In fact it sucks that I haven't found downloadable smileys for Macs.
Oh well.. It was a different day... Extremely hilarious evening too. Even better because so unexpected.
I didn't reveice mimosas or artichokes ( yes in sicily you get them from your school mates)
Following Filippo's advice I bought Muhammed Yunus's book on microcredit and I must say I love it.
So when the WLC ( Women Leadership council) organised an event on microfinance I soon jumped in to partecipate.
I must see it was an amazingly funny evening.
Even met the Ceo of opportunities international, great project, great idea, don't really agree with the help they are asking from big banks, but hey, it's for a good cause, helping really reduce poverty.
A combination of drunkness from one glass of wine and the company made a very funny evening.
We came back to mine and wined and dined and histerically laughed. Then T joined Mother, sugs & I to add a touch of outregeousity to the evening.
Famous lines were :
I prefer to be eaten alive by jealousy than be trapped in monogamy ( I mean!)

I feel gilty to flirt with somebody else if my girlfriend and the woman I'm fucking is there ( isn't that contraddictory? no really if you are in a crazy relationship!)

A bar in the middle of the city!

I can't Adam and Eve it

Went to see Gost Rider, the movie was crap but she's hot and as gossips go she has a soft spot for ladies.