Finished the game yesterday evening and it's been the best game for me on my DS to date. It took me more than an hour and a half of intense battle to defeat the final boss and her evil twin sister, but I did it! I saved Princess Peach in a whooping 24 in-game hours... OK, let's get back to things that really matter.
18 October 2006
Mario & Luigi : Partners in Time
Finished the game yesterday evening and it's been the best game for me on my DS to date. It took me more than an hour and a half of intense battle to defeat the final boss and her evil twin sister, but I did it! I saved Princess Peach in a whooping 24 in-game hours... OK, let's get back to things that really matter.
08 October 2006
In the Clothes named fat
Early morning a couple days ago, since I had not much to do at the office, I dropped by to the Virgin store and hunted for a quick read when I found this manga "In the clothes named fat". I couldn't help reading from cover to cover.
The graphism is not my cup of tea, but it's not here to show off but to serve the story and the characters. Noko is the fat girl in today's fat-phobic society. Her boyfriend likes sex with her but hides her and keeps her into submission. At work, the situation is the same and, since she has such a low self esteem, she keeps getting trampled on by everyone. She's got to react, and she'll start a diet... all for the worse. That's for the pitch.
The story and the main character are very interesting and the author draws a very disgusting picture of our attitude towards fat people. Come on people! Be a bit open minded! Aren't you sick of all these unhealthy unsexy skeleton-models every everywhere?
The graphism is not my cup of tea, but it's not here to show off but to serve the story and the characters. Noko is the fat girl in today's fat-phobic society. Her boyfriend likes sex with her but hides her and keeps her into submission. At work, the situation is the same and, since she has such a low self esteem, she keeps getting trampled on by everyone. She's got to react, and she'll start a diet... all for the worse. That's for the pitch.
The story and the main character are very interesting and the author draws a very disgusting picture of our attitude towards fat people. Come on people! Be a bit open minded! Aren't you sick of all these unhealthy unsexy skeleton-models every everywhere?
04 October 2006
Live from Golgotha
Saint Timothy, when thinking about what to write in his gospel:
Saint Timothy:
Live from Golgotha is a novel from Gore Vidal. Before being lent the book, I had never heard from the author nor the novel. Well that was an interesting read : by interesting, I mean funny and refreshing, I do not mean that this book will get you into philosophical debates. It globally is a satire based on the meeting of two opposite concepts, religion and market economy, that are usually not on the same level, but that nonetheless share more common traits than meets the eye.
Timothy, the future Saint Timothy, is a disciple of Saint Paul, father of Christianity. They both go from roman province to roman province to spread the "Good News" (which everyone that has read a gospel knows), not mentioning too much of the "Great embarassment" (that Jesus has said that He would come back and He still hasn't). So their conversion of the local peoples are a mix of juggling, tap dancing, double entries bookkeeping and sex. There is a crisis going on between the major saints : Markt thinks the Good News should be reserved for Jews that have done with their embarrassing centimeters of chair on their organ of procreation, Peter is called the Rock because he's as stupid as a rock, and Paul copyrights the cross as the Christianity logo and invents the trinity in order to wrap his idea into a mystic and desirable package (you always prefer to believe in things that you do not understand).
Well, all this little world is shattered to pieces when a hacker from the 20th century finds the way to tamper with the past and starts erasing the gospels; then, NBC, pressed by the shareholders that don't like it when the audience drops, plans to send a crew on Golgotha to shoot the Christ's crucifixion... but they are double crossed by a double agent. Saint Timothy, in the middle of all this mess, manipulated by vision and apparition of 20 century businessmen, will try to sort it out by writing his one and true gospel, that tells the real truth. But whose truth?
I've loved the novel. It's a bit long sometimes but a funny read nonetheless for someone that is not too much into religious zealotry. Anyway, it does point to what make me the most sceptic : Christianity is based on books modified by many hands, on a Good News spread by person's that have never seen the Christ and on events that took place 2000 years ago... Come on... Nowadays, the children can't even learn from the mistakes of their elders... So who in his own mind can rely on a word of mouth message spread for 20 centuries?
Finally, the novel is not only a fun read but maybe it has triggered some thoughts in me...
I think that suppressing Jesus' weight problem has given us a distorted view of His psychology which was itself distorted - if not downright peculiar.
Saint Timothy:
Jesus aka Marvin Wasserstein is a raving maniac and I can see how his activity must have given poor Pontius Pilate the shivers, not to mention the Temple personnel, dedicated as they were to high interest rates and low inflation.
Live from Golgotha is a novel from Gore Vidal. Before being lent the book, I had never heard from the author nor the novel. Well that was an interesting read : by interesting, I mean funny and refreshing, I do not mean that this book will get you into philosophical debates. It globally is a satire based on the meeting of two opposite concepts, religion and market economy, that are usually not on the same level, but that nonetheless share more common traits than meets the eye.
Timothy, the future Saint Timothy, is a disciple of Saint Paul, father of Christianity. They both go from roman province to roman province to spread the "Good News" (which everyone that has read a gospel knows), not mentioning too much of the "Great embarassment" (that Jesus has said that He would come back and He still hasn't). So their conversion of the local peoples are a mix of juggling, tap dancing, double entries bookkeeping and sex. There is a crisis going on between the major saints : Markt thinks the Good News should be reserved for Jews that have done with their embarrassing centimeters of chair on their organ of procreation, Peter is called the Rock because he's as stupid as a rock, and Paul copyrights the cross as the Christianity logo and invents the trinity in order to wrap his idea into a mystic and desirable package (you always prefer to believe in things that you do not understand).
Well, all this little world is shattered to pieces when a hacker from the 20th century finds the way to tamper with the past and starts erasing the gospels; then, NBC, pressed by the shareholders that don't like it when the audience drops, plans to send a crew on Golgotha to shoot the Christ's crucifixion... but they are double crossed by a double agent. Saint Timothy, in the middle of all this mess, manipulated by vision and apparition of 20 century businessmen, will try to sort it out by writing his one and true gospel, that tells the real truth. But whose truth?
I've loved the novel. It's a bit long sometimes but a funny read nonetheless for someone that is not too much into religious zealotry. Anyway, it does point to what make me the most sceptic : Christianity is based on books modified by many hands, on a Good News spread by person's that have never seen the Christ and on events that took place 2000 years ago... Come on... Nowadays, the children can't even learn from the mistakes of their elders... So who in his own mind can rely on a word of mouth message spread for 20 centuries?
Finally, the novel is not only a fun read but maybe it has triggered some thoughts in me...
01 October 2006
Sin City
Very violent, graphically beautiful. Nothing to add that every raving review has not done yet.
Just an advice : keep the kids away.
Just an advice : keep the kids away.
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