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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Lesbian Swan Sunday Edition Posted: 02 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST For reasons I can’t quite comprehend, the movie The Black Swan is the talk of the theaters. I don’t understand why an artsy film about a neurotic, borderline-anorexic ballet dancer should cause such a stir, even if it does include Natalie Portman naked and in a lesbian love scene. Then again, I only watch two or three movies a year in the theater, so perhaps I’m not the best judge of what is buzz-worthy and what is not. Matt Patterson, at Big Hollywood, wasn’t a big fan of the movie either and his description of the prurient sapphic grappling isn’t going to send you rushing to the box office, waving your ten spot in the air like you were a stock trader in an old-time movie. Stacy McCain took a shot at analyzing the lesbian love-scene, and ended up wandering through a brief history of pornography in the United States and the influence it’s had on male sexuality over the decades. His surprisingly clean post is quite entertaining and inspired DaTechGuy to call it “The Ultimate in Counter-Programming” (via Ed Driscoll). My take is far more simple. There’s going to have to be a lot more in a ballet movie than a stick-thin Natalie Portman in a lesbian love-scene to get me to shell out for a night at the movies. I’d rather watch Tron: Legacy a second time. At least there were some legitimately sexy women, with curves, in that one. And now, links. I probably shouldn’t feel so happy about this, but I just can’t help but get a little gleeful when a progressive is stopped mid-blather by the truth. If someone’s going to get the “one of the wiser posts” love in the SoCon/FiCon “Civil War” story, it might as well be Stacy McCain. However, I did deliver some pretty good commentary myself. Ed Driscoll: “Governing, like math, is hard.” Yes, folks, Socialism really does stink in the end. What better proof do you need of the corrosive influence of lavish welfare and unemployment benefits than the 750,000 Britons who have scorned honest work to live like leeches off their neighbors? My goal is a podcaster is to get into Leo Laporte’s neighborhood. If you’ve not heard of him, take a few minutes and get acquainted. He is a true American success story (via techmeme). This photo is probably a hoax, but it’s still creepy.

I Don’t Know About “Important”, but Vorlons and Shadows Make for Great Television Posted: 01 Jan 2011 10:00 PM PST Space.com is running a poll asking reader which science-fiction series is “the most important…story ever told”. They’ve given three choices and, if you are at all a fan of the genre, you can pretty much guess what they are: Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who. I honestly don’t know that I’d consider any television series “important”. In truth, I’m not sure how the folks over there define the word in the conext in which they used it. I think each of the three series can teach important lessons about life and humanity and they have all imprinted themselves on our popular culture so deeply that they are still around after more than thirty years. Ultimately, I voted “other” and opted for a series I consider the best sci-fi show every done: Babylon 5. I can’t think of a series that combined solid acting with good scripts, believable and dynamic characters, real good guys and bad guys, and a multi-season story arc that came to a satisfying conclusion. Save for the regrettable fifth season (which was disjointed because J. Michael Straczynski, the show’s creator, has to jam two seasons worth of arc into one because the network had threatened to cancel the show and he wanted to make sure the story reached a solid end), the show as solid as any series I’ve ever seen. So that’s my vote. I’m curious to know what you all think. Is my choice off-base? What series would you choose? Let’s get a little chat going in the comments.

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