Tangled Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Excellent article here on the blabbering from President-elect Obama.. "Barack Obama managed to say all the wrong things at this week's Governors Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles -- without even showing up. The President-elect appeared to the green faithful on Tuesday and opened his pre-recorded pledge to "take the lead" in addressing global warming with these eerily familiar words: "Few challenges...
kneedly knots (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Well, William did his bit as one of the town children in the royal new zealand ballet performance of Don Quixote and thoroughly enjoyed it. He looked really cute in his little pinstriped waistcoat and trousers. And here he is with his two girlfriends.
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Director Terry Gilliam disclosed Thursday that he plans to restart production of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote next year after securing rights from the insurance company ...
Top Questions - Stack Overflow (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
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Inner Banks Eagle (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
by Marc Sheppard - November 20th, 2008 - American Thinker "Few challenges facing America -- and the world -- are more urgent than combating climate change" - Barack Obama. Stop right there! Waging a Don Quixote style battle against the very forces of nature trumps all but a few challenges? Do these happen to include the immediate issue of collapsing international markets and their very real
Dominican Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Dulcinea:The smugglers sure chose an appropriate name from "Don Quixote" and meaning "elegant sweetness" in old Spanish language."Don Quixote finds a true love whom he calls Dulcinea. She is a simple peasant in his home town, but Quixote imagines her to be the most beautiful of all women. At times, Quixote goes into detail about her appearance, though he freely admits that...
Staring At Empty Pages (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it — “Twelfth Night”, act I, scene 1 Is it possible to quote too much Shakespeare? After the Bible, the works of the Bard of Avon provide more quotes than any other prose or poetry, perhaps followed by Cervantes ( Don Quixote ) in a distant third place. Will sure knew how to turn a phrase, and we sure know how to borrow one. From Aldous...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
In the last year, the media nattering nabobs have tended to paint former CBS News anchor Dan Rather as an unhinged Don Quixote for his $70 million lawsuit against his former network. But in recent weeks, his suit — centering on his treatment by CBS after his controversial 2004 report on Bush’s National Guard service — has unearthed a raft of CBS internal documents that suggest Rather isn’t...
Beatrice (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
... his impulse to translate the great works of other languages, from early classics like Beowulf and Don Quixote to comparatively recent fare like The Red and the Black … and why he abandoned that goal the first time around. (And, luckily for us, what got him back in the game.) I don’t think many translators think they were born to that trade. Most of the translators I know, or know anything...
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
... not want to respect the novel, I wanted to recreate it. For me Dune did not belong to Herbert as Don Quixote did not belong to Cervantes, nor Edipo with Esquilo."). He planned to cast his own son, Brontis, as Paul Atreides, Orson Welles as the Baron, who would be nearly immobile at 300 pounds, and Salvador Dali as Emperor Shaddam IV, who would be insane and living on a planet made of gold....
Profy.Com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... things that I can not change I try to live with peacefully instead of trying to fight mills like Don Quixote. This is exactly why I try to ignore splogs: I used to complain to their hosting companies demanding the scrapers to be shut down but I quickly realized there was no real sense in it as once one splog is closed there will be five more instead of this one stealing our content shamelessly....
