Most nights I tune to Channel 11 in New York just before Seinfeld begins at 11PM. The news telecast usually ends with the host, Jodi Applegate, reading tweets from viewers. She recently signed off with a comment on how Twitter has brutalized punctuation. I mostly refrain from the short cuts in vogue. I do use LOL occasionally, even though I may be only amused, not laughing out loud. I've become familiar with a lot of the abbreviations. I recently encountered one that baffled me: it was something like this :). I was too embarrassed to ask the sender what it meant. Lower case letters have become the norm for many. The only place I use them entirely is during survey commentary, in order to speed up a process that is often tedious. Michael Goodwin chimed in on the topic in a blurb in his column in today’s NY Post, sharing a comment made by one of his readers, Herb Eichen: it’s “...the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.” I wasn’t LOL. I was GFETE - grinning from ear to ear. Touche, sir.
Asia does not have as much violent crime as the U.S. does, although you'd never know it from its films. Japan and China have given the world many entertaining over the top action movies. Now Indonesia has one: The Raid - Redemption (2011). Oddly, it is directed by a Welshman, Gareth Evans. The story is simple: a corrupt police captain stages an unauthorized siege of an apartment building used by organized crime. The pace is frenzied, the stunt work phenomenal. If this had been an American film, I probably would have dismissed it. I can’t explain why the content doesn’t bother me when it’s in the hands of Asians. Perhaps it is because all the actors are completely unknown to me and the setting is fresh. This flick is rousing, despite its brutality. Its stuntmen must be as loony as western professional wrestlers. On a scale of five, three-and-a-half. It is rated 7.7 out of ten at IMDb.
The floating book shop was rained out today and, if the forecast is correct, will be again tomorrow when I guess I'll be writing Christmas cards and burning CDs to keep from climbing the walls. Today it was recycling and downloading music.
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