$225.50 blood diamond

A.C. de Noblecourt: went to see blood diamond. sucked ass

Pynchon Ahab: I had a feeling when the American Talabac said it was a great movie...

A.C. de Noblecourt: movie against fictional de beers

Pynchon Ahab: Anything else fun this weekend?

A.C. de Noblecourt: where they show fictional de beers buying sierra leonian diamonds (illlegal) by pretending that they are from liberia
A.C. de Noblecourt: so bad bad bad people. And at the end of the movie, the following text : When buying diamonds, ask that they are conflict free

Pynchon Ahab: Ha!

A.C. de Noblecourt: which seems to me would benefit to the cartel (e.g. de beers) as it would keep supply low
A.C. de Noblecourt: anyway, kinda sad that it costed me $222.50 to watch it

Pynchon Ahab: ?

A.C. de Noblecourt: $22.50 for the tickets and $200 for my time
A.C. de Noblecourt: will have to post this on my blog

Pynchon Ahab: Hopefully the young lady made it less of a wasted effort?

A.C. de Noblecourt: indeed, she started dreaming of having a conflict diamond of her own on her finger
A.C. de Noblecourt: movie could become really expensive
A.C. de Noblecourt: will add that to blog too
A.C. de Noblecourt: DO NOT GO SEE THIS MOVIE will be title

Random occurences...

My Inuit voodoo doll jumped on the armrest of my aeron chair and is crawling up my arm. You always meet twice in life you fool.

Do you wish I was a dead salmon ?

You always meet twice..

A smart man once said "You always meet twice in life". So watch out: Whatever you do, wherever you go, be careful what you (je-)wish for, because....
... you always meet twice in life.

Pensees 1

Is it reasonable to become intolerant of intolerance.
--Alexis Charles de Noblecourt, Pensees--

There is no business like shoah business.
--Philip Roth, Operation Shylock--

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
--Joseph heller, Catch 22--

Don't beat your monkey

How do you become the least popular man in Africa Jonkheer? You beat your monkey.

A painful discovery

Disappointing, unbelievable, shameful, scandalous, in other words, a travesty. What is there not to like about Portnoy's complaint? How can the utterance of "I really did not like it" be anything less than a pointless provocation? How could it be anything more than an inaccuracy ? Harry G. Frankfurt has attempted to describe this specie of pointless polemic by remarking that of all things, those that we know the least about are ourselves and thus, sincerity is bullshit. This proves the statement of distaste as an inaccuracy.

No wonder why, in light of all this, he could not tolerate listening to Frankfurt while pretending to work; why he had to retaliate by playing a highly offensive brand of smooth jazz all this with the satisfied grin of one who knew the validity of his taste (cf. bullshit above).