I laughed at the vacuous Americans blowing up terrorists and destroying the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre in the process; I roared at the Middle Eastern vocabulary that consisted only of "Derka derka derka, Muhammad Jihad"; and I was already crying by the time the North Korean leader nearly succeeds in unleashing "9/11 times 2,356". And surely the bedroom scenes between two of the puppets should spark a whole new genre of marionette porn online.
Ambiguously political, criminally satirical, insanely immature. I had a great time. Ramen soup and whiskey sours in Chinatown topped off a wonderful night.
Related link:
+ Memorable lines from Team America
Other links today:
+ Web inventor is 'Greatest Britain'. "Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the web in the late 1980s, said he was just 'in the right place at the right time'."
+ Are blogs journalism's new wave, or just public forums for the bored? According to this writer, "it is safe to assume that most blogs are not worth the cyberspace they occupy. The bulk are boring or offensive self-indulgences produced by those with axes to grind, prejudice to spew, porn to peddle or without the ability to get past the gatekeepers at newspapers, magazines, book publishers and edited online publications."
+ The art of seeing without sight. "The painter is Esref Armagan. And he is here in Boston to see if a peek inside his brain can explain how a man who has never seen can paint pictures that the sighted easily recognise - and even admire. He paints houses and mountains and lakes and faces and butterflies, but he's never seen any of these things. He depicts colour, shadow and perspective, but it is not clear how he could have witnessed these things either. How does he do it?" One researcher believes that you can arrive at the same mental picture via different senses.
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