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Jun. 29th, 2009 07:50 pm1. A frequent complaint about The Silmarillion is that it's filled with characters with confusingly similar names like Finwë, Finrod, Fingon, Fingolfin, and Finarfin. The same critics ought to have a look at Iran, which has Khamenei, Khomenei, Khatabi, and Karroubi, all emphatically different people, not to mention the sesquipedalian Ahmadinejad.
2. A review of the new Star Trek movie asks if having Winona Ryder play Spock's greying mother makes you feel old. Hold on a minute: I checked. She's actually only six years senior to the guy who plays Spock. Not as old as it may seem. I'm reminded of finding in my youth a panicked headline reading, "Oh no! Liz Taylor is 40!" My reaction was, So? She'd always been old enough to be my mother; why should I care how old she was?
3. I'll tell you what's old; my cell phone is old. I've had the same one since I first got one, four and a half years, but the mouthpiece is dead. I'm not used to discarding equipment that's only four and a half years old. I'm looking over at my stereo. My CD player is old enough to drink. My amp is old enough to run for President next time. But they still work, basically.
2. A review of the new Star Trek movie asks if having Winona Ryder play Spock's greying mother makes you feel old. Hold on a minute: I checked. She's actually only six years senior to the guy who plays Spock. Not as old as it may seem. I'm reminded of finding in my youth a panicked headline reading, "Oh no! Liz Taylor is 40!" My reaction was, So? She'd always been old enough to be my mother; why should I care how old she was?
3. I'll tell you what's old; my cell phone is old. I've had the same one since I first got one, four and a half years, but the mouthpiece is dead. I'm not used to discarding equipment that's only four and a half years old. I'm looking over at my stereo. My CD player is old enough to drink. My amp is old enough to run for President next time. But they still work, basically.
