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If you have a comment, please leave it there. Ideally, I'd recommend replacing the syndication feed for stevesgallery.com with the new one at stevenmansour.com.

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Ugh - that wasn't very good, now was it?

I was disappointed by what Sony's done to Bond. The action and stunt scenes in the movie were great, especially the chase scene through the African factory. But the writers did a horrible job of making Bond seem like the charismatic superspy he's supposed to be.

The plot was almost non-existent, and while the acting was alright, there were too many gaps in the story for it to remain interesting... not to mention lots of unnecessary, brutal senseless violence that a 'real' Bond would stay away from.

It's not Daniel Craig's fault either - he could definitely pull off the character, if he were given a character. But a real James Bond wouldn't just shrug off the fact that an innocent person was tortured and killed because of his ineptitude. Actually, that wouldn't even happen in a Bond movie.

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BIG (67 MB) original file if you have a slow connection or don't care about video quality, get the smaller / dial-up version, or see it on YouTube (mediocre) or Blip.Tv (good).This is a small clip from the San Miguelada - the running of the bulls in Mexico. September 23rd, 2006. You can also look at the pics.

Three-quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White's
seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court justices,
according to a poll on pop culture.

The poll by Zogby International has been commissioned by the makers of a new game show on pop culture called Gold Rush.

It shows that 57 per cent of Americans can identify JK Rowling's
fictional boy wizard as Harry Potter, while only 50 per cent can name
the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Just over 60 per cent of respondents are able to name Bart as Homer's son on the television show The Simpsons, while only 20.5 per cent were able to name one of the ancient Greek poet Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Asked what planet Superman was from, 60 per cent named the fictional
planet Krypton, while only 37 per cent knew that Mercury was the planet
closest to the sun.

Respondents are far more familiar with the Three Stooges - Larry, Curly
and Moe - than the three branches of the US Government - judicial,
executive and legislative.

Seventy-four per cent identified the former, while 42 per cent identified the latter.

Twice as many people (23 per cent) were able to identify the most recent winner of the television talent show American Idol, Taylor Hicks, as were able to name the Supreme Court Justice confirmed in January 2006, Samuel Alito (11 per cent).

The pollsters spoke to 1,213 people across the United States.

The results had a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.

Dwarfs better-known than US justices: poll. 15/08/2006. ABC News Online

via Sabbah:

Chers enfants Libanais/Palestiniens/Arabes/Musulmans/Chrétiens,

Mourrez avec amour.

Sincèrement,

Enfants Israéliens

Je n'ai rien a ajouter.

One of the things I'd like to learn more about at the AMC is the reason behind Hip Hop's domination of musical genres in the world's poorer and more neglected neighborhoods.

• How come artists from rural Africa to inner-city Cleveland to Palestine to Habana Vieja choose Hip Hop as their weapon of choice to speak out?
• What is it about forms like Rap and Hip Hop that make them more attractive as an outlet for the disenchantment, frustration and rebellion that come with living under oppression and poverty, when most mainstream artists today sing about expensive cars and jewelry?
• How did this niche of inner-city African American and Latino youth in 1970s New York City create a movement that has spread to Barrios the world over?
• What makes Hip Hop more accessible to this audience than, say rock or emo (gasp! ) or alternative music?

... when flirting in Spanish.

"Neck" is "cuello", not "culo".

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