Director : D.W. Griffith Release Date : 28 December 1921 (USA) Genre : Drama Cast : Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard, Dorothy Gish as Louise Girard, Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey, Frank Losee as Count de Linieres, Katherine Emmet as Countess de Linieres, Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Pra...

Last month I asked you to share the most clever CTA begging lines you had heard. Since then, I've had a few more notable experiences with beggars. It seems like I can go months without seeing one, and then there's a veritable beggars flood. Blame the economy this time? Putrid potheads. Last ...

FINE: Our dear friend Jon Swift is very angry at your Wonkette for our endorsements in four of the 8,000,000 Weblog Awards categories, because some up-and-coming blogs that would have all lost to horrific PUMA blogs will now simply lose to other blogs. In other words, Jon Swift is mad that he is los...

Last Friday evening, just after I stepped onto the Red Line train to North Dallas, a homeless man approached my area of the car with a cup in his hand. "Can you spare me a little change, brother," he asked the fellow standing just in front of me. The guy ignored the beggar, so, he moved to me. I saw...

Purba on Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama’s Indonesian connection. Former Menteng student now US President Obama Barack has been democratically elected President of the US. Quite an about face for the best democracy money can buy, in view of the Bush presidential se-lection. But of course, corru...

Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Chuck, Reality-Free No, it's not another lamentation about those overlooked shows that really do deserve a DVD set, but just can't seem to get them. I've grown accustomed to having Bob's weekly DVD release post arrive like a slap in the face as Beggars and Choosers is n...

:: Epitaph signs I Set My Friends On Fire . [link, Driven Far Off] :: Dillinger Escape Plan goes PETA for animals. :: Nerd alert; Putting Indie Rock in GTA IV. :: Holy crap - Beggars Banquet and Too Pure CLOSE SHOP. :: Scarlett Johansson has a music video. :: Jury duty went well; I was there a full ...

As part of the crazy, new-frontier world of music labels, Beggars Group have decided to thin out the number of imprints they operate under, shuttering the venerable Too Pure and Beggars Banquest labels and transferring across artists under those banners to 4AD. It used to be quite hard to get onto 4...

Hard to believe that i’m almost to 200 episodes! In this episode, I decided to take a trip back and look at some artists that I played on Zaldor’s World in the past and see how they’re doing today! This episode was also broadcast live via Ustream.tv - which I hope to be doing for e...

            Eighty years ago or so—I’m not sure of the exact date—H.A. Baker and his wife, Josephine, lived in the southwest corner of Yunnan province, in the little town of Kotchiu.  There they ran the Adullam Home, ministering to or...