It's Naaaaaice...!

Recalling my earlier clipping:

Borat plaintiffs want DVD halted
Last Updated: Friday, December 8, 2006 | 12:10 PM ET
CBC Arts

The future DVD release of the recent hit Borat could be jeopardized as a judge weighs the complaints of two frat boys who claim they were duped into making racist and sexist comments in the movie.

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Again, sympathy for drunken Yahoo frat boys is pretty sparse 'round this here blog. What difference does it make if they were told, falsely or no, that the film would not be shown in the States?

There is an old Japanese proverb: "tabi no haji wa kakisute", which literally means "scrap the shame from your shoes" but is better translated as "the shame incurred while traveling can be easily discarded and forgotten." Not exactly applicable here but it explains why people feel that as long as it's overseas, it's acceptable.

Friday Five Meme Blowout

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Feast of the Jellied Limb, part VIII

Eight years ago today, a car ran over me.
This year I think I began to really understand I will never be free of what that did to me, and what it set in motion.
So, as every year, tonight I will sacrifice an orange to Pedwok, the God of Pedestrians, in the crosswalk where I got hit.

[EDIT: I threw the orange into the air, and it landed and rolled all the way to the other curb, instead of staying put in the middle of the street. Was this a sign of a good year to come, or of the strong self-preservation instincts of tree fruits?]