Vote for the Sexiest Geeks of 2007

Vote for the Sexiest Geeks of 2007

“Duelity”…get it?

Duelity is two cute animated shorts, pitting evolution against creationism, that dovetail very slickly into one another. Watch it…err, both at the same time.

New movie “Teeth” taps into primal fear

Teeth looks like a quaint little indie flick about a budding teen discovering her sexuality…and coping with a vagina that bites. Yeah…that nightmare has never kept me up at night…

Flickr Photoset: a prairieland journal by d.composed

I am rarely compelled to describe anything as poetic. The word is used too often to describe the precious and kitsch. This set of photos feels like a place I dream of and may have visited on a day I barely remember now. Therefore it is poetic to me:

a prairieland journal by d.composed who describes it thusly:

wherein the everyday happenings in and around this fictional place are chronicled

Flickr Photoset: The Blackwing Series by quebon2

This is a beautiful set of portraits by Daniel Payette, a.k.a. quebon2, of a raven-haired vixen in an old alley in Granby, Quebec. The makeup is excellent, but her skin looks so perfect that I think there must be some retouching involved:

The Blackwing Series - a photoset on Flickr

The Illegal “Cross-Country Sprint for Glory”

Pretty cool story about breaking an illegal cross-country race record: The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory. In this day and age of super-surveillance and high tech cops these guys left surprisingly little to chance…

The Chicago Maternity Center Story Screening

The Chicago Maternity Center Story is a great documentary that my mom worked on in the 1970s. It screens this coming Sunday (December 9) at 1:30 p.m. at the Chicago History Museum. There is no cost for the movie once you pay museum admission.

About the film:

For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. In 1974, when modern medicine’s attitude toward home birth changed and funding from Northwestern University declined, the center was forced to close. This film interweaves the history of the center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center’s fight to stay open. 60 minutes.

A discussion with Gordon Quinn, president and founding member of Kartemquin Films, and Kartemquin Films alumnus Suzanne Davenport (my mom) will immediately follow.