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new york magazine had a little interview with amnesty's william schulz two weeks ago. they spelled his name "schultz". it is spelled "schulz". i cite two of his books in my paper, AND an email correspondence between him and john bolton, so i know about the weirdo spelling. i have to think carefully every time i type it.

that's proof i've been working on my paper, right? that i noticed that one letter wrong in a new york magazine article?

it would probably be better if i weren't reading a new york magazine from two weeks ago, though.

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i've been saying for years how much better i thought spielberg's movies would be if they had downer endings. if they weren't all like...

( spielberg spoilers... )

i just watched munich.

"no."

and there are the towers.

yikes.

i suddenly kinda respect steven spielberg. finally, he recognizes that there are some stories which JUST CAN'T have happy endings. no standing over people's graves with flowers, all empowered by the horrifying history. no one is empowered in munich. no one wins. everyone is destroyed.

that's my kinda movie.

plus it has eric bana. how disturbed am i that i find eric bana sexy even when his soul is being eaten away from the inside? plus they show lots of shots of daniel craig walking in tight pants from behind. james bond has never had a nicer butt than he does now. i had to focus on these moments of hotness so as not to be too messed up by the movie. i have to focus on bana-sexy to keep from realizing too acutely that there is absolutely no way that we're ever going to fix the mess we're in.

maybe that's why i am not enjoying my schoolwork anymore. because i've been wishing all these years for a spielberg-downer, and now that i've gotten it i realize the biggest downer of all. there is very little i can do in human rights to fix the bigger picture. the bigger picture being, no matter how many people get the right to free speech or how many women get saved from FGM or whatever i end up helping with in some tiny way, we're still gonna use nuclear bunker-busters on iran and they're going to bomb israel and israel's going to go apeshit and we're all going to hell. thanks, seymour hersh. i really needed to read that article the day before watching munich. now i'm in a GREAT mood.

but at least spielberg made an emotionally satisfying movie for me.

on an up-note, who knew that magda from sex and the city could do such a good golda meir impersonation? huh.