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This post by Rawles Marie Lumumba (via jimhines) sums up everything I've been feeling lately about the Bechdel Test.

SF Silent Film Festival Schedule is Live!

The Mark of Zorro with Douglas Fairbanks!

I mean, there's lots of other tasty stuff, too. (Pandora's Box! The Cameraman with Buster Keaton! von Sternberg's Docks of New York! Pola Negri as The Spanish Dancer! and OMG, South!)

But do I have a ridiculous weak spot for Douglas Fairbanks? Yes I do. Errol Flynn can go fuck himself; I hear he enjoyed that sort of thing...

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"Like George W. Bush, [Mitt Romney] was an essentially frightened, unloved young man who came of age under tremendous pressure to live up to a famous father, who failed to distinguish himself as a scholar or an athlete and was relegated to the sidelines, whose desperate jocularity was shot through with a kind of unexamined sadism. Both men have forged a path to success via an alarming absence of self-reflection."

http://therumpus.net/2012/05/the-week-in-greed-6-to-behave-like-the-fallen-world/