Ronin (1998) [looking at Jean-Pierre's model] Jean-Pierre: The Forty-Seven Ronin. Do you know it? [Sam shakes his head] Jean-Pierre: Forty-seven samurai, whose master was betrayed and killed by another lord. They became ronin - masterless samurai - disgraced by another man's treachery. For three years they plotted, pretending to be thieves, mercenaries, even madmen - that I didn't have time to do - and then one night they struck, slipping into the castle of their lord's betrayer and killing him. Sam: Nice. I like that. My kind of job. Jean-Pierre: There's something more. All forty-seven of them committed seppuku - ritual suicide - in the courtyard of the castle. Sam: Well, that I don't like so much. The Movie Quotes
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A Chameleon Sky
The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL) Read More
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“ I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, ?he Bus That couldnt Slow Down.
now it’s official - we had a windhose tornado in Augsburg, Germany,
84 years befor the fist known U.S. Tornado.
And we have a picture of it.
I’ve found it in our newspaper this morning.
Can you imagine the effort to get this picture?
“Wtf, a windhose tornado, see - like the tail of a dragon
(original text as they found in the old newspaper - the dragon tail thing).
“Oouh, let me take a picture - fast!”
“Where are my easel, brushes and colors? Faaaast…..!”
“Dam, forgott my canvas…f***!”
“OK, let’s start….. ?§#*% f***, where is it?”
It’s depressing me, if i can see someones social downfall. This is what i’ve found in
the newest wholesale flyer (Metro) between lamps and office-chairs.
Günther Uecker, a international known german artist. You can find him in the MoMA. He was a member of the artist group Zero. With there exhibition in NY, 1964 “Zero” has been the fist successful german art since 1945 in the United States.
I live. Lot’s of work and familiar things to do - and the week didn’t start very well. First thing to do was a discussion with a defaulting customer. He really couldn’t remember given me the order to take about 20 product-photos, 4 month ago, and 2 month after my invoice. Quite funny…..really…*sigh*
So… i’ll try to chill and think about a exciting story for the blog.
By the way, Kurt, we have something similar to your convention,
the Erlanger Comicsalon.
This is, where i bought this one (55″ x 39″ screenprint, Jörg Döring, 1 of 500)
Update Tuesday: It’s mine. We have kinda haberdashery junk store in town. It’s like a time travel when you enter the store. Carpets, fabrics, clothes and tools from 1970 till..ehm 1990. There are small corridors thru thousands of goods. This funny little thing i found in the shop-window.
“ I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, ?he Bus That couldnt Slow Down.
