July 15th, 2010 by admin

The Fox News obituary of Kurt Vonnegut airing the day after his death seemed particularly harsh to me, but I may be especially sensitive because I’m a big Vonnegut fan. I’ve uploaded some clips from the Fox News obituary for you to see and decide for yourself.

FYI, I tracked down the origin of the ancient Greek admonition “Not to speak evil of the dead” to Diogenes Laertius quoting Chilon (pictured at the beginning of this video) quoting Aesop at: http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlchilon.htm

The photo of Chilon itself comes from Nicolas at http://www.greecetaxi.gr and can be found at http://www.greecetaxi.gr/Philosophers/Gilon01.jpg

Finally, this video also qualifies as the latest addition to my YouTube playlist titled “Fox News Bias” at: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D

Duration : 0:3:10

Read the rest of this entry »

author, Bias, Brit, cat's, cradl, despondent, Fox, great, Hume, james, Kurt, leftism, literature, news, report, Rosen, special, Vonnegut

June 25th, 2010 by admin

I’m officially obsessed with this movie. Have you seen it? What did you think?!

Considering this photo edit only took me 30 minutes, i think it’s pretty good Now if only i could make myself a tail…

FYI – photo retouched in Adobe Photoshop CS3, filmed using iShowu, edited in iMovie

http://blog.franchesca.net

http://twitter.com/chescaleigh

Duration : 0:1:7

Read the rest of this entry »

20th, 2nd, Adobe, alien, Avatar, cameron, century, Chescaleigh, december, design, Fox, graphic, iMovie, iShowu, james, machinima, michelle, movie, navi, New, pandora, Photoshop, planet, rodriguez, saldana, sam, sigourney, space, the, TRAILER, weaver, worthington, zoe