23.5 Degrees: Fee, Fi, Faux Fun - May 31, 2008 - 04:52am
Dear Miss and/or Mr Stella Maris,
Another pearl of wisdom from your secretive typewriter! Thank you. I don’t know if you read comments your fans write about your outpourings. Mostly, they write rubbish, but sometimes only they are not so. I have a question to you.
I have been thinking for many months now about joining a secret society. Do you know which are the really good secret societies? Which ones have the best secrets? In ideal case, it should be secret society in north of Tbilisi. If they had weekly newsletter, where they send out new top-secret secrets to their members, that would be very nice too. Are there any secret societies where members receive a badge which they can wear under the lapel of their coat, so they can identify each other? I would like that very much.
Once I joined secret society in south of Tbilisi (I won’t tell you the name! Maybe you know it), but they had sign of “Kulak” (clenched fist) outside the front door. I thought it was connected with “kulak”, name of capitalistic landowners, humanely crushed by our Great Leader, Stalin, in 1930s decade. I hoped that this gentlemen-only secret society would allow me to investigate with my new secret friends many great mysteries and secret places. But at initiation ceremony for me, they played too loud rock music and told me I have to take off my trousers! Then, I was shocked to discover, very muscular man in charge wanted to investigate my private secret places! As you can imagine I am sure, I was even amazed, because they were many gentlemen watching and grinning like horse. So I ran away. You will understand, I am sure, I was too frightened to go back and collect my trousers!
So, if you know good secret society to recommend, not Minnie Mouse one like “Kulak”, I shall be very grateful to you. I am very interested in secrets, but I definitely don’t like monkey-business!
Meantime, Dear Mr and Mrs Maris, please keep writing secret articles. If “25.3 degree” club has newsletter, could I receive one please? I promise not to tell anyone the secrets in it, even unless I am tortured. If there was a “25.3 degree” secret badge, that would be great too!
23.5 Degrees Movie Review: Bloodline---The Movie - May 26, 2008 - 11:42pm
Dear Mr Buzzkill, Thank you for your comment, but do you know you can even drink vodka?- it's not just used for fuel here. If you buy expensive brands of vodka, you can drink it without going blind for three days!
We have a proverb here that even a bad movie seems good if you drink enough vodka. Maybe if you drink enough vodka, Bloodline, The Movie will seem like great movie - even masterpiece. I hope perhaps one day Mr Burgess, who made Bloodline, The Movie, will make Sushi Code, The Movie. If my personal conspiracy theory is true that Japanese people eat so much fish because of holy parabola of five loafs and three fishes, maybe with enough vodka audiences will believe this too or at least see that it can be historically accurate like Bloodline, The Movie. After all, as the very bad man, Mr Pontii Pilat asked, "What is truth?" Perhaps, this is one of major themes of Mr Burgess's great film?
I am sure all Maniac people know great Soviet novel about Mr Jesus Christ, called Master and Magdalena (by Mr Bulgakov). Curiously for me, it is set in Jerusalem and not Japan, but such historical inaccuracy could be corrected in artistic movie with great director.
23.5 Degrees Movie Review: Bloodline---The Movie - May 26, 2008 - 12:13pm
Thank you for your excellent review of Bloodline, The Movie. Here in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia (old-USSR), we love historical documentaries. From the clips I have seen on American ABC web-site, it looks like very serious documentary. When Da Vinci Code, the Movie, starring Mr Thomas Hanks, opens here in the autumn, I'm sure it will be big hit. From what I have heard, there may even be some historical errors in the Da Vinci Code. For example, your BBC believes that Mr Jesus Christ died in Japan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5326614.stm
Perhaps that is why Japanese people eat so much fish?! Does anyone know if there is a movie planned to expose that conspiracy? I would happily pay 10 lari (about $7) to see Sushi Code, The Movie!
Please remember, even your great Mr William Shakespeare made some historical mistakes in his plays, for example, clocks striking in Julius Caesar, the Play. Therefore, please don't be too tough on Bloodline!
Is Poultrygeist also a conspiracy movie? It must be wonderful to live in a country where such great films are made, which treat their audiences as serious, rational people who want to understand about all the conspiracies all around them. It is just a tragedy that some American films are anti-USSR, such as Borat and new Indiana Jones movies.
Is someone planning to make a movie of the Stella Maris columns? I think it would be a big hit here in Georgia. I have tried to find Miss MM Smith's album, The Egg, but alas without success. It sounds amazing! Maybe it could be the soundtrack for Miss Maris's movie?
23.5 Degrees: Bloodline---The Movie - May 06, 2008 - 01:34pm
I agree with Jedi4sshield. So why do we keep reading this stuff? ... because it's going to become interesting, if we hang on in there? I sure hope so... Can't wait to see Bloodline! Sounds cool!
23.5 Degrees: Bloodline---The Movie - May 06, 2008 - 01:33pm
I agree with Jedi4sshield. So why do we keep reading this stuff? ... because it's going to become interesting, if we hang on in there? I sure hope so... Can't wait to see Bloodline! Sounds cool!
Interlude: Eggsistential - Apr 04, 2008 - 06:55pm
I wanna know about Sophie's religious beliefs! When can we get to hear the Egg? We get all these tantalizing promises that Stella's gonna share her wisdom with us, but where's the beef? Is Stella all hat and no rabbit?
Dear Miss and/or Mr Stella Maris, Another pearl of wisdom from your secretive typewriter! Thank you. I don’t know if you read comments your fans write about your outpourings. Mostly, they write rubbish, but sometimes only they are not so. I have a question to you. I have been thinking for many months now about joining a secret society. Do you know which are the really good secret societies? Which ones have the best secrets? In ideal case, it should be secret society in north of Tbilisi. If they had weekly newsletter, where they send out new top-secret secrets to their members, that would be very nice too. Are there any secret societies where members receive a badge which they can wear under the lapel of their coat, so they can identify each other? I would like that very much. Once I joined secret society in south of Tbilisi (I won’t tell you the name! Maybe you know it), but they had sign of “Kulak” (clenched fist) outside the front door. I thought it was connected with “kulak”, name of capitalistic landowners, humanely crushed by our Great Leader, Stalin, in 1930s decade. I hoped that this gentlemen-only secret society would allow me to investigate with my new secret friends many great mysteries and secret places. But at initiation ceremony for me, they played too loud rock music and told me I have to take off my trousers! Then, I was shocked to discover, very muscular man in charge wanted to investigate my private secret places! As you can imagine I am sure, I was even amazed, because they were many gentlemen watching and grinning like horse. So I ran away. You will understand, I am sure, I was too frightened to go back and collect my trousers! So, if you know good secret society to recommend, not Minnie Mouse one like “Kulak”, I shall be very grateful to you. I am very interested in secrets, but I definitely don’t like monkey-business! Meantime, Dear Mr and Mrs Maris, please keep writing secret articles. If “25.3 degree” club has newsletter, could I receive one please? I promise not to tell anyone the secrets in it, even unless I am tortured. If there was a “25.3 degree” secret badge, that would be great too!