http://3rdarm.biz Bizness & Blog of Arthur Robert Mullen III Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:23:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Precious is such a powerful film that it was hard to cry while I watched, but later the same day, and the next day, I remembered part of the story and lost it. I listen to the soundtrack and think of specific scenes. I have read many reviews ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/03/08/was-that-all-it-was/ One of the best moments in American Waitress, New Mexico, is when my favorite of the four waitresses profiled, Karen Webb, takes the filmmakers on a tour of her house. Everything is from second hand stores, she says. Her hair is down and its long and wavy. ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/03/04/karen-and-the-oliphant/ This March, in like a tiger. My sister called me a tiger in a recent blog comment, and this morning at work while at eye level with a teapot rapidly filling with boiling hot water, flying droplets striking my face like tiny daggers, I was named a tiger again. ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/03/01/stochasticity-in-tigers-and-feet/ Two weeks until Daylight Savings Time and I finally caught the cold. Feverish and stuffed up, sweaty and snotty, I pushed through. When the sickness broke I felt so good. Tonight marks one full year free from all chemicals, substances and pot. A sober and determined ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/28/the-odyssey-of-ehram-spickor/ What is the story written on Thutmosis IV's stela? The Dream Stela describes a time when he was just newly king. [Scholars put his reign at 1401–1391 B.C.] According to the stela, Thutmosis IV was strolling here one day, all alone. Around midday, he got very hot and decided ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/24/the-dream-stela-of-thutmosis-iv/ The big wave competition Mavericks was held last weekend. The waves at this break near Half Moon Bay in Northern California are absurdly large, 25 to 50 feet. This year it wasn't just the surfers taking them on: "bone-crushing" rogue waves washed over the seawalls and swamped spectators. ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/19/lophiiformes/ "They say when you die you see something like a movie. A life kaleidoscoped into a few seconds. I look forward to that movie. A man's last movie. I don't want it interrupted. 'Darling don't die!' and tears... I can do without that. Hey, our movie's starting." ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/13/noodle-slurping/ "Now we have invited all of you people to come into our little living room here so we can play a few songs and tell you a few stories. Now some of these stories are kinda spooky!" Randy of The Residents, in an old man mask, intoned through a ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/11/what-are-ghosts/ [transcript from the NOVA episode, Killer Subs in Pearl Harbor] KAZUO UEDA: Mr. Kamita, here is your brother. Here is Mr. Dewa who accompanied you to Pearl Harbor. NARRATOR: A cup full of sand is carefully removed from the seafloor, beneath the sealed control room of the midget sub, and given to ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/10/a-cup-of-sand/ In 1973, during the Chilean coup, the folk artist Victor Jara was taken prisoner, and along with thousands of others, brought to the Chilean stadium where the military tortured and killed a large number of people. The guards shattered the bones in Victor's hands with blunt instruments, then asked ... http://3rdarm.biz/2010/02/06/new-songs/