Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for January 18, 2018
January 17, 2018
January 19, 2018
Transcript:
apocalyptic! really big! james cameron's next project by richard thompson "teutonic" - schwarzenegger as nietzche-spouting undercover cop who's a robot, too. director: action! arnold: ich lehre euch den ubermenschen, baby. punch punch punch "tyrannic" - bossy director makes everyone's life sheer hell in lengthy biopic. director: action! actor: cut! "newmanic" - newman goes postal in much-anticipated final seinfeld episode. director: action! newman: where's jerry?
aerilim almost 7 years ago
We’re still waiting for that final Seinfeld episode…
ChessPirate almost 7 years ago
“Goodbye, Newman…”
Sisyphos almost 7 years ago
If we’re very, very quiet, and lucky, maybe there won’t be a Next Project from James Cameron….
Joliet Jake almost 7 years ago
I’m still trying to fully understand how his cliche-laden piece of crap won an Oscar for best picture.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
Nietzsche isn’t the best to quote from. Many times he is speaking the opposite of what he believed by first illustrating it then demolishing it. He was no lover of Germans, Germany or soldiers. His example of an übermensch was polymath genius *Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * (born August 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar.
When asked about Napoleon he called him half and have, half overman, half underman.
Ü·ber·mensch
ˈo͞obərˌmenCH,ˈYbər-/
noun
noun: Übermensch; plural noun: Übermenschen
the ideal superior man of the future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own values, originally described by Nietzsche in Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–85).