Stanley And The String Theory

      In case you give a tinker's damn, here's the (naturally NSFW) deleted orgy scene from Stanley Kubrick's lamentably bad swan song, Eyes Wide Shut. The stuff one finds on the Net....

      Cranky hump-day aside: Let me pause a second to take issue with the word "Interweb" which is gaining ground in common parlance. The word "interweb" is a lot like the word "postmodern," an absurdity: modernity refers to what is happening now, so for anything to be after it is futurism, prediction, or prophecy, and so to categorize anything that has already happened as postmodern makes absosmurfly no sense; similarly, a "web," by its very nature and design, is always already a thing of connections and nexus points, so to identify a web as being "inter" anything makes no smurfin' sense. A web that is not a thing of interconnections is a string, or a thread, or a line; it is not a web. Oh, what a tangle interweb we weave....