Hot Fuzz and Pliny

One hundred and sixty-five pages into the Loeb Classical Library edition of the first volume of Pliny’s Natural History and I’m STILL in the index. I officially nominate Gaius Plinius Secundus (the Elder) as an honorary librarian. I particularly like the way he notes the number of “facts, investigations, and observations” [res et historiae et observationes] at the end of each index entry.

HA! Hot Fuzz is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time! First it takes police work very seriously, and then it spoofs the genre by indulging in all the clichés. It too clever by three-quarters! Simon Pegg is great in this… and his character knows the meaning of ‘exacerbate’.

Also funny (in an unfortunate way) was 300. Every time the Spartan King Leonidas said something with his heavy Scots accent… I just burst out laughing. And once again, the deformed guy is evil…. A prejudicial cliché that has to go!