Our generation

Cool guys aren't passionate fighters anymore. The more bored you look when blocking the enemy's roundhouse kick while sweeping his standing leg, the cooler you are.

See?



Ok, so this could just as easily be Keanu acting very excited. Bad example.

Still, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has taken bored-fighting to an entirely new level. Even this image can't capture it. You have to watch the movie to feel his sheer boredom during the fight.

Cool Chatter...

Nathan helpfully drew my attention here to the anti-cool phenomenon. This round of anti-cool attack seems to be particularly in response to Blue Like Jazz, a collection of reflections by Donald Miller. No doubt the reaction is partly due to the by-line: "Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality".

In other blog news, Al discusses 'the cool' here, firmly placing himself behind the book.

However, this 3-point post from Mikey just nails it. So nails it.

Maybe I should actually read this book...

Nah, I'm off to read some Clifford Simak.

The big bang

Explosians are cool. And while this guy actually isn't cool enough not to look at his own explosions, he's still pretty cool. And by cool, I mean nerdy. Which is cool. When you're making blowing things up. And even sometimes when you're not.