tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65404892011-04-21T19:24:49.486-05:00Sports, movies, politics and life. All rolled up into a nice, if not necessarily neat, package. PS: The opinions expressed on this website are exlcusively my own, and are not shared by my employer, friends, family, or acquaintances except where they explicitly say as much ;-).Hankbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09052468252581287662noreply@blogger.comBlogger4281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540489.post-1115045748461604242005-05-02T09:53:00.000-05:002005-05-02T09:55:48.463-05:00

Bidding adieu to the home that has served my blog so well for so long. I will not be importing the blogger posts into the Blue Parrot, so if you wish to read past witticisms and criticisms, feel free to come back here any time. Mean time, come on over to my new digs at The Blue Parrot.Adios!

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Doby is watching you....

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Going to start posting again starting Thursday 4/28 both here and at The Blue Parrot. Comments will be turned off here, but on at The Blue Parrot. This should go for about a week or so, and then the transition should be complete.Meantime, will have lots of stuff up tomorrow. Promise.

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Lindsay at Majikthise linked up to this photo essay. It highlights the transport of some penguins from Sea World San Antonio. The pictures are amusing enough, as the penguins had to clear security like any other passengers.This by itself would be funny enough, but once again proving that wingnuts have no sense of humor, Michelle Malkin used the opportunity to pitch a hissy fit. Tbogg dishes on

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You get something like this query letter over at Query Letters I Love: "I propose you a film about the greatest possible position: the President of the World (who is expected to come). Free Masons and Jews want to unify the whole planet in a single State, a Planetary Republic which will be leaded by a King/President. An Arabian terrorist group threatens Jerusalem with a nuclear bomb because

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Via The Poor Man, this story in the Nashua Telegraph: A man convicted of stealing more than $600,000 in a business loan scam received an award from the National Republican Congressional Committee honoring his business leadership and party support.Ira Stern, 56, of Milford was among hundreds of people nationally to receive the 2004 Ronald Reagan Republican Gold Medal award, Republican

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On the heels of Norbizness' Comedy Movie bracket, won handily by Dr Strangelove, Norbizness has a post highlighting Scamboogah's classic video game bracket (pre-1990 defining classic). Round 1 was split here and here. Skip all the way to the Final Four here. Highlighting some of my favorites from the original list:Narc - Was an Atari arcade title if I remember right, and pretty hard core for

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My friend Patrick tuned me into the idea that George Lucas really has sold his soul to Satan: Two Star Wars TV series will follow the latest movie in the hit film franchise, director George Lucas has said. Animated show Clone Wars, currently broadcast as three-minute episodes, will become "a 3D animated" series of 30-minute shows, he said. It would be followed by a live-action series

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Again Fafblog provides the surreal:answerWe have been to the opera. And by "the opera" we mean "the post office" and by "been to" we mean "thrown buckets of fish at" and by "we" we mean "people who are not us."I'm not terribly sure I want to know what the question was.BTW, if you aren't reading Fafblog, well...what's wrong with you? It's the world's only source of Fafblog for crying out loud.

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A great deal has been made in the left blogsphere about Ann Coulter's cover story on Time Magazine this week. Billmon at Whiskey Bar has an interesting theory on what might have motivated it. When I was pissing on the chowderheads over at Time the other day for their infotainment treatment of Ann Coulter, I argued that the limo liberals at Time Warner were essentially offering protection

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Image courtesy Feministe.Drunken Philosopher's Edition, inspired by the post below. "Bruce's Philosopher's Song" - Monty Python "Hot For Teacher" - Richard Cheese (as cheesy as the original Van Halen was, Richard is the ultimate lounge act and takes it to a whole different level) "Starve a Fever" - The Atomic Fireballs "She Drives Me Crazy" - The Fine Young Cannibals (actually just this

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I tipped my girl onto the online comic Questionable Content a ways back, and she and I both read it regularly now. She linked to today's comic because the phrase "Oedipal marshmallow bits" just made her giggle. Sadly that got my brain going in a very bad direction. Therefore, O-pun season has begun (most of these are in her comments, but I had to share):Nietzsche-O's, the Breakfast of

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Jackie very rarely sits still for pictures, so I had to get this one while I could:My feet must not stink too bad, she's not running from the sock :-)Bonus critters:TBogg's Thursday Bassett Blogging includes a tale of wanton destruction.Feministe has a stealth cat.And my girlfriend's cat may have some Mexican in her blood. Cause she just be laying around ;-). And I can say that as a 100%

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The decision to migrate off of blogger is a done deal. I have registered a domain name, and purchased server space for hosting purposes. I have been getting a crash course in Word Press from my friend Patrick. He migrated over a month or so ago and the move has been a good one for him by all appearances.Why make the move? For one thing, Blogger's performance has been spotty of late. Several of

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Actually, I'm not quite sure what to call this, so I figured this was as good a place to stick this incident as any.So I applied by accident for an Apple credit card. Apple used to do their financing through MBNA, but are now in a partnership with I think it's Juniper bank. When you apply for financing you're actually applying for a Juniper Mastercard with whatever the promotional rate is at the

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I've not been in a good mood today. I had an interview for a possible new job/position switch scheduled for this afternoon. When I came in today, the first thing I found out was that it had been rescheduled. Needless to say, I was a bit put out. I'm gonna have to iron twice in a week for crying out loud :-).In all seriousness, I have a review I need to write, and a retrospective/commentary on an

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Some of the problems I've been seeing some people have with Blogger has got me thinking about finding a new home for my rants. I've got a friend who's talking with me on the pros and cons of Word Press, and I may register my own domain and brush some things off if I do. I'll note here of where I'm moving to as soon as I know more. Should be within the next month or so if I do take the plunge.

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Norbizness has moved on to the next round. Voting here.My picks to make it out of this round:Animal House (losing big early)Some Like It Hot (also down early)Dr Stranglove (crushing Chaplin)MASH (big early lead)Caddyshack (close battle)Airplane (neck and neck)Annie Hall (cruising to the easy win)Raising Arizona (running away with it)

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Norbizness is ready for your voting. Voting on round one ends at midnight tonight (Sunday, 12:01AM Monday). Go and vote. Do the guy a favor and make sure to read his instructions for voting in his comments. Some tough choices.My votes:Life of Brian, Animal House, Some Like It Hot, Blazing Saddles, Modern Times, Strangelove. Ladykillers, MASH, Duck Soup, Caddyshack, Airplane!, Philadelphia

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So Supreme Court Justice Scalia had a speaking appearance at NYU Law School last week. At this appearance, after Scalia had made comments demeaning what he termed "the homosexual agenda" he was asked by an NYU law student if he sodomizes his wife.The student expressed the reasoning behind his question with the utmost dignity and eloquence at Wonkette's site today:Fellow Classmates, As the

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Doghouse Riley goes old school on us:I don't own an iPod. Or a cell phone. I still wear spats. You kids get off my lawn. But dammit, I wanna have fun, too. And since sex is out of the question at my age I dusted off another relic, the lamentably no-longer-supported Apple™ Hypercard and programmed it to turn up random numbers between 1-762, which is the number of Long Playing Records stored in the

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Another language quiz, courtesy of Sisyphus Shrugged.Your Linguistic Profile:40% General American English30% Yankee20% Dixie5% Midwestern5% Upper MidwesternWhat Kind of American English Do You Speak?I'm just curious how in the hell the Midwesterner got into my speech. I was told quite often when I was younger that I spoke like a Yankee. Now I have proof.Leave your percentages in the comments.

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So some days ago Rush Limbaugh made some stupid crack about how the new network Al Gore is going to start up is going to be all blowjobs all the time, taking a potshot at Al's old boss Bubba. That led to this post from Echidne of the Snakes which I snarkily linked to here. Well today James Wolcott just shows how the snark should be done.Limbaugh seemed to be implying at the top of his voice that

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You know the drill. First 10 tunes to come up on my iPod after hitting shuffle today are: "War" - Low Rider (Viva La Raza! ;-)) "Nothing Left (breeder remix)" - Orbital "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears (ah...High school memories....shudder) "Girl" - The Beatles "(I'm Gonna) Kick You Out and Let the Sun Shine In" - Caesars (Thank you Berry, you "Man with a fork in a

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Doby seeks to protect his home from evil ribbon.Bonus: Norbizness has Friday Now-Dead Cat Blogging (which is to say the cat is now dead, not that the photo is of a dead cat. Who do you think he is, Bill Frist?).My girlfriend shows off her pussy at Non-Exhibitionist. Go figure ;-).

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Norbizness has completed his comedy film bracket, and I think it's a pretty solid one all around. He's seeking input in his comments for the individual representative from certain "conferences"/categories before finalizing things and playing it out. Go give it a look and cast your vote. Tell him Hankblog sent you (he delisted me off the blogroll rightfully when I disappeared for a couple of

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This appeared in a post on The Hardball Times: Reader Jim Mohl, who will eventually receive co-writer credit one of these days, has been closely following my investigation of the alphabetical order of American League teams. As noted last week, the re-christened Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim broke up a five-team stranglehold by the American League Central over the middle of the alphabet, but it

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When people talk about changing the current health care system to something similar to what they have in European countries, someone invariably brings up the bugaboo about the evils of socilaized medicine, and how much better the US system is.Over at Wampum, they illustrate in plain dollars and sense just what the true difference is. The numbers will make your jaw drop.

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It should be interesting to read their respective takes in the comments after they read this post from Echidne of the Snakes.The seeds for this post are in something Atrios has on Rush Limbaugh. Supposedly Rush has been foaming at the mouth about Al Gore's proposed entry into the media. Rush fears (or hopes?) that the planned liberal media would be all about blow jobs. Which of course is as silly

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As if you couldn't tell, I've had an inordinate time to be chatty today. Some of it is due to the fact that I'm on a run of cards so cold at my poker games right now, I couldn't catch cold. The other is the fact that things slowed down for me a good bit this afternoon. Based on the numbers that came out today, that looks like that could change soon:Apple Computer Inc.'s (NasdaqNM:AAPL - News)

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There's been a fair amount of back and forth going on in the lefty side of the blogsphere about whether Democrats/liberals can/should make any effort to take on Hollywood/the entertainment industry in an effort to appeal to moderate voters. Amy Sullivan started the discussion in this post at The Washington Monthly:These last few points are especially critical. In recent talks--including one this

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From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:What follows is a section from a resolution before Idaho's legislature to commend Jared and Jerusha Hess for their production of the movie Napoleon Dynamite:"WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" and run the risk

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Atrios links to this press release from House Minority Leader Pelosi. The opening paragraph:The Republican majority promised after the 1994 elections to manage the House in a way that fostered "deliberative democracy," which they defined as the "full and free airing of conflicting opinions through hearings, debates, and amendments." They also pledged in their Contract with America to "restore

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...they could have used the finished product for a "This is your brain on drugs" commercial (link is in the title in case you missed it)? No word on whether the corpse was a Republican, though that might have facilitated the bong making, as there would be less to hollow out.Thank you, I'll be here all week...

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Inspired by this awful attempt at seeding 64 comedies like the NCAA basketball tournament to determine the ultimate comedy, Norbizness is taking a crack at fielding and seeding a bracket of 32. He needs help with categories and films. Go here and offer up anything you think he might have missed in the comments. I'll link up once he gets the field narrowed down.

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First, Tbogg brings our attention to the talking Jesus doll. No joke, 100% for real.A talking Jesus doll is due to go on sale in May, along with versions of Moses, the Virgin Mary and David, as a teddy bear maker tries to find a market with churches and religious families.The foot-tall Jesus doll will be able to recite five Biblical verses at the push of button on its back, while the Moses doll

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From Boing Boing by way of Norbizness' round up of Hollywood inanity, we have a captioned version of the full Revenge of the Sith trailer done entirely in leet speak. If you're not familiar with leet, check this out. Then watch the new version of the trailer here. Lucas has never read better.

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Courtesy of Amanda at Pandagon, we see that just when you think human vanity can't sink any lower...well...from the story Amanda links to:HEARD of sphincter bleaching? Beauticians are billing it as the new Brazilian wax."In the last couple of months I've had a lot of requests, so I've started some experiments," says Sydney beautician Anna Marsiano from The Bees' Knees salon."I've got one client

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Tbogg has a post about the latest romantic drivel to come out of Hollywood (Fever Pitch). In clicking the links he puts into his post, I find that Drew is slated to star in a F-ING Curious George movie. With Will Ferrell.Please, make the hurting stop.

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Figured I would link to this post at Sadly, No! and give some love to my Red Sox peeps.I'll come to my senses eventually ;-)

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Or it will if this bill gets passed (registration required, try Bugmenot if you don't want to mess with it):With the help of a dime-size adhesive tag on a vehicle's windshield and cutting-edge technology that detractors equate with Big Brother, police soon could track Texas cars and trucks — if a legislator's bill makes it into law. Though the bill hasn't made it out of the Texas House of

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David Neiwert at Orcinus has always been an enjoyable read for me, but I rarely link to him because his posts are usually quite long and involved analyses of various issues in the world today. However, this post really bears reading: One of the many holes in civil-rights protections for minorities in Washington state is that it remains legal to discriminate against gays and lesbians -- in hiring

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Couple of interesting tidbits I picked up trolling Majikthise today. I was going back over posts accumulated in my Bloglines aggregator.First off Lindsay links to this story about what I believe is the first ever microbe bank, established in Brazil.Hundreds of bacteria, fungi and yeast species, mostly collected from the wilds of Brazil, have been made available to researchers looking for new

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I'd been sitting on posting about this for a while. I freely admit to being a bit of a coffee snob. For the office, I pick up Costco branded stuff because I can score two pounds for the same price one pound of a cheap store brand variety costs, and the java itself is actually very driankable. When I get an itch to go to a coffee shop, I try to go local though. I very much am behind the Keep

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I don't think there's been another athlete in my lifetime celebrated as much as Tiger Woods. Michael Jordan is comparable, but Woods wasn't even nineteen when he started making the covers of magazines and such. I think when Tiger's had his day, the number of words printed about him will be double or triple that written about Jordan.That much can pretty much be a given considering what Tiger did

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My kitties have been a bit under the weather lately so no pics of them this week. Pinch hitting for Doby and Jackie...Deja is brown bagging it today.Bonus kitty: my girlfriend has started up he own blog, though posting will be sporadic until her thesis is done. But for now, go take a look at my girl's pussy ;-).Atrios' kitties enjoying a nice nap.Feministe gave us some Friday Dog Blogging.And

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Driftglass is a recent new addition to the blogroll, and the post he has up here is a big reason why he's been tacked on. I hope he'll forgive me if I copy an extensive part of the opening (also if it turns out he is a she):Ok, honestly, I don’t remember my first time.I remember the season, sort of, and if I wanted to I could probably bring all kinds of flashy CSI reasoning to bear and to deduce

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Some of the bloggers I read have gotten into a literary frame of mind. Lindsay at Majikthise was the first blogger I read who had the below questions. Amanda at Pandagon follows up. My offerings:You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be [saved]?That's a tough one to start, but an important question. I think if I had to save one book that I've read, and extending the

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Hey, I was feeling alliterative.So the NCAA basketball tournaments are over. Roy Williams and North Carolina reigned supreme on the men's side Monday night, showing talent does win over team. The numerology nuts had a field day with the fact that Sean May scored 26 points on his 21st birthday, 29 years after his father played in the final for the undefeated Indiana Hoosiers. In the winning

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My friend Jamie in New Mexico tipped me off to this Reuters article about something really neat going on in New York:There's a joke that goes around among prison guards. How do you know when a prisoner is lying? When he opens his mouth. So began the last tale in a recent evening of stories about teen-age dreams and eating dog biscuits, being robbed, working as a copy shop manager for Xerox and

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DailyKos is working on establishing a network of sports related blogs. If you know of someone that should be included, please list them.

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I bring you your blog moment of zen for the week: courtesy Fafblog.

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Since this kind of thing usually gets spread around in emails that clutter my inbox, I'm thankful that instead my friend Patrick shared this madness on his blog. However, I curse him for infecting my brain with it, and my girlfriend's as well.

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Wanted to highlight a couple of the selections on my blogroll and why:BatgirlBatgirl is a baseball blogger of the Minnesota Twins variety. She writes some lively posts that show her unfettered love of her Twins. A highlight post can be found in this rendition of the Congressional hearings on steroids rendered lovingly in Lego (you read this right). Lego theater is something she features on a

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Norbizness has his predictions for the NL Central, the only division he cares about.Tbogg is so going to hell for this crack on the Schiavo made for TV movie. Americablog has a link to a great political cartoon about Delay's meddling in the Schiavo affair. More as I come to them. Playing catchup with all the posts cached in my Bloglines aggregator.

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Ok, here's the thing with the American League. Last year, when Boston executed the greatest comeback in post season history (and you have no idea how much it nauseates me to type those words), the Red Sox showed that truly anything is possible. So with that as a given in this league, I think predictions are pretty much an exercise in futility, but I'll take a shot just the same.AL West1.

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Tigers win 11-2 in a big way. Dmitri Young leads early AL MVP balloting ;-). I don't think I'll be liveblogging an afternoon game, as it might run into my poker game for the evening. Will talk more about the highlights from the first day of the season later tonight or tomorrow.Current innings will be at the top of the post. Hit refresh to see the most current action every few minutes or so.

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Understand I've paid no attention to the Hot Stove League this offseason, so most of this is just me talking out my ass and will likely be very very wrong.National LeagueNL West1. Padres2. Dodgers3. Giants4. Diamonbacks5. RockiesI think the Padres have potentially the best young rotation this side of Chicago. Jake Peavy led the league in ERA last year with a 2.27, and was solid all season.

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OK, all they have talked about baseball wise this offseason. Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, on and on. Congress had players and Comissioner Selig come to Capitol Hill to talk about the problem. Leave aside the fact that the whole congressional hearing thing was grandstanding, baseball STILL dropped the opportunity to make themselves look like they were taking action.So how freaking stupid do you have

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Kind of a dog for MLB's first game of Opening Day, but I'll take it. After yesterday's Yankee thrashing of the Red Sox, I can honestly say for one day at least the natural order of the world is restored :-).

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Doby stretching out.Why does this photo feel vaguely like kitty porn? :-)

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Sin City (2005) Directors - Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller; Guest director - Quentin Tarantino; Starring - Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Nick Stahl, Rosario Dawson, Jamie King, Brittany Murphy, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan; Screenplay - Robert Rodriguez, from comics created and written by Frank Miller; Rated R for graphic violence, nudity,

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Sin City can be summed up in one word.Wow.Just...Wow.More tomorrow. Promise.

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Read the first part here. Then read this page off The Onion if you didn't get it all from the first half.I think it's a fair amount easier to find a few good or even exceptional moments in bad films than it is to find truly awful ones in wonderful movies. I do think that I'm somewhat relieved that I've only seen 5 of the bad films on this list compared to 8 of the good ones. Maybe my tastes are

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So work has settled a bit, but not enough to get back to regular blogging. I had a break between poker tournaments though, so I'm at the coffee shop getting some writing done.One of the things I wanted to talk about was this feature The Onion's AV Club had up this week. In it, they highlight what they find to be 15 of the singularly worst scenes in otherwise great films, and the sole exceptional

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Via World O' Crap, Mister Snitch notes the similarities and differences between the subjects of two origin blockbuster tales coming out this summer.

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Image courtesy Feministe (link connects to her list for the week)1. "Why Can't We Be Friends" - Smash Mouth (I know, I don't want to hear it)2. "Land of the Living" - Don Henley (Tbogg has his Random 10 here, but this song might be better for this list he linked to. WARNING: Serious bad taste alert)3. "You can Love Yourself" - Keb' Mo'4. "Velouria" - The Bad Plus5. "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" -

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Happiness is a sleeping kitty Bonus critters:Atrios has well informed cats. Least, when they're awake.Doghouse Riley at Bats Left, Throws Right has some sweet Friday Guitar Blogging. Go, it'll make sense when you get there.

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Work has been grinding me into pulp this week, but it's all done tomorrow. Will have at least a catblog and Friday Random 10 up later. Anything else would be gravy, but don't hold out too much hope for it just yet.

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Ann Telnaes hits one out of the park with this cartoon.(courtesy Rubber Nun and Tbogg)

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Ok, this has got to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read:A turtle that was the only survivor of a pet shop fire may have emerged with a hellish memento. [snip] Owner Bryan Dora now says he sees an image of Satan's face on the critter's shell. He can spot lips, eyes, a goatee, shoulders and a pair of pointy horns on Lucky's back.Uh...yeah....why do I get the impression the fire was caused

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This looks positively awful.

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...but the second caption Attaturk came up with in this post has tears streaming down my face, I'm laughing so hard. That is just sooooooo wrong.

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It's all over the blogsphere, but I'll tie to Kevin Drum's post on the latest sample of your tax dollars at work:The Senate Health Committee has requested that Terri Schiavo and her husband, Michael, appear at an official committee hearing on March 28. Earlier Friday, a House committee was issuing congressional subpoenas to stop doctors from disconnecting the tube. ....A statement from the

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As if you couldn't tell, work has slowed a bit. Hence the flurry of posts. So without further ado:(image couresy of Feministe) "Plenty More" Squirrel Nut Zippers - a song that music just doesn't seem to jibe with the lyrics. "Goodnight Song" Tears for Fears - since I picked up Shout: The Very Best of Tears for Fears, I've not realized just how much I liked their stuff. "Mama Weer All

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In light of W's nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank, I think it's a good idea to link to Digby's post at Hullabaloo that provides some insight into how the Repugs may be thinking on this one. I'd never heard of David Brancaccio before this, but if there's even 1/10 of truth to what he says, I'm not the least bit surprised this is the tack the White House is tacking. To call this

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Tbogg, who is consistently one of the funniest, snarkiest voices in the blogsphere, demonstrated his remarkble range with a memorial edition of Thursday Bassett Blogging yesterday. Reading it is probably going to bring back memories of treasured pets that have long since left you to frolic in greener pastures. If you don't mind a bit of deft sentimentalism, give it a read.

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Sadly, No! links to this story on Ananova. Doubt that it's real, but if it is, expect an appearance with John Bobbitt before long.

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Ezra Klein in a scattershooting post had a link to this article in the LA Times (free subscription required I think but worth it).Dr. Richard Olney knows nearly all there is to know about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease. He knows that over a couple of years, it destroys nerves that control muscles, gradually entombing the mind alive in a useless body until, unable to move,

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Doby go down the hole....(sorry I couldn't find a better link, but I hope anyone who remembers Tiny Tunes catches this).Bonus critters:AtriosKevin Drumand Attaturk at Rising Hegemon.

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Work's gotten busy. But I wanted to say:Happy St Patrick's DayandLet the MADNESS BEGIN!

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Oliver Willis excerpts part of Harry Reid's letter to Senate Majority Leader Frist.It's been said to a different man, but the sentiment is still the same.Give 'em hell, Harry.

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No More Mister Nice Blog points out one of the more disturbing aspects of this Times of London story about problems with friendly fire in Iraq.The best part? The reason this is happening: US commanders were so worried that their men were shooting at the British because they failed to recognise the Union Jack or other distinguishing military markings that, in an unprecedented move, they asked

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Amanda of Mousewords is moving over to Pandagon to blog there with Jesse on a regular basis. Until the transition is done, she's cross posting at both places.Today she takes this essay by Scott Jonas that talks about why good Christian women shouldn't participate in sports. Amanda then splatters Jonas like a fly on the windshield.My personal favorite out of her take:Most men I know admire a

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From Media Matters for America, comes this lovely tidbit from Rush Limbaugh:Remarking on "a blonde female FBI agent" escorting suspected gunman Brian Nichols to a police vehicle, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh said that "[s]omebody here is trying to ram [political correctness] down our throats." [snip] Of course, a 5-foot woman could not play in the NFL; a 5-foot woman could not

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Ezra links to this post at SueAndNotU that just had me howling.So, from an on-line chat at the Washington Post on the ID v. Evolution brouhaha:The Discovery Institute, which is ground zero for the intelligent design movement, gathered at last count the signatures of 356 scientists who question evolution. In response, the National Center for Science Education, which strongly defends the science of

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Constantine (2004) Director - Francis Lawrence; Starring - Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Shia LaBeouf, Djimon Hounsou, Gavin Rossdale, Tilda Swinton; Screenplay - Kevin Brodbin & Frank Capello, from story by Kevin Brodbin. Based on the comic book Hellblazer written by Jamie Delano and Garth Ennis; Rated R for violence, language, and adult themes; trailer here.If the road to hell is truly paved

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Ok, I'm used to Fafblog being surreal, but this is just...well...see for yourself.

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Via Ain't It Cool News, this has to be one of the coolest uses of Lego I've ever seen. Be forewarned, it is a very large movie file.

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So I'm in the breakroom here at the office, and Purple Rain is on the TV in there tuned to Bravo. And the question comes to mind: has there been another movie that so completely blended a really terrific soundtrack with such an utterly awful film. Brea is going to mount a defense in the comments, I'm sure, and she's welcome to. But let's be real here, other than Clarence Williams doing an

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Springtime, when a young man's heart turns to thoughts of love...of sports.I have long held that the following three weeks are the best time of year to be alive for me as a sportsfan. Three straight weekends of the best college basketball action you could ask for. Then the Monday all of this basketball insanity comes to an end, I can veg out the whole day enjoying the first day of the baseball

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Bonus kitties:AtriosFeministe (read the story attached. Poor woman.)

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Majikthise links to this NY Times story (Registration required) about two retired NYPD detectives who are now charged with having acted as mafia hitmen during their time on the force. This paragraph catches the movie geek's eye:For more than a decade, the men, while collecting their police pensions, have lived across the street from one another in an affluent gated community in Las Vegas, Mr.

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(image courtesy of Feministe)So if I'm following the chain correctly, Feministe is the one to whom we owe this tradition. Following her lead this week, as well as Mouse Words' listing, my Friday Random Ten:Vesuvios - Get Shorty Soundtrack (amusing, considering the sequel opened last weekend)Drink Drank Drunk - The Atomic FireballsBreafast at Denny's - Combustible Edison (off the Four Rooms

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Nice to know...That even though college football season is over, we can STILL have people whining about the Longhorns in the Rose Bowl.Thank god we won that game...

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Clear the Queue premiere episodeThe web based TV show my good friend Tim is putting on premieres Saturday, March 12th. Check it out here. I've also added a button on the right before the blogroll if you want to jump over and see what's new at your convenience.Update: There's now a short trailer on the site. Looks like you'll need Windows Media 9 at least to play it.

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It's very post modernMatthew Baldwin a.k.a. Defective Yeti has had me howling as long as I've been aware of blogs. Today he's got a post about the birthday party for his infant son that amuses me to no end because I can sooooooo see myself doing something goofy like this.PS: if you have any thoughts about have children in the future, read the entire collection of posts on his experience as a new

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Aggies migrate north of the borderAtrios has a link to this story in Editor and Publisher."Man Charged With Assault on Sheep" was the headline, and the true-life story, by Caryl Clarke, begins: "Somebody was making nighttime visits to farmer Terry Patterson's sheep barn in the 600 block of Big Mount Road in Paradise Township." It goes on to tell of a man arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting

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I miss him on SportscenterKeith Olbermann provides some perspective on just how Bud Selig's recent declaration that records set during the steroid era won't come with an asterisk. Selig's declaration may be worth about as much respect as his haircut.

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Can not WAIT!!!Given the unremarkable crop of movies to come out last year, there's not been a lot of reason to get my hopes up for this year, or so I thought. The Hitchhiker's trailer I linked to is one reason to have hope.This trailer is the second (Quicktime required). I have to say this looks absolutely stunning, and might be the thing that moves Rodriguez up into the upper echelon of action

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