Archives for the 'culture' Category

Is Nothing Sacred?

Published on 26 Mar 2009 at 12:12 am. 5 Comments.
Filed under America, Hollywood, culture.

Variety: Sean Penn to play Larry, Jim Carrey to play Curly, Benicio del Toro to play Moe in Farrelly brothers Stooge flick. Not a biopic, an actual “Stooge” feature.
Why improve on perfection? Maybe it’s meant to be a tribute. That cast sounds like an abomination. You want a Stooges tribute, have a three-day Stooge-a-thon. Or [...]

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Textual Harassment

Published on 8 Mar 2009 at 9:10 am. No Comments.
Filed under Internet, crime, culture, dummkopf!, language, love.

And the growing problems of kids and their phones. I’d add the Internet and people in general. Boston Herald: 

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New Dawn Of American Leadership

Published on 2 Feb 2009 at 10:47 am. 3 Comments.
Filed under Obama, celeb, culture, pols.

The bi-partisan reach across could have been handled better. The good news is, the culture wars have given way to presidential fat jokes. Gateway also notes that Obama notes that people think he is cool.
That’s all fine. More importantly, after less than two weeks in office, Obama has ended the Iraq war. Reuters:

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As Long As We’re On The Subject

Published on 13 Dec 2008 at 9:35 am. No Comments.
Filed under America, culture, free speech, history, pervs, pols, sex.

Here’s a tribute to some refreshing honesty after Aniston’s look/don’t look ratings bid. Pervs, shed a tear, for the pinup queen who scandalized America … and got targeted by that other variety of exhibitionist, the prudish politician crusader … all over her pioneering sense of being liberated for profit. Bettie Page, 85, won’t be down for breakfast. Death gets [...]

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The Truman Syndrome

Published on 25 Nov 2008 at 9:52 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under Greenness, TV, culture, medicine.

Beats the heck out of thinking the CIA is monitoring your thoughts. Or George Bush is erasing your civil rights. The new paranoia is the delusion that your life is one big reality TV show. UK Telegraph: 

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Putting On The Sitz

Published on 24 Nov 2008 at 9:07 am. No Comments.
Filed under ancient mysteries, assorted shit, butts, culture, deep thot, do-goodism, dummkopf!, elsewhere, engineering, explosives, ground views, law & order, moronocy, pot, science, shameless opportunism, song, taxes, western civilization.

Better late than never. It was World Toilet Day Nov. 19. I let it go at the time.* But now squatters are back in the news. The la-di-da loos of Times Square. AP via Boston Herald. I’m inspired: 

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Sometimes the Internet stinks…

Published on 23 Apr 2008 at 4:19 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under Hollywood, blogs, culture.

… And sometimes it shines.
Finding Victor Davis Hanson, Frank Miller and Bill Whittle discussing actors and the movie industry in the same thread.
Now I could definitely find worse ways to start the day.
(Scroll down the comments for Miller and Whittle)
UPDATE:
Oh and, if by any chance Frank Miller was to read this: please Sir, drop the [...]

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Distorted Morals

Published on 24 Jan 2008 at 10:37 pm. 1 Comment.
Filed under culture, media, motherhood.

For some reason this, Times of London “Pope attacks media for ‘distorted morals,’” and this, SF Chron’s Daily Dish, “Jamie Lynn Spears to give baby to mom?” seem related.

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What Is Hip

Published on 20 Jan 2008 at 8:15 am. 2 Comments.
Filed under America, culture, media.

Sunday morning deep thots compliments of West Coast hipster Driscoll, who weighs in on Kelly and Steyn re Sinatra, Wayne, Hope vs Fonda etal in The Birth of Cool. Whether or not Sinatra succumbed to irony or not could make someone’s dissertation, though. Kelly, in case you don’t know him, was very cool, unironic, made [...]

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A Jolly Rogering

Published on 6 Jan 2008 at 12:00 pm. 4 Comments.
Filed under Flashman, culture.

Administrated by the late great George MacDonald Fraser, in his 2002 jihad vs. mainly British politicial correctness in this excerpt “Light’s On At Signpost.” Daily Mail:  

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Queer Eye for the Naked Chick

Published on 3 Jan 2008 at 10:01 am. 6 Comments.
Filed under America, culture.

The beauty and genius of reality TV has always been how it launches relatively normal people … which is to say petty, conniving, weak and tantrum-prone … into utterly unreal situations and pits them against each other like lab rats. Subcategories include career-launch reality TV and socially responsible reality TV.   

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Stunned

Published on 29 Dec 2007 at 7:16 am. No Comments.
Filed under culture, lawyers.

Trekkie claims Christies sold him bogus Trekabilia. 

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