| standing up |
[Jul. 31st, 2008|04:55 pm] |
hey y'all -
i'm doin' some standup-style merry making at Lo-Ball in Ballard on Friday. It's at Live Girls Theater and it starts at 11p. come, let us exchange pleasantries and the odd bon mot. |
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| weather redux |
[Jul. 31st, 2008|04:53 pm] |
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Funny thing; now it's raining. This totally reminds me of the time I wanted it to stop being cold and rainy because it's fucking July. |
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| seattle's 4 season's: WINTER-SPRING-SPRINGFALL-FALL |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|03:33 pm] |
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Hey, it's 65 and rainy. That's fucking awesome! I only really wanted a couple weeks of summer-like weather, so, this couldn't be more fucking awesome in any kind of way. JESUS' SHIT, this is awesome!! |
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| SeeNN |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|03:31 pm] |
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Campbell Brown's eyes smile. |
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| "Dark Knight" review |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|11:43 am] |
Katie Holmes was not missed but Heath Ledger is. Long and allegorical, "Dark Knight" challenges our notions of what a hero is, what some men will do in the name of "justice" and the number of teens that will sit through 152 minutes of an amazingly dark and slow-paced movie.
In the end I liked it, but didn't love it - and I really wanted to love it. Ledger as the Joker was gorgeous - dark as the cold, dank basement of a child molester. The exploration of the "justice at any lengths" approach to terrorism is definitely a welcome mirror on our times, and that the reflection was so deeply dark is all the better. Unfortunately, however, Director Chris Nolan crammed too much in at too slow a pace. All the elements for greatness are here, but at points those elements are belabored beyond their pull date. A tighter flick would have been a better one, message or no.
And, for the record, no matter how you slice it George Bush is a lying ass wipe who uses the US constitution as a spunk sock. In no way, shape or form is he any sort of knight; dark or otherwise.
Yours,
Batman reviewer guy |
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| FACT! |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|10:48 am] |
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macrame kinda sounds like macaroni but doesn't taste the same. |
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| 5xfast |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|10:47 am] |
say this five time fast...
little shy soldier.
good fuckin' luck.... |
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| I'm famous... |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|06:43 pm] |
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look very closely to see my fame.
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| Most Ironic Lyrics Ever |
[Jul. 17th, 2008|03:47 pm] |
" I really wanna be over-rated"
- from the song "Bang Your Head" by Quiet Riot |
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| Step Brothers |
[Jul. 17th, 2008|03:20 pm] |
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I just saw Step Brothers on Tuesday - it was funny as shit. Go see it. |
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| China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo |
[Jul. 2nd, 2008|09:19 am] |
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excerpts from NYTimes article...
WASHINGTON — The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
In 2002, the training program, known as SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape, became a source of interrogation methods both for the C.I.A. and the military. In what critics describe as a remarkable case of historical amnesia, officials who drew on the SERE program appear to have been unaware that it had been created as a result of concern about false confessions by American prisoners.
entire article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html?hp |
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| SaladAnimalCloudSalad |
[May. 15th, 2008|01:11 pm] |
A guy wearing a fleece jacket with the collar upturned, corduroy pants and a blue-tooth festooned ear, what I like to call the "Mr. Pacific Northwest" look, just ordered a protein salad from the PCC prepared-foods counter. When I was a lad a protein salad meant something completely different.
At least I'm assuming they're not the same thing. Either way, it's guaranteed to be organic.
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Putting any two animal names together makes for a great band name.
Zebra Monkey
Iguana Sheep
Ass Fish
They all work.
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I am sick of the fucking clouds.
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Protein Salad would also be a good band name. But it is a fucking terrible salad name. |
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| Mouse on a Rope |
[May. 14th, 2008|07:25 pm] |
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I just bathed with free soap. Thanks Disney World Resort circa 2005! |
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| movie addendum... |
[May. 14th, 2008|12:23 pm] |
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After seeing recent comedies from McKay and Apatow, the trailer for Mike Meyer's new movie just looks incredibly old fashioned and irrelevant.
Still, people were laughing at the new Adam Sandler trailer, so what do i know.
BTW - I was able to see a bunch of Stepbrothers, Adam McKay's new movie, and it looks friggin hilarious. |
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| I spy with my little eye... |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:00 am] |
The movies I have seen recently:
In the theater
Baby Mama - meh. Could have been way better. I love Amy Pohler, and she was good. Just wish the writing were stronger.
Iron man - hell's yes. Awesome movie with inspired casting. Great summer movie. Great super hero movie. Good luck matching this Batman and Hulk.
Speed Racer - terrible. Some interesting animation ideas that in the right hands could have been interesting, but in these hands fell as flat as the plot, script and acting. I am always amazed at how Susan Sarandon can still get me chubbed, but not worth the price of admission. I'd rather rent Rocky Horror - great movie and less clothes.
Rental
Batman Begins - awesome movie, but I goitta give the nod to Iron Man. I have a huge issue with super heroes constantly letting people, usually the distressed damsel, know who they are underneath. To me that is the difference between a hero and a super-hero; the inability to share your identity with others, the inability to fully share in the human experience. That enormous secret is what separates the hero from the society they are set on protecting. Here Bruce has no compunction sharing who he is, and that bugs me.
Little Big Man - I've seen it before and I'll likely see it again. Great movie. Dustin Hoffman with only just a hint of Rain Man in his performance - unusual to be sure.
Shaun of the Dead - friggin loved it. Great movie.
Superman: Doomsday - why can't they make live action Superman movies that are this compelling and this real? I loved it for it's treating the viewer like an adult, and so treating Superman like one too. |
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| For Those About to Sock... |
[Apr. 11th, 2008|02:19 pm] |
I get that American Apparel is good for the economy as all the items are "made in America" - a slogan they're trying to have mean something again - and I think that's great. But honestly, it is the sexiness of their adverts that is driving me to the store these days. Short pants and high socks? Yes please...
I salute you American Apparel. |
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| Are You There God? It's Me, John |
[Apr. 10th, 2008|02:01 pm] |
I loathe the term "guilty pleasure". I just don't like to feel guilty about any pleasure, even though, at times, I do. My own christian upbringing, albeit ever-so-slightly thus, has given me at least enough guilt to know that I shouldn't enjoy 1/2 of the things I do 3/4 as much, and that I should feel 10 times as guilty as I have. But the church of me says I shouldn't feel even that much guilt.
Why the hell would anyone feel guilty eating chocolate? If you're eating to obesity, then that's a problem and not a pleasure certainly. If you're not, if it is merely a treat, then why the guilt? Fuck it - enjoy it guilt free says I.
With all the porn floating around the internet, you'd have to be a robot not to feel moved by it. Why feel guilty - grab a sock in a jolly way and move on.
I used tobacco for years and could never understand feeling guilty about it. You know what it can do to you. You are undoubtedly aware of the effects - both good and bad. Choose to use it or not use it. Feeling guilty about it only adds stress and there's already plenty enough of that to go around. And if you're one of the lucky few that can have a cigarette or dip of snuff here and there and never feel addicted - then you're the succubus and you should rot in hell. But you shouldn't feel guilty about it.
If you have the lust to kill or you're looking at a little kid the wrong way, well, fucking stop that. That's wrong. Don't be a douche. That's not a pleasure - that's fucked. Go get help. But for the little shit in life, I say guilt be damned; let's just enjoy ourselves a bit. Eat that piece of chocolate with a shit-eating grin on your face. Stare at that pretty girl just long enough to get good and caught. (but then stop. otherwise it's just creepy.) If you want to masturbate to "chicks with dicks" with a dildo in yer ass, do it with a song in your heart.
Viva la pleasure - screw the guilt! |
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| Brattleboro, Vermont passes indictment of Bush and Cheney |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|03:31 pm] |
[taken from the email newsletter from www.votetoimpeach.org]
The courageous people of Brattleboro, Vermont have taken the lead! Frustrated that elected officials have refused to introduce articles of impeachment in defiance of their constituents' demands, the people of Brattelboro voted to direct town officials to draw up indictment papers against George Bush and Dick Cheney for violating their oath of office.
The Brattleboro vote took place during the Tuesday's Vermont primary election. Bush supporters launched a major campaign to discredit the referendum resolution and the organizers. Yet the resolution passed by a vote of 2012 in favor to 1795 against.
"Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?" The people of Brattleboro answered, "yes!"
The indictment means that Bush and Cheney can be arrested for criminal acts should they ever enter Brattleboro. The indictment would go into effect after Bush and Cheney leave office. |
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