November 23, 2009
— Ace
"Now, if you want to go to Sarah Lawrence, you're going to have to know a few moves..."
Ah, yes. A bit of flirtatious play-lesbianism. Was super-hot in college. And, at age 50... well, still kind of hot, in that desperate "I don't want to die alone" sort of way, but you usually don't do it around your neices.
And then there's this pic:
Cougar? Why I barely even know 'er!
By the way, Nina Hartley just called, she wants her AVN-nominated performance in Ready, Willing, and Anal back. (And yeah, 1992 just called me, they want their dated jokes back.)
These pics are pretty old, actually -- from 2006, during the after-party celebrating Couric's elevation to CBS anchor, but they're just being circulated now.
Couple more at the link.
Charlie Gibson just emailed me to say "I have never seen that woman before in my life. And what is a woman?"
P-Shop: From old/dirty/b-tard.
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Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:02 PM (lN56Y)
Posted by: GT at November 23, 2009 03:02 PM (Vyrg6)
The Olbermann and a goat pics should be awesome.
Posted by: Methos at November 23, 2009 03:02 PM (CoDwG)
Posted by: Frank Perdue at November 23, 2009 03:03 PM (lN56Y)
I wonder if thats her daughter in the above pic saying "lets go mom, you've had enough, Spongebob is getting ready to come out"
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 03:03 PM (+FzLa)
Posted by: Winston Smith at November 23, 2009 03:04 PM (N7rhL)
Posted by: Trish at November 23, 2009 03:05 PM (0U5Kd)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at November 23, 2009 03:06 PM (qoAMF)
And by the way, she may be a stupid lefty hack... but she really does look pretty damn good. Especially for her age.
Posted by: dan-O at November 23, 2009 03:07 PM (+9Rf8)
Big friging suprise!!
The only thing is, Radical Islam did not read the script. The stupid One wants to be a celeb, rather then a world leader. All that work, why bother.
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at November 23, 2009 03:07 PM (pU4D7)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:08 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at November 23, 2009 03:08 PM (pU4D7)
Posted by: Prufrock at November 23, 2009 03:08 PM (QMJqR)
Step away from the Valu Rite. That shit is so ugly it would knock a buzzard off a shitwagon at 50 paces.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:08 PM (lN56Y)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:09 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: wherestherum at November 23, 2009 03:11 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: David in San Diego at November 23, 2009 03:11 PM (GF+6V)
Posted by: wherestherum at November 23, 2009 03:12 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: annak at November 23, 2009 03:12 PM (M4IOE)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:13 PM (jlvw3)
Fuck it. Don't answer that.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:13 PM (lN56Y)
Posted by: les grossman at November 23, 2009 03:13 PM (Vc/xe)
Posted by: mystry at November 23, 2009 03:14 PM (kmgIE)
Posted by: Bwarney Frank at November 23, 2009 03:14 PM (cvvNY)
Posted by: hous bin pharteen at November 23, 2009 03:14 PM (pU4D7)
From the pictures it appears she has about the same number of people attending her party as she has viewers of her nightly news show.
Posted by: bulwark at November 23, 2009 03:15 PM (jvrmc)
Posted by: Winston Smith at November 23, 2009 03:15 PM (N7rhL)
Posted by: Gabriel Syme at November 23, 2009 03:15 PM (X2xSP)
Posted by: Mike H at November 23, 2009 03:15 PM (cvvNY)
Posted by: Chas at November 23, 2009 07:14 PM (yjDfo)
It would have been Photoshopped a bazillion times by now...probably with a child hanging out from under her skirt.
Posted by: billygoat at November 23, 2009 03:15 PM (DrB2V)
Posted by: GarandFan at November 23, 2009 03:16 PM (ZQBnQ)
she's not cute
Remember when you were a kid and made a hand puppet by drawing a face on your closed fist? And then you'd walk around like you were Señor Wences and talk to people with your hand puppet?
Katie Couric looks like your hand puppet.
Posted by: a.k.a. at November 23, 2009 03:16 PM (UUkhk)
It would be hot. When a dude does it, not so much.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 07:15 PM (lN56Y)
Not just hot -- HAWTY-HAWT!
Posted by: billygoat at November 23, 2009 03:16 PM (DrB2V)
Posted by: The Boobie Watcher (rdb) at November 23, 2009 03:16 PM (XgNkX)
Katie Couric looks like your hand puppet.
I've fucked my fist. I won't fuck Katie Wences.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:17 PM (lN56Y)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:17 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: billygoat at November 23, 2009 03:18 PM (DrB2V)
Me: Drawing the curtains and getting ready to put Senor Wences to work
Draw the teeth. And remember to make it whine nonsensically.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:18 PM (lN56Y)
Posted by: Charles at November 23, 2009 03:20 PM (sfc/A)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:20 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: kathleen sebellius at November 23, 2009 03:21 PM (pYB/+)
Love love love love that there are teens in the shot while Couric is doing her best stripper skank impression.
All class, baby.
Posted by: Stupid-assed Lefty at November 23, 2009 03:21 PM (QoR4a)
Posted by: Dan Rather at November 23, 2009 03:21 PM (W+E+o)
What? Now?
While that's out there?
Are you stark raving mad?
Have you gone fucking insane?
Bite me, I'm parking, baby. I'm parking.
Posted by: Freak-a-zoid at November 23, 2009 03:21 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: A Bunch of Penises at November 23, 2009 03:21 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Winston Smith at November 23, 2009 03:22 PM (N7rhL)
Looks pretty young.
I disagree. But Uma Thurman with an erection is a scary thesis, no matter the age.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:22 PM (lN56Y)
I GOT IT!
Play the video I linked in #55 while looking at Couric. (IOW, listen to the sound while looking.)
PERFECT! Especially the women laughing and the kids hollering "gross."
Posted by: The Boobie Watcher (rdb) at November 23, 2009 03:22 PM (XgNkX)
I'm serious.
Katie's mouth is terrible. Her lips look puckered and sickly. And here eyes are beady and round and droopy.
Posted by: a.k.a. at November 23, 2009 03:22 PM (UUkhk)
The first pic at the link will make you want to turn around and jump out of a pane glass window screaming.
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 03:22 PM (+FzLa)
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 07:22 PM (+FzLa)
I wasted my last pane glass window yesterday looking for my glasses. Or in January on Inauguration Day. Fuck. I don't remember. I just know I'm safe.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at November 23, 2009 03:24 PM (lN56Y)
I acquiesced to good common sense and did Katie in 2006. It was traumatic and painful pulling out the cooter quills and washing Mr. Bad Boy with Clorox to remove the stench. Afterwards, dating Fran from Kukla, Fran, and Ollie was a better choice than being a beautiful person known as Katie's cockmaster.
Posted by: Fish at November 23, 2009 03:24 PM (6mfq0)
Posted by: Charles at November 23, 2009 07:
Fucking socks!
Posted by: David Axelrod at November 23, 2009 03:25 PM (sfc/A)
Posted by: volfan at November 23, 2009 03:25 PM (lF49h)
Posted by: Pecos Bill at November 23, 2009 03:25 PM (8WOM0)
Posted by: SOME ASSHOLE HAS MY PEN at November 23, 2009 03:26 PM (VmAoa)
I see that and I want to cry and cry again.
Posted by: jerry seinfeld at November 23, 2009 03:26 PM (2qU2d)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:26 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: toby928 at November 23, 2009 03:26 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: Dan Rather at November 23, 2009 03:27 PM (W+E+o)
My assistant was just helping me adjust the camera so everyone could see that I'm just as pretty on the inside. Is that so wrong?
Posted by: Katie Couric's colon at November 23, 2009 03:27 PM (Oxen1)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at November 23, 2009 03:27 PM (GGgoa)
This gawker post here seems to indicate that the younger girls in the pictures are her daughters, and that this was all a rehearsed dance. It says that one of her daughters is 18. I would guess that the one in the top picture of this post is older than that, since there is another picture on gawker of a girl who looks to be about 18 and looks a bit younger.
Posted by: dan-O at November 23, 2009 03:28 PM (+9Rf8)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at November 23, 2009 03:28 PM (GGgoa)
Posted by: mystry at November 23, 2009 03:31 PM (kmgIE)
Here.
Posted by: a.k.a. at November 23, 2009 07:27 PM (Uf4aV)
I would only like it if she didn't.
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 03:31 PM (+FzLa)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:32 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Aaron at November 23, 2009 03:32 PM (pVvKc)
Posted by: Dan Rather at November 23, 2009 03:32 PM (W+E+o)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at November 23, 2009 03:32 PM (OkT2m)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy at November 23, 2009 03:32 PM (D0Mfw)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:33 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at November 23, 2009 03:33 PM (GGgoa)
Posted by: XBradTC at November 23, 2009 03:34 PM (y0E9v)
Words to live by.
Don't use your real name.
Posted by: toby sunshine at November 23, 2009 03:34 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: Winston Smith at November 23, 2009 03:34 PM (N7rhL)
Posted by: wherestherum at November 23, 2009 03:34 PM (gofDd)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:35 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: A skank by any other name is still a skank..., Katie at November 23, 2009 03:35 PM (Cta0m)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:37 PM (jlvw3)
I still want to see her destroyed. Investigate her background with an electron fucking microscope, find some speck that violates a liberal icon and then destroy her with it. And then do some others in the media. take them the fuck down and teach them that personal destruction si a two way street and they need to knock it the fuck off.
And if you can't find anything of use, since there's little that liberals are ashamed of, then make something up. Like they did about Limbaugh. The Prime Directive is to destroy them. Out of a patriotic duty to save the country.
Yeah, I know that sounds twisted, but the media is the No. 1 domestic enemy in this country.
And the schadenfrude would be pretty good too.
Posted by: LGoPs at November 23, 2009 03:37 PM (tm/sN)
Ah, yes. A bit of flirtatious play-lesbianism
No shit. A 50-something CBS news anchor bumpin and grinding on her niece.
Lovely. Very credible.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 03:38 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:39 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at November 23, 2009 03:39 PM (GGgoa)
Posted by: Larry Craig at November 23, 2009 03:39 PM (V9OIi)
speaking of movies...
Pandorum, starring Dennis Quaid and someone named Ben Foster. Um, not as bad as Battlefield Earth, but not as good as District 9, which wasn't that good.
Pandorum is Planet of the Apes meets I Am Legend meets Alien.
5/10 stars
Posted by: a.k.a. at November 23, 2009 03:40 PM (UUkhk)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:40 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:40 PM (QECjC)
That would happen only if she's a closet conservative. Anything else is anything goes as far as the Democrats and the media (BIRM) are concerned.
Posted by: David in San Diego at November 23, 2009 03:40 PM (GF+6V)
Although, oddly enough, her official website seems surprisingly capitalist and free market. Curious.
Posted by: Kensington at November 23, 2009 03:40 PM (kSpSZ)
@ 86
Thank you! I'm so tired of seeing women degrade themselves like this, and being applauded for it.
Posted by: small town girl at November 23, 2009 03:41 PM (9B/Df)
Posted by: Dan Rather at November 23, 2009 03:41 PM (W+E+o)
I'll bet that room ended smelling like someone dumped over a barrel of pickled herring before the night was over.
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 03:41 PM (+FzLa)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2009 03:42 PM (F+U5/)
The pics maybe old but the puke on my keyboard is new.
You know, everyone has always called Katie "perky".
I've always found her rather too sour for even the likes of overly starched nuns.
Posted by: drillanwr at November 23, 2009 03:42 PM (GkYyh)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at November 23, 2009 03:43 PM (btzPD)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:44 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: 4ican at November 23, 2009 03:44 PM (Rf7S4)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:45 PM (jlvw3)
If it was "HIS niece" there would be jail time and resignation.
Where are the equality feminists?! \rhetorical
Posted by: HeatherRadish at November 23, 2009 03:45 PM (OkT2m)
Posted by: Dan Rather at November 23, 2009 03:45 PM (W+E+o)
Its female students have notoriously Sapphic tendencies.
Posted by: AndrewR at November 23, 2009 03:45 PM (0aRfp)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 03:47 PM (jlvw3)
Ummm...Ace, is this some kind of weird confession? And yes, you're overthinking it...A LOT!
Posted by: billygoat at November 23, 2009 03:47 PM (DrB2V)
Some things cannot be unseen.
I've hated her since long before Palin. Damn her, she dated Chris Botti.
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at November 23, 2009 03:47 PM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:47 PM (QECjC)
She looks like she's wiping her ass on the other gal's dress. And said other gal looks in pain.
She's constantly being hit on the knees by Katie's colostomy bag.
Posted by: Iamnotanalcoholic at November 23, 2009 03:47 PM (sfc/A)
Posted by: Robert at November 23, 2009 03:47 PM (98ywz)
Posted by: Aaron at November 23, 2009 03:48 PM (pVvKc)
Posted by: it'medude at November 23, 2009 03:48 PM (1YVGN)
I think you've got them backward: Mad Max came first; Road Warrior was the sequel.
Posted by: AndrewR at November 23, 2009 03:48 PM (0aRfp)
I agree. And she thinks of herself as a champion of feminism to boot.
Posted by: Katie Couric at November 23, 2009 03:48 PM (+9Rf8)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:48 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:49 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: Gene Simmons at November 23, 2009 03:50 PM (DrB2V)
I guess it reminds me of The Lost Boys more because the movie is edgier.
To be a geek: Road Warrior seemed to say that the apocalypse was caused by general social decay (like a zombie invasion, but without actual zombies, just crazy people), but then in Mad Max it's established (I think) it was a nuclear war.
I think they realized in The Road Warrior that a world-wide nuclear war might not leave any survivors. It would be more like On The Beach, which was also on last night.
And in Road Warrior, they say that the Gyro Captain became the leader of the Great Northern Tribe, but he shows up in Mad Max like two or three years later. (Not really called the Gyro Captain but instead "the Pilot.")
You lost me.
Posted by: Dr. Spank at November 23, 2009 03:51 PM (GGgoa)
Posted by: Daisy at November 23, 2009 03:52 PM (T0ga9)
Too picky. I'd pound her like a jackhammer if I got 3 wishes afterward.
Posted by: Johnny at November 23, 2009 03:54 PM (xVKXy)
152 Well, if you liked the above photos, you'll love this one.
Posted by: chemicaljeffical
wowzers she's fugly
I bet she's really dry, too...you know...
down there.
Posted by: a.k.a. at November 23, 2009 03:55 PM (UUkhk)
"...you show me a person that makes $10MM a year that looks like hell."
Alphabetically, zoolologically or randomly?
Um, let's see ..., Madeline Albright, Hillary Clinton, my mother-in-law, Martha Stewart ....., how many you want?
Posted by: Gimme a minute here, I'm thinking at November 23, 2009 03:56 PM (Cta0m)
Posted by: tom_06060 at November 23, 2009 03:56 PM (t8Np3)
Incidentally, I always wondered about the gyro captain. At the end of the Road Warrior they suggest he ends up with that fineass blonde chick, but then the same actor, like you said, shows up in Thunderdome with a kid. Makes me wonder if he knocked her up and then hit the road with their son. Like maybe because the Great Northern Tribe was boring or something.
Except he doesn't recognize Max the second time around, so probably not, now that I think about it for more than two seconds.
Posted by: AndrewR at November 23, 2009 03:56 PM (0aRfp)
I caught Beyond Thunderdome last night on AMC and it was fricking terrible. I was so disappointed because I saw that about the same time I saw The Goonies when I was a kid and I was convinced that kids could rule the world.
The Goonies stands the test of time, Beyond Thunderdome does not.
At least The Road Warrior was cool. Even the Feral Kid had a razor blade boomerang!
Posted by: Alex's Cabin at November 23, 2009 03:56 PM (wUD8j)
Posted by: mghorning at November 23, 2009 03:57 PM (pYB/+)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 03:58 PM (whG5F)
To be a geek: Road Warrior seemed to say that the apocalypse was caused by general social decay (like a zombie invasion, but without actual zombies, just crazy people), but then in Mad Max it's established (I think) it was a nuclear war.
Yeah..DO you have them backwards? I thought so...
I took it to mean that after the apocalypse of general societal decay, there was a nuclear war between the movies.
Why only 1 apocalypse? That's unimaginative. Let's have like 8.
Because things did get much worse in general.
Perhaps the lawless crazies of the boonies from Mad Max blew off the bombs before Road Warrior.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 03:58 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 03:58 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: The Goat at November 23, 2009 03:58 PM (S8PXS)
Posted by: Shannon at November 23, 2009 03:58 PM (niZOC)
I think they realized in The Road Warrior that a world-wide nuclear war might not leave any survivors.
They realized wrong. That's crap.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 03:59 PM (cok/k)
Did they? I thought it was worse in Road Warrior because he'd gone further into the wasteland, beyond the reach of whatever civilized elements of society still existed.
Posted by: AndrewR at November 23, 2009 04:00 PM (0aRfp)
Posted by: dr kill at November 23, 2009 04:00 PM (KXVFz)
Posted by: big time katie at November 23, 2009 04:00 PM (kmgIE)
Posted by: sonnyspats at November 23, 2009 04:00 PM (kM/ZI)
the same time I saw The Goonies when I was a kid and I was convinced that kids could rule the world.
They can. Take a look at the WH and congress.
Posted by: Iamnotanalcoholic at November 23, 2009 04:02 PM (sfc/A)
As an exercise in viewing a moistened Jeanne Tripplehorn in looking at a post-Apocalyptic world - it beats the shit out of me.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at November 23, 2009 04:02 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: alexthechick at November 23, 2009 04:03 PM (bQ5xy)
Posted by: stuiec at November 23, 2009 04:06 PM (Ate22)
I thought it was worse in Road Warrior because he'd gone further into the wasteland, beyond the reach of whatever civilized elements of society still existed.
Uh, well, as opposed to the small city he was police in (they had police!), and the rural areas with the FUNCTIONAL GAS STATIONS of Mad Max when he goes on the vacation from hell, I figgured the besieged tanker city of Road Warrior WAS the last existing elements of civilized society at that point.
And they say 'nuclear war' in Road Warrior, but there's no nuke war in Mad Max and they don't seem THAT piss poor off... just sort of lawless... like modern England.
So I figgure, society decays to shit... then first movie, then blows itself to bits, then 2nd movie.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 04:06 PM (cok/k)
Source: The European Fecal Standards & Measurements Board, Zürich
Posted by: Sam at November 23, 2009 04:07 PM (Cxsey)
Eight seconds later I'd say "AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS" during completion.
and then tell her that Jessica Savitch was better as I walked out the door.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at November 23, 2009 04:07 PM (ruzrP)
ace, if you would be so kind as to 'splain the backstory to "Waterworld" to me, I'd be forever grateful.
WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THE "W" MOVIE!
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 04:07 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:07 PM (whG5F)
Bruce Spence was the actor. I don't think it's supposed to be the same character, though. He don't think that he recognizes Max.
Posted by: toby sunshine at November 23, 2009 04:09 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: TheGarbone at November 23, 2009 04:09 PM (DpCj+)
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 04:10 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:11 PM (whG5F)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:12 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: big tight skirt girl at November 23, 2009 04:12 PM (kmgIE)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:12 PM (whG5F)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at November 23, 2009 04:12 PM (554T5)
Posted by: Obamath at November 23, 2009 04:12 PM (MMC8r)
what I don't get is the speed with which these mutations happened or the number of land-based asides and quips - Dennis Hopper "work on my short game" et cetera as if the dry world had existed within his lifetime and not ten generations prior ... or the extent of the mutations among the population, or why Costner is wearing an earring, or why the girl is so freaky-deaky important but yet no one explains why she has that particular tattoo and if she did then why ... and such.
.meh.
on a completely different note, I'm taking the advice of Darleen from PW, I'm taking the kids to go see "Blind Side" during the break.
.
Posted by: BumperStickerist at November 23, 2009 04:13 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:14 PM (jlvw3)
under seige from mutant homosexual bikers.
I laughed my ass off when Assless Chap's blonde, gay biker slut got the razor boomerang to the dome.
Does that make me a mutant homosexual bikerphobe?
Posted by: Alex's Cabin at November 23, 2009 04:15 PM (wUD8j)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:16 PM (jlvw3)
They still had cigarettes, apparently tons of them, on a tanker, paddled by oars.
I don't think realism was the objective.
Posted by: toby sunshine at November 23, 2009 04:16 PM (PD1tk)
Hey, she's a Tri Delt from UVA?
Did you know that spells slut in greek?
Now you do.
Don't axe about the secret handshake!
Posted by: Kemp at November 23, 2009 04:17 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:20 PM (whG5F)
Meh.
Beyond Thunderdome, IN Bartertown, was decent.
Beyond Thunderdome anywhere but in Bartertown was crap on a stick with ewoks and shit.
They should have just called it Mad Max: To Thunderdome But No Further, and edited out 45 minutes and been gold.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 04:20 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:21 PM (whG5F)
Why did Costner have to recycle his own urine into drinkingwater in the opening scene when he had gills and could just jump in the water and hydrate that way?
I don't think realism was the objective.
Oh! Right!
Posted by: Alex's Cabin at November 23, 2009 04:22 PM (wUD8j)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:22 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: trench digger guy at November 23, 2009 04:23 PM (kmgIE)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:23 PM (jlvw3)
"I'd bang the stuffin' outta Martha Stewart" - chubby chaser.
I'll grant you, there's a lot of stuffin there to love, about 160 lbs. of it I'd say
Posted by: Gimme another minute here, I'm thinking at November 23, 2009 04:23 PM (Cta0m)
What is this shit about Sarah Lawrence? Coric went to UVA.
48 looks like she's getting ready to crank out a Cleveland Steamer
THREAD WINNER!
Posted by: Kemp at November 23, 2009 04:24 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:25 PM (whG5F)
These people are acting as if The Force and the Jedi are somehow dubious propositions.
Kinda like how the current generation has no concept of Soviet Communism or the threat it posed to the West.
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2009 04:25 PM (F+U5/)
ACORN dumps documents;
Breitbart has them and will release
Dumpster diving? holy moly....
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:25 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:25 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: Zimriel at November 23, 2009 04:26 PM (jXxv6)
Posted by: Lee at November 23, 2009 04:27 PM (TcVyy)
can't bemember the last time I said that........
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties
You need to get out of the house more
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:28 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:28 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Kensington at November 23, 2009 04:28 PM (kSpSZ)
Hokey capitalist economics and ancient constitutions are no match for a commie lawyer, kid.
Posted by: toby sunshine at November 23, 2009 04:29 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:29 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:30 PM (QECjC)
These people are acting as if The Force and the Jedi are somehow dubious propositions.
That's actually a good point I never caught. Star Wars makes it seem like the Jedi Order is at least 100 or 200 years old.
Vader, and Obi-wan and the Emporer you can believe being that old (or older).
But WTF do you do with Luke anyway?
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 04:30 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:30 PM (whG5F)
That could be the most accurate thing you've said in weeks.
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:32 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:32 PM (QECjC)
He may have been a pompous liberal gasbag, but Cronkite would never have been caught dead like this. Hell, neither would Rather.
Gravitas, Katie, gravitas.
No more whining about the "Old Boys Club" from you, Ms. Money-Maker-Shaker - you just troweled ten tons of cement over the glass ceiling you cracked.
Good luck getting a news-reader job now, womynz.
Posted by: societyis2blame at November 23, 2009 04:33 PM (rPDD/)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties
I don't work for the Obama administration, nor am I part of the global warming scam, so I usually tell the truth.
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:34 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: Twinks at November 23, 2009 04:34 PM (LeFbD)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:35 PM (Jyuxh)
" Charlie Gibson just emailed me to say "I have never seen that woman before in my life. And what is a woman?"
In the platsraion video 'Castlevania: Symphony of the Nigh't by Konami, Dracula asks "What is a man ?" He then cryptically answers his own question. " A miserable little pile of secrets!"
So using THAT as a primary source of information, and the power of inductive logic, I can theorize that a woman is also a miserable little pile of secrets only WITH BOOBS.
Posted by: Cack Finger at November 23, 2009 04:35 PM (LDQCY)
Posted by: Crusty at November 23, 2009 04:35 PM (qzgbP)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:35 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: sybilll at November 23, 2009 04:35 PM (U8meV)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2009 04:35 PM (F+U5/)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:36 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties
If you were closer you could come hang with Elizabeth and I.
We're watching hockey, she's on her laptop, me on my PC and we're having a pretty good night.
She's flipping between the Rangers/Blue Jackets game (7-2 Rangers) and the Bruins/Blues game (1-1)
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:37 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:37 PM (Jyuxh)
BTW the girl giving it to Katie in the ass really looks like she's into it(no pun intended).
Posted by: ac at November 23, 2009 04:37 PM (A51gv)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:37 PM (z1D63)
This is in honor of Indian PM Singh, and apparently curry will be served. Because I'm sure the Indian PM wants to fly half way around the world to eat curry in a fucking tent.
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at November 23, 2009 04:38 PM (IoUF1)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:38 PM (QECjC)
rolls up?? Rolls?? either: 1. yeouwch,,or 2. ew, did you blow it up first and now have to let the air out and roll it like an air bed?
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:39 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:39 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Corona at November 23, 2009 04:39 PM (+xghX)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 08:25 PM (Jyuxh)
--That's what she said
Posted by: Michael Scott at November 23, 2009 04:39 PM (I3Udb)
Posted by: Corona at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (+xghX)
Posted by: Michael Scott at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (I3Udb)
So....yeah, I was just uh, workin out.
Pumping some iron.
I like to stay in shape.
I miss anything?
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (QECjC)
rolls up?? Rolls?? either: 1. yeouwch,,or 2. ew, did you blow it up first and now have to let the air out and roll it like an air bed?
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties
I heard he has one of the ones you pump up if you have massive erectile dysfunction.
Charlie Gibson told it to me though, so I doubt it's true.
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (hA5JK)
O/T: This is cool.
Call For Conressional Investigation Into Climate-gate...
--Drudge
And it's Inhofe.
Posted by: rdbrewer at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (XgNkX)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:40 PM (whG5F)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2009 04:41 PM (F+U5/)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:41 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2009 04:42 PM (F+U5/)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:43 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:43 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:43 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: Zimriel at November 23, 2009 04:44 PM (jXxv6)
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:44 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:44 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:45 PM (whG5F)
Good god, did I just say that? Yes.
Posted by: scottythrust at November 23, 2009 04:45 PM (oBJkk)
Posted by: aurelius at November 23, 2009 04:46 PM (5HhWZ)
Posted by: Zimriel at November 23, 2009 04:46 PM (jXxv6)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:46 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: madtechie at November 23, 2009 04:46 PM (5vrLJ)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:47 PM (jlvw3)
Obama's economic policy makes more sense than this thread.
Couric taking it from behind from another chick and what appears to be her discostick and you nerds spend 100 fucking comments talking Jedi philosophy.
No wonder you all need to get laid 
Posted by: The Hangover II: The Chronicles of Lacey at November 23, 2009 04:47 PM (9hNPz)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:48 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:48 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: Zimriel at November 23, 2009 04:48 PM (jXxv6)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:48 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: logprof at November 23, 2009 04:48 PM (I3Udb)
Posted by: ac at November 23, 2009 04:49 PM (A51gv)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:49 PM (QECjC)
Nope, I've been to a lot of clubs and tore up a lot of dance floors and that concentration, that look says "please, Katie, let me do sex to you".
Seems KC awaken the love that dare not speaketh it's name in her lady-friend.
Posted by: The Hammer at November 23, 2009 04:49 PM (YBTwf)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:50 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 04:50 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Ken at November 23, 2009 04:51 PM (9zzk+)
The only scary thing in this world, kid, is to be looking down the wrong end of blaster's barrel.
Which is the end pointed toward the Storm Troopers.
Regardless of who's holding the gun or which way the opening of the barrel faces.
Stay opposite those guys and you're pretty much solid.
Posted by: at November 23, 2009 04:51 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Dudley Smith at November 23, 2009 04:51 PM (NzJ2c)
J.J. Abrams is a fairy tail invented to frighten children about an evil monster that goes around destroying sci-fi franchises.
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 04:51 PM (+FzLa)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:52 PM (whG5F)
Posted by: madtechie at November 23, 2009 08:46 PM (5vrLJ)"
Wouldn't that be a great way to beat Rachael Maddow into a coma - her head between a Palin and a Beck book. Bwahahaah.....bam, bam, bam,,,
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:52 PM (Jyuxh)
Look, don't try to frighten me with your mysterious ways and ancient religions. There was never any tv show on Fox called "Firefly."
Another myth.
I had to buy my THIRD box set of that series and it will NEVER be lent out EVER again.
Not even RUM could get it out of my sweaty grip.
And damn sure not Katie Couric.
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:52 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:52 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 04:52 PM (QECjC)
The Thunderdome itself is pretty frickin' awesome as a set-piece action scene.
The Collector (morbidly fat, bald right-hand to Tina Turner) is played by Frank Thring, who is probably best known in film for playing Pontius Pilate in Ben Hur.
Yeah, the Oasis kids are totally rockin' the Peter Pan vibe, but there's a really dark undertone. After the plane crash, their parents walked out towards civilization, but abandoned the kids there because the kids would slow them down. Left them to die.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 23, 2009 04:53 PM (l1Wlr)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at November 23, 2009 04:54 PM (whG5F)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 04:54 PM (Jyuxh)
A dark fantasy of mine has always been to totally sex up Ann Coulter and have her call me Reagan.
Just saying.
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 04:54 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: The Hammer at November 23, 2009 04:54 PM (YBTwf)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 04:56 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at November 23, 2009 08:54 PM (IoUF1)
ace, you should totally add this to the top of the post. FTW
Posted by: Blazer at November 23, 2009 04:57 PM (+FzLa)
Allow me to class up this joint a bit.
This broad is what Bob Knight would call a sunt. Therefore, these pics of her warm my soul. Kindly get bent, Katie. Oh wait, you just did.
Posted by: The Hangover II: The Chronicles of Lacey at November 23, 2009 04:58 PM (9hNPz)
I think it will be... a big tent. You know, so she'll match.
Posted by: chemjeff at November 23, 2009 04:59 PM (F+U5/)
Those tall, thin, mid-chest breasted types are usually bottomless and quite cavernous.
Posted by: Beto at November 23, 2009 04:59 PM (+CLh/)
ACE??
Could you start a thread for the dumb movie nerds that have hijacked this thread?
Just saying, 18 year olds talking about movies over and over and over every night is getting REALLY OLD!
Enough to drive a man to valu rite.
Oh, now I see your ewok plan, have stupid comments to sell more vodka.
Damn! You good Ace.
Posted by: Kemp at November 23, 2009 05:00 PM (2+9Yx)
In the Old Republic. Maybe the Republic was much much smaller than the Empire. They didn't take Federation Credits or whatever on Tatooine afterall. So if you were an outlander, and maybe most worlds were, the Jedi were just kind of legendary.
Posted by: toby928 at November 23, 2009 05:00 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 05:03 PM (z1D63)
Could you start a thread for the dumb movie nerds that have hijacked this thread?
The dumb movie nerd that hijacked this thread?
That would be.... Ace.
Can you hijack your own thread?
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 05:03 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Kemp at November 23, 2009 05:04 PM (2+9Yx)
Threadwinner.
As a side note, it's not fair to set the bar so frickin' high on Monday. Bastard.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 23, 2009 05:05 PM (l1Wlr)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 05:05 PM (z1D63)
Wherestherum:
Love her shoes. Damn.
PGiS:
I love them too but they're Louboutins. So they're at least $600.
SiM:
*yawn*
Posted by: sickinmass at November 23, 2009 05:06 PM (g7J39)
Dude... you really that hot to continue 'discussing' a 50 year old grannie with 50 grand in plastic surgery faux-lesbian dry humping her own kin?
What more to say? Isn't there a magazine for that kind of thing...?
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 05:06 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 05:10 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: Mortis at November 23, 2009 05:11 PM (hA5JK)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 05:14 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: Katie Couric at November 23, 2009 05:16 PM (gSxol)
Posted by: Bernie Goldberg at November 23, 2009 05:21 PM (DtTM9)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 05:23 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 05:26 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 05:27 PM (z1D63)
Sandy Jiggler
Posted by: Purple Avenger at November 23, 2009 05:28 PM (qtl62)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 05:29 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: meep at November 23, 2009 05:29 PM (UhB0V)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at November 23, 2009 05:30 PM (qtl62)
Posted by: meep at November 23, 2009 05:30 PM (UhB0V)
Posted by: meep at November 23, 2009 05:31 PM (UhB0V)
But I would still hit it... you know...mercy fuck.
Posted by: redrock at November 23, 2009 05:31 PM (VSWPU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 23, 2009 05:31 PM (DtTM9)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 23, 2009 05:31 PM (QECjC)
see, I went there.
Posted by: MPFS Indentured Fish Stick to the State at November 23, 2009 05:32 PM (PBGAP)
You go girl. I ain't mad at you for busting out some Elaine on your first night at the big gig.
Posted by: sickinmass at November 23, 2009 05:35 PM (g7J39)
When were they born, exactly?
That's what happens when you leave a bunch of 10 year olds alone in the damn Blue Lagoon for 10 years.
You come back and find 8 year olds.
I'd like to know how, in 10 years time, they developed a pidgeon dialect and their own religious mythology.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 05:36 PM (cok/k)
Honestly, (not unlike Jedi's) those kids gave the impression of having been there for several generations to me. Maybe being all primitive and not having and medicine or high scool edumacation they had a low survival rate past 20.
Then again I don't think they really bothered to think any of that through.
They are ewoks sans fur.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 05:39 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Frank G at November 23, 2009 05:40 PM (I+To0)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 05:43 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 05:45 PM (z1D63)
Sex between the one adult-ish guy and one adultish-girl?
There were lots of 35 year olds, but they all died of tuburculosis 6 months before Max got there.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 05:46 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 05:47 PM (z1D63)
They never say that the young ones are products of the older ones. Capt'n Walker took all them of an age on his walkout. They left their babies behind.
Posted by: toby928: explainer of things the writer never though of at November 23, 2009 05:48 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: Josh Reiter at November 23, 2009 05:50 PM (q19i/)
Posted by: soozer at November 23, 2009 05:53 PM (OnRdm)
Posted by: Kemp at November 23, 2009 05:53 PM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 05:54 PM (z1D63)
I'd like to know how, in 10 years time, they developed a pidgeon dialect and their own religious mythology.
Totally believable! 10 years is all it takes for kids to become reasonably self sufficient as a group. They have attitudes by the age of 5, there is no reason they wouldn't come together as a group and maybe even split into smaller competing groups.
History shows us that happened all the time. Street orphans banded together and fended for themselves in Victorian New York City.
Posted by: Alex's Cabin at November 23, 2009 05:54 PM (wUD8j)
Posted by: prettypinkfluffypanties at November 23, 2009 05:55 PM (Jyuxh)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 05:57 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 05:58 PM (jlvw3)
Yeah, I dunno about that.
You take a 10 year old and dump him on an island for 10 years I'm not so sure you come back and find him dressed in grass skirts telling his grandchildren about the TalkyShowys in the Land of LongLongAgo before the Metal Bird swooped them all up and belched life into the desert.
I think he'd be sitting there like "Fuck man, WTF did you go? Get me the hell out of here!"
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 05:58 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:02 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:03 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:05 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:05 PM (jlvw3)
Meh... I'm happily distracted either from bullshit politics or that horrid old shrew's stale poontang at the moment.
If not for the Mad Max discussion I'd have closed the browser 2 hours ago and went back to reading The Count Of Monte Cristo.
I'm on page 780.
For a 1300 page book the pacing is really quite amazing. Even better then the Amber Chronicles. The characters are similarly very realistic and believably flawed. Even when you already know everything exactly how it happens, it's still a damn fast paced read that remains quite suspenseful and intriguing.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:05 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:07 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 23, 2009 06:07 PM (rTF/l)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:09 PM (z1D63)
Ya think so? A ten year old marooned with like minded kids ain't maturing any time soon.
Posted by: Alex's Cabin at November 23, 2009 06:09 PM (wUD8j)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:10 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:12 PM (z1D63)
Agreed. The Road Warrior was the best, no contest.
Posted by: toby928 at November 23, 2009 06:12 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:12 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:14 PM (z1D63)
434 I began reading -- but didn't finish -- the Three Musketeers, and I was pretty suprised at how modern it sounded.
That maybe was a trick of translation, but the book seemed very infused with a modern sensibility about humor and pacing and cynicism and stuff. It definitely didn't seem like an aged tome.
I found that book at a garage sale about three weeks ago, and it is sitting on my coffee table untouched/unread as of yet.
I shall begin.
Posted by: crystal at November 23, 2009 06:15 PM (KVSUW)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:16 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:16 PM (jlvw3)
Did it create the genre? There have been post-apocalyptic movies before but the Aussie version just seemed new at the time. The mecho-anarchy anyway.
Posted by: toby928 at November 23, 2009 06:20 PM (PD1tk)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:23 PM (z1D63)
Dumas was a genius.
If this work is representative (and even if it's not, because Frank Herbert only ever wrote 1 truly great book and maybe 1 more half decent one), I've no doubt.
But what really suprises me about it is the quality of writing. Granted, it's a translation, not original french...so some props to the translator.
But every quality I eventually came to absolutely love Roger Zelazny's writing style for (it took me a few hundred pages to get comfortable with his style), Dumas seems to exhibit in equal or greater measure.
Specifically, the pacing! Oh man. The amber chronicles (collectively) were like 1500 pages as well, but something is always happening, in fact, 8 things are always happening and you're always having to juggle to much going on at once throughout. And everything is always twisting and casting everything else you read before in a new different light that instantly changes everyones presumed motives and plans. 1500 pages and not a damn boring paragraph in either book.
Also, the characters. Very flawed. That's almost a cliche to have antogonistic heros... but so well rounded and believably so. Despite the fantastic and farsical premises (especially Amber), it has such real people in it.
Also.. I love the dry wittiness of the dialogue in old books. Full of latin quotes and historical facts and philosophies at that.
'Really?' said Monte Cristo. 'You mean the gentleman is an Academician?'
'He has been a member of the learned assembly for a week.'
'And what is his talent, his speciality?'
'His speciality? I think he sticks pins in rabbits' heads, feeds madder to hens and uses whales to cultivate the spinal columns of dogs.'
'And he is in the Academy of Sciences because of that?'
'No, in the French Academy.'
'But what has all that got to do with the French Academy?'
'I'll tell you. It seems...'
'His expiriments greatly advanced science, I presume?'
'No, but he writes them up in a very fine style.'
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:24 PM (cok/k)
Did it create the genre?
My thought exactly. I don't recall anything with the same type of tone before Road Warrior. I also remember that when I first saw it, it scared the hell out of me.
Posted by: Daisy at November 23, 2009 06:26 PM (T0ga9)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 23, 2009 06:28 PM (9Lm5R)
Ya think so? A ten year old marooned with like minded kids ain't maturing any time soon.
Oh no, I think you're right about that.
But I do wonder whether he'd regress to the state of a mature adult in a primative (2000 year old) civillization 500 years advanced in it's own right, despite being concieved by a 10 year old 10 years ago.
You really think the bugger would bother, if he hadn't payed any attention in Sunday School as it was, to take up theology and craft his own shamanistic religion all of sudden?
I don't know that he'd regress through time in such a historical fashion.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:29 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:30 PM (z1D63)
Is it me or does Katie seem to have more balls than my protege? Couls she be related to Lady Gaga?
On a private note, she seems to have more balls than yours truly. Shame I am also going senile and contenting myself with peanuts.
Posted by: GrumpOldCarter at November 23, 2009 06:31 PM (4FkTt)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:31 PM (jlvw3)
Makes Bullitt look tame by comparison. Not to mention the last scene with the handcuffs, spilled gasoline and hacksaw.
Yeah, well...
A) THE CARS! Oh, they still give me a stiffy. I want an Australian Ford with a supercharged V8 and guns on it.
B) The overall darkness of it. It was a pretty godawful brutal flick, which lends it even greater machismo.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:31 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:34 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:35 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:36 PM (z1D63)
If you have an Ebook reader or just want to read on your computer a site called Manybooks.com has pretty much all Dumas works free in etexts
That's cool. I do read a lot online (obviously). But for $5-15 I'd rather just buy them though. I like real paper books and if I like a book at all, even a bit, I'd rather a copy of my own on my bookcase.
I think my next book is either gonna be Speaker of the Dead (I really wasn't that wowed by Enders Game, it was decent but meh... but I'll give 1 more a shot), or The Foundation by Asimov. I read about 20 pages of that at Borders trying to kill 30 minutes and I really dug the first 20 pages.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:36 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 23, 2009 06:37 PM (TS+i1)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:37 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: Grumpy Old Carter at November 23, 2009 06:38 PM (4FkTt)
I remember a short story about the war between the drivers and the pedestrians. I really only remember the open scene where an very old woman is in the crosswalk when she realizes a car is bearing down on her.
The text went something like She was too old to make the dash to safety like a youngster. Out of the old tattered handbag, the .44 magnum came up and she rode the recoil like a big game hunter, a grim scowl on her face as she disappeared beneath the armored bumper ...
Posted by: toby928 at November 23, 2009 06:38 PM (PD1tk)
You really think the bugger would bother, if he hadn't payed any attention in Sunday School as it was, to take up theology and craft his own shamanistic religion all of sudden?
Why not? Even if you don't believe in God, there is a strong urge to find something larger than yourself.
Why do wolves howl at the moon?
Posted by: Alex's Cabin at November 23, 2009 06:38 PM (wUD8j)
Posted by: steevy at November 23, 2009 06:38 PM (z1D63)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 06:42 PM (jlvw3)
Cervantes really holds up too as Don Quixote is laugh out loud funny.
I love Don Quixote. I love the character of Quixote.
I NEVER SAID THIS, I admit nothing, but Man of La Mancha is a damn fine musical too.
Not that I would know because I'd never sit through a musical!
It is a very manly musical though.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:46 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: Kensington at November 23, 2009 06:55 PM (kSpSZ)
of course MM and then the RW had made an unexpectedly huge amount of money so they really didn't need anyone "greenlighting" them, really.
But in order to finish one of them (perhaps Road Warrior but probably Mad Max) they completely ran out of funding and the director or someone had to crash up his own van.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:56 PM (cok/k)
Which just goes to show you that money ruins things.
George Lucas should be forbidden by law to possess more then $5 and half a pack of Orbitz gum.
That bastard would be cranking out 3 Citizen Kane's a week.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 06:57 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 23, 2009 06:57 PM (TS+i1)
Posted by: Todd at November 23, 2009 07:01 PM (aMXGv)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 23, 2009 07:05 PM (TS+i1)
Best not to think too hard about all the continuity and other stuff that doesn't add up in Blade Runner, and just enjoy the cool scenery.
I just got a copy of the Director's Cut -- never having seen that version before -- and watched part of it for the first time the other night. The big glaring issue I noticed (which I'd noticed before, but it had been a while), was: why should it have been necessary for Decker's boss to explain replicants to him? He'd been "airing them out" until pretty recently, right? -- And the Nexus-6s weren't exactly brand-new at the time if Roy Batty & Co. were coming to the end of their 4-year lifespan.
Yeah, I know: it was for exposition purposes for the audience. The writers could have handled that aspect better.
Oh, and I noticed that it's set in 2019 -- only 10 years from today. Where's my flying car?? (Or my "basic pleasure model"?)
Posted by: Alex at November 23, 2009 07:05 PM (m9DmF)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 23, 2009 07:07 PM (TS+i1)
Don't know about AMC; I can't watch movies with commercial interruptions and edited-out cuss words anymore. But when they showed it on either TCM or IFC not long ago, it was letterboxed with the original Aussie dialogue track.
Posted by: Alex at November 23, 2009 07:07 PM (m9DmF)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 07:08 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 07:11 PM (jlvw3)
Max without a car is one of the biggest dissapointments in that movie.
A long time ago, Ace had a picture of that up in the left column. It was there for months. Then, I think, Cynthia McKinney's beauty replaced it.
Posted by: ADD McFoolishness (rdb) at November 23, 2009 07:12 PM (jCkLC)
People do not forget within 20 years that some highly magical laser-sword-wielding badasses used to exist.
Just talking out my ass here, but Solo was orphaned and raised by pirates. I don't know where his backstory took place, but he might be the type of backwater, outer-rim hick who would think of it as legend.
Posted by: ADD McFoolishness (rdb) at November 23, 2009 07:16 PM (jCkLC)
Posted by: cheshirecat at November 23, 2009 07:17 PM (TS+i1)
Posted by: FUBAR at November 23, 2009 07:18 PM (eRJUD)
Propaganda from the Empire via the Holonet, etc over two decades would be enough to do it. Suppress the facts, etc.
All this strikes me as greatly revisionist to turn Star Wars into 21,984.
There was no despotic brainwashing propoganda going on in Star Wars man. The empire, Evil though it may be, had no eyes everywhere in the galaxy. The dude didn't find his own son, couldn't track down Yoda or Kenobi, didn't seem to even be trying or care much honestly.
But you've got him in an honest-to-god slugfest trying to outdo Orwell.
Posted by: Entropy at November 23, 2009 07:19 PM (cok/k)
Posted by: ace at November 23, 2009 07:19 PM (jlvw3)
Posted by: ADD McFoolishness (rdb) at November 23, 2009 07:26 PM (jCkLC)
Yeah, Solo did say "ancient weapons." Less than twenty years old?
I hit my frustration with Lucas plateau when he re-wrote part of Princess Amygdala's backstory. At one point she was referred to as being "elected queen." Elected f-ing queen? Geezus. I guess Lucas felt he needed to have another queen so that Amygdala would be free to go on adventures. But a queen can go on whatever adventure she wants. Doesn't matter. "Affairs of state? To hell with that. I'm hunting bad guys. It's good to be queen."
Posted by: ADD McFoolishness (rdb) at November 23, 2009 07:33 PM (jCkLC)
Posted by: Andi Sullivan at November 23, 2009 07:34 PM (TS+i1)
Posted by: ADD McFoolishness (rdb) at November 23, 2009 07:36 PM (jCkLC)
Posted by: scr_north at November 23, 2009 07:48 PM (GE/dx)
Posted by: Darth Vader, accidentally seeing Gawker on a tech's screen at November 23, 2009 07:51 PM (8JpXN)
Posted by: ADD McFoolishness (rdb) at November 23, 2009 07:55 PM (jCkLC)
Posted by: Ernie Anastos at November 23, 2009 08:01 PM (8JpXN)
Posted by: UGRev at November 23, 2009 08:14 PM (uhjTJ)
I'd hit that like the door of the University of East Anglia hitting Dr Phil Jones on the ass.
Posted by: mrkwong at November 23, 2009 08:21 PM (G8Eo0)
I always took it that the clone wars were at least 40+ years prior to the events in Star Wars. Guiness looked to be in his late 60s to early 70s to me. And Solo looked to be early 30s. The problem is, Lucas never really planned out his epic, despite what he claims. The best evidence of this is the forward to the graphic novel version of "Splinter of the Minds Eye". The forward by the writer of the novel, Alan Dean Foster states that Lucas wanted to make a sequel to Star Wars but didn't know if it would be a success or not, and so he hit up Foster to write a sequel that would be cheap to film. Hence the fog planet and the reduced cast.
As to Courgaric-
Me = Han Solo
Couric = Boba Fett's jetpack.
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 23, 2009 08:29 PM (oLULt)
I remember a shot called a "252" we used to do back in the day (half 101 Wild Turkey - half Bacardi 151).
Maybe after a few of those.............maybe.
Posted by: Reggie1971 at November 23, 2009 08:39 PM (Oq21Q)
I did hit that. Who do you think took those crappy pictures? And now you all know why I turned to the dark side. Once you've nailed the perky one, there is no turning back.
Posted by: Charles Johnson at November 23, 2009 09:15 PM (tsI0t)
An amazingly well-written book. Two thumbs up.
Posted by: OregonMuse at November 23, 2009 09:45 PM (hoowK)
Posted by: eman at November 23, 2009 09:57 PM (Weq7t)
Posted by: eman at November 23, 2009 10:29 PM (Weq7t)
Posted by: moi at November 23, 2009 10:50 PM (aXjEk)
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at November 24, 2009 02:27 AM (jii9y)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 24, 2009 02:30 AM (QECjC)
Posted by: Happy Fellow at November 24, 2009 05:36 AM (ktYjH)
Really sad. She is everything she thinks she sees in Palin (white trash) It seems at least this liberal's primary emotion against Palin is actually self loathing. Couric's like 50 and never matured above the level of a college freshman. She anchors a news cast - good lord, how did we get here as a culture?
Posted by: joe at November 24, 2009 06:44 AM (rf1Kd)
Posted by: RabbitWalker at November 24, 2009 07:37 AM (hfQSj)
Posted by: Max Entropy at November 24, 2009 07:50 AM (uuZjB)
Couric has always looked good. She's just dumber than a bag of hammers.
Posted by: MelodicMetal at November 24, 2009 08:18 AM (x4S2a)
Katie looked way better with long hair. Short boy haircuts on women just screams "I havent been laid in YEARS for good reason!"
Posted by: MelodicMetal at November 24, 2009 09:35 AM (x4S2a)
Thanks for that info. I remember so little of the story, except the beginning and near the end where the pedestrians were prepping their heavy weapons (88's or Bofors) to take on the cars when suddenly, some kind of armistice was negotiated.
Posted by: toby928 at November 24, 2009 11:57 AM (PD1tk)
Posted by: CoolCzech at November 24, 2009 04:50 PM (QECjC)
Posted by: Jill at November 25, 2009 06:49 PM (MT7ln)
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