August 27, 2012

Early Evening Open Blog
— Ace

This is lame, but I figure I'll have to cover the convention for the next three days, so I'm calling half-day.

A repeat of Adam Baldwin's guest-spot on Castle is on tonight. So, that's something.

Here are some quickie movie reviews: Hunger Games. Not bad at all. I don't have much to say about it other than that; it's not an ambitious movie, and not technically difficult, but they did what they set out to do, and I enjoyed it.

Some say that an author's most important trait (especially in speculative fiction) is authority. The unapologetic sense of "This is the way things are in this world." I think there's a related sci-fi rule like "Never explain," the idea that spending too much time explaining and justifying your world sounds defensive, like you're just making things up like a big liar who lies whereas if you just present things with no justification it sounds more like you're a guy living in that world who doesn't have to justify it. It just is. Accept it or don't.

I'm not sure if Hunger Games really excels on that point, but they do present a town that looks like Little House on the Prairie and just say, "It's the future. I know it doesn't look like it is, but it is, so just shut up."

After you've shut up, it's pretty decent, particularly the American Idol-esque presentation show that broadcasts the grisly games to the world. The tension actually peaks too early and drops a lot towards the end -- when it should be rising further -- but it's still not a waste of time. I think it was a mistake to build up a group of super-warriors as the Main Antagonists and then shift to a new antagonist, but, fine. Whatever.

I saw some criticism that they cut out all the politics of this made-up world. Yeah, well, I don't really care about the made-up politics of a made-up world. A world made up just to justify some teenagers bludgeoning each other and shooting each other with arrows. So, good cut.

I don't know what to say about The Dictator. Sasha Baron Cohen's movie has no unscripted scenes, which were the best parts of his earlier films, and in fact mostly what he's known for; it's all script, all actors. (There may be a meaningless three second shot of him talking to cops that's unscripted, but that hardly counts, and it's not even a gag I remember.)

It's as offensive-for-the-sake-of-offensiveness as you'd expect, so if you have content concerns, stay away. But I did laugh. It's a very dumb movie, but it's funny; some good slapstick. Not painfully funny as his last two films were in some scenes; just "ha-ha" funny, like a reasonably decent normal comedy.

Oh, there's a semi-long Bush-bashing OWS type speech near the end. So if you don't want to see any liberal messaging, give it a skip. There's not much of that sort of thing, apart from that two minute speech.

I think for both movies I'd say this: If you are marginally inclined to seeing them -- if you're on the fence -- then yeah, see them. They're good enough to win over someone already inclined towards them.

If you have no interest -- I think Hunger Games might be almost good enough to win you over. If you're thinking "It's just Twilight with a longbow," no, it's not. Sure, young female lead, but none of the annoying trappings of Twilight. The heroine is more like the Standard Issue Strong Silent Type.

Posted by: Ace at 03:33 PM | Comments (275)
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1 Content is for suckas!

Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at August 27, 2012 03:35 PM (QKKT0)

2 Yeah SBC is a genius....I know I have hated these 12 years of the Bush administration, oh wait...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:35 PM (LRFds)

3 Sasha Baron Cohen isn't even a real baron.

Posted by: Baron von Richthofen at August 27, 2012 03:38 PM (QKKT0)

4 is castle any good? I finally watched Longmire. Nothing original whatsoever but still entertaining and it satisfies my kickass need.

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 03:38 PM (Fely/)

5 The Hunger Games?  Eh.  If certain relatives of mine like it, then I'm not going for it.  There's a tell...

Also, it's a rip-off of Battle Royale made into a trilogy to sell more books.  Spare me.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 03:39 PM (NJpM7)

6 Ace, have you seen 2016? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 03:39 PM (UOM48)

7 You know what movie was unexpectedly funny? 21 Jump Street. It has little to do with the original show, but it's obscene and childish in a good way.

Posted by: Xander Crews at August 27, 2012 03:40 PM (JqGQE)

8 i haven't seen 2016 yet, no.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2012 03:41 PM (fxHyG)

9

Ace, have you seen 2016?

I haven't brought him there. Yet.

Posted by: Pixy's time machine at August 27, 2012 03:41 PM (3SvjA)

10 Remember, it's never too early to kick back and start drinking...

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 27, 2012 03:41 PM (XvHmy)

11 most of Longmire looked like it was filmed in southern California

Posted by: he who says the obvious at August 27, 2012 03:41 PM (Dll6b)

12 Movies, meh. Pussy's what sells, baby!

Posted by: Naomi Wolfe at August 27, 2012 03:41 PM (IoNBC)

13 4
is castle any good?

I finally watched Longmire.
Nothing original whatsoever but still entertaining and it satisfies my kickass need.

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 07:38 PM (Fely/)

Castle sucks.  I've been watching from day one and now I just do something else while the rest of the household watches it.  It wouldn't be bad if they just killed Beckett off.

Longmire's pretty good.  I like Walt.  And Vic, surprisingly.  They carry the show well.
Too bad it's pretty impossible to find the books for cheap.  I wanted to compare the works.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 03:41 PM (NJpM7)

14 Sounds like a press party tonight and no rain!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at August 27, 2012 03:42 PM (3ZjAP)

15 Longmire is original only in that its the only real western style show on TV and it has rough men doing manly things without apology. Still has to slip some sad weepy stuff in it because entertainment types are terrified of masculinity, but its minor.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 03:42 PM (r4wIV)

16 Anyone see those Code Pink vaginas in Tampa? What a bunch of cunts.

Posted by: Nukie at August 27, 2012 03:42 PM (AzwZn)

17 Battle Royal manga is 100x better, it has someLord of the Flies elements to it. Battle Royal movie is also on Netflix.

Posted by: Patrick at August 27, 2012 03:43 PM (6WpNC)

18 The Hunger Games was meh, The Dictator was OK. I liked the space-prison breakout-out movie.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2012 03:43 PM (4cRnj)

19 7 You know what movie was unexpectedly funny? 21 Jump Street. It has little to do with the original show, but it's obscene and childish in a good way.

Posted by: Xander Crews at August 27, 2012 07:40 PM (JqGQE)

I actually agree.  Didn't like it as much as my mom did, but it was weirdly hilarious.  Not a repeat view, but as a time killer, it was alright and funny.

The Other Guys was like that, too.  Aside from the bullshit.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 03:43 PM (NJpM7)

20 14 Billy bob,

yeah I can just imagine Chris tingle and Perky Couric dirty dancing.....

I need to go get my goddamned zoloft now

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:43 PM (LRFds)

21 That new Special Forces ad is awesome. That is going to drive the left batshit.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2012 03:44 PM (TMB3S)

22 AoS - Now With Even Less Content So, particularly shitty day at work. Which is why I have a nice tall adult beverage sitting next to me.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 03:44 PM (GEICT)

23 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at August 27, 2012 03:45 PM (6o4Fb)

24 "most of Longmire looked like it was filmed in southern California"
I think its filmed in New Mexico, oddly enough. I guess Wyoming is too far away from Hollywood or something. Its dirt cheap to film there, but too remote maybe.
Some shows I used to like and have gotten disappointed with:
The Glades. They lost the character's charm and the girl is annoying me too much.
White Collar. They've lost their way and the touchy feely "I need to know my past" stuff is getting obnoxious.
Burn Notice. Just fold it up guys. You've passed your expiration date.
It seems like they all go crappy after a while. BBC has it right: tell a story, when the story is done, stop making them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 03:45 PM (r4wIV)

25 This part of 21 Jump Street killed me: http://tinyurl.com/97tuhb2
Link to youtube.

Posted by: Xander Crews at August 27, 2012 03:45 PM (JqGQE)

26 I can't wait to see Hunger Games II : Chili.


21 Jump Street was unexpectedly good.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2012 03:45 PM (4cRnj)

27 I asked my husband if he wanted to go see 2016.  He said, "My blood pressure couldn't take it.  I'd come out more irritated than I already am."

Posted by: Tami at August 27, 2012 03:46 PM (X6akg)

28 TV is better than movies. 

Posted by: Ellen Barkin at August 27, 2012 03:46 PM (1qHOu)

29 27 I asked my husband if he wanted to go see 2016. He said, "My blood pressure couldn't take it. I'd come out more irritated than I already am." ^^^^^^^THIS

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 03:47 PM (GEICT)

30 I don't get the 21 Jump Street love. I did like a few parts, but it's very meh.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2012 03:47 PM (fxHyG)

31 ‘Dogs Against Romney’ rallies in Tampa http://is.gd/S2vsJe This article might need moron comments. BTW, I know the women who is leading this protest from my younger, wilder days. Which makes it double funny to me I guess.

Posted by: toby928© at August 27, 2012 03:47 PM (QupBk)

32 "21 That new Special Forces ad is awesome. That is going to drive the left batshit. Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2012 07:44 PM

Hop on over to Breitbart.  The OpSec SEALS have a new ad hitting Barky hard for bowing to foreign leaders.

Posted by: eureka! at August 27, 2012 03:48 PM (1qHOu)

33 You call that a movie review?

Posted by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky at August 27, 2012 03:48 PM (6JMZR)

34

 most of Longmire looked like it was filmed in southern California

New Mexico.

Posted by: stillers at August 27, 2012 03:48 PM (6uveK)

35 Well it is not like the moron horde is the target demographic for 2016 anyway.....

I'm pretty sure we had 2016 pegged in 2008

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:48 PM (LRFds)

36 Here is an amazing video of Hurricane Katrina's storm surge in Gulfport, MS. I haven't seen this one before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kou0HBpX4A&feature=player_embedded Hat tip Ticker Forum, which has an ongoing Isaac thread that is very good. http://tickerforum.org/akcs-www?post=210471&page=25

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 03:48 PM (sdi6R)

37 Ace, do yourself a favor and see "2016."  It's really well done.  Doesn't get snarky....just gets its point across quite nicely.

At the end, the people in our theater just sat in silence.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (UOM48)

38 BTW, I know the women who is leading this protest from my younger, wilder days. Which makes it double funny to me I guess. "Knew" her like Adam knew Eve? Or like Ace "knew" Rubio's garbage?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (GEICT)

39

"My blood pressure couldn't take it. I'd come out more irritated than I already am

----

Me too. I was tempted to buy a ticket just to give them the box office revenue. I don't need to know anymore, I'm already too livid.

Posted by: USS Diversity at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (0CiTm)

40 Iraq will greet us with flowers!

Posted by: Dickless Cheney at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (v4K0X)

41 >>Hop on over to Breitbart. The OpSec SEALS have a new ad hitting Barky hard for bowing to foreign leaders. Yea, thats the one I meant. Its linked in the sidebar, top item. Now thats gonna leave a mark.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (TMB3S)

42 But did you see Samuel L. Jackson in The Green Mile?

Posted by: chemjeff on the phone at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (8gNsC)

43 Ok, what kind of voodoo magic do I need to get the italics, bold, underline, etc. to work?? The editing here sucks balls.

Posted by: stillers at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (6uveK)

44 13 I would just like to say that I *really* hate that her name is Naomi. It's completely mortifying.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 03:49 PM (9fJPG)

45 In all the plaudits to the great Neil Armstrong, not one mention of the man who was his impetus:  Mr. Gorsky!
  
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.asp

Posted by: Ombudsman at August 27, 2012 03:50 PM (zXLtf)

46 Bearing in mind I haven't seen the first Expendables, is Expendables II worth seeing? Also, I just saw that they're doing a short IMAX re-release of Raiders of the Lost Ark next month. THAT I will go and see.

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 03:50 PM (5H6zj)

47 if you're desperate for some SciFi there's a new Canadian series called CONTINUUM so-so

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 03:50 PM (KwX0v)

48 Ok, what kind of voodoo magic do I need to get the italics, bold, underline, etc. to work?? The editing here sucks balls.

[ i ]   [ /i ]

[ b ]   [ /b ]

Without the spaces. No one needs underline. Underline is stupid.

Posted by: The Mega Independent at August 27, 2012 03:51 PM (6JMZR)

49 This being an open thread, I'm pleased to announce I have a new kitten!  Got him (?) about two weeks ago, but he was such a starveling (barn kitten, last of a litter of 3, kicked out by his mama) that I wasn't sure he'd survive, and didn't want to say anything then.

He's nothing fancy, ordinary gray tiger-stripe, but he's already clawed his way into my heart, and is playing with our two dogs (Dalmatian-pitbull and dachshund-pitbull). 

I think he may've been 6 weeks when we got him, since he was able to eat solid food, and weighed all of 1 lb 3 oz.  I could hold him in the palm of my hand! 

His name is Mags, an obvious one to any of you who've read the first book of the Collegium Chronicles.

Posted by: Empire1 just got a new kitten at August 27, 2012 03:51 PM (V7Urp)

50 Holy crap - politifact rated the statement that Romney gave away his inheritance...as TRUE. I had no idea they even knew the word when rating republican statements: http://t.co/BYG0zq1e

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 27, 2012 03:51 PM (lJJMb)

51 The Catholic owners of a Colorado-based business won an injunction recently against implementing an ObamaCare mandate -- only to be denied a proclamation now from the Denver City Council. Hercules Industries, a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning manufacturer which employs 300 workers and has been in business in the Mile-High City for 50 years, was to be honored with a “Good Citizenship Award." The laurel was in recognition of contributions to the community, including the historic restoration of company headquarters and, ironically, its “generous employee health care coverage.” But the award was taken away after the owners of Hercules Industries, the Newland family, won the court injunction which said that they did not have to start providing employees with coverage that included abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization. As with several companies and colleges around the nation, the family that runs Hercules claimed that the mandates force them to violate their own religious beliefs. Liberals are such cock suckers

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2012 03:52 PM (05RcU)

52 It seems like they all go crappy after a while. BBC has it right: tell a story, when the story is done, stop making them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 07:45 PM (r4wIV)

I believe that shows should be no longer than, say, 3 seasons.  Must have a pre-written storyline all planned out prior to shooting.

Look at shows like How I Met Your Mother and Burn Notice.  They're just dragging it out, limping behind like some wounded animal that doesn't know when to quit.

They could have fixed Burn Notice and White Collar, but they decided to go crazy with the mysterious plots.  How about setting a background (ex-CIA agent cleans up Miami, for example) and then making a straightforward show without all the extraneous bits?  Magnum PI did this very well (until the last season of WTF).

Monk is one of the worst offenders of the long running mystery plot.  They set up a storyline involving his wife, forgot about it, and then lamely ended it for the finale.  They'd mention her when it was convenient once in a while, but for the most part it was just emo baggage.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 03:52 PM (NJpM7)

53 30 Dickless Cheney,


hey I got one for your DC....

"hey fellas give me 700 billion to give my favorite people and I'll have UE3 below 5.1% by early 2012!"


//Barry Choom

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:52 PM (LRFds)

54 Underline is confusing on the internet, because it looks like a link. Should only be used with extreme caution and for very good reason.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 03:53 PM (r4wIV)

55 27 I asked my husband if he wanted to go see 2016. He said, "My blood pressure couldn't take it. I'd come out more irritated than I already am." I saw it on Saturday, and I was impressed by how mild it was. There was very little that I didn't already know. Any one of us could have made a movie that is harder-hitting and angrier. There were a whole lot of things D'Souza could have included but left out. This is the correct approach if the movie is going to be seen by fence-sitting voters or mild Obama supporters.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 03:53 PM (sdi6R)

56 Why didn't you call it a half day while I was still at work....damn

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 27, 2012 03:53 PM (SkyIE)

57

>>I *really* hate that her name is Naomi. It's completely mortifying.

 

I've heard worse.

Posted by: Mulva at August 27, 2012 03:54 PM (t79eh)

58 40 Iraq will greet us with flowers! Posted by: Dickless Cheney at August 27, 2012 07:49 PM (v4K0X) Yeah, good thing Barky got us out of these wars, huh?

Posted by: Scobface at August 27, 2012 03:54 PM (IoNBC)

59 This "review" is shorter than an unabridged dictionary.

UNACCEPTABLLLLLE!!!!!!

Posted by: The Earl of Lemongrab smells like dog buns at August 27, 2012 03:55 PM (VsXF5)

60 58 scoboface,

Arab spring means I did my job*!

//Barry Choom

* his job being empowering radical islam

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:55 PM (LRFds)

61

Ok, what kind of voodoo magic do I need to get the italics, bold, underline, etc. to work?? The editing here sucks balls.

You need to get the platinum membership.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2012 03:55 PM (3SvjA)

62 test test

Posted by: stillers at August 27, 2012 03:55 PM (6uveK)

63 24 Haven't watched The Glades but agree 100% on the others. I've noticed while streaming old series on Netflix that three seasons seems to be about the limit for good story telling.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 03:56 PM (NhGgS)

64 46 Bearing in mind I haven't seen the first Expendables, is Expendables II worth seeing?


Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 07:50 PM (5H6zj)

If it's anything like the first one, yes.  Haven't gone to see it yet, but planning on it.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 03:56 PM (NJpM7)

65 I will cut the deficit in half in my first term.

Posted by: Choom, there it is! at August 27, 2012 03:56 PM (MMC8r)

66 I guess kathleen Parker is now flatbacking for Newsweak...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:56 PM (LRFds)

67 I figure I'll have to cover the convention for the next three days, so I'm calling half-day.

---------------


But they cut the convention down from the original 4 days to 3, which means your plans would have included an extra day of coverage, but they dropped one, so I think that means you owe us an extra half-day.


Math. 

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 27, 2012 03:57 PM (P6QsQ)

68 63 24 Haven't watched The Glades but agree 100% on the others. I've noticed while streaming old series on Netflix that three seasons seems to be about the limit for good story telling.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 07:56 PM (NhGgS)

Seriously, The Glades is just a disappointment.  Starts off kind of funny and offbeat, but then the schtick gets old really, really fast.  And that was the first season.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 03:57 PM (NJpM7)

69 oh and I might stop watching Breaking Bad violence is one thing but I dont like the shock value crap...plus some of the scenes are downright raw and ugly, pointlessly, if you get my drift In other words, Breaking Bad is reminding me of OZ with their incredible at-least-one-murder-per-episode crap.

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 03:57 PM (Y4TdB)

70 "if you like your SCOAMF you can keep your SCOAMF"

//Dr. Choom

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 03:57 PM (LRFds)

71 49 This being an open thread, I'm pleased to announce I have a new kitten! --- Congratulations! That's great! Would love to get another kitteh but we have full staffing in the kitteh department at the moment. Waiting for a... ahem... retirement.

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 03:57 PM (5H6zj)

72 Mama, everybody knows math is racist.  Cut that shit out.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 27, 2012 03:58 PM (lJJMb)

73

Ah. The little bar above where you post is just a tease then.

Posted by: stillers at August 27, 2012 03:58 PM (6uveK)

74 Thx soulpile. Somehow I totally missed the existence of the first one. Oh, it came out in 2010. That was a really busy time for us, so that's probably why.

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 03:59 PM (5H6zj)

75 I *really* hate that her name is Naomi. It's completely mortifying.

She falls into the Gloria Steinem School of Feminism back in the day.  You'd ignore the absolute idiocies she spewed forth because she was good-looking

Posted by: Ombudsman at August 27, 2012 03:59 PM (zXLtf)

76 The Hunger Games wasn't bad, I skipped The Dictator because I a guy I read who reviews movies said something along the lines of "there's an unabashed political rant that fans of Michael Moore might be put off by".

Posted by: Adam at August 27, 2012 03:59 PM (/YJYi)

77 "16 Anyone see those Code Pink vaginas in Tampa? " What bugs me about those costumes is I just don't see that they look like vaginas. If those babes look like that down there, no wonder they're so belligerent. They're scaring off the boys with their freak cooters.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 27, 2012 03:59 PM (V/Aej)

78 GROTON, Conn. — For the first time in 40 years, students from a Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit are among the freshmen arriving at Yale University. The appearance of midshipmen for classes beginning Wednesday is also leading to new ties with the Naval Submarine base 50 miles up the shoreline in Groton. Since the Ivy League school agreed last year to bring back ROTC in the wake of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, military officials have welcomed Yale faculty members on base tours and taken some for a ride on a nuclear-powered attack submarine. Hum? I thought I smelled something foul on base last time I was up there

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2012 03:59 PM (05RcU)

79 31 - ok, you know a crazy woman leading a 'dogs against Romney' protest? that is some funny shit, FYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Jack Woltz at August 27, 2012 04:00 PM (8g9qq)

80

oh and I might stop watching Breaking Bad

-----

Kill off Skyler and Schrader's wife and I might stay with it.

Posted by: USS Diversity at August 27, 2012 04:00 PM (0CiTm)

81 77 NerdyGirl,

Like a lot of things the left sees a distorted reality...

it is just the labia with a nice pear shaped physique representing a uterus...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:00 PM (LRFds)

82 @51 Nevergiveup


That really disgusts me.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 27, 2012 04:01 PM (P6QsQ)

83 Math. Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 27, 2012 07:57 PM (P6QsQ) Burn the Math Witch!!!!!!

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 04:01 PM (GEICT)

84 I saw one episode of Breaking Bad and will never watch another.

It ended with a pre-adolescent kid getting shot.  Shock value that ended any interest whatsoever in that show.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 04:01 PM (NJpM7)

85 >Ah. The little bar above where you post is just a tease then.

Posted by: stillers at August 27, 2012 07:58 PM (6uveK)



it used to work.


good times...

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:01 PM (8sCoq)

86 80 USS Diversity,

YES YES YES Skyler needs to asplode

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:01 PM (LRFds)

87 Daughters dragged us to see Hunger Games. It was certainly watchable. Not sure what all the excitement is about among the younger set. Can't just be the love story. Maybe they see it subconsciously as their generation against the one that screwed up the world (ours)?

Posted by: Cricket at August 27, 2012 04:01 PM (2ArJQ)

88 55 There were a whole lot of things D'Souza could have included but left out. This is the correct approach if the movie is going to be seen by fence-sitting voters or mild Obama supporters. I spoke to a liberal friend on Sunday night, and told him that D'Souza is an immigrant from the Third World, and that experience enables him to understand Obama's world view. Which is perfectly true, and D'Souza says so himself. I just kind of left it at that, hinting that maybe the movie is a sympathetic portrayal. I want him to see it.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 04:02 PM (sdi6R)

89 I read the first 2 Hunger Games books. I think the books worked because the main character was also slightly annoying, intentionally. Not just strong, silent. And not too annoying, ala Bell.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 27, 2012 04:02 PM (MrM2k)

90 57 I don't mind the name, and my condolences, I mind such a complete airhead having it.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 04:02 PM (NhGgS)

91 84 soulpile,

AZ/NM has gotten freaky violent the last 6 years....

but "yeah" I buy the seasons now and pace myself it does get a bit much

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:02 PM (LRFds)

92 @78

Yeah, now the Ivies have the opportunity to fuck up the military as badly as they have fucked up the rest of the government.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at August 27, 2012 04:03 PM (1k+2O)

93 Last film I saw was Moonrise Kingdom.

It was merely ok.

Wes Anderson seems to be mailing it in, in his last few films.

Posted by: General Woundwort at August 27, 2012 04:03 PM (DWgdc)

94 Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 08:01 PM (NJpM7) ... It was 5 seasons that built up to this. Seriously. It was a shock thing sure, but it wasn't out of nowhere.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 27, 2012 04:03 PM (MrM2k)

95 You really can't jump in halfway through the LAST season of the show.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 27, 2012 04:03 PM (MrM2k)

96 [What bugs me about those costumes is I just don't see that they look like vaginas.[/i]

Hey, they were working with a 1:2 scale, so there is going to be some distortion.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 27, 2012 04:04 PM (vjyZP)

97 68 Thanks for the warning. I was thinking of giving the series a try but will save my time.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 04:04 PM (NhGgS)

98 6 Ace, have you seen 2016?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 07:39 PM (UOM48

Ace and all others: when you see the movie 2016, be sure to note the *second* older Kenyan man during the Kenya segment. That man, Philip Ochieng, is my biological father: hater of white people, America, the West and Israel.

Most of you know that my heritage and upbringing somewhat mirror that of the president's. What you don't know is that I could have very easily been like him.

Some years back, someone on my blog asked me why I didn't turn out like BHO. It's the grace of God; that's the only answer I know to be true.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2012 04:04 PM (6kWFm)

99 Holy crap - politifact rated the statement that Romney gave away his inheritance...as TRUE. I had no idea they even knew the word when rating republican statements: http://t.co/BYG0zq1e

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at August 27, 2012 07:51 PM (lJJMb)


-----------


St Pat - I'm really glad you posted this.  I kept hearing that Romney had given away his inheritance but it seemed kind of rumor-like and I never saw it verified.  Thanks for confirming.  It's an impressive indicator of his character.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 27, 2012 04:05 PM (P6QsQ)

100 Interesting, baldilocks.

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 04:05 PM (5H6zj)

101 I think it's wonderful that Chris Matthews can set up shop at the Republican National Convention and do nothing but accuse Republicans of being racist. That's just fantastic.

Posted by: Nukie at August 27, 2012 04:06 PM (AzwZn)

102 I laughed out loud at the other District 12 kid's camo job.

Other than that, I thought The Hunger Games was relentlessly bland. Some of the effects looked barely a notch above TV-level.

Posted by: Waterhouse at August 27, 2012 04:06 PM (3iKKb)

103 71, Y-Not  -- Took me some campaigning to get Mr. Empire to agree to a cat at all, but mice not discouraged by poison in the crawl space, traps, or even those electronic pest-chasers, but when snakes started coming in to pursue the mice ... well, he hates snakes something fierce, so I was finally allowed to get little Mags.  And I must say, mouse traces have gone way down, even though he hasn't actually caught any yet!

Posted by: Empire1 just got a new kitten at August 27, 2012 04:06 PM (V7Urp)

104 98 Baldi,

It is not just the grace of God Baldi it is the content of your character.  Life is a series of choices and a set of bargains you cut with your character or your desires.  You've been taught and set ideals for yourself and strive to live up to them.

svem

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:06 PM (LRFds)

105

See that story in the sidebar about the hiker photographing the grizzly that eventually mauled it? That's going to be me some day, but it will read something like:

Hiker Photographed Cow Moose That Stomped Him Into A Grease Spot.

Having goals helps me get through the day.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2012 04:06 PM (3SvjA)

106 Where's Keith Olbermann, btw? Seems like he should be rearing his ugly mug sometime soon.

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 04:06 PM (5H6zj)

107 98 baldilocks: That name made me perk up my ears, and I was going to ask you if he was a relative the next chance I got. Wow.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (sdi6R)

108 @98 Baldilocks

"Ace and all others: when you see the movie 2016, be sure to note the *second* older Kenyan man during the Kenya segment. That man, Philip Ochieng, is my biological father: hater of white people, America, the West and Israel."


--------------



I was on the fence about seeing this movie.  Not anymore.  I am going to go, and say a prayer of thanks to God for you, my sweet girl.

Posted by: mama winger in Paul Ryan's district at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (P6QsQ)

109 101 Nukie,

It's good PR Newt bitchslapped him so there's that....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (LRFds)

110 >>>Also, I just saw that they're doing a short IMAX re-release of Raiders of the Lost Ark next month. THAT I will go and see. hopefully that means that Lucas will be satisfied about wringing the last bit of money from it, so he can release it on Blu-Ray, finally.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (fxHyG)

111 YES YES YES Skyler needs to asplode

That seen last season where everybody si hiding out at Hank's house and she was smoking outside on the porch.... and you just keep expecting a sniper to shoot her at any second...  That was one of my favorite scenes of the series. Except for the whole "not shooting her in the head" part.

Posted by: wooga at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (vjyZP)

112 I have never seen Breaking Bad

I stopped watching Mad Men after about 3 episodes when it occurred to me that almost all the characters were assholes- a certain busty redhead notwithstanding

my favorite show is "hey let's fix up this old car and sell it"

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (8sCoq)

113 91 84 soulpile,

AZ/NM has gotten freaky violent the last 6 years....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 08:02 PM (LRFds)

?  I think I lost the thread.  Are you referring to the states?

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 04:07 PM (NJpM7)

114 Hiker Photographed Cow Moose That Stomped Him Into A Grease Spot. Having goals helps me get through the day. -- :-) We saw our first moose (cow) and calf a couple of weeks ago near Snowbird ski resort. Just walking across the parking lot. So cool!

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 04:08 PM (5H6zj)

115 104....

and I managed to typo my own handle....

I lose the intrawebs

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:08 PM (LRFds)

116 113 Soulpile,

yeah and as others have said the show is deep into its crescendo....

I was amazed at the El Paso-San Diego corridor's lawlessness in some spots....

First weekend in El paso went to a wal mart and there was an AK drive by on the other side of the parking lot....

surreal.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:09 PM (LRFds)

117 OK, I never do this, but husband called midday to say he'd be late tonight - not sure how late - so I'm going to go make myself dinner. I'm a bad wife to not wait for him, I know.

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 04:09 PM (5H6zj)

118 98 Wow Baldilocks. Did you know he was going to be in the movie?

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 04:10 PM (NhGgS)

119

OT computer help needed!

 

The Windows firewall is preventing me from doing mock drafts on Yahoo and I can't turn the fucking thing off.

 

I didn't have much of a problem yesterday but today it just plain won't let me.

 

Any idears?

Posted by: ErikW, not on the phone at August 27, 2012 04:10 PM (wreCQ)

120 Oh, NO!

Green car not to be produced?  I guess those fires are working out for Chevy.



http://tinyurl.com/9e3auzl

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:10 PM (3ZjAP)

121 And now it's working. WTF?

Posted by: ErikW, not on the phone at August 27, 2012 04:11 PM (wreCQ)

122 >See that story in the sidebar about the hiker photographing the grizzly that eventually mauled it?



my fav part of that story is, they recovered the guy's camera, and the last photos he took were of the grizzly staring back at him

also the part where they did an autopsy on the bear and found little bits of photographer in its stomach

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:12 PM (8sCoq)

123 Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2012 08:04 PM (6kWFm) It is, indeed, a small world after all.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at August 27, 2012 04:12 PM (bxiXv)

124

:-) We saw our first moose (cow) and calf a couple of weeks ago near Snowbird ski resort. Just walking across the parking lot. So cool!

Yes. Yes, it is.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2012 04:12 PM (3SvjA)

125 RT @BenHowe: Priebus on Akin: “He Could Be Tied, We’re Not Going To Send Him A Penny” http://t.co/XuABPCBx

Posted by: Y-not at August 27, 2012 04:12 PM (5H6zj)

126 94 Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 08:01 PM (NJpM7)


...

It was 5 seasons that built up to this. Seriously. It was a shock thing sure, but it wasn't out of nowhere.

Posted by: HoboJerky, profit of DOOM! at August 27, 2012 08:03 PM (MrM2k)

I don't care.  That kind of shit is not acceptable in my house. 

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 04:12 PM (NJpM7)

127 Any idears? Posted by: ErikW


Send me your credit card numbers and your social and I can fix that for you.

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2012 04:12 PM (4cRnj)

128 Arlen Specter on death's door?

Arlen Specter has been hospitalized with a serious illness, confirm friends of the longtime U.S. Senator. One asked that people keep him in thoughts and prayers.

http://tinyurl.com/8job8kf

Posted by: Ombudsman at August 27, 2012 04:13 PM (zXLtf)

129 respect the moose.

Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2012 04:13 PM (t79eh)

130 Poor Chris thinks he has to save Choom in order to save his idol, JFK. The two are entwined somehow (so to speak) in his poor befuddled mind, maybe because they're both so pretty. They're both "going down" in flames in his mind, hence his desperation. It's the frigging existential meltdown of the Boomers.

Posted by: Cricket at August 27, 2012 04:13 PM (2ArJQ)

131 See that story in the sidebar about the hiker photographing the grizzly that eventually mauled it? ---------------------------------------- Why do they have to shoot the Grizzly dead to check his stomach contents? They didn't do that to Dahmer.

Posted by: Nukie at August 27, 2012 04:13 PM (AzwZn)

132 128 Ombudsman,

Oh I'll pray for Snarlin' Arlin....you better believe it.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:14 PM (LRFds)

133 129 respect the moose knuckle

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 04:14 PM (GEICT)

134 130 Cricket,

It is why they HATE Paul Ryan they grasp their generation will only be trusted with the office maybe three times.

I love it.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:15 PM (LRFds)

135 128 Arlen Specter on death's door So he won't be speaking at the convention?

Posted by: Scobface at August 27, 2012 04:15 PM (IoNBC)

136 Cher: 'Karma' if Akin Raped by Someone with HIV

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:15 PM (8sCoq)

137 Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 08:09 PM (LRFds)

Oh, Breaking Bad is set in NM.  I didn't realize the connection.

Yes, the illegal immigration corridor has gotten very violent.  Too bad the media won't acknowledge it, especially in the local news.

Posted by: soulpile is... expendable at August 27, 2012 04:15 PM (NJpM7)

138 Shit my alarm went off and I almost kicked over the little table my computer was on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2012 04:15 PM (05RcU)

139 They had to kill the bear, which sucks. It was guarding an expensive camera.

Posted by: USS Diversity at August 27, 2012 04:15 PM (0CiTm)

140 Dem Convention Schedule: Charlie Crist and Barack Obama will engage in sex acts, followed by a live on-stage partial birth abortion.

And that's just the first night.

Posted by: Craig Poe at August 27, 2012 04:16 PM (BVkEs)

141

my fav part of that story is, they recovered the guy's camera, and the last photos he took were of the grizzly staring back at him

Grizzlies are freakin' scary. I'll stay here in the east with the black bears.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2012 04:16 PM (3SvjA)

142 I haven't committed to a dramatic show since Babylon 5. They all seem very alike to me.

Posted by: Choom, there it is! at August 27, 2012 04:17 PM (MMC8r)

143 It's almost kinda sad that the dems think Charlie Christ is an important pick up?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2012 04:17 PM (05RcU)

144

Send me your credit card numbers and your social and I can fix that for you.


 

Posted by: Dr Spank at August 27, 2012 08:12 PM (4cRnj)

 

 

I'm not that desperate for help although there are a couple guys in my league that might be were the problem to occur...

Posted by: ErikW, not on the phone at August 27, 2012 04:17 PM (wreCQ)

145 I don't like that the policy is to kill an animal that has killed a human. All that bear did was be a bear. Bears run down and kill things, which they then eat. It's not like it's a well-guarded secret.

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:17 PM (8sCoq)

146 Sons of Anarchy starts up again in a few days. I'd like to see Ron Perlman turn into to Devil Boy or whateverthefuck and kill Jacks and Peg Bundy.

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 04:17 PM (+oin+)

147 143 It's almost kinda sad that the dems think Charlie Christ is an important pick up? And not a word about repealing the tanning bed tax. Hypocrites!

Posted by: Scobface at August 27, 2012 04:18 PM (IoNBC)

148 Did anybody hear that Karl Rove predicts Todd Akin will lose by a historical margin?

Posted by: Legitimate Rape at August 27, 2012 04:18 PM (tOkJB)

149 143 It's almost kinda sad that the dems think Charlie Christ is an important pick up?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2012 08:17 PM (05RcU)


It's sad they think he's a pickup at all.

Posted by: Adam at August 27, 2012 04:19 PM (/YJYi)

150 Bears run down and kill things, which they then eat. It's not like it's a well-guarded secret. Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 08:17 PM (8sCoq) And this guy was way to close to the bear also. He was violating park instructions

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2012 04:19 PM (05RcU)

151 Oh I'll pray for Snarlin' Arlin....you better believe it.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 08:14 PM (LRFds)

I'm no fan of the man by any means; he yelled at me at a 2010 town hall when I called him the ultimate political opportunist.   But let's not be like the Ellen Barkins and Samuel L Jacksons of this world.  I wish him well and I wish him peace-- as a private citizen

Posted by: Ombudsman at August 27, 2012 04:20 PM (zXLtf)

152 Speaking of grizzlies, Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog has to be the most unintentionally funny documentary of all time right? I seriously laughed the whole way through that thing. The guy was a total wreck and comedic gold, even when he died in the end some of the parts were just too hysterical.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at August 27, 2012 04:20 PM (NzBQO)

153

Sons of Anarchy starts up again in a few days.

----

Best show ever. Problem is, these shows go so long between seasons I forget what happened at the end of the last one.

Posted by: USS Diversity at August 27, 2012 04:21 PM (0CiTm)

154 152 Ombudsman,

Wishing one guy faces fate whatever it chooses is a bit different than praying a whole city gets nailed by a hurricane...

but "yeah" I guess......

get well soon Snarlin' I hope the doctors have a cure for head in ass disease....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:22 PM (LRFds)

155 "Some years back, someone on my blog asked me why I didn't turn out like BHO. It's the grace of God; that's the only answer I know to be true."
And a blessing you are to all of us, girl.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:23 PM (r4wIV)

156 "Grizzly bears are nature's rock-stars. They are just misunderstood." ~Timothy Treadwell

Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 27, 2012 04:23 PM (a4CUi)

157 4) I like Castle. It's not earth-shattering awesome TV. But I think Fillion and Katic have chemistry that's rarely seen on TV. Of course, this particular episode, you won't see that, because of events earlier in the season. But if you're a Firefly fan, there's nostalgia value in this one anyway.

I'd say anyone who compares Hunger Games to Twilight has not read or seen either. Katniss is actually a heroine who DOES something. Belle is a whining simpleton of a Mary Sue. As far as the movie goes, I thought it was well-executed, I do agree with the tension peeking too early. But that's the book too, so I can't blame them for that, as there's no real way to fix that without reworking the entire sequence. 

Now, I'd personally rather see Leviathan made into a movie, if they're going to make a teen-book a film.

Posted by: Shawn at August 27, 2012 04:23 PM (/lltO)

158 "It's almost kinda sad that the dems think Charlie Christ is an important pick up?"
I agree, I just can't imagine how out of touch you have to be to imagine any Republican cares that he's goig to the DNC. Yeah, we knew what he was like. Its about as shocking as Bloomberg going there.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:24 PM (r4wIV)

159 >Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog has to be the most unintentionally funny documentary of all time right?

great illustration of the Darwin Effect

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:25 PM (8sCoq)

160 yeah USSD and they only run 13 eps JUSTIFIED is another one and dont get me started on Games Of Thrones and Spartacus

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 04:25 PM (vanqS)

161

Longmire is filmed around Santa Fe and since they were losing Breaking Bad the citizens were thrilled to get another show filmed there.  I like it.  It's different and Robert Taylor is easy on the eyes.  Loved Hunger Games and can't wait for the next one..

 

sooo... let me tell you what I did this past weekend!  I went to the Crypticon convention here in KC.  Crypticon is a horror movie convention basically.  They have horror film stars there, workshops, lots and lots of people made up as zombies etc.  I had a freaking blast!!  I met Dee Wallace (sweet as she could be), Michael Berryman (The Hills Have Eyes), Tom Atkins (lots of character actor type roles), Bill Johnson (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2).  We literally hung out with Johnson for about an hour and a half, outside smoking cigs and drinking.  I couldn't believe I was standing there talking to Leatherface! 

Posted by: jewells45 at August 27, 2012 04:25 PM (UljOc)

162 WTF is wrong with people? Obama ate a dog! He also wanted to eat an endangered animal(tiger)!

Posted by: Hanoverfist at August 27, 2012 04:25 PM (HiKk0)

163 Sons of Anarchy. Haven't tired of it yet.

Posted by: mastour at August 27, 2012 04:26 PM (Xf0bG)

164 Juan Williams, Alan Colmes and Tingle legs.

Cage match for the stupidest people on TV?

Pay for view?  Not a chance.


Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:26 PM (3ZjAP)

165 I think it was Ron White that did a whole bit on Werner Herzogs movie and how damn hilarious it was.

Posted by: Ktgreat at August 27, 2012 04:26 PM (iS7G9)

166 Hmm, earthquake in TJ, 5.0 which isn't big but you feel it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:26 PM (r4wIV)

167 >Sons of Anarchy. Haven't tired of it yet.

Posted by: mastour at August 27, 2012 08:26 PM (Xf0bG)


I want to start a MC club called 'Inglorious Basterds'

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:28 PM (8sCoq)

168 Barry's failures explained: http://is.gd/OAN06y

Posted by: Gerry at August 27, 2012 04:28 PM (5ZCL+)

169 It is not like Romney tied his dog to the bumper and drove off.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at August 27, 2012 04:29 PM (HiKk0)

170

"Grizzly bears are nature's rock-stars. They are just misunderstood."

~Timothy Treadwell

They are opportunistic ominvores the size of a small bulldozer. You are small, weak and pink. They can run as fast as a horse. You can barely top 10 MPH on a paved road.

They fear us and our iron implements. When they lose that fear you are a snack.

Posted by: fluffy at August 27, 2012 04:29 PM (3SvjA)

171 There is a video that was going around of a guy who upon offering a sandwich to a bear while he was driving through a park had his arm ripped off by the bear and subsequently died from the trauma and blood loss.

Moral of the story, DO NOT EVER FUCK WITH BEARS!

or Honey Badger!

Posted by: General Woundwort at August 27, 2012 04:30 PM (DWgdc)

172 128 Arlen Specter on death's door? Arlen Specter has been hospitalized with a serious illness, confirm friends of the longtime U.S. Senator. One asked that people keep him in thoughts and prayers. http://tinyurl.com/8job8kf I just ran over and picked him in Stoaty's Dead Pool. A quick scan of the comments didn't show anyone else who had picked him. I wonder if this counts as inside information?

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 04:30 PM (sdi6R)

173 160 >Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog has to be the most unintentionally funny documentary of all time right?

I laughed most of the way through it.  The earnestness (both Treadwell's and Herzog's) is a good part of the hilarity, though.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 27, 2012 04:31 PM (X3lox)

174 epic boredom means it's time for "Streets of Fire"....torture the wife and boy...

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:31 PM (LRFds)

175 @170

Yeah, but these guys did and THEN tied grandma on the roof.



http://tinyurl.com/8opatfq

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:31 PM (3ZjAP)

176 "Robert Taylor is easy on the eyes"
No relation. My dad was named Robert, though. Everyone thought of the other actor when he was young.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:31 PM (r4wIV)

177 no kittehs but dog-shaming.com is purty funneh

Posted by: Uterus Cannon at August 27, 2012 04:31 PM (RLTt1)

178 on O'Reilly... Juan Williams is more "Bless Your Heart" than usual.

Posted by: ace at August 27, 2012 04:32 PM (fxHyG)

179 Jones, and then Ace will start an MC called the Recontextualized Bastids.

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 04:32 PM (vyPsz)

180 Baldilocks.....you're a queen.

And Juan Williams is willfully stupid.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 04:33 PM (UOM48)

181 It's just a great fucken name for a MC club. Probably copyrighted, though.

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:33 PM (8sCoq)

182 >>They fear us and our iron implements. No. They don't. My uncle, who is camp cook and doesn't hunt, had one attempt to peel back the side of our elk camp (an old semi refer trailer) one evening in the Cabinet Mtns a few years ago. And we've lost more than one 1/2 carcass we couldn't pack out at once. Don't you ever believe a grizzly bear has fear of anything for one second. If you feel that way and you're in bear country, it might be the last thing you ever think without terror.

Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (a4CUi)

183 Christopher.. I know.. I was telling my mom about it, I thought she might like the show and I told her Robert Taylor was in it.  She said that can't be.. he's dead.  I said not THAT Robert Taylor.. geez mom.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (UljOc)

184 Yeah, I just tied up a dog.



http://tinyurl.com/m4btvc

Posted by: Mittens at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (3ZjAP)

185 Juan is in full shit the bed mode. Also known as "Colmesing".

Posted by: Ktgreat at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (iS7G9)

186 no kittehs but dog-shaming.com is purty funneh

Posted by: Uterus Cannon at August 27, 2012 08:31 PM (RLTt1)



Do they rub the dog's face in the monitor?  The face-rubbing is the operative action, after all.  And the yelling.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (X3lox)

187 182 Jones in CO,

I've always been fond of Crash D and the DonorCycles

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (LRFds)

188 From IMDB description: "A docudrama that centers on amateur grizzly bear expert Timothy Treadwell." Think about that. Amateur grizzly bear expert

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 04:34 PM (GEICT)

189 I think Sons starts Sept 11.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 27, 2012 04:35 PM (UljOc)

190 135 128 Arlen Specter on death's door

So he won't be speaking at the convention?

Posted by: Scobface at August 27, 2012 08:15 PM (IoNBC)

 

He will vote democrat in November.  If he passes, he'll vote twice, maybe three times.

Posted by: Ammo Dump at August 27, 2012 04:35 PM (YYyqq)

191 That jackass on O'Reilly from the Southern Poverty Law Center has a face like Naomi's vagina.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 04:35 PM (UOM48)

192 Ooh my the Southern Poverty guy is taking about Harry Reid molesting kids.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:36 PM (3ZjAP)

193 I think this Robert Taylor is from Australia, but if he is he's amazing at hiding the accent. Not that he has a lot of lines. More the strong, silent type.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:36 PM (r4wIV)

194
Don't you ever believe a grizzly bear has fear of anything for one second. If you feel that way and you're in bear country, it might be the last thing you ever think without terror.

Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 27, 2012 08:34 PM (a4CUi)



Damn straight.  Grizzlies don't even fear a 12 gauge after you've emptied a couple in them.  They do get extra pissed-off, though.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 27, 2012 04:36 PM (X3lox)

195 136 Cher: 'Karma' if Akin Raped by Someone with HIV. --------------------------------------- Well this "karma" likely to play out in only 3 scenarios: Gay Bar Prison TGIF party at Chaz's condo

Posted by: Nukie at August 27, 2012 04:36 PM (AzwZn)

196 Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are putting themselves at risk of permanently damaging their intelligence, according to a landmark study. Researchers found persistent users of the drug, who started smoking it at school, had lower IQ scores as adults. They were also significantly more likely to have attention and memory problems in later life, than their peers who abstained.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 27, 2012 04:37 PM (e8kgV)

197 183 IdowhatIwant,

at best they're wary...

Grandpa took me to Kitmai as a youngster one summer most majestic thing in my life other than my son....

people that try to act like they are in a disney movie are fools, Timmy Treadlow was egaged in a magic trick where the bears were so focused on alrdering up they tried to ignore him....he stretched the trick too long in a bad summer for calories and paid the price.

That bear diving and scavenging was warning him and he ignored it.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:37 PM (LRFds)

198 My husband refuses to watch O'Reilly.  Hates him with the heat of a million suns.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 04:37 PM (UOM48)

199 @192

You are being kind, at least he still can spit.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:38 PM (3ZjAP)

200 197 Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are putting themselves at risk of permanently damaging their intelligence, according to a landmark study. What was usage rate?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2012 04:38 PM (GEICT)

201 I don't post much, but had to share something from a friend of a friend posted on FB... he was astounded that I was not waiting my turn to polish the knob of His Royal Exaltedness, King Choom I, so linked to a site that... well; I never thought it was possible to concentrate all of the stupidity in the known universe on one website... http://tinyurl.com/3n28cyp

Posted by: hindmost at August 27, 2012 04:38 PM (ZWODX)

202 195 TPOP,

I've been told a 45-70 pain reliever does wonders but I would not ever want to test it.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:38 PM (LRFds)

203 "Damn straight. Grizzlies don't even fear a 12 gauge after you've emptied a couple in them. They do get extra pissed-off, though."
Oh no, don't shoot him. That will only make him angry.
-Blazing Saddles

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:39 PM (r4wIV)

204
>>>>>Grizzlies don't even fear a 12 gauge after you've emptied a couple in them.<<<<<

Hence the popularity of .45-70's in Alaska.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at August 27, 2012 04:39 PM (1k+2O)

205 @199

You married over your head.  He is a fucking idiot, BUT he's looking out for the "folks".

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:39 PM (3ZjAP)

206 Bears are not your friends. Black bears you can scare away. Grizzlies you can't...............and apparently they dislike paparazzi.

Posted by: Nukie at August 27, 2012 04:39 PM (AzwZn)

207 Arlen Specter on death's door?

Life is unfair.  The Dems didn't get to own him nearly long enough...

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 27, 2012 04:39 PM (COZLs)

208 199 Jane D'Oh,

he is probably like me and remembes the con man when he was on "a current affair"....


Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:40 PM (LRFds)

209 Sven beat me...

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living.... at August 27, 2012 04:40 PM (1k+2O)

210

Here's the latest smear:  the regressives are saying that Paul Ryan thinks rape is just another "method of conception."  Here's the actual video in which it is obvious that Ryan does not have a casual attitude towards rape, but you'd never know that from all the girly shreiking at the HuffPo

 

http://is.gd/4oVRBU

Posted by: Tonestaple at August 27, 2012 04:40 PM (gvVlx)

211
I've been told a 45-70 pain reliever does wonders but I would not ever want to test it.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 08:38 PM (LRFds)



Unless you hit them in the heart it doesn't really matter.  Head shots just ricochet off their angled skulls.  Other areas aren't too much use, either.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 27, 2012 04:41 PM (X3lox)

212 @199: There's always Hardball.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at August 27, 2012 04:41 PM (kqGWM)

213 And here's the shrieking at the HuffPo:  http://is.gd/wU9PcM

Posted by: Tonestaple at August 27, 2012 04:41 PM (gvVlx)

214 God love you all!


118 98 Wow Baldilocks. Did you know he was going to be in the movie?

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 08:10 PM (NhGgS)

Yes. I was supposed to be in the movie, too--to give a counterpoint to how BHO turned out. But test audiences didn't understand what the point of my appearance was, so I ended up on the cutting room floor. Actually, I'm glad of it. A little bit of notoriety is okay, but, wrt how famous this movie is now, the fact that I was cut out is better for my family.

Just to give those who don't know an idea of how scarily similar my life and the SCOAMF/T/L's life are in large and small ways:

Both our fathers are Kenyan and both our mothers are American (my mother is black).

Both of our parents divorced when we were very young and our fathers returned to their home country.

Both of our mothers' second husband were foreign and had a Muslim background (my mother's second husband was Ethiopian; however, the man who I consider my real father--Mom's third husband--is a black American and a Christian pastor. They have been married for 41 years and neither Dad nor Mom have voted for a Democrat since 198 .

Both of our mothers suffered from ovarian cancer; my mother's bout happened in 2003 and she is still with us, praise God.

Both of us are left-handed.

Both of us have a "half" sister on our mothers' side who is nine years younger and who is married to a man of a different race.

Both of our maternal grandmothers died in 2008. His grandmother was white; my grandmother was "one-drop rule" black. Both grandmothers were reported to be bitches on wheels. (I can vouch for mine.)

And there are several more parallels.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2012 04:42 PM (6kWFm)

215 202 I don't post much, but had to share something from a friend of a friend posted on FB... he was astounded that I was not waiting my turn to polish the knob of His Royal Exaltedness, King Choom I, so linked to a site that... well; I never thought it was possible to concentrate all of the stupidity in the known universe on one website...

http://tinyurl.com/3n28cyp

Posted by: hindmost at August 27, 2012 08:38 PM (ZWODX




OMG.  That link left me breathless.  I just read a couple of the "accomplishments" to my husband and he said, "My siblings believe that shit.  And so does your sister."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 04:42 PM (UOM48)

216 #120

Why go to Yahoo? Notepad will do just fine and is already right there in your Accessories. Wordpad should also be OK as it uses a simpler format than Word and should generate a lot of metadata garbage.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 04:42 PM (kcfmt)

217 Bears are mean fuckers and shooting them usually just pisses them off.  I shot a fucking small black bear several times. 

Finally shot the bastard in the eye to kill it. 

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 27, 2012 04:42 PM (3ZjAP)

218 210 the guy who moves pianos for a living,

Nah good advice is good advice...

my philosophy on bears is a lot like the idea on wolverines...

I'll kill 'em in my living room and as much as is possible I remind myself I am sometimes in theirs when able....

when I die heaven is just a bit to the NW

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:42 PM (LRFds)

219 just wondering: that picture on the right side of Obama bowing a whole lot while shaking hands with the Japanese Emperor... doesn't that almost suggest that Barky realizes that there might be people in the world who out-rank him? Surely he wasn;t just looking for some free tempura and saki.

Posted by: mallfly at August 27, 2012 04:42 PM (bJm7W)

220 My husband refuses to watch O'Reilly. Hates him with the heat of a million suns

Easy to do.  I can't stand the guy either.  He'd sell the Republic out in a heartbeat. BOR is all about BOR and not much else.  His level of narcissism approaches Obama's.

It didn't take much more than a few months of listening to him on the radio years ago to figure out where he was coming from.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 27, 2012 04:43 PM (COZLs)

221 I can see where your life story would be a pretty powerful tool but you gotta cut for time, and you're right, notoriety can be hell. All you need is some evil bastard SWATting you.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:44 PM (r4wIV)

222 I use a .444 marlin and my dad carries a .338 mag. Both of us pack .44 mags too. And we BOTH GTFO when a bear is in the same AO. Immediately. Too many stories about even seemingly well placed shots not stopping those beasts. Hunger, injury, foul mood, a damn deer-fly bite. You never know what will set them off and even a high powered weapon is no guarantee you'll survive the bull's rush. Grizzly bears are top-tier predators, same as human beings. Fuck with them, or disrespect them at your peril.

Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 27, 2012 04:44 PM (a4CUi)

223 Haven't (and don't intend to) read the Hunger Games books.  That said, I thought the movie setting looked uncomfortably similar what I would expect the US to look like in 50 years if Obama triumphs and is followed in power by similar leftists: economy destroyed, individual states dissolved and folded into a unitary State, power and wealth concentrated in and around Washington, the "masses" entertained via the ultimate reality show, and smoldering rebellion outside the capitol.

Posted by: JeffP at August 27, 2012 04:45 PM (wzqGM)

224 Sons of Anarchy.  Yeah I tired of it three episodes in.  Hard ass, murdering, drug running bikers that spend all day exploring their feelings. Yeah, I don't think so.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 27, 2012 04:45 PM (GZitp)

225 212 TPOP,

the last time I was up there was back in maybe '94....

the locals said that headshots can kill 'em but you are not armed on the Kitmai and frankly I would not want to try to hurt 'em the idea is to politely observe and enjoy them and leave....

the LE that took down bear 141 used .40 pistols and shotguns...

but yeah they can survive a headshot that is not flush long enough to happily kill you....they ate mastadons....good enough for me.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:46 PM (LRFds)

226 What I don't like about OReally is the way he talks over everyone who appears on his show

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:46 PM (8sCoq)

227 It amazes me that some people are so convinced Hunger Games is a ripoff of Battle Royale. The concept of people being forced to fight each other for amusement or other purposes is hardly a recent invention. About every fifth Star Trek episode did it and plenty of other old TV shows, not to mention tons of novels, comics, etc.

It reminds me of when a really bad comics writer did a blatant ripoff of a storyline John Byrne had done a year earlier without realizing that Byrne was doing an homage to Moby Dick.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 04:46 PM (kcfmt)

228 I really, really wish Fox would replace O'Blowhard with Laura Ingraham.  Yeah, her voice grates, but she's way smarter and better than Bill.  He's a loud, obnoxious douche.  And he's given waaaay too much positive coverage to his master, Barry.  Any damned thing for the next interview.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 27, 2012 04:47 PM (UOM48)

229 The problem I have with bears is that for the name they just aren't naked enough. I mean, bad enough Apple jacks has neither apples or jacks but bares? I mean, come on.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 04:47 PM (r4wIV)

Posted by: Dr Fish. at August 27, 2012 04:48 PM (ndqJC)

231 "I finally watched Longmire.
Nothing original whatsoever but still entertaining and it satisfies my kickass need."

Posted by: soothsayer in a chariot dragging a corpse at August 27, 2012 07:38 PM (Fely/)

Hec Ramsey was way better.  "Longmire" is a just bunch of western stereotypes mashed together.  Hell,  it even has Tonto.  And Katee Sackhoff  flouncing around yelling "What??!!  Tell me what's going on!!"  It jumped the shark when Longmire became the fugitive vigilante of love from the Urbane Wewstern Black Lawman  from Denver., Nah, it actually jumped the shark before that in the Brokeback Rodeo episode.  But it's got me watching just to see Absaroka turn into South Park. 

Ah just cain't quit you, Longmire.

Posted by: 66chevelle at August 27, 2012 04:48 PM (QjSgY)

232 #225

It's hard to get interested in a show when the advertising that is supposed to attract me instead makes me desire the deaths of the entire cast. So, they're all criminal scumbags or groupies of same. The only way I can imagine wanting to watch that was if one of the characters was secretly intent on eliminating all of the others.

That might be worth watching.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 04:50 PM (kcfmt)

233 Grimm, now that's pretty good TV.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 27, 2012 04:50 PM (GZitp)

234 227 The concept of people being forced to fight each other for amusement or other purposes is hardly a recent invention. About every fifth Star Trek episode did it and plenty of other old TV shows, not to mention tons of novels, comics, etc. I hear tell the Romans were pretty big on that.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 04:51 PM (sdi6R)

235 #230

If you consider the slang context of bear, you may be making a statement you don't want to make.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 04:52 PM (kcfmt)

236

>>Burn Notice. Just fold it up guys. You've passed your expiration date.

 

I thought it was just me...

 

Actually, I went back and watched a few episodes of the first season and saw that it wasn't just me. Even the tone of the explaining-spy-craft monologues went from light to "let me annoy you to death". Why?

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 27, 2012 04:52 PM (SUKHu)

237 they ate mastadons....good enough for me.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 08:46 PM (LRFds)



LOL.

I worked a summer in Alaska - in Gakona.  Surveying for a Navy backscatter radar installation (that never got built, I believe).  We worked with a few Indians (as it was law or something that locals had to be hired for everything) and the main Indian guy, Gary, used to laugh at the rest of us because pretty much everyone took a rifle or shotgun out with us (and it's true that we had a greater chance of being shot by one of the other yahoos than eaten by a bear) ... then one day Gary came out toting his biggest rifle.  Evidently he saw sow and cub tracks and was really, really wary about walking the survey.  Then the Indian chicks got their periods and they weren't allowed to come out (not by our instructions, but from home).

Good times.  I never ran into anything but a guy 30 miles up the road got mauled when he took a friend out to show him some land he'd bought to build a cabin on.  He went back on his own to get his baseball cap and only took an axe with him.  He heard a grizzly charging him, put the axe in the bear's head and proceeded to have his scalped ripped away and his eyes punctured.  He lived, though.  1500 stitches or some such ridiculous number.  He held his scalp on, on the way back to the road, with his cap.  So .. it was worth going back to get, I guess.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 27, 2012 04:52 PM (X3lox)

238 216 Glad you're happy with how the editing turned out. Was thinking that if you *hadn't* known it would be kind of weird to see him in the movie. Also, wow, I knew you'd said your dads were from the same tribe but not about the other similarities.

Posted by: Polliwogette, Teahada hobbit who wants some R&R at August 27, 2012 04:52 PM (NhGgS)

239 did somebody say Katee Sackhoff?



http://tinyurl.com/92osd6n

sfw

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2012 04:52 PM (8sCoq)

240 #235

I was thinking in terms of modern entertainment. I expect if one looked hard enough there is at least one silent movie that has it as a plot device.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 04:53 PM (kcfmt)

241 remember MANNIX?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at August 27, 2012 04:53 PM (EaivH)

242

>>White Collar. They've lost their way and the touchy feely "I need to know my past" stuff is getting obnoxious.

 

I like them (esp. Mozzie) too much to be annoyed by it. And honestly, I don't know that it's any drippier than the first season Kate anguish.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 27, 2012 04:53 PM (SUKHu)

243 "Burn Notice. Just fold it up guys. You've passed your expiration date."

Yep.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 27, 2012 04:55 PM (GZitp)

244 227. The shocking part of Hunger Games wasn't that 'people' fought for the amusement of the rest. It was 'children' fighting for the amusement of the rest. And while that isn't 'new' in itself either. The premise was effectively pulled off, with a well-formed sneer for the American Idol mentality.

Posted by: Shawn at August 27, 2012 04:56 PM (/lltO)

245 Sons of Anarchy. Yeah I tired of it three episodes in. Hard ass, murdering, drug running bikers that spend all day exploring their feelings. Yeah, I don't think so.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 27, 2012 08:45 PM (GZitp)

 

 

Jax looks like an ass with his white sneakers.  And his old lady is a doctor?   Please. 

Posted by: 66chevelle at August 27, 2012 04:56 PM (QjSgY)

246 238 TPOP,

nice story...yeah I'm boring as far as "oh damn goes"....

I've been close to wolves on the norther edge of Alberta and not been "dread mode" but the bear and wolverine are scary...

on a primal level, Tim T overcame that primal fear....and in the end it is all about respect.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 27, 2012 04:57 PM (LRFds)

247 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 27, 2012 08:52 PM Yes. Having somebody get their shit wrecked on the same ground you tread is an eye-opening experience. Every time.

Posted by: IdowhatIwant at August 27, 2012 04:57 PM (a4CUi)

248 Even the tone of the explaining-spy-craft monologues went from light to "let me annoy you to death". Why?

Writers get bored and feel the need to fuck with a winning formula.  That'll kill a series every time.  Of course they're ignoring all the fan mail and feedback pleading with them to get back on track.

To keep a series fresh, you probably need to fire the writers every few years.

Posted by: @PurpAv at August 27, 2012 04:58 PM (COZLs)

249 "Jax looks likean asswith his white sneakers."

And don't forget the British accent, that adds a touch of realism.
?

Posted by: lowandslow at August 27, 2012 04:59 PM (GZitp)

250 Oh, forgot to post a *big* semi-parallel between me and him:

I was raised by my matrilineal great-aunt and great-uncle during the first half of my minor years; he was raised by his maternal grandparents during the second half of his minor years.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2012 04:59 PM (6kWFm)

251 " no kittehs but dog-shaming.com is purty funneh
Posted by: Uterus Cannon"

Thanks for this! I'm laughing so hard at some of these!

Posted by: Hobbitopoly at August 27, 2012 05:01 PM (d6TfZ)

252

As a leading writer, thinker and contributor to CNN, I feel it is my responsibility to keep people advised of current events.

 

Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are putting themselves at risk of permanently damaging their intelligence, according to a landmark study.

 



Researchers found persistent users of the drug, who started smoking it at school, had lower IQ scores as adults.

 



They were also significantly more likely to have attention and memory problems in later life, than their peers who abstained.

 

I am thinking of making a documentary on this subject.  The proposed title is "Reefer Madness"?   What do you people think?

Posted by: Fareed Zakaria at August 27, 2012 05:01 PM (sJTmU)

253 Jax's doctor wife: worst actor on tv especially in scenes that involve doctoring

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at August 27, 2012 05:02 PM (0w+w3)

254 Well I could have put up with just one guy looking for his past but when Mozzie started whimpering about how his parents never loved him it just pushed me past my tolerance. And the preview of the next episode with Mozzie holding a baby dressed up like him? For the love of God no.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 05:03 PM (r4wIV)

255 #249

Or the UK approach where a show might skip a year because they haven't figured out what still needs saying. Doc Martin is an example of that. Everybody went off and did other stuff for a while.

I suppose another good example is Russell Davies handing off Dr. Who to Steven Moffett. Usually somebody has to be fired for that sort of thing to happen in US TV.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 05:03 PM (kcfmt)

256 rickl, S. Weasel positively encourages cheating so you're good.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at August 27, 2012 05:04 PM (Xal2R)

257

>>Oh, forgot to post a *big* semi-parallel between me and him:

 

And yet, it's the differences that matter!

 

But yeh, it is pretty amazing that such a unique background is shared.

 

Just shows he can't be original, doesn't it?

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 27, 2012 05:04 PM (SUKHu)

258

>>Mozzie started whimpering about how his parents never loved him it just pushed me past my tolerance

 

LOL. Yeh, I just like them so much that I don't care about the drama.

 

Plus, they put in a Stargate reference!!1! Willie Garson (Mozzie) was in several episodes of Stargate SG1 and then in WC, he mentioned "Stargate" as one of several gov't conspiricies.

Posted by: Mama AJ, who is a geek at August 27, 2012 05:07 PM (SUKHu)

259 And don't forget the British accent, that adds a touch of realism.
?

Posted by: lowandslow at August 27, 2012 08:59 PM (GZitp)

 

That's 'cause he's part Irish, me laddie.  Seriously, that whole intercontinental bullshit where they're in and out of jail, stowing away in cargo planes, blowing shit up in Ireland, then flying back Charming to rescue Jax's widdle baby...just NO.  There's only so must belief I can suspend before I start laughing.

Posted by: 66chevelle at August 27, 2012 05:09 PM (QjSgY)

260 #259

I have a recurring fantasy that the insane spending levels of the last decade will turn out to have really been spent on the Stargate program and developing our fleet of FTL ships.

"You didn't really believe we'd give half a billion to those Solyndra losers, would you?"

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 05:11 PM (kcfmt)

261 And all of those Volts we supposedly manufactured? MALFs.

Posted by: epobirs at August 27, 2012 05:12 PM (kcfmt)

262 I think part of Burn Notice's problem is that the guy that created the show moved on to Covert Affairs (which sucks), so his input and ideas are gone.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 05:14 PM (r4wIV)

263

Ah, darn it, now I'm going to be disappointed when that doesn't turn out to be true.

 

It would explain so much. And give new meaning to the whole Birther issue...

 

...stuttering clusterfark of a miserable Goa'uld tyrant...

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 27, 2012 05:16 PM (SUKHu)

264 Yeh, but the plot is showing signs of age, too. How many times can it make sense to drag Michael's mom into seriously dangerous stuff?

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 27, 2012 05:17 PM (SUKHu)

265 I got hooked on Burn Notice when they had a season 1 marathon. Now it just eats up space on my DVR. Also, moar bear stories plz.

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at August 27, 2012 05:19 PM (LG3ga)

266

Burn Notice. Just fold it up guys. You've passed your expiration date.

I thought it was just me...

Actually, I went back and watched a few episodes of the first season and saw that it wasn't just me. Even the tone of the explaining-spy-craft monologues went from light to "let me annoy you to death". Why?

 

Michael needs to come on out of the closet.  His mom could only have gay sons.  I'm sorry.  That whole show is 50 Shades of Gay.  I like it, though.  My Lesbian sister loves the show, and I hit her with my "Flaming Notice" hypothesis yesterday.  Long pause, then,  "Oh. My. Glob.  I never even considered that!"  Then she started seeing the gayness everywhere.  Buncha bitchy little girls.

Posted by: 66chevelle at August 27, 2012 05:23 PM (QjSgY)

267 251: That's fascinating. It's a cliche, and somebody already said it earlier, but it's a small world. I always like reading of your experience and insights.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 05:23 PM (sdi6R)

268 "Texas delegates planning floor mutiny over RNC rules changes" http://tinyurl.com/9r7bxqp

Posted by: cynder ella at August 27, 2012 05:24 PM (oZfic)

269 268 Also, watching the movie, I thought that George Obama would make a better President than Barack. He seems to have a better attitude.

Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2012 05:26 PM (sdi6R)

270 The rules changes appear to have less to do with Paul than with trying to control the Tea Party... we'll see.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 27, 2012 05:27 PM (r4wIV)

271 @ 22, I have those too and drink heavily as well. The trick is to not admit as much and pretend that you're somebody. That can actually carry you through gangs of wannabes. Who knows, if you are good at bullshitting, you might end up in a Cabinet position.

Posted by: ErikW at August 27, 2012 05:56 PM (qfnU0)

272
But yeh, it is pretty amazing that such a unique background is shared.

Just shows he can't be original, doesn't it?

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 27, 2012 09:04 PM (SUKHu)


I grew up being different than *everyone.* When he came along in 2004, I was like, "Holy Shit!" How can such parallels happen?

Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2012 06:00 PM (6kWFm)

273 What's up with this? http://tinyurl.com/9jc5wxs I was pretty upset when they rejected Cardinal Dolan, I mean, everybody loves Cardinal Dolan, I guess, except the Democratic party. http://tinyurl.com/9fukb9b

Posted by: cynder ella at August 27, 2012 06:12 PM (oZfic)

274 Wow, talk about putting the cart before the horse. Way to go romney "lawyers"....get rid of the base before you even have the nomination. Or is that why you want to get rid of some people, cause you are afraid you might not get it? This all makes no sense. Almost seems like you are inviting a third party candidate into the arena... http://tinyurl.com/97qvwlb Sarah Palin weighed in on fb....a lot of the little regular people agree with her... And after Christie's comments today.... Makes you wonder if romney is Bo with an R after his name after all....

Posted by: cynder ella at August 27, 2012 09:08 PM (oZfic)

275 "Without the energy and wisdom of the grassroots, the GOP would not have had the historic 2010 electoral victories. That's why the controversial rule change being debated at the RNC convention right now is so very disappointing. It's a direct attack on grassroots activists by the GOP establishment, and it must be rejected." ----from sarah palin's fb post... agree with her 100% Gee and I was beginning to like romney but if he is behaving lie a dictator with the convention then how will he behave towards the American people? All the BO people are calling him "mitler" and making people have doubts about him. Way to go romney team, you're helping grow the doubts.

Posted by: cynder ella at August 27, 2012 09:23 PM (oZfic)

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