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March 18, 2012

Full Prometheus Trailer
— andy

In space, no one can hear you scream about the high ticket prices.

Posted by: andy at 01:10 PM | Comments (112)
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1 can't wait for this to come out

Posted by: The Dude at March 18, 2012 01:14 PM (M8yfa)

2 mehhh, I don't go thee-aters no more. The last one I went to one was to see Wings with Merna Loy ... or was it Lloyd Thurbergomp ...

You kids, with your Dolbys and Panorama visions~!

Posted by: crank old fuck #239 [/i] at March 18, 2012 01:14 PM (WdKsY)

3 Did we just see all the good parts?

Posted by: fluffy at March 18, 2012 01:15 PM (vRSeu)

4 Is this a stand-up fight or another bug hunt?

Posted by: EC at March 18, 2012 01:15 PM (R15UB)

5 Kewl

Posted by: eastvalleyphx at March 18, 2012 01:15 PM (qiOph)

6 Did we just see all the good parts?

Posted by: fluffy at March 18, 2012 05:15 PM (vRSeu)

eh, at least it didn't explain shit which is sadly a nice breath of fresh air for movie trailers

Posted by: The Dude at March 18, 2012 01:16 PM (M8yfa)

7 It's based I think on Ridley Scott's original backstory to ALIEN. The xenomorph was a weapon system, developed by the elephant-like aliens seen in the control chair in the first movie.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at March 18, 2012 01:18 PM (r0wku)

8 Monkey Gun?

Posted by: Grant S at March 18, 2012 01:19 PM (dsCnE)

9 Although I can't be 100% certain, the trailer seems to suggest quite a bit of difference between the leaked script and the true film.

Posted by: EC at March 18, 2012 01:19 PM (R15UB)

10 I messed up and went and read some stuff about it when the movie was just a rumor, and the trailer seems to confirm everything I read.

*Swears off Internets until June*

I usually wait for things to come out on video, but I'll be seeing this one at the theater.

Posted by: Andy at March 18, 2012 01:21 PM (XG+Mn)

11 High Speed Monkey Rail Gun?

Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2012 01:22 PM (f1dU+)

12 oh and though I really like Elba, they really should have scrapped him having a southern accent. He does an okay American accent but south is not in his wheelhouse

Posted by: The Dude at March 18, 2012 01:22 PM (M8yfa)

13 Is this what movies look like shot under the new light blubs?

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 18, 2012 01:27 PM (2Gb0y)

14 7

It's a weapons system that requires you to be lightly armed, in an enclosed space, without backup support, and the like.

These things would be useless in the open against even current military.

I've never got the whole 'fearsome weapon' thing about these aliens.

Posted by: nickless at March 18, 2012 01:27 PM (MMC8r)

15 So searching for the aliens was a bad idea?

Posted by: dagny who loved andrew at March 18, 2012 01:28 PM (u50z0)

16 I always figured that there was a planet somewhere where the xenomorphs were the rabbit equivalent species.

Posted by: toby928© at March 18, 2012 01:30 PM (GTbGH)

17 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: mike at March 18, 2012 01:30 PM (iiJd4)

18 Nobody does it better than Ridley Scott. His is the only part of the "horror" genre I can stomach.

The one word that comes to mind about his films is "tight". The phrase "loose sh*t" does not come to mind when thinking of Alien or Aliens.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 18, 2012 01:31 PM (piMMO)

19 Whatever you do don't go looking for pictures of the Alien behind the scenes from the original movies, it's just some little dude in spandex wearing the big Alien head, kinda ruins the effect.

Posted by: booger at March 18, 2012 01:33 PM (HI6wa)

20 I always figured that there was a planet somewhere where the xenomorphs were the rabbit equivalent species.

Posted by: toby928Â© at March 18, 2012 05:30 PM (GTbGH)

well, yeah as they are game for the Predators. Launch a queen to a planet, wait a bit and then go in for the Great Hunt.

really wish they went to the comics or the novels for the AvP films

Posted by: The Dude at March 18, 2012 01:33 PM (M8yfa)

21 H. R. Geiger is a pervert. I'm just saying.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at March 18, 2012 01:33 PM (8hBZi)

22 Is this Alien IV or V ?

Posted by: ufo at March 18, 2012 01:34 PM (ZDeMS)

23 Oh, and 'Alien?'

Check out a little old film called 'It, the Terror from Beyond Space.' There's an undeniable influence there.

Posted by: nickless at March 18, 2012 01:35 PM (MMC8r)

24 14 I think you'd be singing a different tune if one of them jammed its scorpion tail up your keester.

Posted by: delmar at March 18, 2012 01:35 PM (9gPni)

25 Let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby, let's all go to the lobby, and get ourselves a snack.

Posted by: toby928© at March 18, 2012 01:35 PM (GTbGH)

26 Charlize Theron?

I'd hit that like a fully incubated chestburster penetrating a meddlesome sternum.

Posted by: Fritz at March 18, 2012 01:38 PM (KWdVT)

27 Meh, It's no "Phantom Menace" or "Avatar"

Posted by: The Robot Devil at March 18, 2012 01:40 PM (OKNQi)

28 I think you'd be singing a different tune if one of them jammed its scorpion tail up your keester.

The trick is 'don't let it.' Don't go down it's hole, don't separate, don't disarm, don't go into the dark, don't let it get near you.

You know, basically the same rules teenagers never follow in horror movies.

Posted by: nickless at March 18, 2012 01:42 PM (MMC8r)

29 I'd hit that like a fully incubated chestburster penetrating a meddlesome sternum. Thread winner!

Posted by: Lickmuffin at March 18, 2012 01:42 PM (TSyxQ)

30 I want Charlize Theron to do the 'underwear' scene that made Susan Weaver famous in "Alien". Then rip her clothes off and hump the Master Race guys

yes that's her real name.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 18, 2012 01:43 PM (Dll6b)

It's a weapons system that requires you to be lightly armed, in an enclosed space, without backup support, and the like.

These things would be useless in the open against even current military.

I've never got the whole 'fearsome weapon' thing about these aliens.

Posted by: nickless

Think of it as a genocidal type weapon released on densely populated, urbanized civilization. It breeds fast, grows fast, kills relentlessly, adapts to whatever the host creature is like. And in the end it could clear a whole planet of the "enemy" civilization. But whoever created it must have some kind of "off" switch to get it under control again to claim the planet that it clears off.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 18, 2012 01:43 PM (sJTmU)

32 You know, basically the same rules teenagers never follow in horror movies.

Posted by: nickless

Your lack of irony is disturbing.

Did you ever see the movie "Schlock!" Funny send up of all those stupid premises.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 18, 2012 01:44 PM (sJTmU)

33 Think of it as a genocidal type weapon released on densely populated, urbanized civilization.

That's what I always assumed it was, it wasn't a battlefield weapon, it's a planetary takeover weapon.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at March 18, 2012 01:46 PM (Gk3SS)

34 Think of it as a genocidal type weapon released on densely populated, urbanized civilization. It breeds fast, grows fast, kills relentlessly, adapts to whatever the host creature is like. And in the end it could clear a whole planet of the "enemy" civilization.

A neutron bomb.

Wouldn't a pathogen be easier? One with a half-life? Like Andromeda?

Posted by: nickless at March 18, 2012 01:46 PM (MMC8r)

35 "Whatever you do don't go looking for pictures of the Alien behind the scenes from the original movies, it's just some little dude in spandex wearing the big Alien head, kinda ruins the effect."

According to the IMDB, the guy who played the Alien in the first movie, Bolaji Badejo, was 7' 2". So, are you saying the Aliens in Aliens are the midgets?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 18, 2012 01:47 PM (uehxp)

36 Think of it as a genocidal type weapon released on densely populated, urbanized civilization. It breeds fast, grows fast, kills relentlessly, adapts to whatever the host creature is like. And in the end it could clear a whole planet of the "enemy" civilization. But whoever created it must have some kind of "off" switch to get it under control again to claim the planet that it clears off. Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes.... at March 18, 2012 05:43 PM (sJTmU) Depends on your objective. If you were just looking to wipe out another race and you weren't the slightest bit interested in taking their resources, it'd work just fine. In other words, it's the sort of weapon that would come from the mind of an Islamist.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 18, 2012 01:48 PM (FIE/L)

37
I'll watch classics on TV.

I don't go to theaters or give a flying fuck about new movies. That's for city boys.

Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at March 18, 2012 01:51 PM (7+pP9)

38 Hey, could you bump this post up when it hits Netflix. Thanks.

Posted by: veeka oot seeg at March 18, 2012 01:51 PM (sqVOl)

39 damn that is a kickass trailer.

Posted by: doowop at March 18, 2012 01:55 PM (W+hbP)

40 Hasn't this been done before? It's dark. It's gray. All rocks. Chick in underwear. Loud.

Posted by: mike at March 18, 2012 01:56 PM (iiJd4)

41 That "crane fail" thing in the sidebar is mostly fake. http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/crane.asp One crane fell in, the second crane fished out the car and the first crane, end of story. Then someone edited the photos to make the second crane fall in. Now someone faked up a photo of a third crane. How long before someone fakes up the third crane falling in? Meh.

Posted by: sidebar comment at March 18, 2012 01:56 PM (P0N+7)

42 I love these trailers where they basically show you the whole movie.

Posted by: Bill Mitchell at March 18, 2012 01:56 PM (uVlA4)

43 "I love these trailers where they basically show you the whole movie."

Heh.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 18, 2012 02:02 PM (GZitp)

44 I can't remember the last movie I went to see in the theater. It was some time in the mid 80s I think. I refuse to sit in a shitty little theater with sticky floors listening to a wad of kids talk to each other through a shitty movie.

Posted by: Vic at March 18, 2012 02:03 PM (YdQQY)

45 If it wasn't for DST I might be willing to go to a drive in.

Posted by: Vic at March 18, 2012 02:03 PM (YdQQY)

46 Heh, me, too, Vic! Plus, it's a ridiculous expenditure of time, effort and (perhaps hardest for me) attention span.

Posted by: Peaches at March 18, 2012 02:04 PM (w407e)

47 Oh, and money, how the hell did I leave that off the list?

Posted by: Peaches at March 18, 2012 02:05 PM (w407e)

48 Jim Henson's Alien Babies.

Posted by: Jim Treacher at March 18, 2012 02:06 PM (X3KAb)

49 The one-to-one ratio of host to alien is a real drawback for a genocidal weapon.

Posted by: toby928© at March 18, 2012 02:07 PM (GTbGH)

50 There's room for one more Aliens movie. You know when Ripley was asleep in the shuttle and the Paul Riser character sent the colonists to LV-426, the "shake and bake colony"? They had a huge alien battle.

They could make a movie out of that. And they could bring back the Riser character. Also a little more explanation of how Weyland company knew all along what was going down.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 18, 2012 02:07 PM (Iyg03)

51 Looks pretty good. First film this year I'm tempted to see on the big screen.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 18, 2012 02:09 PM (isRlR)

52 but toby928, how many does the xenomorph kill after it hatches from some unfortunate bastard's chest?

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:09 PM (PWwbk)

53 I'm afraid to look and see who is in it. Because if any Liberals are in it, I will not pay to see it

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 18, 2012 02:11 PM (eCnLg)

54 45 I can't remember the last movie I went to see in the theater. It was some time in the mid 80s I think. I refuse to sit in a shitty little theater with sticky floors listening to a wad of kids talk to each other through a shitty movie. Posted by: Vic at March 18, 2012 06:03 PM (YdQQY) The main reason to avoid movie theaters in 2012 is that most movies are completely terrible. The theaters themselves are phenomenal. Stadium seating, better sound, clearer picture, etc. We just need some good movies to see in these theaters.

Posted by: Robviously at March 18, 2012 02:11 PM (oG/rt)

55 It does look beautiful. Those are the best alien landscapes I've ever seen. That one with clouds and the moon/distant star... it's perfect.

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 18, 2012 02:11 PM (Iyg03)

56

Jonesy... Jonesy... .....Jonesy?

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 18, 2012 02:11 PM (kdS6q)

57 I see every new Star Trek movie in the theater. I also took the kid to Harry Potter (which was mostly for me--he was magnanomous--or he wanted the snacks) and Voyage of the Dawn Treader which made me sea sick and to which my husband yelled $42 DOLLARS in a suddenly resurfaced Brooklyn accent. (So $Fartytu Dallairs!)

Other than that? Nada. I'm afraid to spend money if I don't already know the story line isn't libturd. I was really burned by the fucking dancing animated penguin. Burned.

Posted by: dagny who loved andrew at March 18, 2012 02:11 PM (u50z0)

58 I can't remember the last movie I went to see in the theater. It was some time in the mid 80s I think. I refuse to sit in a shitty little theater with sticky floors listening to a wad of kids talk to each other through a shitty movie.
Posted by: Vic at March 18, 2012 06:03 PM

1995 for me. Same reason.

Posted by: mama winger at March 18, 2012 02:12 PM (P6QsQ)

59 UNC is looking pretty good so far and motivated also

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 18, 2012 02:12 PM (eCnLg)

That ship looks life a modified Firefly class ship.

Adam, Nathan, Joss ?

Posted by: The Great Satan's Ghost at March 18, 2012 02:14 PM (xMU3a)

61 the way these things are presented, if one xenomorph is on a desert island with 5 million humans, after a month there are just 5 million dead humans.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:14 PM (PWwbk)

62 Vic and mama go see acts of valor

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 18, 2012 02:14 PM (G9EXl)

63 hey i saw the muppet movie in the El Lago theater in Rice Lake, Wisconsin!

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:15 PM (PWwbk)

64 Eh, I'm sorry I watched that trailer . This is the one where they tell you the whole movie. More or less. Looked cool though. I'll be there. I'll be there. I will be there.* *Lefthanded H. R. Geiger reference

Posted by: naturalfake at March 18, 2012 02:15 PM (I49Jm)

Speaking of a meddlesome sternum, I almost joined the Zipper Club this weekend. Had been on IV anti-biotics for 8 days for an infection in my leg that wouldn't heal, which required a PICC line to be installed in my left arm. Friday afternoon it was to be extracted, and the last 5 inches of the PICC line got stuck in my vein. So the nurse gives too hard a tug on the thing, and it breaks, and now 5 inches of thin tubing is loose in my vein.

Nurse instantly grabs my arm above the IV entry point, hoping to prevent the loose tubing from going toward my heart. After two hours of this, the vascular surgeon comes along and feels my arm and says "it's stuck in there. We'll operate and remove it after I tie off the vein above where it is stuck."

So, prepped for OR, knocked out, and wake up with my wife and the surgeon saying: "It wasn't in your arm. It's moved into your vascular system. It may be in your heart, or elsewhere. We are prepping you immediately to have the Interventional Radiologist attempt to use a catheter to find and extract the lost tubing, but if that fails, and it is still in your heart, we will have to perform open heart surgery on you."

I'm 48 and kind of a pussy when it comes to pain and blood, but for some reason I wasn't really frightened, as I had my Rosary and was confident that these folks knew what they were doing. Since they'd just awakened me from general anesthesia, they couldn't drop me back into it, so they sedated me a little and wheeled me back into the OR, where they ex-rayed me and found that the 5 inch piece of tubing had migrated all the way through my heart into the lower part of my right lung. Relief! No open heart surgery this night.

They kept me awake for the next two hours as the Radiologist put a catheter into my right femoral vein, which he guided North into and then through my heart (which is a very strange feeling; my heart beat, but very oddly, and I could tell there was something inside it), and down into, finally, the correct branch of my right lung, where he was able to use a little clamp at the end of the catheter to grab the errant piece of tubing and draw it slowly back out of the lung, back out through the heart, and out my leg. They had an x-ray machine above me that was continually taking pictures so they could see where this thing was, and watch the progress of the rescue catheter.

Finally got to critical care room and settled in at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, and stayed awake until the shift supervisor broke into the galley and got me a sammich and a juice box, as I was starving. Came home Saturday afternoon, and just resting today and wondering at modern medicine. I'll be back at work tomorrow as a boring real estate lawyer, thanking God that something worse didn't occur, and that I didn't reprise the Alien chestburster scene in reverse.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 02:16 PM (wMsKw)

66 Sharkman....

hope you have a high pain threshold....I sometimes think my fingernails could be pulled out while i'm sleeping...that's not a good thing, either.

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:18 PM (PWwbk)

67 My darling. I've always loved....

Oh no. Promotheus!

Posted by: L'Artiste est Morte at March 18, 2012 02:19 PM (09bSO)

68 gah...my neighbor and his 'band' are slogging their way through 'fairies wear boots' by black sabbath....they're fucking murdering it....so sad...

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:20 PM (PWwbk)

69 Holy shit, Sharkman, that is some epic gruesomeness. Glad you are okay and hope I don't have nightmares about your post.

Posted by: Peaches at March 18, 2012 02:22 PM (w407e)

70 thing is, their tone is absolutely perfect for Soundgarden covers...

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:23 PM (PWwbk)

71 Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 06:16 PM (wMsKw)

Holy crap! You typed that so calmly. I would have used !!!!! and CAPS all over the place.

Glad you're ok. Wow.

Posted by: Tami at March 18, 2012 02:23 PM (X6akg)

72 Do people get murdered in this movie? I usually wait & ask the ticket taker that question, but the chances of me actually going to this are pretty low.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 18, 2012 02:24 PM (3wYCm)

73 Sharkman -

Oh my gosh !!!

Posted by: mama winger at March 18, 2012 02:26 PM (P6QsQ)

74 74 Do people get murdered in this movie? I usually wait & ask the ticket taker that question, but the chances of me actually going to this are pretty low.

there's a bloom county cartoon where everyone in the four panels is standing in line for a movie, and one gal asks steve dallas if there are any eviscerations in this movie, cuz for four bucks i expect eviscerations...

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:26 PM (PWwbk)

75 of course, that particular comic was from 1985

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:27 PM (PWwbk)

76 cuz for four bucks i expect eviscerations...

Reminds me of one for Titanic where the older couple have had enough of the young punks annoying them so the the old guys says, 'The ship sinks.'

Posted by: Retread at March 18, 2012 02:29 PM (joSBv)

77 Report: Demjanjuk wanted to be buried in US Published: 03.18.12, 22:34 / Israel News A newspaper reports that a lawyer for convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk wants Germany's federal government to help arrange a transfer of his late client's remains to the United States. Local German newspaper Oberbayerisches Volksblatt on Sunday quoted attorney Ulrich Busch as saying it was his client's "greatest wish" to be buried in the U.S. where his family lives. (AP) In any particular garbage dump?

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 18, 2012 02:29 PM (eCnLg)

78 Last theater movie for me was a forced trip to see some movie with The Rock about Scorpion Kings. I was asked to leave because of my spoken in a loud voice snark. Loud because I wear ear plugs at movies and snark because they made me sit among the teen boys.

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 18, 2012 02:31 PM (2Gb0y)

79 70 gah...my neighbor and his 'band' are slogging their way through 'fairies wear boots' by black sabbath....they're fucking murdering it....so sad...

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 06:20 PM (PWwbk)

Could be worse, they could be doing Journey songs and nailing it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 18, 2012 02:31 PM (xKC/c)

80 "cuz for four bucks i expect eviscerations..." And for $12 I expect murder, cannibalism, sodomy & a little bit of romance.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 18, 2012 02:31 PM (3wYCm)

81 @74 Do people get murdered in this movie? ... Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 18, 2012 06:24 PM (3wYCm) I don't think so. From the trailer it's pretty evident that this is a light-hearted comedy of errors, in which the aliens try to throw some kind of "coming of age" party for mankind, a Cosmic Sweet sixteen Party, if you will and hilarity ensues. I'm pretty sure I saw Ashton Kutcher among the actors. So, you know it's going to be Hi-larious. All in all, it's the "2001" storyline but with a Cosmic Sweet Sixteen Party and no LSD lightshow and floating baby.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 18, 2012 02:33 PM (I49Jm)

82 And for $12 I expect murder, cannibalism, sodomy & a little bit of romance.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 18, 2012 06:31 PM (3wYCm)

What, no necrophilia? What a rip off!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 18, 2012 02:34 PM (xKC/c)

83 Reminds me of one for Titanic where the older couple have had enough of the young punks annoying them so the the old guys says, 'The ship sinks.'

***

Heh. I saw an ad today for a re-release of Titanic in 3-D.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 18, 2012 02:35 PM (piMMO)

84 Joanie,

That would be a pirate movie, then?

arrr, mateys....

Posted by: model_1066 at March 18, 2012 02:35 PM (PWwbk)

85 $12 for sodomy?

Thanks Obama.

Posted by: nickless at March 18, 2012 02:36 PM (MMC8r)

86 $12 for sodomy?

Thanks Obama.

Hey, nobody rides for free . . .

Posted by: Duh Won at March 18, 2012 02:38 PM (w407e)

87 And for $12 I expect murder, cannibalism, sodomy a little bit of romance.

So is the murder, cannibalism and sodomy just to set the mood for the romance?

Posted by: Retread at March 18, 2012 02:39 PM (joSBv)

88 Thanks, you all. It is only sinking in now how serious it all was. At the time, it was all so surreal. I go in to the hospital for a routine PICC line extraction and end up talking about rib-spreaders and catheters in my heart. Having a very introspective day today. Wife says we should take the kids to Maui for their spring break in a few weeks, but I just expanded my business vastly over the last month, and don't think I can take the time. Perhaps I should re-think that position, all things considered.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 02:41 PM (wMsKw)

89 "That would be a pirate movie, then?" Or perhaps one of Shelley Winters' old home movies of Errol Flynn.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at March 18, 2012 02:42 PM (3wYCm)

90 Sharkman...Did you have MRSA or regular staph?

Posted by: dagny who loved andrew at March 18, 2012 02:44 PM (u50z0)

91 Dagny: MRSA. Got if from the sauna at my gym. Can't say I've ever felt anything more painful.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 02:48 PM (wMsKw)

92 Dagny: MRSA. Got if from the sauna at my gym. Can't say I've ever felt anything more painful. Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 06:48 PM

Gosh, that's scary. I vote you take your family on vacation. Life has just presented you with an opportunity to zero in on what's important.

Posted by: mama winger at March 18, 2012 02:53 PM (P6QsQ)

93 Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 06:16 PM

See, that was exciting. I'd pay movie prices to see something like that. A movie? Not so much.

Seriously, I hope you are doing okay, and stop to take some time with your family. You all deserve it.

Posted by: huerfano at March 18, 2012 02:57 PM (bAGA/)

94 I vote you take your family on vacation

Once those hospital bills start rolling in, a family vaca in Maui is gonna look like lunch money, dude. Go for it!

Posted by: Peaches at March 18, 2012 02:59 PM (w407e)

95 Holy crap sharkman, that is one of the most scary stories I've read lately. I am glad you are OK and I echo others who are saying, take the family to Maui.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 18, 2012 03:00 PM (RZ8pf)

Looks stupid.

Posted by: ErikW at March 18, 2012 03:00 PM (QlT47)

It's official. Family vacation it is. Someone's been trying to catch my attention, it seems. A catheter through the heart is one way to do it!

I'm all good today, just a little tired, and I thank you for your kind wishes and advice on the vacation issue.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 03:01 PM (wMsKw)

98 Once those hospital bills start rolling in, a family vaca in Maui is gonna look like lunch money, dude. Go for it!

Posted by: Peaches at March 18, 2012 06:59 PM (w407e)

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I would think there would be no bills rolling in. They aught to be praying that he doesn't go for more than half a mil in damages.

Posted by: Vic at March 18, 2012 03:01 PM (YdQQY)

99 And MRSA is one scary MoFo these days. That you can get just about anywhere and you can go from zero to dead fairly quickly depending on the circumstances (comprised immune system etc.).

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at March 18, 2012 03:01 PM (RZ8pf)

100

Sharkman, that was scarier than the movie trailer!

Posted by: torabora at March 18, 2012 03:12 PM (wki7A)

101

We have very good coverage through Group Health, so I doubt there will be any extra bills. Plus, the whole lawyer thing will come in handy if I do get any bills, since the bit with the PICC line breaking was something that should probably never have happened. But, I am personally not a litigious person (though vicious and relentless on my clients' behalf), and am a very forgiving person as well, and I know the nurse who broke the PICC line didn't intend to do so, and that sometimes these things happen. Had I ended up with my chest cracked, perhaps I would feel differently, but I have way too much work to do with my expanding business in the next few years as well as this upcoming family vacation to be worried about making a claim against the hospital. Medical malpractice litigation is shockingly expensive, and fraught with peril, and I have done enough complex litigation in my career to know that I'd prefer to move on and count it as an interesting medical experience that ended well, and a good story to tell my kids ("I had a tube running from my leg, through my heart, and into my lung, and I was awake the whole time!!!!"). The surgeries were performed at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, WA, and everyone there, as well as at the Group Health facility where the PICC line was installed and partially extracted, seem like good people who do a lot of good, so I'll let the matter rest.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 18, 2012 03:14 PM (wMsKw)

102 >>>"I had a tube running from my leg, through my heart, and into my lung, and I was awake the whole time!!!!"

Did it tickle?

Posted by: François Villon at March 18, 2012 03:39 PM (kqXHe)

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

Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2012 03:47 PM (7W3wI)

104 Mrs Cop is a nurse and tells me that MRSA is actually fairly common. They take nasal swabs of patients being admitted to the hospital to verify that they weren't carrying MRSA before they came into the hosptial. It's not unheard of for a patient to contract MRSA while in the hospital.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at March 18, 2012 03:49 PM (M0NzJ)

105 Wow . . . got to see it. Amazing.

Posted by: KR1 at March 18, 2012 03:59 PM (oEfom)

106 "And for $12 I expect murder, cannibalism, sodomy & a little bit of romance."

So, another night in the French Quarter, then.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 18, 2012 04:01 PM (QTHTd)

107 The Space Jockey is here!

Posted by: Darth Rove at March 18, 2012 04:07 PM (ED8o6)

108 And for $12 I expect murder, cannibalism, sodomy a little bit of romance.

Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves)

How you doing.

Posted by: DaveA (somebody had to) at March 18, 2012 04:07 PM (m16LA)

109 Hmm... Michael Fassbender and the Swedish "Girl With the Dragon Tatoo". Good actors.

Posted by: m7d8 at March 18, 2012 06:27 PM (zw1MU)

110 111 And for $12 I expect murder, cannibalism, sodomy a little bit of romance. Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) I can provide the last two for free, Joanie!

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 19, 2012 02:28 AM (niZvt)

111 Sharkman, you tell a dramatic story, and I'm very glad it turned out well for you, but if I may offer some advice: Pack up the family and go to Maui.

After Mrs. azlib and I married off our first daughter, we went there to take a break from the whole hoo-haw, and we came this close...---><---...to not coming back. We were very much tempted to call the kids and have them sell everything and just ship us the dogs. I envisioned buying some Hawaiian shaved ice shop or T-shirt place and spending the rest of our lives selling crap to tourists while living in a little place with a tin roof and never wearing anything but shorts and loud shirts. Reality overcame us, but the dream still survives.

The place is such a paradise that I can almost forgive them for bringing us that SCOAMF. <i>Almost</i>.

Posted by: azlibertarian at March 19, 2012 07:10 AM (qisYI)

112 Again with the humans involved. I would rather see the back story about the aliens there. Making humans a part of it is idiotic.

Posted by: DHSmonkey at March 19, 2012 07:26 AM (1kvqG)

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