December 26th, 2003
Posted by fad at 3:05pm
An article about the multiple assassination attempts on Musharraf gives us the dumbest headline of the day.
"U.S. says war on terrorism continues"
Well no shit.
Posted by fad at 1:33pm
As research into cloning and genetics advances, there will come a time when an elightened society will require all child actors to have a 15 year lifespan encoded into their DNA. Until then, we have stories like this.
A former child actor who became a HealthSouth Corp. executive is suing his former employer for $400,000 in pay and stock options he claims it owes him after his dismissal.You've always wondered what happened to the older brother from the "Wonder Years". Ok, no you haven't. At least this is one of the most benign "former child actor" stories I think I've ever read.
[...]
When Hervey, 31, was fired on March 21, the lawsuit says, he was offered a lump-sum payment of what the company owed him under his contract or he could receive payments of $11,538 every two weeks and maintain his insurance and company benefits.
Hervey, who played older brother Wayne Arnold on "The Wonder Years" television show, opted for the two-week payments and benefits, but the suit alleges HealthSouth stopped paying him in November. Steve Heninger, Hervey's attorney, said the company never gave an explanation why it stopped the payments.
Posted by fad at 12:40pm
Ok, so everyone will eventually comment on this story, I might as well too.
A 2-year-old model and actor who cut his head at a playground is seeking unspecified lost wages and other compensation from the city.I imagine a house with walls nearly covered with photos of this kid. I also imagine that there are multiple li'l sailor suits in this kid's wardrobe. Geez, at this rate I'm going to be able to sue my parents for the genetic makeup that makes me so ugly ("completely physically unattractive" according to a recent source) I wasn't able to get that modeling and acting career I so richly deserved.
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In a letter to officials, she demanded compensation for medical bills, pain and suffering and a "lost wage amount due to his inability to audition or take modeling or commercial jobs while his head heals."
Posted by fad at 11:40am
You got your Road Rage. You got your Air Rage. But for a real good time, nothing beats your Wal*Mart Rage.
The 22-year-old Berwyn man was pummeled with a baseball bat and beaten by as many as four people after a dispute over a place in line at a Forest Park Wal-Mart.Thankfully no one in the assault group was giving a shovel to anyone for Christmas.
They got into one line, and a girl began yelling at them they had cut in front of her. Baures and his friend argued with her, but let the girl go in front of them. The girl proceeded to allow what appeared to be her mother and friends to cut in front as well, but neither Baures nor his friend objected.The people in this event have classy written all over them.
At one point the girl began staring at his friend "like she was going to kill her,'' Baures recalled, and they asked the girl's mother to ask the girl to stop. That led to an even bigger argument.
But as Baures and his friend left the store after about a half-hour in the checkout line, they passed the group of women, who were talking on cell phones. Then he realized they were being followed, and the group now included boys and men, including one who was carrying a baseball bat.And as with all good public beatings, bystanders made sure to do nothing except gather 'round.
"This young kid comes up to me with a baseball bat, saying, 'What did you say to my sister?' '' Baures recalled. "He was holding the bat like he was going to hit me, so I grabbed the bat.''
Another man then punched him in the face, and he fell down. Several men began hitting, punching and kicking him in his face, ribs and back. His friend then jumped on top of him and said, "Please stop hitting.''
Then the men pummeled her.
Although a crowd formed, no one came to their aid, Baures said.At least they didn't start the "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!" chant that is traditional for a parking lot beat-down.
Posted by fad at 10:42am
For a reason I do not understand, one thing that stood out to me during a debate in the 2000 campaign was a promise by George Bush that food would not be used as a diplomatic weapon.
The U.S. Agency for International Development will give an additional 60,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to North Korea through the WFP, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in a written statement Wednesday.Details in the article seem to both support that pledge and undermine it a bit, though only if you see having some standards of distribution as a "diplomatic weapon".
The United States had already contributed 40,000 tonnes toward the World Food Program's $171 million appeal for North Korea in 2003. The new donation will bring the U.S. contribution to nearly 20 percent of the WFP's total appeal for the country, Boucher said.
Posted by fad at 8:23am
So that's what I've been doing wrong all these years.
A man in Sicily asked a friend to shoot him in the groin in the hope of making his ex-girlfriend feel sorry for him, police said on Friday.Chicks dig guys with pellets in their groin.
Police in the central Sicilian city of Piazza Armerina said they became suspicious when the 27-year-old went to hospital with wounds from a hunting rifle's pellets in the groin area.
Posted by fad at 8:14am
Here's a fascinating column on the employment stressing effects of constant minimum wage increases. It's not from a hard-core libertarian or right-wing angle either. Sort of fascinating to see how high minimum wages have much the same impact as rent control on who will take most advantage of them (it's usually not those most in need).
Posted by fad at 7:58am
The best thing about being passed the Thanksgiving to Christmas corridor is that at least for another year there will be no more tales from people about how terrible their family is and how they are such wonderful and patient people to put up with it all. I hate it when people put on their +42 Persecution Complex Robe and expect us to assign them sainthood for being whiny.
Posted by fad at 7:32am
Well this sucks.
British scientists have failed in their latest attempt to make contact with the Beagle 2 probe which was to have landed on Mars on Christmas Day.And now a million hack writers have begun their screenplay/novel about the hidden alien energies preventing these space craft from working right and causing the production of terrible movies like "Mission to Mars" and "Red Planet".
Posted by fad at 7:26am
Ah, the office the day after Christmas. And a Friday to boot! I should have the place, or at least my section of it, mostly to myself today, which is a consolation. Though I show up to have multiple emails from my boss sent around 9pm on Christmas Day. That just makes me sad.
But being in today reminds me of something that happened a couple jobs ago. A guy worked there who was legendary for finangling free vacation time. He managed to convince one boss to give him Good Friday off for free. Then, he changed departments and suddenly started taking Jewish holidays off. It finally crashed in on a December 26th when he didn't show up to work. The boss told someone to call him and see what was up leading to this overheard exchange.
"Did you call him?"
"Yeah. He said it's Boxing Day so he didn't think he had to come in."
"Wait a minute. First he's Christian; then he's Jewish. Now he's Canadian? Uh-uh. He can't be all three. Tell him to get his ass in here now."
Posted by fad at 7:21am
December 24th, 2003
A Merry Christmas to everyone, especially any of you who stumble by who are serving in the military away from family this year.
Posted by fad at 6:07pm
What the hell, one last post (since I'm currently enjoying everyone's favorite game of "someone else fucked up and we need you to fix it").
Got my tickets!
Now to just figure out all those logistical thingies.
UPDATE: Finally fixed! By the way, I'm now more convinced than ever that there is no such thing as a competent DBA.
Posted by fad at 12:20pm
One......more.....howah....
UPDATE: Whoever decided there should be a watermelon flavored Life Saver better never cross my path
Posted by fad at 11:10am
I knew there was a real reason for Lybia's change of late.
American oil companies have chafed for more than 17 years at U.S. sanctions that forced them to abandon prolific oil fields in the Libyan desert.That's right. It wasn't about eliminating WMDs or making the world safer. It was all about OOOOIIIIILLLLLL! How greedy is Dick Cheney that he'll rob a dictator of his nuclear and biological weapons just to make his buddies rich. He should do it the French way!
Now, after Libya's surprise agreement to abort its programs for weapons of mass destruction, the Americans can foresee their return to a country of promising and barely explored petroleum wealth.
Several foreign competitors are active in Libya today, including Italy's ENI and French heavyweight Total.Just ignore all that other stuff, let them keep their weapons, let them continue to threaten, and do business with them anyway. Then, because you are not seen as actually increasing your assets by going after the dictators, you can get high moral ground from unsophisticates in the US.
Posted by fad at 9:26am
This is nice to know.
U.S. and Russian experts recovered 37 pounds of weapons-grade uranium - enough to develop a nuclear warhead - from a closed atomic facility in Bulgaria, a government official said Wednesday.The article says the US ponied up the $400,000 to pay for it. That's tax money I'm happy to see spent.
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The United States has focused on 24 reactors in 16 countries that were built and fueled with help from the former Soviet Union. The reactors are designed to use highly enriched uranium - which can also be used to make nuclear bombs - to create nuclear isotopes used for medical treatments and other peaceful purposes.
Such reactors are of concern because they would offer a ready source of precisely the material needed to create a nuclear bomb - and security at some of them is frighteningly lax because of cost cutting that has accompanied security measures following the collapse of communism more than a decade ago.
Posted by fad at 9:20am
Mao Zedong, business guru.
With the 110th anniversary of his birth on Friday, books, articles and seminars are mining Mao's struggles and writings for tips on how to get ahead in business, melding a national interest in his life with China's modern craze for making money.Maybe Mao didn't know much about making money, but the Chinese government sure knows how to exploit him for some.
The Communist Party is pitching in, publishing four volumes on Mao as a guerrilla problem-solver.
Posted by fad at 8:27am
Ahhh, nothing like digging a Medici to start your day. No, that's not what the kids are calling these days, though they should.
The team of pathologists, archaeologists and historians is planning to exhume the bodies of 49 Medicis to study what they ate, what illnesses they suffered and a host of other information that was buried along with them in great marble crypts underneath the Medici Chapel in Florence.The Learning Channel? Does this mean descendents of the Medicis will decorate the tombs of some other prominate family from that era and vice versa?
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The goal of the two-year project, which is to be filmed for a documentary by The Learning Channel, is twofold: It will provide researchers with a better historic look at the Medici lives - their diet and how they were buried, for example. But perhaps more importantly, it will offer researchers a thorough medical history of one of the most renowned families in European history, said the project's chief, Dr. Gino Fornaciari, a history of medicine professor at the University of Pisa.
Posted by fad at 8:26am
Concepts I Cannot Understand #4,556,778:
"The lutefisk was worth the wait," said Mary Pullen.Waiting willingly for lutefisk? I rather eat Robert Fisk's shoes after they'd been soaked in lye and left out for the dogs to pee on.
Posted by fad at 7:55am
Since the alert warning went up, with its strong vague warning, I haven't altered my life. Though this is more because I don't go anywhere as it is. This morning I did catch one change. The last couple days when I wake up, one of the first things I've been doing is listening for the sound of patroling jets. If those are up, it's time to run to a TV for some news.
Posted by fad at 7:34am
"Cloned half-asses from Idaho hold promise for livestock industry"
No word yet on attempts to clone complete-ass Michael Moore. For a moment they thought they had succeeded in this most unholy of things, but it turned out just to be a small child that had accidently run into Moore back in 1997 and gotten trapped under a fatroll.
Efforts to clone asswipe Tim Robbins, because Lord knows we need more plays completely disconnected from fact and reality which, therefore, makes them choc full o' rich, creamery truth which dribbles off the chin staining the t-shirts of hegemony, have also failed to this point.
There was an attempt to clone bony-ass Ann Coulter, but no one could stand to be in the same room with her long enough to get a DNA sample.
Still no attempts to clone this smartass. Though cloning is far more likely than ever finding someone willing to even risk going genetic halvsies.
Thankfully Congress stepped up and passed the Fucktard Cloning Ban last year, so there will continue to be only one Ted Rall. Besides, would we really want to dilute his genius by there being two of him?
UPDATE: Oh, did I say "dilute"? I meant to type "pollute". Yeah, and that "genius" was supposed to be "shit stain on the world". Pretty common typos.
Posted by fad at 7:15am
This mad cow business hits close to home.
A number of Asian nations Wednesday quickly moved to ban imports of U.S. beef, after the first apparent case of mad cow disease in the United States, discovered in Washington state.I have relatives who are cattle ranchers. Even a brief ban can cause extreme problems for them. I will continue to eat beef with confidence, though.
"One important thing to remember is that muscle cuts of meat have almost no risk," Veneman said, emphasizing that the disease is typically spread by consumption of brain or nerve tissue, which did not enter the food system. "I know of no science to show that you can transmit BSE from muscle cuts of meat."Brains and organs aren't part of my diet, nor, do I think, are they part of the typical American's diet. But the mere scare is enough to devastate the industry.
Posted by fad at 7:10am
Ralph Nader, whose aura of self-satisfaction requires a retractable roof on his house to manage it, has ditched the Green Party, but still plans to run.
Ralph Nader will not seek the Green Party's nomination for president in 2004, but he's still considering a presidential candidacy as an independent, a Green Party official said Tuesday.If Ralph was elected, one good thing would be that we wouldn't need a missile defense system. Any foreign missiles would just bounce off that ego.
["]I think there's a great need for a progressive candidate for the presidency," Nader said earlier this month. "The two parties are very much dialing for the same commercial dollars. The two parties are ignoring issues like a living wage."And he's ignoring the reduction in available jobs and price controls that would be required for there to be a remotely effective "living wage".
Posted by fad at 6:56am
New crackdown attempt in Iraq.
"We have launched Operation Iron Grip. It will be focused on Baghdad and ongoing for the foreseeable future," Capt. Jason Beck of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division told CNN.I will send an autographed photo of myself* to the first person who finds in a mainstream news item something like, "The US launched 'Operation Iron Grip', iron being something the Nazis used, this week."
*Offer subject to change and/or substitution.
Posted by fad at 6:49am
Tim Blair takes time out from his legendary lunches (actually, he's been on the same lunch for nigh on 14 years now which is still 8 years short of the record set from 1918 to 1940 by one Nigel Huffwillows of St. Satians College in Hockswallow) to do a whole Year in Quotes up for you reading pleasure. Read. Enjoy. What? You can't take a few moments for yourself?
Posted by fad at 5:10am
December 23rd, 2003
Internet mapping services are powerful and simple: Type a phone number into Google or other sites for a map with door-to-door directions. Finding someone has never been easier.While they stress the more personal issues here, the majority of abuses I have heard about involve harassment against corporations by disgruntled ex-employees or filthy, stinky hippies who add nothing productive to society.
Now those resources are provoking a backlash. Spooked people worried about stalkers or worse are striking their particulars from phone and Internet listings.
Earlier this month, Steven Sutcliffe of Manchester, New Hampshire, who had been fired by Global Crossing Ltd., was convicted of identity theft and use of the Internet to threaten company executives. He had created a Web site that included employees' Social Security numbers and maps to some of their homes. Sutcliffe, who represented himself during the final weeks of trial, had told the jury he "was just publishing information."A friend of mine works for a company being harrassed by one of these groups who uses these tactics. While their attempts at persuasive writing is naively humorous at times, they are indeed a threat to peace and property. They are very good at the "This information is just information. It'd be just awful if anyone acted on this." A similar thing was the story that Portland's Indymedia posted the numbers and addresses of those in Oregon who had donated to the Bush re-election campaign.
An animal rights group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, has posted on its Web site point-and-click map listings, including the home addresses of executives and affiliates of England's Huntingdon Life Sciences Ltd. The tactic is legal under free-speech laws but has coincided with a rise in protests outside the homes of people connected to Huntingdon, prompting dozens of firms to sever their ties with the research lab.
I am convinced this sort of harassing action will become more and more commonplace by these people as they move to their new realm of direct protest. Since they can't always impress with numbers (being fringe and all), they will impress with more personal, direct action.
Posted by fad at 3:14pm
'Bout fucking time!
Comedian Lenny Bruce was granted a posthumous pardon by Gov. George Pataki Tuesday for a nearly 40-year-old obscenity conviction prompted by a foul-mouthed political commentary.That was the only thing keeping me from having a merry Christmas. Ok, that's a foul, filthy lie, but what else could you expect from me? I'm trying to avoid work here!
Posted by fad at 12:27pm
Forget international tribunals. Forget US military or domestic courts. Forget Iraqi tribunals. I just learned how Saddam's fate will be decided: By spam responses.
Yup, just got a spam telling me to go vote on Saddam's fate. Truly there is no greater justice than spam justice. The spam even suggested I treat myself to the purchase of some goods and services after doing my bit for world justice.
I feel like a titan doing titany things on a puny world.
Posted by fad at 12:09pm
Ok, someone needs to lower or increase Matt's dosages. Maybe both. He's a posting machine today.
Posted by fad at 12:05pm
Bleah. Someone brought something to work that smells heavily of coconut. I think I'm going to be sick.
Posted by fad at 11:11am
Kobe Bryant gets accused of rape; gets a standing ovation at his next game. Everyone talks about how this whole thing will affect him and him alone. Those football players in Mepham assault kids. The community rallies around the players who committed the assualt worrying about their future careers. No one gives a damn about their victims.
Now I had thought this was mostly an American phenomenon (doo-da-DOO-da-doo!). Turns out it is actually international. Saddam Hussein is captured, and now suddenly the world's voices are all concerned with him and his feelings. No one gives a damn about the hundreds of thousands he killed.
Hopefully when I finally pop I will get similar sympathy.
Posted by fad at 10:50am
Dear America,
You suck.
Sincerely,
Some "random" person the "BBC" found
PS: I learned scare quotes real good while getting my journalism degree.
Posted by fad at 8:45am
President Bush receives his instructions for the upcoming year.
Bush Meets Jewish Leaders at Menorah CeremonyOpenly meeting with Jews and tolerating their religious events. Yet another of the Bush administration policies that do nothing but upset "Islamic dissidents", as commenter in this thread called them even though he admitted these "dissidents" sought to attack. Meeting with Jewish leaders does not make us any more safe, Mr. President. Remember, the only way to safety is if we do everything the terrorists demand and don't do anything they might find the least bit upsetting. That's the path to peace!
Posted by fad at 8:31am
What a wonderful week. After faxing in my yearly insurance renewal forms TWICE last week, they emailed me saying they still hadn't gotten them. I was told to interoffice the forms again, so I did. Today I got an email saying, "Welp, we never got your forms. Guess you're not insured next year."
It's enough to make a man want to drink himself to death.
Posted by fad at 7:42am
December 22nd, 2003
The Air Force has dropped three counts in an espionage case against a Syrian-born airman who worked as a translator at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp for terrorism suspects.There are still charges pending, but they are getting more and more minor as time goes on.
The lawyer for Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi, a supply clerk detailed to the prison, said Saturday that once those charges were removed, "simply the gut of the case was gone."
Dropped was the single count in the charge that accused al-Halabi of "aiding the enemy," a capital offense.
Also dropped were counts that dealt with e-mailing information about Guantanamo detainees and committing espionage by transmitting information to unauthorized recipients.
Posted by fad at 2:25pm
It may change soon, so don't bitch if you miss it. This is the current headline to an AP release about the earthquake in California today.
"Earthquake shakes Southern California; p"
Is that one of those winky, tongue out emoticons* I see there? The AP is laughing at your suffering, people!
*God how I hate emoticons. Come the revolution, they shall be punishable by something really, really nasty. Also uses of LOL or ROFL or any of those others. BTW is allowed. The revolution will be glorious.
Posted by fad at 2:19pm
Man arrested at airport in Miami.
man carrying a razor blade and a hacksaw blade in his shoe was arrested at Miami International Airport (search) as he tried to pass through security checks Monday, Miami-Dade police said.Ok, at this point I was guessing his excuse was going to be, "I was just testing security. I am a citizen hero!" But..
David McIntyre, 38, from Westchester, Pa., was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
McIntyre, who was traveling with his wife and children, told authorities he forgot the blades were in his shoe,Yes. I neglect to notice razor and hacksaw blades in my shoes all the time.
Posted by fad at 11:50am
Has anyone ever actually spit their drink of choice on their monitor and/or keyboard after reading something, or is that just one of those lines that has become lame from overuse?
Posted by fad at 8:47am
Yet another nominee for the People So Determined To Be Miserable Even Though There's Nothing To Be Miserable About So They Will Create Misery award.
Firefighters in Glenview have been told to take down their indoor Christmas decorations after some residents complained that they were offended.Ok, so sounds pretty typical for these cases. Nothing too different.
The decorations -- which included lights, a Christmas tree and a Santa Claus -- were inside Glenview's Station No. 7, at 3507 Glenview Rd., in the firefighters' main living area.Lights. A Christmas tree! Santa! Those bastards.
"We need to serve all our residents and customers, and we had been receiving calls from citizens who were not happy seeing what they perceived to be Christmas or Christian decorations on a particular firehouse," said Janet Spector Bishop, a spokeswoman for the village.You just know those people who saw firefighters decorating their living quarters as being one step away from a total theocracy must be really fun to party with. "The ice cubes in this drink you served me look like a cross if I hold it just right. You're trying to force your beliefs on me. I will be complaining to the city, the newspapers and talking to my lawyer." Next they'll sue the government to make it so they can't suggest you put in X in the box of a form because everyone knows that the X is a Christian symbol for Christ. Here's the kicker.
Although the decorations were all inside, they were visible from the street if someone driving down Glenview Road peered into the windows.That's right. You had to drive by and then take the extra effort to look in the windows (and not watch the road) in order to see the horror that lay within.
Posted by fad at 8:42am
December 21st, 2003
Posted by fad at 7:49pm
Ok, I've finally seen it. My contacts didn't dry out during it, and, most amazingly, I didn't have to hit the can once. We had the full theatre experience. Behind us, an infant. Thankfully it only cried twice, and the parents rushed it out both times. The woman next to my friend serial farted. Finally, towards the end, during a nice quiet moment, some fellow in the back of the theater decided to hold a cell phone conversation speaking in a normal volume. Overall these were just minor.
I'm no movie reviewer. I don't even pretend to consider myself an expert or knowledgeable. However, I know what I like, and I know what I hate. As it is my site, that's all that matters. Let me state straight up the things that have always annoyed me about the movies. Thar be spoilers. Be ye ware if ye yet be pure.
I never have really liked Elijah Wood's Frodo. He always seemed too wussy. Plus something about his accent bugged me. Maybe it was dead accurate, at least it was consistent, but it still bugged me. This problem continued through this movie, though greatly reduced. Thankfully, his task was mostly to look like he was in misery. He did a fine job of that.
Another improvement was lack of overly cheezy moments where they take a very nice moment, then wink (the rearing horse as Gandalf arrived at Helm's Deep, etc.) though that Legolas elfo-a-oliphaunto pushed that limit. You don't always have to take it to 11.
Just about any time they flashed to Arwen looking sad or trying to speak through her considerable asthma. I understand what they were trying to do with all that, but it was dull and always dragged the movies. To finish the elf-talk, I'm still not happy with the elvish arrival at Helm's Deep in the last movie. That was a moment when men of the West were supposed to take their first big step to asserting themselves as the other races faded. At least how I always saw things.
Finally, in what I know is a point of view most unshared by others, the musical score was mediocre to terrible to me. It only relented from being boring or somewhat annoying to be cheezy beyond belief. While there were some good moments, overall the music really detracted from my enjoyment.
To this movie specifically, I understand the need of the many partings. But the fades to black were teases. C'mon, star-wipes, people! Also the ending would have gone a bit quicker without so much damn slo-mo and looooooonnnnngggggg held shots for no reason I could see.
Boy, Sam is the all time abused boyfriend, ain't he? "He told me to go because I'm fat. Oh, he apologized. Ok, I'll take him back this time because he probably won't say that again. But maybe I could still lose some weight anyway just to make sure he doesn't...." "Oh, he pulled a sword on me and told me to go away, sure, but it wasn't his fault. I'll go back to him. He won't do it again. He loves me; he just couldn't help it." I got all the other things, and it really worked on the devotion level to his friend being taken by the power of the Ring, but that train of thought has been in my head since the last movie.
This last bit isn't a criticism, nor really a bitch. It's more of a kvetch or fanboy moment. One of my favorite moments in the books was Eowyn fighting the Witch King. As a fanboy of that scene, it felt like it got the short shrift. But every fanboy and fangirl probably had their moment that they felt the same on, so I really can't complain.
The good are the obvious. The battles were exhilerating. The effects, except in previously mentioned overly cheezy mode, stunning. Especially in this movie, the use of sound was engrossing. One of the best aspects. Outside the music, the end of this movie, with the intercutting, was amazing, edge of the seat stuff. Gollum's face as he dropped was dreadfully perfect. For me, Return of the King was the best of the three.
Having bitched away, the three movies truly are incredible entertainment that also managed to retain a consistent, but not hammered in, deeper resonance. Truly one long-ass movie (yes, hardcores, I know Tolkien considered it one long-ass book, too). I know I'll be there day one of the extended (known as the "fancy-lad" versions hereabouts) DVD, and I know I'll try to watch all the movies back to back to back (trust me, I have nothing else going in my life to distract me). Truly the most consistent trilogy I've ever seen as well as some of the best movies I've ever enjoyed. Are they my top movies? No. But even if you pressed the question, I really couldn't list my top movies. These just don't have the sense of belonging there for me.
One last note: Next viewing, check out the bad moustache and beard on Gandalf's double in some of the long or stunt shots.
Posted by fad at 6:16pm
This afternoon, all things working out, I will be going to see Return of the King, after which I will be posting a short review here. I usually don't do reviews because....well, I don't want to, but since everyone else has been, and I do so hate not doing what everyone else is doing, I'm on this bandwagon.
One of the main reasons I don't post reviews is because just about every time I do, someone always has to swoop in and inform me that my subjective, personal opinion is incorrect. Often times this subjective opinion is incorrect because I "just don't know music/movies/flapjacks". See, if I understood such things as they do, then we'd all agree! Disagreement about subjective things is not actually disagreement for many people; it is a shortcoming on my part.
Posted by fad at 1:11pm
So when is some Earnest Person going to record a heartfelt reworking of Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" called "Fake Plastic Turkeys"?
Posted by fad at 12:45pm
Using the logic of others:
WHEREAS: Poverty is the root cause of all terrorism, and
WHEREAS: Oil is the root source of income to nations from which terrorism springs, and
WHEREAS: Higher fuel standards, mass transit, or other efforts to reduce dependence on oil would reduce income to said nations, and
WHEREAS: Reduction in income would increase poverty, and
WHEREAS: Increased poverty would mean increased terrorism since that is its root case, be it
RESOLVED: The goal of every peace loving, non-violent person on this earth to use and purchase as much oil as possible.
Posted by fad at 10:18am
Note to self: Fuck life insurance or retirement savings. Marry a smoker.
N.Y. jury awards widow of smoking lung cancer victim $350,000Now to just radically alter my appearance and personality so that I can actually get a woman to agree to at least a date.
Posted by fad at 9:56am