Entries from October 2005 ↓

He threatened to wipe stupid looking grins off faces or he’d gouge out eyeballs and skull-fuck you. He even generously offered to rip your balls off, so you could not contaminate the rest of the world with your incompentence.

Now, you can bring home the iconic military persona of R. Lee Ermey to motivate you without having to enlist.

Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 27, 2005; 7:10 PM

FREDERICA, Del.—The apparent suicide of a woman found hanging from a tree went unreported for hours because passers-by thought the body was a Halloween decoration, authorities said.

The 42-year-old woman used rope to hang herself across the street from some homes on a moderately busy road late Tuesday or early Wednesday, state police said.

The body, suspended about 15 feet above the ground, could be easily seen from passing vehicles.

State police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham and neighbors said people noticed the body at breakfast time Wednesday but dismissed it as a holiday prank. Authorities were called to the scene more than three hours later.

“They thought it was a Halloween decoration,” Fay Glanden, wife of Mayor William Glanden, told The (Wilmington) News Journal.

“It looked like something somebody would have rigged up,” she said.

Our tax dollars are being wasted in a cease and desist order all over the Onion’s use of this.

Oh, shit. Better watch out. The administration will be knocking on my door.

Apparently, there has to be an “application for an exception” to use the presidential seal.
Just wait, soon we’ll have to apply to sing the Pledge of Allegiance, which at least will keep Celine Dion quieter.

The man’s Cool quotient should be under review with his choice in film roles(Sphere, Deep Blue Sea, xXx: State of The Union among others—we’ll even let Coach Carter slide, he was trying to be inspirational) adds another turd to the punch bowl—Snakes on a Plane.

Who has the goods on Sam that he agreed to this shit? And, how has he escaped the beating his co-hort Travolta has faced for similar flights of fancy?

Not to be overlooked is his project Black Snake Moan , Jackson’s follow-up project to Snakes on a Plane. It involves a white nymphomaniac who must be “cured” of her disorder by an older black bluesman.

There needs to be an intervention.
This shit keeps up there will be a call for the revoking of Sam’s Bad Mother Fucker credentials.

Entertainment Weekly provides an “Oral History of The Watchmen “, just in time for the release of the new Watchmen hardcover. You know, they’d hate to miss the cool kids boat since they’ve discovered comics weren’t just for chronic mastabators.

At least they try, The New Yorker still can’t muster up a comic review that isn’t patronizing.

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compliments of Angry Youth Comix’s Johnny Ryan.

By Bill Bryan
POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, Oct. 19 2005

St. Louis police believe that a woman who was found dead Tuesday afternoon in a
rear window in the 5400 block of Mimika Avenue had become wedged there while
trying to burglarize a house and died of asphyxiation.

The identity of the 36-year-old woman, who is from Lincoln County, is being
withheld until here relatives can be notified. An autopsy is being conducted.

Police said the woman had spent Monday at the house on Mimika, and on Tuesday
morning she went on her way and homeowner went to work. The woman obviously
returned, and broke out a kitchen window, unlatched it and tried to crawl
through, police said. But the window had a second latch that permitted it to
raise up only so far, and the woman became wedged and later died, police said.

In her struggle to free herself, her pants came off, police said.

The homeowner returned home about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and found the lower half of
the woman’s body protruding from the window.

“Let’s talk about your respective fan bases. A lot of them self-identify as kind of on the geeky side.”
Time Magazine conducts an interview with Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman on pop culture, comics, and “National Geek Day”.

My lady love, Zadie Smith did a reading at Harry W. Schwartz Books on Downer last night and man, was it packed. Her new book On Beauty, has been getting raves and even a Booker nomination. Can’t wait to read it, the segment she read was entertaining.

Unusual for this event were the actual intelligent questions asked afterwards. None of the typical: “How can you, __ my favorite author, get my book published for me? Gee, I really, really love your work”, or the even more painful “What magic formula do you have for writing such amazing books? What? You mean, you have to sit down and write? Isn’t there another way?” This was an actual scenario I witnessed a few years back at a reading at Schwartz’s, when Suzan-Lori Parks was there. More striking was that Suzan-Lori Parks tolerated that question several times throughout the Q&A, all with surprise remarkably similar answers.

And, no, to the questions of many of you, there wasn’t any embarassing bended knee proposals, stolen kiss, or even mild attempts on my behalf to grope Ms. Smith.
Besides, my girlfriend was there with me, it took enough convincing to get her to take my picture with Zadie.

The stuff of epic childhood arguements played out before our eyes.

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There’s probably a lesson in here somewhere.

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A duel to the death….

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...that ended in a tie.