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Entries from March 2007

White Possum Scream

March 31st, 2007 · No Comments · T.V., The A/V, Video

While it’s a sketch that ran in the last half hour of SNL, there’s still something amusing about it.

Well, maybe because I loved Black Snake Moan and was just glad somebody else paid it some attention.

tags technorati : Saturday_Night_Live, Rainn Wilson, Black Snake Moan, trailer, satire, Kenan Thompson, parody, comedy

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Read it and weep…

March 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Books, My $0.02, Writing

Remeber in school often once a year they’d have Career Day?

People’s relatives might come in and discuss what a lawyer does. What it’s like to be a firefighter or nurse.

Memory doesn’t serve me, if any journalists or writers ever spoke. There’s only one adult that I knew that wrote fiction and worked at a newspaper, [...]

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From the Land of Recycled Ideas: “Shooter” starring Mark Wahlberg

March 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Grievances, Movies, My $0.02, The A/V

Your eyes are not deceiving you.

Our favorite meathead Marky “the Academy Award nominee” Mark Wahlberg is starring in the same movie Keenan Ivory Wayans did, that another marble mouthed lunk-head Dolph Lundgren did , that you guess it, Wesley Snipes is going to be making too.

Hopefully he savored those precious moments before they said: “...And [...]

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Sorkin will script Flamming Lips musical

March 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Shoot the Messenger

No, that’s not the acid kicking in, Aaron Sorkin will be flexing his inner Gilbert to Wayne Coyne’s Sullivan as they bring Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots to stage.

“Sorkin is just one of many marquee collaborators attached to the project: Tony Award-winning director/producer Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, The Who’s Tommy) will be overseeing the show. [...]

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Chris Rock on the 2008 Presidential Race

March 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Politics, Shoot the Messenger, Video

tags technorati : Chris Rock, Saturday Night Live,2008-Presidential-Race, humor, politics, video

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The Greatest Picture Ever: ‘Is that my reflection or a horse’s ass?’

March 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Embedded In America, Politics

Sometimes all things just seem to align in the world for one shinning moment.

For those of you who don’t believe in a higher power, fate, karmatic justice, or even just coincidence consider this:

   (via ccinsider.com)

tags technorati : George Bush, horses-ass, funny, pictures, coincidence, fate, proof-of-a-higher-power

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Colby Buzzell article in Penthouse

March 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Colby Buzzell, Embedded In America, Politics, Writing

In this month’s issue of Penthouse, friend of the site Colby Buzzell proves that there words between the pictures are worth your attention.  Check out the scans below as Buzzell weighs in on the current situation in Iraq.

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tags technorati : Colby Buzzell, politics, War-in-Iraq, The-Withdrawl-Method, Penthouse, military, war

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An early review of Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up

March 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Comedy, Movies

From Variety:

Knocked Up

By JOE LEYDON

Katherine Heigl gets ``Knocked Up’’ by Seth Rogen in Judd Apatow’s comedy.

A Universal release and presentation of an Apatow production. Produced by Judd Apatow, Shauna Robertson, Clayton Townsend. Executive producers, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg. Directed, written by Judd Apatow.

“Knocked Up” is uproarious. Line for line, minute to minute, writer-director Judd Apatow’s [...]

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Stick a fork in them…

March 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Grievances

The Milwaukee Bucks finally got around to firing head coach Terry Stotts only to turn around and make an equally poor choice in promoting assistant coach and former Buck Larry “Who?”Krystkowiak to the big chair.

“In making the change, the Bucks most likely became the first team in league history to fire its coach and make [...]

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They Capped Captain America

March 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Comic Books, Shoot the Messenger

Marvel’s Red, White, and Blue Boyscout finally got interesting and they killed him off.



(Time.com)

tags technorati : comic books, cry-babies, Captain America, Marvel, Civil-War, geeks

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