Finally...an award worth celebrating!

I wanted to take this opportunity to congratulate Ernest Borgnine on his being awarded the SAG(Screen Actors Guild) Lifetime Achievement Award. Few are more worthy. I may even try to find a bar which will show it so I can watch this historic moment.

Smells like an Ernest Borgnine marathon on the horizon...

We're Doomed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/opinion/28krugman.html?src=me&ref=general

How can a country survive when the government is full of people who don't know how to run...a government? Or don't know what's happening anywhere else? If a plan is proving to fail in another country, how can anyone say, "Well, that won't happen here, because...we're America!"
We're doomed. Prepare the lifeboats, people, this ship is taking in water.
Just watch this.

Feel better? No! Then watch this at 9pm tonight!

 Yesssssss...

Hardware

Back in 1990, NC-17 was adopted as a way of replacing the stigma of a triple X rating. The first films to be labeled were Henry & June and Hardware. Back when I first saw Hardware, I thought it was, if anything, unique. However, I was also a teenager, and failed to examine (or, unfortunately, remember) some of the more gruesome elements. Set in a radioactive apocalyptic future, there really isn't much of a story in the film. A guy buys a robot head for his girlfriend, which in turn becomes a killing machine and kills all her friends, neighbors and loved ones. However, though I had first thought it earned its rating through a graphic sex scene or extra-violent death,  it was more likely the robot's killer metal penis, which it tries to use on said girlfriend...or the gross sexual rape fantasies of her neighbor...or maybe because it's just utterly pointless and crude, as well as offensive. Usually I tell readers to see something that is bad. Today I tell you, avoid this confusing, pointless, and demeaning and downright grotesque abomination.

Did The Blob NEED A Sequel?

The original Blob, starring a young Steve McQueen, was an honestly scary, inventive horror film. What makes this film terrifying isn't simply the idea of being digested by a space creature. This creature's only drive is hunger, and cannot be reasoned with, bargained with, or destroyed(it is frozen, but not dead).
Oddly, Beware! The Blob!, the horrible sequel directed by JR Ewing himself, Larry Hagman, has none of this horror. What's horrible, you ask? Well, the ethnic stereotyping, poor acting, and strange soundtrack, for starters. What really threw me was the injection of COMEDY. There are poorly conceived, overacting comic foils. What disturbed me the most was the comic blunders followed quite succinctly by THEIR GRUESOME DEATHS!!!

I recommend this film for its sheer lack of tact, as well as for watching really goofy death scenes(like the death of a guy in a gorilla suit who drives INTO the blob...) .

Now That My Olbermann Bereavement Has Ended...

Wow. So Paul Ryan has the debating skills of a 14-year-old. I remember being in high school (though it was so long ago), debating some less confident teens. One of the most prevalent characteristics of a poor debater is the tendency to stick to their prepared script, regardless of the initial presenter's (known as affirmative speaker) presentation. You debaters out there know what I mean! Now watch him speak, as I'm sure most of you ignored him.

Seriously, dude, sometimes being too prepared means you are UNprepared. These are all blanket statements, as if the President didn't speak. They should do away with this antiquated tradition. The SOTU is the Prez's hour in the sun, and doesn't need a response. The opposition has ALL FUCKING YEAR to respond. They just look like fools. Now watch this: it will cheer you up.

You're welcome.

A Chilling, Abrupt Goodbye

Last night, Keith Olbermann resigned his position as the bastion of news for the center, left of center and far, far left of center. With his departure (and the purchase of NBC Universal by Comcast), MSNBC will more than likely move towards straight news; news which Mr.Olbermann more than alluded to after the Supreme Court ruling, Citizens United vs. FEC. Olbermann knew that he would become a victim in advance of the changes which very well mat take place in the near future. Here is an excerpt from his show, which I highly recommend, as first re-posted by my boy Casey:

As a culture which has gone from active protest to Facebook protest, we are in deep, deep shit.

2+2=1.1 Trillion Dollars?

Great Krugman Op-Ed on Health Care Reform. Every time my ankle hurts I curse a Republican.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=1