the subliterate cinephile

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2010-08-28T00:23:00.001-07:00

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My Kind of Muppet Movie

2010-03-01T18:05:00.001-08:00

Foamer Man?

Broken Government? Try Broken Media

2010-02-27T18:20:00.000-08:00

Seriously, CNN.
Your anchors don't know how long a meter is?
Most respected name in news my infested heinie.

Also, next time you run a week long series on "Broken Government" you might want to consider doing a piece on media conglomeration's role in breaking the government.

After all, the pols are spending all that evil lobbyist money ON YOU.

Behold: Bavatar

2010-02-18T13:58:00.000-08:00

Avatar... with Babies from The Midnight Show

A Hero Returns

2010-02-03T10:13:00.000-08:00

Avatard Edition.

Yeah, Exactly

2010-02-02T14:21:00.000-08:00

A Glazed Doug spakes:

Moon and Avatar are actually very similar films. *SPOILER ALERT* Both are stories of a man on a distant world trying to harness an alternative energy source. Both deal with the ethicality of cloning, and a protagonist who is questioning his own identity as well as his loyalty to an all-powerful corporation. Oh, except Avatar sucked.

(Brought to you by The Cloud Rescue Rangers)

and where the hell is Rockwell's Oscar nom?

Bastards.

The Doctor Rocks

2010-01-26T19:57:00.000-08:00

A companion's lament.

Repo Redux

2010-01-25T13:29:00.001-08:00

25 years later, Alex Cox finally follows up.

Personally I think the no budget green screen look is awesome.

as Light as Love

2010-01-23T11:55:00.001-08:00

Jones & Berrier - coming to a lonely street near you, soon.

Still Running?

2010-01-22T16:30:00.000-08:00

I am not ashamed to admit that I still worry about Joe's eventual fate.

I think the new guy was just there to set Joe up. Dirty Hippy. Not Like good Sgt. Corey.

A Bright And Shining Toy

2010-01-21T23:55:00.000-08:00

Full length Vietnam drama - made entirely with GI Joes.

I feel a swoon.

Here's the "academy" trailer:

and now for something slightly different from the same creators:

FANEDITORS: START YOUR INSERTS!

2010-01-20T01:48:00.003-08:00

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Much Better, Don't You Think?

Hello, Delinquenty!

2010-01-18T15:46:00.000-08:00

"It is hazardous to throw rocks."

From "Collapse - Terrifying Girl's High School"

Like a Window Into my Mind

2010-01-14T17:32:00.000-08:00

Who would have thought that one day Hitler would emerge as the voice of the disgruntled nerd?

And if you don't get this, that's all right. It means you have a life.

Paging Palin

2010-01-14T11:59:00.000-08:00

Forge that Beck guy -
this video should show you who your soul-mate is.

"Did the president, did the attorney general say to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "Now wait a minute, you don't want to plead guilty. Wait a minute you don't want to be executed. You want to come to New York City. You want to have the trial just like you asked for in the first place"

Don't go breaking my heart, Sarah. You belong together.

Trouble for the Endtimes Ticket?

2010-01-13T21:19:00.000-08:00

Beck 'grills' Palin on the "Couric Question."

I call bad buddy-pic! They're setting up the enmity so that later we will cheer when they team-up to save the country from the Satanist/Euro/Fascist/Haitian/Socialists of variant skin-tones.

Click for the clip:

What's worse, is that this means my dream ticket of Palin/Bachmann is in danger!

So, Sarah - this reminder is for you:

How can you say no to TOTAL GANGSTER GOVERNMENT GIRL?

Now Here's Something to Smile About

2010-01-13T11:37:00.001-08:00

But are they going to call it Star Blazers over here?

I Have A New Hero

2009-12-17T15:08:00.001-08:00

Wonder Where They Got That Idea?

2009-12-16T14:59:00.000-08:00

Just received the following e-missive from the LAPD:

LAPD West Valley | Email templates

Crisis Response Team Members

We would like to invite you to become a "civilian" volunteer member of our City's Crisis Response Team (CRT).

Crisis Response Team (CRT) members are community volunteers who respond to traumatic incidents at the request of the Los Angeles Police & Los Angeles Fire Departments. CRT provides immediate on-scene crisis intervention, attends to survival & comfort needs, acts as a liaison between the victim & emergency personnel and gives referrals to victims & their families affected by a death, a serious injury, a violent crime or other traumatic incidents.

These include homicides, suicides, serious traffic accidents, natural deaths and multi-casualty incidents. The CRT program is managed by the Mayors Office of Homeland Security & Public Safety in collaboration with the City's Fire & Police Departments.

The eight-week training sessions begins on February 2nd thru March 25th and are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the LAPD Academy in Westchester, located near Los Angeles International Airport.

Individuals interested in learning more about volunteering for the Crisis Response Team should contact Jeffrey Zimerman, M.S.W. Crisis Response Team Manager at 213-978-0697 or by e-mail: LACRT@lacity. org.

Training for new team members and to view flier...click here.

Jeffrey Zimerman, M.S.W.
Manager, Crisis Response Team
Office of the Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa
Mayor's Office of Homeland Security & Public Safety
200 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-978-0697 Phone, 213-978-0718 Fax

Please do not respond to this email, replies are not monitored
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CITY-WIDE DIRECTORY 311 | NON EMERGENCY 1-877-ASKLAPD
for additional Crime Prevention information, Log on: www.lapdonline.org
Support the LA Police Foundation: www.lapolicefoundation.org

To unsubscribe from LAPD e-policing click here

Which, as the maker of this short some years back:

I find very flattering.

My Kind of Mash-Up

2009-12-06T20:24:00.001-08:00

Thriller Response Video Meme + Ultraman Kaiju = Heaven

Another Round in the Death of Creative Freedom

2009-12-01T16:31:00.001-08:00

Once upon a time there was a fictional character named "Tony Twistelli" aka "Tony Twist."

Tony was a fat Italian gangster who in no way struggled against his stereotype.

But it was the '90s, and it was "Spawn" and nobody cared about things like that.

And he looked like this:

Meanwhile, in the world that likes to consider itself real, there was a hockey player named Tony Twist, who looked like this:

And, eventually the two worlds collided when someone mentioned the Tony Twist mob enforcer to the Tony Twist hockey "enforcer." The hockey enforcer's feelings were very, very hurt and so he did the only sensible thing.

He claimed that the comic Spawn had deprived him of income by using his "likeness" to sell comics, games, cartoons, and movies.

The creator of Spawn admitted that yes, he had named the character after the hockey player, but in no way based the character on the hockey player, nor used the hockey player to promote the comic.

But this is America, where people love to bitch about "trial lawyers" while awarding absurd judgments, and so Tony Twist won millions of dollars and a company went bankrupt.

(shed no tears, however, for this was but the working of a karmic miracle,man.)

And all this is but prelude to this disaster:

Jury Awards $100K to Woman Who Says Fictional Character Defamed Her

A Georgia jury has awarded $100,000 to a woman who says she was defamed because a character in the book The Red Hat Club had a mix of her own traits and other false characteristics that depicted her as a promiscuous alcoholic.
Stewart had contended novelist Haywood Smith, a childhood friend, had created the character SuSu with looks that resembled hers, with the same job as a flight attendant, and with similar experiences involving a second, conniving husband. But Stewart says she did not have other traits of the character, including a propensity to engage in casual sex and drink at work.

Defamed.

By a fictional character.

With a fictional name.

Gawd help us all.

More here:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1206960402189

I am now preparing to sue the estates of Shakespeare, Lee & Kirby for abusing my future career prospects by creating the characters of Falstaff and Volstagg.

The IP-Men of Mars

2009-11-24T19:39:00.000-08:00

Somebody has discovered the Public Domain.
Sorry, Disney.
*Note: King Kong and Conan are also in the Public Domain, Traci.*

Twi-Harder

2009-11-19T11:07:00.001-08:00

Don't be a Clown

2009-11-18T09:16:00.001-08:00

Designated Driver for the Environment - Budweiser from Jeb Berrier on Vimeo.

What God Hath Joined Together

2009-10-26T11:05:00.000-07:00

Who Knew?

Thanks to director Paul Haggis' resignation from the Co$ (http://markrathbun.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/paul-haggis/), it appears we have two, count 'em, two!, 100% American religions to thank for the travesty that was Proposition 8, as we see that the Co$ was also a sponsor of the bill alongside the Mammon, er, Mormon Church.

It seems that America's two great 19th and 20th Century Sci-Fi religions (Secret Histories! Lost Lands! Magic 3-D Glasses! Xenu!) can get past any forward thinking trappings they might share and embrace each other in service to the cause of bigotry and intolerance.

Huzzah to you both!

Maybe Haggis should team-up with Anonymous and direct The Unknown Identity.

ChittyChittyBangBang-Man

2009-10-25T12:28:00.000-07:00

With six cylinders comes great responsibility...

Coming the December - if you are a Rus!

Always Be Cartooning

2009-10-23T19:13:00.001-07:00

Harvey Awards Animation from Monkey and Tiger on Vimeo.

Don't ask! Just Click it!

Slower, Pussycat, Sillyput, Sillyput

2009-10-23T17:22:00.000-07:00

More Claysploitation from the maker of Chainsaw Maid.

Ultra Pitchman

2009-10-23T16:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPt8YkN1Q04

Funny. I had him pegged as a Mazda guy.

Cirque Du Canine

2009-10-17T12:23:00.001-07:00

Doggyman treats! Yum!

Boogie Tokyo Stormtrooper

2009-10-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

I believe he is doing the "Gatsby."

Not to be confused with the Leia-Daisy.

Sign Me Up

2009-10-10T15:21:00.000-07:00

"Assault Girls"
from Mamuro Oshii.

Plot?
Who cares?
Chicks with assault rifles shooting sandworms.
Case closed.

Big Love

2009-09-29T10:01:00.000-07:00

Gigantor (Tetsujin 28) finally gets the recognition he deserves with this 1:1 scale monument:

Wata!

2009-09-26T14:08:00.000-07:00

Because who doesn't want to see a man run through 100 fluorescent lights?

Sanjay!

Soon to be the bane of parents of teenage boys the world over.

Final Crisis on Ultra Earth?

2009-09-21T14:44:00.000-07:00

http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/ultra-legend/

Fansub power capsules, activate!

Ma Men

2009-09-14T13:20:00.001-07:00

MA Men from Joey McIntyre

This Just In

2009-09-14T11:50:00.000-07:00

Tax evaders rush to beat amnesty deadline
-Reuters

"U.S. citizens with undeclared assets in tax havens such as Switzerland face a September 23 deadline to reveal their holdings, pay a fine and generally avoid criminal prosecution. When that amnesty program expires, any tax cheats found by the government could face criminal prosecution."

---------------

"Hello, this is the police outside. We're about to bust down the door to your apartment. So please flush all your weed down the toilet at your earliest convenience. We'll give you ten, no, make that twenty minutes. Thanks for your cooperation."

-from the Eternal Vigilance desk.

Cognitive Dissonance, Inc

2009-09-13T13:04:00.000-07:00

Dems seek to play down role of public option idea
AP

Public Option Fades From Debate Over Health Care
NYT

Take Public Option 'Off the Table,' Snowe Says
NYT

GOP senator: Public option on health care is dead
AP

Snowe Says Health Bill With Public Option Won't Pass in Senate
Bloomberg

Public option might go
AP

White House allies downplay need for public option |
KXNet.com

Dems seek to downplay public option idea
MSNBC

Obama, Congress easing debate on public option
AP

and yet:

President Obama strongly supports Public Option in speech to Minneapolis

Poll: Obama's Speech Buoyed Public Support

Pattern recognition, anyone?

Nothing free about this press. You gots to pay for it.

Daydream Mondays II

2009-09-07T16:56:00.000-07:00

Anime Style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cRcgIyuZDU

HIS Style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQZV8zGmTRk

Uke Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjY1mnGb9iA

Original Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tsn_e3kidY

Kawaizy!

2009-09-05T13:00:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_nKoXf_qPs

Walking the dog - Japanese Game Show style!

Daydream Mondays

2009-08-31T10:01:00.000-07:00

Health care "debate". (more like health care capitulation).

Fires.

Work.

(add your cares here)

Ad Nauseum.

So click through to cure what ails ya.

Shonen Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RAbi2xEvo

Isako Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_IP3Y71N4w

Replacement Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40vhaC2SmPk

Literal Style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nViC0K-zifk

We Interrupt This Unfinished Series

2009-08-24T12:19:00.000-07:00

In order to bring the following to your attention:

THE GOOD:

Venture Bros - Season 4:
http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a250aae232d7b5101232eeeff310004

Where The Wild Things Are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDcaTI0cl8&feature=player_embedded

Fantastic Mr. Fox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo&feature=player_embedded

THE BAD:

Disney, Zemeckis Board 'Yellow Submarine'

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Disney and director Robert Zemeckis are negotiating to remake “Yellow Submarine,” the 1968 psychedelic animated film based on the music of The Beatles.
The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production format he employed for “A Christmas Carol.” Disney opens that film November 6, with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge as well as the three ghosts who haunt him in the Charles Dickens tale.

THE UGLY:

via Failblog

Sibliterate Nerdprom Delayed Liveblogging Day 2

2009-07-24T00:35:00.001-07:00

Making the hate words help words.

Good Morning, Twilight fans! 4,500 overnight campers for one 1 hour panel.

I opted for the excellent Bryan O'Malley spotlight moderated by the always awesome Scott McCloud. Scott Pilgrim will soon rule your world.

Twilight line morphs into angry avatar line.

Cameron. Making films to help Digital Domain regain market share.

Hey, it's John Patterson's boss! Seems like a nice guy to work for. Is he, John?

Del Toro goes a'hobbiting.

Mark Waid asks Gail Simone what it was like to work with Jack Kirby in the 1940's.

JSA panel breaks the news: new JSA title on the way. I start deciding what other titles to drop. Probably an Avengers title.

Somebody forget their cape.

Stark Industries recruiting booth.

TERRY GILLIAM! Getting the adulation he has earned. And Don Quixote is back on!

Terry brought a friend.

Matt Vaughn, Jane Goldman, Mark Millar came to promote KICK ASS. And it did.

Go see KICK ASS and see why this little girl got a well-deserved 6,500 strong spontaneous standing ovation.

PARK CHAN WOOK! PARK CHAN WOOK! PARK CHAN WOOK! PARK CHAN WOOK!

And I am in front row!

Park Chan Wook explaining that his daughter is a Twilight fan, too, so he won't be trapped into saying anything bad about it.

ZATANNA! SDRAWKCAB KLAT OT EGRU EVAH I YLNEDDUS.

Sibliterate Nerdprom Delayed Liveblogging Day 1 Part 3

2009-07-23T02:07:00.000-07:00

Special shout out to me fellow Redshirts - I promise to buy a bottle of the cologne...Just not to wear it - I am 100% an Antonio Banderas "Spirit" guy, myself...

This is just what my living room is missing...

Be seeing you...Interesting to see 1960's show imagery used to promote 2000's show remake that dispenses with it...

sigh

I do so love the Dalek.

Bourbon, Maple Syrup, Apple Juice -
a good way for a good New England boy to end the night.

Anon, nerds,

Sibliterate Nerdprom Delayed Liveblogging Day 1 Part 2

2009-07-23T01:54:00.001-07:00

The "Classic"

Preparing for the "Extract" Green Screen challenge.

Stimpifying!

Cuz Star Trek's about tolerance and enlightenment

No, really, it is.

BATPOD!

Dexter's Julie Benz desperately avoids our photo!

Good Night, Sweet, Insane Twilight fans...

Sibliterate Nerdprom Delayed Liveblogging Day 1

2009-07-23T01:05:00.000-07:00

Note to FB readers - click on the link, or no pics for you, OK?

Surfliner Strategizing.

District 9 - to think last year it was only bathroom stall ads...

Soon to be missing banner...

R2D2 + R2BBAD

I come for the lines...

Charles Band still needs to make a living...

we can be Heroes

at least for one day...

And last year they only had a table...

"The Mayans warned us" -- not really. I guess Terrence McKenna warned us had no traction...

"Cash for Clunkers" bill passes" .....wind

2009-07-09T14:30:00.000-07:00

special report by correspondent Eternal Vigilance

"It ended up being right place, right time for me," said Metzler, 42, who traded his eight-year-old sport utility vehicle for a new Chevrolet Equinox this week. "It seemed like a good opportunity."

"It's a wonderful program. It helps out the environment, it helps out the customer, and it gives a jump to the automobile industry when it needs it the most," said Scott Gruwell, sales director of Courtesy Chevrolet, the Phoenix-based General Motors dealership that sold Metzler his Equinox.

Metzler, a Phoenix-valley insurance executive, had racked up 150,000 miles in his old SUV that averaged 17 miles per gallon. He got a $3,500-credit toward his new car, which gets a slender 3 mpg improvement."

-Reuters

You read right: a slender 3, count 'em, 3 mpg improvement.

So the taxpayers picked up the $3,500. tab for this fucker's 8-year-"old" SUV...... for a NEWER SUV!!!!! Aaaaarrrgggghhh!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I wanna trade in my Hummer H2 for a Hummer H3, please.

Smoke Out The Deficit!

2009-07-08T19:42:00.000-07:00

Marijuana smokers demand to be taxed!

Contribute enough, and you won't care anymore!

It's a win-win!

6 Million Dollar Pitchman

2009-07-08T18:21:00.000-07:00

Lee Major's Bionic Hearing Aid:
http://www.trybionicear.com/

But wouldn't Lindsay Wagner have made more sense?!?

Behold My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair

2009-07-08T09:50:00.001-07:00

Bad Country! Bad!

Bachmann Turner Overdrive

2009-06-25T12:49:00.000-07:00

Look out - it's ACORN!

And it gets better:

"Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps," said Bachmann.

How soon they forget.

Under Bush, the Japanese Internment was a GOOD THING:

Clearly she forgot to vet this with Coulter and Malkin.

When is she going to throw the Blue Helmets and Black Helicopters into the mix?

Help us, Obi-2ndAmendment-empowered-vigilantemilitias! You're our only hope!

Funny Because It's True

2009-06-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips

More '80s toy movies coming your way.

This is what they get for canceling the sacred day that was Saturday Morning.

Accept No Substitutes

2009-06-23T12:51:00.000-07:00

Having made a succession of increasingly stupid movies, M. Knight Shamalacka now sets his sights on making a smart cartoon a stupid movie:

Hear, Hear

2009-06-23T11:49:00.000-07:00

"When Sony BMG massively and illegally distributed music CDs containing spyware that compromised individual users' computer security and infected government and military networks worldwide, the FTC only ordered them in 2007 to reimburse end-users up to $150 for computer damages. Yet when Ms. Thomas shared 24 songs belonging to Sony BMG and other labels on the Internet, she was penalized $80,000 for each single track.

"This isn't a question about whether file-sharing is wrong -- the question is what does this say about our priorities? We're living in a time when executives can dismantle companies that have become American icons and instead of fines, receive bonuses.

"The application of existing law in this case may have been technically correct, but used to protect the recording industry from losses that could have cost them pennies, with a $1.9 million fine against a music fan."

- CCIA President Ed Black on the RIAA's "victory" in the Thomas-Rasset infringement case.

Full article :http://www.mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=120806

Sunday Star Blazers Special

2009-06-21T16:08:00.001-07:00

"Reward" footage found on Space Battleship Yamato pachinko game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYd8dC_WDVw

Because I am always thinking of ways to make you happy.

Irony in the RSS Inbox

2009-06-18T11:56:00.000-07:00

These 2 stories, one on top of the other:

Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests

and

Police chief apologizes to man freed by DNA tests after 17 years behind bars for murder

sigh

Not For Kids or the Squeamish

2009-06-14T17:53:00.000-07:00

"13th Nationwide high school student wrist cut rally" !

With a trailer like that, what other horrors can we expect from Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl?

Premiering at the NY Asian Film Fest, June 26th.

Internet Team-up Presents:

2009-06-14T15:05:00.000-07:00

SeaArrrgh II - Protesting the Cult of scientology - June 13 & 20, 2009 -- from TheDonzerlyLight on Vimeo.

Rogue File-sharers join forces with Unternet Tricksters to battle mammon-worshiping SF religious empire!

As of today they are announcing a new round of “attacks” that will be pirate themed, with pirate support.

In true Pirate style The Pirate Bay has decided to back the operation with a banner linking to Anonymous’ latest campaign “Operation Sea Arrrgh 2″ on their home page. New protests on and offline are will be executed soon, staring this weekend.

“Our next protests are all pirate themed. Our flyers and other material will mostly be about their ship the Freewinds and the many abuses that have taken place on there, and then of course the rest of the scams and atrocities they have committed and continue to perpetrate,” Anonymous told TorrentFreak.

-TF

Most impressive? Branding your protest movement!

The revolution will be advertized!

Next up: Fembots and Robot Bigfoot!

He Loves, He Loves Me Not

2009-06-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

Don't Open It!

2009-06-06T11:44:00.000-07:00

In the name of all that's holy, leave that bottle corked!

17th century urine-filled 'witch bottle' found

-MSNBC

Anatomy of a Parody

2009-06-05T11:39:00.000-07:00

Artwork:

Homework:

there you have it kids, the secret is in the details!

(thanks to CS)

Watch Out, Cherry Coke

2009-06-04T10:17:00.000-07:00

Green Tea Coca-Cola.

You know you want it, you soda slurping health nuts.

With catechins! Yum!

Apocalypse Watch : Day 721,006

2009-06-01T13:19:00.000-07:00

NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – A plague of snakes has caused panic in Iraq's southern province of Nasiriyah, biting cattle and worrying residents as poisonous reptiles flee their dens in the country's water-deprived marshes.

-AFP

Going faster than a Roller Coaster...

Sci Fi Saturday Matinee

2009-05-30T15:24:00.000-07:00

Font Fun

2009-04-23T16:37:00.001-07:00

Course I would have gone with Battlestar: Courier, cuz Helvetica is way Cylony...

Reason # 1084 Why I Thank God I Don't Live In Texas

2009-04-21T11:44:00.001-07:00

The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge from a death row inmate in Texas who claimed his constitutional rights were violated by jurors who consulted a Bible during deliberations.

Jurors reviewed a biblical passage relating that a murderer who used an iron object to kill "shall surely be put to death." They were deciding whether to impose a death sentence on Khristian Oliver for fatally shooting and bludgeoning his victim with the barrel of a gun.

The court previously has said that jurors should base their verdicts only on evidence presented in the courtroom.

(AP)

The Dark Side of Biz School Management

2009-04-18T14:44:00.000-07:00

Beware, Helicopter Ben, Beware.

"Not Sponsored by Fox"

2009-04-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

Fox donates $500,000 in free ads to Tea Bag movement.
But is "not sponsoring" the event.
I wish someone would not sponsor me to the tune of half a mill.
And why exactly is a news organization getting away with overt, biased propaganda events?
Does the FCC and the FTC even do anything for the public good anymore?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904170011?f=h_latest

A Student of History

2009-04-17T12:49:00.000-07:00

"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression,"
-Texas' Republican Gov. Rick "Don't Let The Door Hit You In Your Ass On The Way Out" Perry

Not counting Spain, France, Mexico, The USA, and the Union Army, that is.

Wasn't even true when Houston said it.

Wacka Wacka Wacka

2009-04-17T11:31:00.000-07:00

The only dick amidst the chaos?
A golfer.
What a shock.

Holy Crap!

2009-04-16T17:07:00.000-07:00

By the Blessed name of Creosote

2009-04-16T16:07:00.000-07:00

"It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department,"

- Atty General Eric Holder

So let me get this straight, "I was only following orders" is now a viable defense in the United States?

Somebody fetch me a bucket.

I'm going to puke.

"It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect Germany for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the SS,"

- - Ernst Kaltenbrunner
(the above quote is satire, for the irony impaired)

They Really Really Need To Read The Memo

2009-04-08T19:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJwcqW7vIXI

Ah, Japan...
such a sweet mixture of backwards, forwards, and total batshit...

That was a Close One

2009-04-07T23:31:00.001-07:00

2.5 Earthquake not such a big deal.

Epicenter less than a mile from mi casa, however...

Yikes!

Easter Nerdvana

2009-04-06T16:12:00.000-07:00

Doctor Who AND Red Dwarf?

I feel faint...

As if the Financial Crisis Wasn't Enough

2009-04-06T14:41:00.000-07:00

Nasa captures image of cosmic hand in space:

That looks alot like this iconic DC Comics "Crisis" image:

I guess Grant Morrison really wasn't kidding around this time.

OSS 117 is Back!

2009-04-05T21:40:00.000-07:00

and speaking of back:

Hughes Meet Romero

2009-04-04T12:16:00.000-07:00

Japanese TV show pranks tots with Zombie attack.
Now that's what I call ADORABLE!
(via Japan Probe)

Finally, the Attention He Deserves

2009-03-31T11:41:00.000-07:00

Top Bush advisor denounces Spanish torture probe

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A former top US government advisor who faces possible indictment in Spain for his role in establishing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp described the case against him as "outrageous."

-AFP

Shocked I Tell You, Shocked!

2009-02-28T17:47:00.000-08:00

Jindal's staff now admits that that actually didn't happen. Instead of being there and being part of the story, Jindal's reps now admit that days later Jindal overheard Lee telling the story to someone else. And Jindal retold the story he'd been told while inserting himself into it as part of the story.

-tpm

Jindal Moonlights As Devilslayer

2009-02-25T16:04:00.000-08:00

"in an essay Jindal wrote in 1994 for the New Oxford Review, a serious right-wing Catholic journal, Jindal narrated a bizarre story of a personal encounter with a demon, in which he participated in an exorcism with a group of college friends. And not only did they cast out the supernatural spirit that had possessed his friend, Jindal wrote that he believes that their ritual may well have cured her cancer."

-TPM

Wonder if he knows Palin's Witchhunter?

Palin & Jindal 2012: Exorcize Your Rights!

PJF: 1918-2009

2009-02-25T13:00:00.000-08:00

I can think of no other writer who had as much an impact on my young intellectual and aesthetic development as PJF.

Thanks, Phil.

Attn: Academy

2009-02-17T09:30:00.000-08:00

a filmmaker after my own heart...

This Just In

2009-02-17T03:10:00.000-08:00

SHANGHAI (AFP) – A married Chinese tycoon who could no longer afford to support his five mistresses during the economic slowdown held a contest to decide which one to keep, local media reported Tuesday.

The contest took a tragic turn when one of the mistresses, who was eliminated based on her looks, drove her former lover and the four other women off a mountain road in an apparent fit of anger, the Shanghai Daily reported.

- China tycoon's mistress contest ends in tragedy: report

Another one for the "No one could have seen that coming file..."

What Year Is It, Again?

2009-02-10T16:44:00.000-08:00

"Monster X Attack The G8 Summit" - more here: http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2008/06/16/shochiku-details-guilalas-return-in-monster-x-strikes-back-attack-the-g8-summit/

Attention: Everyone

2009-02-09T13:03:00.000-08:00

Probably the best news coming out of NYCC was Dark Horse's announcement of a four issue series from Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson entitled "Beasts of Burden," continuing the supernatural adventures of the neighborhood pets from the Dark Horse "Book of..." anthologies.

This series is really quite special - effortlessly gliding from hilarious and charming to terrifying and heartbreaking - and is one the best uses of the talking animal schtick anyone has done in a long time.

Some of Dorkin's and Thompson's strongest work - so far seen by an enthusiastic few, but very much deserving of a full on mass pop culture breakout - so do what you can to support the series, and then you can brag that you were there when.

Interview with Evan (and more art) here : http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19889

and check out his blog here: http://evandorkin.livejournal.com/

The Usual Martians

2009-02-08T11:37:00.001-08:00

OOO! OOO! OOO!

and this is why I have an all region, PAL/NTSC DVD player...

James Whitmore :1921 -2009

2009-02-07T14:46:00.000-08:00

You will always be my hero, Sgt. Ben Peterson.

New Yorker Hops On Watchmen Bandwagon

2009-02-03T21:54:00.001-08:00

Litheads declare death of civ.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/02/09/slideshow_090209_eustacetilley?slide=5#showHeader

Color Me Marketed

2009-02-02T17:57:00.001-08:00

Coming March 24th...

Wouldn't the 6th have made more sense?

Bambi vs. Google

2009-01-31T13:32:00.000-08:00

Sadly, Bambi loses again.

In upstate New York, a street view car hit a baby deer on Five Points Road - and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. Nobody noticed until, well, someone noticed, prompting a Daily What blog post, floods of traffic, and then a sequence of five street-level pictures being removed from the site.

-Full details HERE.

ATTN AUSTIN TX: ZOMBIE ALERT

2009-01-30T14:59:00.000-08:00

Someone get Max Brooks on the phone, STAT!

Paging Dr. Brigham

2009-01-29T09:04:00.000-08:00

Space elevator ... and the next floor is outer space

An elevator ride into space could become more than sci-fi fantasy, thanks to a British breakthrough

Ever since it was first popularised by Arthur C Clarke, the idea of a “space elevator” has languished in the realms of science fiction. But now a team of British scientists has taken the first step on what could be a high-tech stairway to heaven.

- Times Online

Told ya! It's my way to the spaceway!

Watchmen Widget

2009-01-25T19:20:00.001-08:00

Geist: Start Zeisting

2009-01-19T13:21:00.000-08:00

"Dame Delilah" on My Damn Channel

LSD Saturday: Flashback Edition

2009-01-18T00:23:00.000-08:00

You didn't really think there wouldn't be flashbacks?

Oh, Did I Neglect

2009-01-17T20:26:00.000-08:00

To show you the Watchmen Hoodies?
(image taken from Kung Fu Rodeo)

Glycon weeps.

Teach Your Children Well

2009-01-17T19:27:00.000-08:00

Ung Pirat, or ‘Young Pirate’, is the youth organization associated with the Swedish pirate party. Yesterday it was a big day for the group, getting 1,325,744 Swedish Krona (Approx €121,900, or $161,700 US) from the national board for youth affairs. The amount is based on a membership count of around 1280 members, but with current membership of around 4,872, next years amount should be even greater.

-http://torrentfreak.com/young-pirates-get-government-funding-090117/

Giving money to terrorists! Well I never!

Who Pays the Paymasters?

2009-01-17T15:46:00.000-08:00

Picture Disc?

Although I am made uneasy by the sight of Watchmen Hoodies, this piece of swag gets credit for being era-appropriate.

May Glycon forgive me...

Getting Behind Your Product

2009-01-15T13:09:00.001-08:00

Because you openly advertize that it blows chunks.

"'4d' if you're wasted," indeed.

Not as wasted as the exec who thought that tagline was "edgy" and "hip," though.