James Whitmore :1921 -2009

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

Getting Behind Your Product

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.

LSD Saturday

Puffy AmiYumi:


Bad Bill S:


Lord Elt:


Bono:


Animal Kwackers


More LSD next week.

McHate

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From the SoCal Crime Map /Mean Streets

The flyers were made to look authentic correspondence from McDonalds, and stated that due to a string of robberies, African American customers are now required to pay an additional fee of $1.50 per transaction. Police were trying to get fingerprints off the fliers to see if they could identify the suspects.

I have to wonder, hate crime or just unfunny political prank?

As the "flyers were made to look authentic," isn't this actually an attack on McDonald's?

The flyers make McDonald's look A) racist or B) ridiculous or C) both, but don't actually say anything at all about African-Americans, save that they are being targetted by a faux racial price profile.

Perhaps this is a failed attempt at irony from someone pissed off about the "string of roberries," said person may even be a "cracker" -

BUT

Making a tasteless joke isn't the same thing as making a racial attack, is it?

And what about free speech issues? Do they not apply to anonymous attempts at LULZ?

Is there something I am missing?

Were the flyers downloaded from WWW.WHITEPOWERPRANKS.NET or somesuch?

Because calling this a Hate Crime, I just don't get.

And if it is one, how soon before The Mans starts hauling in every punk rock band that has a tasteless flyer?

Why, I designed a poster for my buddies' punk band back in my onbnoxious High School days that deployed Nick Utt's famous "Vietnam Napalm" photo with the tagline:

"Everybody Comes Running to See The Incredible Smerphuckers."

Tasteless? Yes.

Racist? No. At least my 17 year old self sure hopes not.

And so Hate Crime?

I say thee nay!

Uh, what was my point again?

Oh yeah - so which is it - "flyers" or "fliers?"

Boom Boom Boom

...looking out my front door...

ah, City Life. It's peaches, I tells ya, peaches!
Imagine tryin ta live without folx blowing up cars in the middle of the night! Haw! You rubes don't ken whut ya mizzin'!

More blurry photos here.

Fear the Yearling

What were they thinking?

Here we are, mere months out of the horror of the war with the Axis powers, and Hwood decides we need a lesson in the fact that "life is durn hard, Pa"?!?

I know the whole thing is merely a metaphor for growing up gay in the rural south, and hence the need to shoot your "dear" before it starts eating the tubers in the garden, but pleeease.

I mean, metaphor aside, what you end up with is a story about country livin' folks who don't know ass from claw about the consequences of domestication. The deer was the only intelligent creature on all of Baxter's Island (and if it's BAXTER's island, why do they have neighbors on that island - the subtly named "Forresters" - who are older....?) and they shot it.

What next? Is someone going to adapt Steinbeck's bloody awful "Red Pony?"

"Gah"

Chronicle of a really bad idea, part 1

Not THAT bandwagon!
no super energy pill for you...

It was recently announced that work had begun on a live action version of boomer-beloved canine cartoon super-icon "Underdog."

Yes. I said live action.

AND get this: they plan on using REAL DOGS.
Yeah, that won't suck.

I wonder what crime cartel is laundering their money through that production?

More Karloff Dammit!

Karloff! But not the monster...

He of giant eyebrows takes a great turn as a moody scientist turned mad in The Invisble Ray. Not to mention that he's working against Bela Lugosi who plays a good guy... But it's truly his turn as the cruel keeper of the insane in Bedlam that proves that Karloff was truly a great actor. How come this guy kept getting cast as monsters?

The Invisble Ray: Eh
Bedlam: Heh

-M.J. Loheed

What are you looking at?

Huh?

Me? I 'm looking at something pretty ugly.

It's called the PG-13 horror film.