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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
19:25 c-dog Sunday, February 25, 2007Not the time to get back into comics A few years ago I did a review of a book about Spider-Man, which is how I learned that Mary-Jane and Peter Parker are divorced. Turns out - spoiler alert - Mary-Jane has died, because of Peter Parker's radioactive sperm (scroll down to the Spider-Man review). "Seriously, Marvel, WHAT THE FUCK? At what point did Spider-Man having radioactive sperm ever seem like a good idea? At what point did anyone even think about Spider-Man having radioactive sperm?" No one tell Kirsten Dunst. 19:52 bone daddy Saturday, February 24, 2007Labels: music 20:53 c-dog
Labels: Books 09:05 bone daddy Friday, February 23, 2007You just wait Wild chimps seen using weapons. Of course, it wasn't a pistol. Yet. Also, they used weapons to hunt, not to settle bets so they have some work to do. Labels: monkeys 16:55 bone daddy Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Tower Defence Labels: games 19:36 c-dog
TC Rotisserie Baseball 2007 Labels: baseball, fantasy sports 15:15 c-dog Tuesday, February 20, 2007
I didn't say what I just said, and neither did Lincoln Representative Don Young calls for the exile or execution of Republican war supporters with his quote of Lincoln, "Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged." I understand Republican policies, like the "surge," and stop-loss-stay-in-Iraq-longer and the unforgettable "Armor? Eh, you won't need it," hurt troop morale, but I think executing Republicans is taking matters a bit far. This is also especially confusing because Young is a conservative Republican himself. Certainly, the Iraq war can change some hearts. Young's spokesman weirdly points out that Young was "not advocating the hanging of Democrats," which seems obvious to me. Should Democrats really be executed for not oppossing the war strongly enough? Seems harsh. Young himself supported the war until this recent quote. Labels: Conservative Goons, Iraq 08:50 bone daddy Sunday, February 18, 2007
Shark news: Labels: sharks 21:50 c-dog Saturday, February 17, 2007
In my quest to read the book about the political build-up to the Iraq war, I finished Michael Isikoff and David Corn's Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War. It's very good, but not definitive. The outing of Valerie Plame gets a lot of attention and Judy Miller of the New York Times has probably never looked worse. The authors document the backstory of three accusations propping up the Iraq menace: uranium in Niger, aluminum tubes, and mobile labs. How easily these could have been kicked out from under the blustery, lying, incompetent Bush adminstration shocks even a cynic like me. Of course, that would have taken an aggressive media, a bold opposition party and maybe somebody inside Bush's bubble willing to say no. 22:40 bone daddy Lots and lots of rock tattoos. Many of htem cool. Many of them so sad they must be real. Labels: music 22:38 bone daddy Thursday, February 15, 2007
Now I wouldn't run around saying conservatives have no sense of humor. That's just not right. Political humor, though? Well, I'm sure there are a few examples around but you have to dig and scrape for them. They do fear and anger real well. Not so much with the laughs. Anyway, Fox "News" plans to start airing a comedy show in response to their faltering ratings and The Daily Show, which they misperceive as liberal. You can watch a couple of clips, here and here. (Be warned, the second one contains Rush Limbaugh pretending to be president, making jokes about Cindy Sheehan. Maybe don't watch while eating.) They are astonishingly bad. Could the show actually be this bad? I'd say it couldn't be, but this is the stuff they want us to see. Imagine the stuff they're hiding. The funniest part is the laugh-track, needed because actual people wouldn't laugh at that stuff. Labels: Conservative Goons, TV 11:26 bone daddy I realize this is late and I'm not really much of a fan, but I'm endlessly amused that the Dixie Chicks won a bunch of Grammies for their song "I'm So Not Apologizing To You Twits." Labels: music 11:03 bone daddy Labels: 2008 11:01 bone daddy Tuesday, February 13, 2007
More, whiny, sissified complaining about all the torture in 24. Oh, wait, this time it's the U.S. Military that has asked the producers to tone it down, which is a little like asking Seinfeld to do their show without all that dating or Monday Night Football to get rid of all that tackling. "The disturbing thing is that although torture may cause Jack Bauer some angst, it is always the patriotic thing to do." Jack Bauer might as well be Spider-Man and the villians might as well twirl their handlebar moustaches for all the realism on this show. It's chilling to think that anyone in the military might us it as some sort of instruction manual. Labels: TV 13:24 bone daddy The UConn women probably played themselves into a number 1 seed for the NCAA tournament on Sunday, beating LSU on the road in their last regular season game against a top ten team. Given the strength of their schedule, and that their losses were close, against top three teams and in January, it will take a surprising loss to knock them out of a top seed. After poor games against Tennessee and North Carolina, Montgomery finally played huge against a top team - 5 of 7 threes, including two in the closing minutes that were downright Taurasi-esque. Tina Charles also had her freshman coming out party - 17 pts/ 9 rbs against one of the best centers in the country. Tonight's game against #20 Louisville can complete a four game sweep against ranked teams. Good news all around. Labels: sports 09:33 bone daddy Monday, February 12, 2007
I've put a finetune list together as well. Western Swing, Alt-Country, Honky Tonk type stuff. Looks like I've also migrated us to the new blogger. See how that goes. 21:10 c-dog Friday, February 09, 2007I started using finetune, a internet radio/playlist site that lets you set up and then stream music. (To satisfy copyright law, you have to set up a 45 song list with no more than three songs from any one artist and it plays in random order. Also other people can see and listen to it.) They give you an "I'm lazy" button to fill in the rest of your list if you don't have the time to fill up to 45. So it only took me about ten minutes to set up this playlist, filled with that shoe-gazery stuff I occassionally push on unsuspecting visitors. I haven't really tested it out - i.e. played it while working on a bunch of other things or tested "If you like X try Y" tags - but it seems to be a nice alternative to iTunes radio. Labels: music 14:21 bone daddy Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Personally, I was thrilled to see all the rain in Miami for the SuperBowl, partially because my sister-in-law was there and now I get to laugh at her, partially because I thought it would give the Bears a better chance and partially because I hoped for a fun, fumble-filled slip-n-slide SuperBowl. Lots of fumbles, not a lot of fun, though. Now Patriots fans will have an even greater understanding of what it is like to be Yankees fans as the Colts finally get a championship. (It's not that bad. Very soon, Colts fans will learn what Red Sox fans have realized: sooner or later you should win a championship. Now with the monkey off your back, you're just like, say, the Ravens or the Diamondbacks. You're not a joke anymore, but "What have you done lately" comes quickly.) 09:14 bone daddy Friday, February 02, 2007
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