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Saturday, May 30, 2009You Want the Hurtline? You Can't Handle the Hurtline!: Marcari, Russotto, Spencer & Balaban -- Don Marcari was the JAG lawyer who was the basis of the Tom Cruise character in A Few Good Men. He does personal injury law here in NC. If your denture cream gave you zinc poisoning, he will pound tables and stare down even the most Jack Nicholson-y of Denture Cream Defense Lawyers on your behalf. Labels: local flavor, movies 15:41 cdogzilla
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This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless! To learn how you can snap pictures and capture videos with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/picture. Note: To play video messages sent to email, QuickTime? 6.5 or higher is required. 10:13 cdogzilla Friday, May 29, 2009My Favorite Movies After the 5K Pole: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon looks like a lock to hold the top spot until The Maltese Falcon is added to flickchart's database. Tangentially, I finally saw The Dark Knight and have to say I was sorely disappointed. I was going along with it until the end when (I'm assuming everyone has it seen it by now and spoiler alerts are unnecessary) Gordon and Wayne cooked up the lame and patronizing "Batman must become scapegoat so Dent can remain a hero" scheme. The idea that the general public can't handle the truth and needs their cherished heroes to be untarnished is so insulting that for the filmmakers to play it out like the characters were making the heroic choice was nauseating. The ending ruined the whole thing for me. Bah. Labels: interweb, Lists, movies 16:16 cdogzilla Saturday, May 23, 2009Flickchart - Your Rankings And Charts Of The Top Movies Of All Time: Buggy, but fun. I'm sure it'll get better with time. I also wish I hadn't accidentally clicked on "Happy Gilmore" that one time. Word of advice if you try the site, you may want to click 'haven't seen it' for movies you've seen, but really don't want to be ranking all the time. Unless you really want to spend lots of time ranking crap movies you barely remember against each other. Labels: interweb, Lists, movies 23:42 cdogzilla Thursday, May 21, 2009Obama Endorses Indefinite Detention Without Trial for Some Now at Guantanamo - washingtonpost.com: "President Obama acknowledged publicly for the first time yesterday that some detainees at Guantanamo Bay may have to be held without trial indefinitely, siding with conservative national security advocates on one of the most contentious issues raised by the closing of the military prison in Cuba." No. No. No. It was wrong when W. and Cheney were doing it, and it's still wrong. If the detainees did something wrong, prove it. If they're conspiring to do something wrong, prove it. If you can't prove it, that doesn't mean you get to lock them up and throw away the key. In fact, it means the opposite. I thought Obama got it and this was all understood. This is discouraging. Labels: Conservative Goons, crime, Obama 22:38 cdogzilla
A Mystery-y-ish-y Word Trend: The -Y Suffix Has Gone Bananas 14:59 cdogzilla Wednesday, May 20, 2009The Stimulist: Not (just) another news aggregator. It aims to be a daily briefing (modeled on Obama's) that will be informative and provocative, but tightly focused. Labels: interweb 22:31 cdogzilla Sunday, May 17, 2009
Nothing like the chilling tale of loose nukes to scare the poop out of a fella. If we can't keep track of ours, I wonder how many Russian nukes are lost? And how Pakistani nukes soon will be? Any way to squeeze that genie back in the bottle? Labels: science 09:20 cdogzilla Saturday, May 16, 2009Foodies flock to Twitter-savvy food trucks: Sure, the tech-marketing angle is vaguely interesting -- we can imagine dollar signs ringing up in the eyes of the entrepreneurial sorts -- but it's the idea of Korean-Mexican fusion BBQ served from a truck that intrigues me. Labels: interweb, shadowboner 22:55 cdogzilla
I Get Cosmological Vertigo Watching These Hubble-Casts: Labels: science 17:42 cdogzilla Friday, May 15, 2009
Jumpin' Rope With You / Playin' Donkey Kong With You: Labels: auto-tuning, Conservative Goons, interweb, youtube goodness 22:12 cdogzilla Concord Waterpark - Great Wolf Resorts - Indoor Water Park Resort: That's where the C-Dog family will be headed this weekend in advance of the kids' birthday. Blake is fascinated by statues; I expect to hear a great deal about how, "Woof-Dog statue is not moving!" the days we are out there. And, more than likely, for a long time after. Labels: local flavor 12:47 cdogzilla Saturday, May 09, 2009Wanda v. Rush: Back on the desktop now after watching the President and Wanda Sykes give their speeches. Funny stuff but, oh man, is the right wing going to go apeshit -- particularly over Sykes's crack about Rush being one of the 9/11 hijackers, but missing the flight because he was strung out on oxycontin at the time. Labels: Conservative Goons, Obama 22:35 cdogzilla
Obama is doing a nice job at the Correspondents dinner. He just told Michael Steele that the GOP doesn't qualify for a bailout and that Rush doesn't count as a troubled asset. I can't type fast enough on the BB to keep up but he's been on a roll the whole time I've been typing. Labels: Obama 22:05 cdogzilla Basking Sharks' Hiding Places Found: Discovery News: "'This is equivalent to finding polar bears in Kansas,' said lead researcher Greg Skomal, a marine biologist with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries in Martha's Vineyard. 'This was a mind-blowing discovery for us.'" Labels: sharks 16:55 cdogzilla Friday, May 08, 2009Dollhouse season finale in about 10 minutes. This is the left bookend of "awesome sci-fi weekend". Right bookend is going to be Star Trek at the IMAX on Monday. 20:54 cdogzilla Thursday, May 07, 2009raleighskyline.com video :: Supercell/wall cloud over downtown Raleigh on May 5, 2009 Labels: local flavor, youtube goodness 12:22 cdogzilla Saturday, May 02, 2009
'Dollhouse' exclusive: Alpha breaks his silence! | Dollhouse | Ausiello Files | EW.com: Dollhouse was excellent again last night. Although, the whole Echo subplot felt a little forced (don't think too hard about the why and how of it) but thematically it tied in nicely. 18:23 cdogzilla Shatner Watches Trek Trailer for First Time: http://tini.us/theshat (Not sure I'll use tini.us again. To allow for commenting on the link, you have to go through their homepage, find the link, then go back to leave comment -- seems like a lot of work.) 17:00 cdogzilla tini.us - create tini urls: URL shrinker with commenting. Might try this. Labels: interweb 16:50 cdogzilla Friday, May 01, 2009
Blogger says it's easier now to post by email so I'm testing that claim by sending in this important alert to tune in to Rachel Maddow to catch the next installment of fun with auto-tuning. Labels: auto-tuning, TV, youtube goodness 23:56 cdogzilla New Book Revisits Roosevelt’s Policy on European Jews - NYTimes.com: We may have been closer to a world like Chabon's in The Yiddish Policemen's Union than any of us realized. 09:59 cdogzilla |
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