I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Anybody ta home?
Woo-hoo!
Sci-Fi needs to send you a check, Atrios.
I miss Farscape!
I saw an ad for one of their movies, about a shark genetically altered to survive out of the water.
I don't remember the title - something uncatchy - but I would have called it 'Land Shark: The Movie' and found a role for Chevy Chase.
Shot on budgets ranging from $1 million to $2 million, Sci Fi's movies are made in money-saving locales like Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri.
Missouri?
You know, that news is the best news of the day.
Really.
I am quite comforted by the intelligence showed by the SciFi channel. Not comforted enough to quite go back to watching television, but after a few more Saturday nights here, that might actually happen.
[high-concept features like "Mansquito"]
I am speechless, the comment stands on it's own merits.
ROFL.
I thought "The Man With The Screaming Brain" was an bio on George Bush?
Actually, Missouri around the Ozarks is really quite beautiful.
Awesome.
I think we need a conference on Sci-Fi liveblogging ethics.
I thought "The Man With The Screaming Brain" was an bio on George Bush?
no, that's "The Man With No Brain".
sugarpies, this ain't my oeuvre, so I bid you g'night. Sleep well, sans bedbugs.
Blessings on all your sweet heads.
how the hell did Mansquito make the NY Times? Just think about how surreal that is.
I'd blame Eli, but I think I was a participant in the early heralding of Mansquito, as well.
how does this works?
www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?
gravatar_id=a98d0cc534a577122ad97fb4bd944a69
I remember the good old days when I was just a pup. My dad would sit up with us on Saturday nights and we'd watch Creature Feature, which was a lame title for a block of 2 hours that showed sci-fi movies. The Crawling Eye was the first sci-fi movie I ever saw and it scared the holy hell out of me.
I just can't wait for the DVD of Mansquito. (ack)
Missouri?
Thersites
The Screaming Mansquito-Brain from Cape Girardeau?
Made for radio...
I was terrified of canned cranberry sauce for a year after I saw "The Blob" (the original, with Steve McQueen).
WT:
I saw the pre-broadway tryout in SF. It'd be interesting to know how much they screwed with the music in the intervening 3000 miles. Within the confines of a musical - I thought they were fairly true to the original orchestration.
Also I don't remember any problems with the micing. You really had to be able to hear the lyrics to follow the storyline - so that would've really srewed the whole deal.
The Crawling Eye was the first sci-fi movie I ever saw and it scared the holy hell out of me.
Wait, was that also known as The Trollenberg Terror? Set in the Alps or something? I think I saw that one.
Jeesh, just bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000. Maybe the Sci Fi channel is deliberately creating lots and lots of fodder for a future version of MST3K - takes repurposing to a whole new level.
if they have to show formulaic low-budget straight-to-DVD movies, couldn't they show one that involves reptoids and a "they live"/"red dawn" style insurrection?
a re-run of "V" might be entertaining...
sometimes i think we're living a real-life version of "they live" 24/7.
pass the shades...
I'd like to pitch Sci-Fi a series in which the Prince of Darkness fools everyone by converting to Catholicism and even gets an entire segment on CNN devoted to the ceremony, but secretly he's still really the Prince of Darkness. Horror ensues.
Even at a million or two, these films have higher budgets than anything Corman is doing....and I think he is still producing.
Bruce Campbell is a great auteur...who if he had more than a week to make a movie, could make something actually watchable!
I loved this line from the piece (and from EW):
"There are better things on tonight, but none are called 'Mansquito.' "
That article is pretty great, on the whole:
"The most important element of a Sci Fi film, Mr. Badish said, "is a topical film that has relevance to our audience."
"In a film coming up," he added, "stem cells are key to the plot; in another, it's mad cow disease. Secondly, there's a good story. Like we're shooting a 'Jaws'-kind of movie featuring a giant squid. We make a reasonable use of C.G.I., because the audience wants that escapist thing. And we add emotional content, so the audience can feel for the characters."
I feel for the emotions of these characters. Some of them seem upset because they are being eaten by a giant squid.
Don't think I saw The Blob, but there was a similar movie I saw years and years ago called either Con-Tiki The Immortal Monster, or Cal-Tiki The Immortal Monster.
It was also about a huge blob of goo that destroyed everything in its' path.
My sister didn't sleep for weeks after that one.
Woke up to galactica movie tonight- quite good!
I remember the good old days when I was just a pup. My dad would sit up with us on Saturday nights and we'd watch Creature Feature, which was a lame title for a block of 2 hours that showed sci-fi movies. The Crawling Eye was the first sci-fi movie I ever saw and it scared the holy hell out of me.
Kate | 07.09.05 - 11:37 pm
would that be 'creature feature' on oakland channel 2? featuring bob wilkins? if so - whussup homegirl!
WOW. Wonder how long it'll be before we get late-evening posts dedicated exclusively to punning?
Atrios knows his audience.
Four mosques were vandalized in New Zealand yesterday...So I'm reading this on freerepublic today (I know, I disinfected afterwards) and what do those nutbags say about it? Well, lets see:
To: jrushing
It's about time to start doing this in the USA.
15 posted on 07/09/2005 7:49:33 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
And this:
To: Graybeard58
Note- To our Aussie friends....FINISH THE JOB, please. None of this half-work. Oh- and there are lots more. Carry on! Good on ya mates!
27 posted on 07/09/2005 8:25:48 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky
Gotta love those yellow elephants. At least we know who's to blame if it happens in 'murca.
And Sci-Fi Channel hasn't bought an ad on Eschaton yet? Somebody needs to clue these folks in.
Ah, but then Conflict of Interest would rear it's slavering, snaggletoothed proboscis, and there rteally would be another blogger ethics panel. The game is rigged, I tell ya.
flory,
there's something about the mannerisms broadway singers affect - that slight catch in the throat when they're singing a glissade, for example, that pisses me off no end.
I like to categorize it as the "Whitney Houstoning" of music - her interpretation of the National Anthem as an outlet for showing people how many octaves she could span and how long she could hold a note spawned a whole genre of show-offs.
I love John Lennon's music, but when you drown out the feeling with a fucking brass section, you're not getting the point.
I don't remember any problems with the micing.
It wasn't too squeaky?
silleigh, don't know if anybody already said this or not, but having...uh...that particular icon as your Gravatar... might indicate a certain...proclivity...
not that i would know anything about it personally of course...nope, not me...
1960 or so, 8:30 Sat. nights: Creature Feature on ch. 11, I think, in NY. 'The Giant Kronos'one week, 'Attack of the 50 ft Woman' the next...sure was a break from translating Proust into Sanskrit. Glad the Combine still provides elevating fare for those requiring the higher sorts of stimulation.
In my salad days, it wasn't creature features that did me in to the point of being unable to sleep, it was late Saturday night, badly dubbed Mexican vampire movies.
I still shudder about those things.
Why does the Man with the Screaming Brain hate America?
I like to categorize it as the "Whitney Houstoning" of music - her interpretation of the National Anthem as an outlet for showing people how many octaves she could span and how long she could hold a note spawned a whole genre of show-offs.
Oh, Christ - don't remind me. Just *sing* the damn thing.
Does Mariah Carey include a musically irrelevant section to show off her high notes in *every* song, or is it only in all the ones I've heard?
I feel for the emotions of these characters. Some of them seem upset because they are being eaten by a giant squid.
Thersites
And then there are the ones upset because they're not porking the hot science babe.
The Creature Feature I watched was in Omaha, Nebraska. Long, long way from Oakland.
And then there are the ones upset because they're not porking the hot science babe.
I keep auditioning for those, but they tell me it would be typecasting.
silleigh, don't know if anybody already said this or not, but having...uh...that particular icon as your Gravatar... might indicate a certain...proclivity.
For a pork-cow!
I'd blame Eli, but I think I was a participant in the early heralding of Mansquito, as well.
I think we're ALL the blame for that one.
I could just weep after reading that "Alien Apocolypse" was their highest rated movie.
That was easily the worst film I have EVER seen in my life.
I could have written a better screenplay than that at the age of 16.
Feh.
Give me a couple of million bucks and I could make a great, and really, really scary science fiction film.
Low budget doesn't have to mean bad. Take "28 days Later" that was made for less than 3 million (IRRC).
if you make a whole thread about low-budg. over the top Sci-Fi , doesn't that mean Eli Wins?
To our Aussie friends. . .
Needs a geography/nickname lesson. It's Kiwis thank you very much.
Does this mean "Mansquito" outdraws Faux?
Mandate...
http://www.pamspaulding.com/grap...s/
gannongay.jpg
Mansquito...
http://cgi.horror-asylum.com/new...s/
mansquito.jpg
What's the difference?
When I was a wee lad I looked forward to Saturday nights when I could watch Horror Incorporated, a local TV station show that showed B-grade horror and science fiction. I got the crap scared out of me by classics like Them, The H-Man and The Monolith Monsters. After I saw The Tingler I couldn't sleep for days.
I do like the kind of movies described by the NY Times but dammit, do something more creative than manimals and nature-strikes-back. Those are boring and stupid and rarely done well.
When planning the guest speakers at the English dep't at my old college, someone would always pipe up "Eudora Welty--she's gonna die any minute" or words to that effect.
Roger Corman is going to turn 80 soon--they'd better get him while they can.
I like Corman except he gets whiny about directors like Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese not working with him any more. Joe Dante explains, "He wants to pay us our old salaries."
Does Mariah Carey include a musically irrelevant section to show off her high notes in *every* song, or is it only in all the ones I've heard?
Thank you. It's also why I will mute the singer before the football games on teebee. I don't want to listen to vocal Jazzercise.
one sucks, the other blows?
I could just weep after reading that "Alien Apocolypse" was their highest rated movie.
I don't even remember that one - which one was it?
if you make a whole thread about low-budg. over the top Sci-Fi , doesn't that mean Eli Wins?
WOOHOO!!!
I thought that actor that played the remake of Willard was really creepy and good for the role. He reminded of my older brother who lives in Ft. Wayne. I can't remember the actor's name. Dang, I might be having brain farts from watching too much Bush Administration bullsheet.
I love John Lennon's music, but when you drown out the feeling with a fucking brass section, you're not getting the point.
watertiger
Yeah, I hear that. I guess I was so glad you could still discern the original tune - and lyrics - that I was willing to forgive the over-the-top orchestration.
What'd you think of the 'everyone's John Lennon conceit'?
I don't remember any problems with the micing.
It wasn't too squeaky?
Thersites
Fromme where do you find these silly questions?
Thank you. It's also why I will mute the singer before the football games on teebee. I don't want to listen to vocal Jazzercise.
I hope you didn't mute Ashlee Simpson at the Orange Bowl - that really was truly incredible.
I thought that actor that played the remake of Willard was really creepy and good for the role.
Crispin Glover.
Little Brother--Is that a mandala gravatar? I thought I had the only mandala
Now my inner peace is disturbed.
Ah, The Tingler. Kept me wide awake with all the lights on for days too.
Fromme where do you find these silly questions?
I think symbion writes 'em down for him.
Watertiger... really is that his name? It just does not compute, but I liked his acting.
silleigh, don't know if anybody already said this or not, but having...uh...that particular icon as your Gravatar... might indicate a certain...proclivity...
not that i would know anything about it personally of course...nope, not me...
Are you still seeing my can o' Poop Cola? (Of DOOM?) Dump yer cache. The new one just indicates a love of Douglas Adams. 
And then there are the ones upset because they're not porking the hot science babe.
I keep auditioning for those, but they tell me it would be typecasting.
Eli
The not-porking being the typecasting?
And did we ever find out WT's status re CPR?
The Creature Feature I watched was in Omaha, Nebraska. Long, long way from Oakland.
Kate
Dr. San Guinary! My childhood role model!
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I thought that actor that played the remake of Willard was really creepy and good for the role. He reminded of my older brother who lives in Ft. Wayne. I can't remember the actor's name.
Crispin Glover. He played Marty McFly's daddy in "Back to the Future"
His father, Bruce Glover, is also a creepy actor. He played Mr. Wynt in the James Bond flick, "Diamonds are Forever".
The Tingler in Percepto!
It's in the projection booth!!!!!!
William Castle was INSANE!
What'd you think of the 'everyone's John Lennon conceit'?
Slightly contrived. The main one, guy named Will Chase, really nailed Lennon's speaking voice, tho.
I identified with a lot of what John Lennon had to say while he was alive and so much of it is truly pertinent today.
Only ease up on the goddamned half-choked glissades already.
Dr. San Guinary! I almost forgot about him. He was a hoot.
The Tingler kicks mighty, mighty ass, even without the vibrating seats.
The not-porking being the typecasting?
And did we ever find out WT's status re CPR?
And the not being happy about it.
She said she's never had any formal training, but she knows how to punch someone in the chest and then kiss them, which is good enough for me.
Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri
Yup. Missouri.
After the fall of the iron curtain, Missouri become a major hub of "B" film-making.
Isn't it obvious?
The London Bombings will really blow up in the face of the rethuglicans during the mid semester elections.
I'm pysched.
Flory,
my response to the CPR query from thread below:
I know how to punch somebody in the chest and then kiss him...
Actually, I never learned CPR, but could probably figure it out, having watched it so often on the teebee. After all, I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night...
I don't even remember that one - which one was it?
Sorry I was confused. That was the one where aliens who looked like bugs had taken over the world and enslaved what was left of humanity. And they kept biting people's heads off. Bruce Campbell was in it. And while it sucked, it did have a scene at the end with lots of exploding alien bugs and green alien blood, always a plus.
Now that stupid Mars film, where the aliens speak etruscan and live in a pyramid...
Now THAT was the worst movie ever. EVER!!
Completely unwatchable.
Low budget doesn't have to be bad. Take "28 Days Later"- it was made for less than 3 million (IRRC).
"As a civilian right here in New York City, I'd like to be "defended" a little bit with some adequate port security, mass-transit security and first-responder resources. Is that too much to ask? And I'd also like it if the members of our military didn't have to serve as utterly useless and cynical bait as part of a worthless war in Iraq." - Daily Kos
Geez, I just read this and am amazed. Don't you think a smart feller like Kos could chip in and help out? If he's so concerned why doesn't he volunteer his time instead of hanging out with that bunch of dimwits at his site.
She said she's never had any formal training, but she knows how to punch someone in the chest and then kiss them, which is good enough for me.
I'm not even going to ask what this was in reference to.
A great CD out that I got from my library and watched this week was one called the Yes Men. It's a documentary and one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Anyone know what I am talking about?
Sorry I was confused. That was the one where aliens who looked like bugs had taken over the world and enslaved what was left of humanity. And they kept biting people's heads off. Bruce Campbell was in it. And while it sucked, it did have a scene at the end with lots of exploding alien bugs and green alien blood, always a plus.
Dammit! How did I miss *that*???
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I love crappy Sci-Fi movies. A friend of mine and I love watching them and just laughing at them and making fun of them and they're even entertaining in their own right sometimes.
Uh, Pere...
The way the Faux pundits were hyperventilating, it would seem that they think that the London bombings are the best thing that has happened for BushCo in months.
They're wrong of course, but they are still blathering about it.
Whoops I meant DVD. Sorry.
I'm not even going to ask what this was in reference to.
Good, good. It's terribly uninteresting.
There are people my age who can't stand Lennon, think he was a consummate asshole.
Who knows? Generally, people are mixed, between "good" and "bad", and the truth is somewhere inbetween.
The cleanest and the most representative of the Beatles is probably Ringo.
I mean, really...Yoko fucking Ono, right?
McCartney is just Barry Manilow w/a Brit accent.
I did like George, but he was not a genius, nor ever claimed to be.
SD
The way the Faux pundits were hyperventilating, it would seem that they think that the London bombings are the best thing that has happened for BushCo in months.
They're wrong of course, but they are still blathering about it.
If it's not, I'm sure it soon will be. They are as brilliant at spin as they are incompetent at everything else.
The SciFi Channel is dead to me since they canceled "Farscape." ; )
Slightly contrived. The main one, guy named Will Chase, really nailed Lennon's speaking voice, tho.
Yeah. I had the same reaction all the way 'round. Still not sure what the point of a female, or black, John Lennon is s'posed to be.
Since you don't really know CPR, I guess Eli's at Ther's mercy if he has the cardiac incident at Eschacon.
Oh well, I guess I don't get my creepy jesus-not creepy jesus for distracting him.
Dammit! How did I miss *that*???
I dunno, it was stupid, but entertaining the same way that movie about the 42 foot mummy was entertaining.
The aliens looked like big insects and they really did bite people's heads off. Pretty cool.
McCartney is just Barry Manilow w/a Brit accent.
HAHAHAHAHA! And a wife 30 years younger than himself, and a really bad dye job, and a really bad forehead lift...
i'll NEVER forgive him for "Freedom". He should have been kicked out of the country for reasons of aesthetics.
Whenever I hear the thestic "argument" that without god, there would be no morality, that being a nazi would be just fine, and on an on, it makes me think one thing:
If a belief in god is all that's holding you back then, shit, believe people, believe! And, you might want to consider ...um... medication.
Me, I'm able to get through most days quietly and peaceably without having to suppress smouldering jew-and-homosexual mass-murderin' insincts, or believe in god. Which is a win-win, I reckon.
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Yeah. I had the same reaction all the way 'round. Still not sure what the point of a female, or black, John Lennon is s'posed to be.
"The world will be as one." Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Eli has a heart condition?
made for TV, some better characters, multiple working plaots... ambitious, not overdone special f/x
pretty good sci fi, looks to be very heinlein influenced
I'm a sci-fi junkie and it's always seemed to me that Sci Fi (the cable channel) has some great series but their movies are crap. Even some that looked kinda interesting, like the one with Sean Astin, "Slipstream," and the "Riverworld" adaptation, turned out to be disappointing.
OTOH, "Battlestar Galactica" is one of the best sci-fi TV series ever done. I made a special point to watch the 3 hours they had on NBC tonight so I could watch it in HD. Both Stargate series are also quite good.
I just wish they'd turn some good writers loose on their movies. Cheap doesn't necessarily mean bad, as evidenced by films like "They Live" and "A Boy and His Dog." Not to mention the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," whose only SFX were the papier mache models of the half-formed bodies.
I wonder why the President hasn't made upgrading the domestic security more of a priority.
After all, he has admitted we will probably be attacked again, at some point, and it just seems we should be taking more precautions. Not all flies stick to the paper, some of them don't even fly anywhere near it.
They're saying, 'Who's at home on Saturday night?'
How sad is that? We're pathetic.
Do you notice there are no trolls tonight? I believe they're all out playing a rip roaring game of mailbox baseball.
Eli has a heart condition?
I love too much.
aquatigre, yes
I'm not even going to ask what this was in reference to.
I think it is a reference to Eli's odd attempt to make me his cardiac-arrest-pimp.
I hope Sci-Fi uses my idea for a surefire B-mobie hit, "Haunted Whorehouse," a real genre buffet.
And don't tell me it's been done; I know it was a subplot in a movie by that guy Jesse something who made 100+ cheap horror movies in Europe. Does anyone know his name? He was Spanish (I think) and worked under a dozen pseudonyms.
The Tingler kicks mighty, mighty ass, even without the vibrating seats.
Silleigh
House on Haunted Hill, The Last Man on Earth, it's all good.
If it were up to me, SciFi would show those on Saturday nights and forget about the CGI sabretooths pulling college students' guts out, but then I guess we'd miss out on classics like The Fallen Ones.
BTW, for all you zombie movie fans out there - you must see the remake of Dawn of the Dead with Ving Rhames. Best. Zombie. Movie. Ever.
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Ooooh, The House on Haunted Hill. That one scared the bejeebus out of me.
Eli has a heart condition?
Eli, I am slowly learning, has exactly the same ethics as Master Shake.
Kate,
Wake up and smell the coffee. Everyone is blaming Bush in England here. While the deaths were tragic, they will serve the greater good to swing the pendulum of public support in OUR favor.
Does anyone know his name? He was Spanish (I think) and worked under a dozen pseudonyms.
Draco
Jesse Franco - his movies were usually a cross between horror and soft porn.
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I just wish they'd turn some good writers loose on their movies. Cheap doesn't necessarily mean bad, as evidenced by films like "They Live" and "A Boy and His Dog." Not to mention the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," whose only SFX were the papier mache models of the half-formed bodies.
I'm available.
Seriously, I can understand them wanting inexpensive films, but there's no excuse for the piss poor quality of the actual stories.
I'm not even going to ask what this was in reference to.
I think it is a reference to Eli's odd attempt to make me his cardiac-arrest-pimp.
This doesn't have to be an issue if we can get Hecate's sexy nurse friend to provide medical services at EschaCon.
I think it is a reference to Eli's odd attempt to make me his cardiac-arrest-pimp.
ah.
The UK and Italy have gone bonkers. Mass hysteria. Downtown Birmingham with 10s of thousands of people is evacuated over a paper bag, Rome conducts a "anti-terrorism" raid and arrests 142 gypsies, Italian ministers demanding the country be put on a war footing, the British press pulling maroccan, syrian, and palestian suspects out of their ass, mosques aflame across Britain, Fiumicino airport evacuated. Just pandemonium.
Gotta say...people who believe one HAS to go out and CONSUME on Fri and Sat nights either (a) have hormone imbalances, and/or (2) believe what they are told through the media.
I like to categorize it as the "Whitney Houstoning" of music - her interpretation of the National Anthem as an outlet for showing people how many octaves she could span and how long she could hold a note spawned a whole genre of show-offs.
I love John Lennon's music, but when you drown out the feeling with a fucking brass section, you're not getting the point.
watertiger
OK movies have scared me in the past. None of them are as scary as the above post. I'm gonna have nightmares.
Yes, the house on Haunted Hill was damned scary.
Actually I had an idea for a movie script where this really dumb guy somehow gets elected President and then starts a war and does everything the rich and far right Chritians ask him to do and.... well I guess everyone knows how the script goes. We don't know how it will end is the problem.
They Live
Best. Fistfight. Ever.
And now we can officially invoke the name of Keith David on tonight's SciFi thread.
Ironically, the effects company on "Alien Apocalypse" is called "Unreal Productions" or something like that - which, given the appearance of the bugs, I found hilariously appropriate.
"The Man with the Screaming Brain" I didn't see, but I read a synopsis at the Seattle International Film Festival, and it sounded interesting.
BTW, for all you zombie movie fans out there - you must see the remake of Dawn of the Dead with Ving Rhames. Best. Zombie. Movie. Ever.
AND Sarah Polley! That movie was good.
The UK and Italy have gone bonkers.
Oh, goddamn, I hope not.....
Shit.
Can no longer stomach any violence on film (or anywhere else I guess)- weird - used to love Pulp Fiction (it was continuously playing in the Cape house I rented with some girlfriends a few years running many years ago)
The scariest by far (before I stopped watching scary movies) was the Exorcist - I can remember renting it with a few BC High guy friends of mine (in their 20's at the time) - including a 6' 5' East Cambridge tough guy (think Tip O'Neill not Harvard) shivering with fear. When I look back maybe it was a Catholic thing - who knows. Scary nonetheless.
I think symbion writes 'em down for him.
Eli
" you make up these questions Mr. Holden , or do they write em down for you ...?
..The tortise lays on it's back ,it's belly baking in the hot sun trying to turn himslef over but it can't , not without your help ...but you're not helping...
Whatta ya mean I'm not helpin?!
I mean you're not helping...Why is that Leon? ...( beat) ...they're just questions Leon....in answer to your query they're written down for me ...it's a test designed to provoke an emotional response...shall we continue ...?"
"Cheap doesn't necessarily mean bad,"
Agreed. Consider the cost or at least the level of sophistication of the old Twlight Zone, Outer Limits and other series of the 50's and 60's. The real meat was the story and the acting. Same goes for many of the 50's B SciFi.
Hmm digressing a bit, I remember things like playhouse 90 and others, again, the set costs were usually minimal, it was all story and the emoting of such.
It doesn't take a modern day graphics budget and EFX crew to make a good movie or show.
Just give them some duct tape, tin foil, plaster of paris and a few 2X4's and I bet with a good script it would be enough.
They're saying, 'Who's at home on Saturday night?'
How sad is that? We're pathetic.
Ourselves, we are parents of young children with good steady middle-class jobs living in the rural heartland.
And shit.
I just got back from a lovely mexican meal and a margarita, which never hurts. I take it the Lennon musical blew?
And now we can officially invoke the name of Keith David on tonight's SciFi thread.
Keith David or David Keith? Two different actors, two different colors....
I'm not even going to ask what this was in reference to.
I think it is a reference to Eli's odd attempt to make me his cardiac-arrest-pimp.
Thersites
To fill all of those involved in the backstory:
Eli was having hot nurse fantasies in the earlier thread and wondering if there would be medical personnel at Eschacon.
I reminded him that Thers was a sykiatrist - which didn't do much for his fantasies. Then I suggested that maybe WT had a CPR certification. Which perked the boy right on up.
You can take the story from there.
Pere, I hope you are correct.
The contrast between how Blair handled the crisis in London to the way Bush the wimpy, frightened little punk flying as far away from NY and DC as he possibly could should not be lost on even those didiots who are card carrying members of the Cult of Bush. Tony Blair flew INTO the crisis, Bush high-tailed it away from the events of 9/11 like any blue blooded chicken would.
typos...sry...
the only part of the galactica overdone was the blondes fighting each other...
the telepath and the pilot are rivals for the VP's love, I'm cheering for a 3-way episode soon...
parts of it moved too fast, could habe gotten more out of the presentation
commercial breaks way too often
still it was nice and outshines any of the reality tv garbage out there
networks have no creativity, the subgenres are indeed leading the way
This doesn't have to be an issue if we can get Hecate's sexy nurse friend to provide medical services at EschaCon.
Eli
Isn't Thersites gonna do that?
Fielding, I'll watch most anything with Vincent Price in it. LOVE him.
mena,
the fact that they were playing Lennon's music was the saving grace of the show.
otherwise...it was, as I noted, like listening to Whitney Houston sing the National Anthem.
"Let me tell you about my mother..."
Lennon sucked major, major ass.
The Screaming Mansquito-Brain from Cape Girardeau?
Made for radio... | Doozer | 11:39 pm
All that hillbilly heroin's bound to do something to the brain.
At least Rushie-poo doesn't have meth-mouth.
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"They're saying, 'Who's at home on Saturday night?'
How sad is that? We're pathetic."
Well, when you put it like that....
"I did like George, but he was not a genius, nor ever claimed to be."--Sarah Deere
Harrison is a good example of someone making the best of limited talent. He didn't really find his guitar sound until he started using slide, at which point he became very distinctive and expressive, though still not all that dextrous.
He also lucked into a surefire way to get his songs covered--he only wrote them for his own limited vocal range, so others equally limited drifted toward his compositions. At one point "Something" was the most covered Beatles song for vocalists.
Fielding, I'll watch most anything with Vincent Price in it. LOVE him.
Vincent Price's vocal affect always reminded me of my grandmother.
no, seriously.
i tried watching that tornado movie. it was extremely awful.
jeebus , I may have done the fx for some of the shit you're all talking about ....I better be careful in here ....no the time to be asking opinions on the new company website ...I'll be hung and drawn and quartered for having worked on " Decode " or some shit MOW....
Appy-polly-loggies in advance ..
well I guess everyone knows how the script goes. We don't know how it will end is the problem.
With luck it will end with the really dumb guy spontaneously combusting during a nationally televised press conference, thereby confirming once and for all that spontaneous human combustion IS a real phenomenon and saving the world.
Lot's of fireworks and partying during the closing credits.
the only part of the galactica overdone was the blondes fighting each other...
How is that even *possible*???
Old-Fart check; Friday nights at 10:15 (remember when the news was 15 minutes?) "Shock Theater", with Marvin, Dear, and the Deadbeats, who had a song called "Why Not!"
Pere, I hope you are correct.
The contrast between how Blair handled the crisis in London to the way Bush the wimpy, frightened little punk flying as far away from NY and DC as he possibly could should not be lost on even those didiots who are card carrying members of the Cult of Bush. Tony Blair flew INTO the crisis, Bush high-tailed it away from the events of 9/11 like any blue blooded chicken would.
Kate |
Blair's response was expected, I'll see if I can find the Clark thread where I anticipated what would be be said...
Yeah Kate, remember in Nam when he went AWOL? Nothings changed. He was AWOL on 9/11 too.
The London bombings are the best thing that could have happened for us.
Vincent Price's vocal affect always reminded me of my grandmother.
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I'm so sorry.
Was heartening that were anti-Blair demos today in London. Also, Daily Mail says British will complete their pullout from Iraq by Xmas.
Whitney Houstoning.
I, for one, have had all the melisma I can stand. Modern performers have turned singing into some sort of athletic contest.
i have to say, i did love Bruce Campbell's turn in "Spiderman II".
Any chance to work with Sam Raimi, I guess.
too many punches to the gut, not enough hair pulling or blood/cosmetics smeared, no big bitch slaps... a letdown until they developed sweat
love fights that long enough to see people sweat
MI5 and MI6 have egg on their faces.
i tried watching that tornado movie. it was extremely awful.
Yes, it was stupid.
Not enough actual tornado action. And a really stupid plot.
sometimes i think we're living a real-life version of "they live" 24/7.
r@d@r
That's what Carpenter was trying to tell us.
This doesn't have to be an issue if we can get Hecate's sexy nurse friend to provide medical services at EschaCon.
Eli
Isn't Thersites gonna do that?
Everyone wants to hear the big pasty foulmouthed Irish guy telling them not to walk into the light....
but as bad as the tornado flick was, after that they had TWO atomic train movies, which were even worse. i couldn't even tell what time of year it was supposed to be. half the characters were wearing winter coats and the other half were wearing t shirts.
watertiger
Campbell and Raimi having been working on films with each other since they were kids. That includes Raimi's brother as well.
the only part of the galactica overdone was the blondes fighting each other...
How is that even *possible*???
Don't construe this as a put-down -- it just reminded me of grabbing lunch last week and finding that my burger-combo from Hardee's now comes with the drink in a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model cup. Collect 'em all!
I thought it was really enlightened, how they're actively trying to cater to their lesbian customers. Or something.
ubu a troll? a good thing?
please they were already announcing a withdrawal
Blair refuesed to let this make him reactionary, and they will help Afghanistan more
If we make ONE of those two countries legitimately stable...
of course Kharzai has to be out of office to see the Muslim give afghan gov't any kind of legitimate approval
Fielding--Thanks for remembering Jesse Franco for me; I'm still steamed that Haunted Whorehouse occured to him first. Plato and Mallarme had some of my good ideas too.
Was heartening that were anti-Blair demos today in London.
Really? I slept all day and missed that.
Chimpy is really hated overseas. Blair was stupid to hitch himself to that crazy-train.
Modern performers have turned singing into some sort of athletic contest.
DING! DING! DING!
Please report to the cashier's window to pick up your prize.
Campbell and Raimi having been working on films with each other since they were kids. That includes Raimi's brother as well.
They started out remaking Three Stooges shorts, which really shows in Army Of Darkness...
A Boy and His Dog was actually a short story written by Harlan Ellison, who is one damned awesome writer. The movie was mostly a good adaptation, but they screwed with the underground town in a way that was stupid compared to the original story.
And for my fellow Sarah Polley fans, I'd recommend seeing the very bizarre and quirky No Such Thing, where she plays a journalist who befriends a mythical creature in Iceland who killed her fiancée.
I don't think anyone except me wants to see Thersites as a sexy nurse.
ekcentrik,
I know. that's why I thought it was so funny that he turned up in "Spiderman".
Fielding, I'll watch most anything with Vincent Price in it. LOVE him.
Silleigh
He's my fav. Ever check out "The Complete Films of Vincent Price" by Lucy Chase Williams? Plenty O' Fun, and goes into all his films.
Vincent Price's vocal affect always reminded me of my grandmother.
watertiger
You mean his voice actually reminded you of your grandmother's voice? That's, um.. nice.. (backs away slowly)
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They started out remaking Three Stooges shorts, which really shows in Army Of Darkness..
Army of Darkness is one fucking funny movie.
I did like Quiet Earth and the Coca-Cola Kid. Relieved the idiocy of the Reagan years.
Plato and Mallarme had some of my good ideas too.
Draco | Email | 07.10.05 - 12:19 am | #
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I HATE when that happens!
The contrast between how Blair handled the crisis in London to the way Bush the wimpy, frightened little punk flying as far away from NY and DC as he possibly could should not be lost on even those didiots who are card carrying members of the Cult of Bush. Tony Blair flew INTO the crisis, Bush high-tailed it away from the events of 9/11 like any blue blooded chicken would.
Bush is protected like an irreplacable piece of china. I don't know of any other world leader who is swaddled in layer upon layer of protection the way he is. Many millions are spent on keeping away form him anyone who might even say a nasty word to him while there is not enough money to provide armor for the troops in Iraq.
I've been pitching some projects to the sci-fi channel.
Deliverance 2- Billy Ray vs. the spawn of Ned Beatty and the hillbilly. I get to pick sync 'dueling banjos'.
The Cyrus Virus- I spread the west nashville virus to all my female fans(lotsa love scenes).
Billy Stingray- after a vacation to the gulf shore where I got stung by a stingray, I morph into a stingray terrorizing Nashville (filmed in Missouri to cut costs).
Oops. Me @ 12:20, natch.
Eli
Yep, classic. I always had the impression they were out to snub Hollywood's nose by not going the normal route on things. Looks like they did a pretty good job of it. Well cept for Mantis.
I've been suffering through alot of hot flashes lately.
Oops. Me @ 12:20, natch.
I was wondering about that...
Hey, has anyone suggested Krugman for EschaCon?
You mean his voice actually reminded you of your grandmother's voice?
nooooo, silly. they both had a slightly affected patrician air about them.
Modern performers have turned singing into some sort of athletic contest.
I blame MTV. Videos turned music into halftime entertainment.
Army of Darkness is one fucking funny movie.
Yes it is.
I never get tired of it. They must have had a blast filming that.
He's my fav. Ever check out "The Complete Films of Vincent Price" by Lucy Chase Williams? Plenty O' Fun, and goes into all his films.
Didn't know that EXISTED. Just looked it up -- it looks very cool!
I recall the podcasting mentioning that the actress playing Number Six (Tricia Helfer) had never so much as thrown a punch or taken a martial arts class in her life before prepping for that fight scene. Interesting.
They started out remaking Three Stooges shorts
I bet they had to. Even if they kept the Stooge's original shorts, I bet they were smelly and had holes in them.
I don't think anyone except me wants to see Thersites as a sexy nurse.
Well, he can't let Eli and NTodd have all the fun dressed as Catholic schoolgirls...
A. Scott,
As long as you weren't responsible for the crappy sabretooth, you're okay. Mansquito's wings were gold, baby!
mtv was cool in the early 80's before anyone had any idea of how to make a music video.
Menopause is the bane of my existence.
Eli : Haloscan Ate me comment about Rutger , Drinking Chivas and me getting to hear it All, so you'll be spared the name dropping ( or Will You?) but he did tell em about the Black Lazer Beam that every BR fan should know ...ever heard of it ?
Oops. Me @ 12:20, natch.
NYMary
Oh, now why'd you have to cop to that and disillusion the rest of us?
Instead of reaching out to the filmmakers who have always made crap, why not reach out to some young filmmakers who'd be thrilled to have a couple of million to make a film and see what they come up with?
Hey, has anyone suggested Krugman for EschaCon?
Will you stop with the attempts to get sexy CPR already?
Mansquito's wings were gold, baby!
Mansquito taking flight was truly the most heartstoppingly majestic and beautiful image in cinematic history.
Keith David: Broadway veteran, Tony Award nominee, Stepfather of Cameron Diaz's Mary, Fighter of Rowdy Roddy Piper, and the best thing in The Thing
David Keith: shitty actor
Well, he can't let Eli and NTodd have all the fun dressed as Catholic schoolgirls...
watertiger
Waitaminute!!
Nobody told me Thers was involved here.
The Only Child is keeping secrets.
Mansquito taking flight was truly the most heartstoppingly majestic and beautiful image in cinematic history.
Far surpassed anything David Lean could've dreamt of.
Eli : Haloscan Ate me comment about Rutger , Drinking Chivas and me getting to hear it All, so you'll be spared the name dropping ( or Will You?) but he did tell em about the Black Lazer Beam that every BR fan should know ...ever heard of it ?
Is he as cool and borderline crazy as he appears on screen?
Black Lazer Beam?
Keith David: Broadway veteran, Tony Award nominee, Stepfather of Cameron Diaz's Mary, Fighter of Rowdy Roddy Piper, and the best thing in The Thing
And don't forget the Imam in "Pitch Black."
Hey, has anyone suggested Krugman for EschaCon?
Will you stop with the attempts to get sexy CPR already?
Thersites
This from the man idolizing James Watts?
Wow! Don't know what husband did with the remote, so I've been watching some MSNBC thing called Lock Up - LA County Jail. Jeebus. These dudes put the S in scary. Who needs the sci-fi channel?
Draco...yep. Agreed.
Keith David rocks.
I think he was the guy with the artificial leg in Dead Presidents, too.
The contrast between how Blair handled the crisis in London to the way Bush the wimpy, frightened little punk flying as far away from NY and DC as he possibly could should not be lost on even those didiots who are card carrying members of the Cult of Bush. Tony Blair flew INTO the crisis, Bush high-tailed it away from the events of 9/11 like any blue blooded chicken would.
Kate
I don't get it. The Bush cultists have such a strong need for an All-Powerful Daddy that you'd think his behavior on 9-11 would have turned them off forever.
i don't recognize thersites' new gravatar.
Menopause is the bane of my existence.
Darlin', this too shall pass. So I'm told, anyway. I'm also told that the earlier you cross that threshold of womanhood, the later you exit it. Hardly seems fair.
This from the man idolizing James Watts?
Hmmm... my gravatar now should be Soros...
And don't forget the Imam in "Pitch Black."
Ah, yes.
I kind of liked that film, even though it was kind of dumb (science wise) too.
I don't get it. The Bush cultists have such a strong need for an All-Powerful Daddy that you'd think his behavior on 9-11 would have turned them off forever.
The Secret Service *made* him do it. He wanted to fly to NYC or DC right away.
No, really!
Olaf,
I have a tape of MTV in those days, 6 hours of videos from 1981-82. Fabulous!
Eli,
I have an impression that, whereas politicians have travel budgets (only one person has asked me if we provide travel money), journalists expect you to pick up the tab. I may be wrong, I wish I were. Maybe I can write Krugman and say, "Come to EschaCon. We can't pay you, but we can probably get you laid."
The worst part of menopause is being all dried up down there.
I have to use ky for lubrication.
Hmmm... my gravatar now should be Soros...
Is he paying you to blog too?
And don't forget the Imam in "Pitch Black."
Not to mention "The Chronicles of Ribbit," the sequel.
Thanks for sharing
let me guess, this is a fake sarah deere.
Instead of reaching out to the filmmakers who have always made crap, why not reach out to some young filmmakers who'd be thrilled to have a couple of million to make a film and see what they come up with?
four legs good
Like that guy who did Primer. I wouldn't mind seeing that guy's next movie.
"I don't get it. The Bush cultists have such a strong need for an All-Powerful Daddy that you'd think his behavior on 9-11 would have turned them off forever."
(Quick, someone tell me how to do italics).
I wonder the same thing. All the big blowhard pundits and their tough guy talk about terrorism, terrorists, evil doers. Think they'd be ashamed of the Chicken Shit in Chief hiding out like a wimp.
I have an impression that, whereas politicians have travel budgets (only one person has asked me if we provide travel money), journalists expect you to pick up the tab. I may be wrong, I wish I were. Maybe I can write Krugman and say, "Come to EschaCon. We can't pay you, but we can probably get you laid."
Isn't he at Princeton? And surely he drives a hybrid, so we'd maybe just have to give him a few bucks for gas.
Little Brother has apparently left, but he had the first post on this thread. Could someone please look at his gravatar and tell me if it's a mandala.
How am I supposed to be transcendemtly serene if someone else has a mandala? I want to sic a million incarnations of Shiva's bitchy wife on his ass.
NYMary: nope , not me . But I know them .We mock them cruely behind thier backs , not to worry ..
I don't get it. The Bush cultists have such a strong need for an All-Powerful Daddy that you'd think his behavior on 9-11 would have turned them off forever.
You want consistency from them?
Prior to menopause androgens, mostly testosterone, are produced by the ovaries and adrenal glands. Androgens are important for maintaining bone density and sex drive. After menopause the ovaries stop making androgens, the adrenals continue, but the total amount produced by the body is greatly diminished. Androgens are available combined with estrogen, for replacement therapy. The only combination drugs is ESTRATEST®,. This is prescribed as second line therapy. For women who have not achieved good relief from hot flashes, or who are complaining of loss of sex drive, on estrogen.
Eli - yeah that's the ticket. The Secret Service **MADE** him high-tail it away from the carnage.
"you'd think his behavior on 9/11 would have turned them off forever."
they can't see any of bush's flaws. that's just how it is.
That's not Sarah D. And Thersites, is that Soros?
Looks like a mandala to me, Draco.
And Shiva was smart enough to lay down under her feet.
I get the impression that the current managers of the channel see Science Fiction and Fantasy too much in the vein of low budget schlock.
Science Fiction and Fantasy must back rich visual with a rich story, that takes advantage of the creative possibilities of being able to shape the world and the laws of nature to at the very least create some interestingly off the wall events, if not all some all around inspired storytelling. These genres are too difficult to produce to have such little effort go into character and story.
At the very least, if they are going to make B-movies, it should be the kind we enjoyed watching on the Sunday morning UHF movie lineups. Stop using it as the dumping grounds for dumb crap that can't get shown elsewhere.
they can't see any of bush's flaws. that's just how it is.
And those they do, they rationalize away.
Loss of interest in sex is a common complaint of postmenopausal women. Androgens have been shown, in several studies, to improve libido ( sex drive ) in postmenopausal women. One study of 136 postmenopausal women complaining of sexual dysfunction were treated initially with estrogen alone. The estrogen therapy relieved vaginal pain associated with vaginal dryness, but did little for the loss of sex drive. The women were not depressed and were in stable marital relationships. When they were given estrogen-androgen combination therapy 80% reported improved libido.
Attack of the Gravatars!
This Saturday night, the Sci Fi Channel.
Menopause is the bane of my existence.
Sarah Deere
you know what? I didn't say that. Golly, as unimportant as I am, I guess I should be thrilled to have someone post on my name. On the other hand, I have to admit to being post-menopausal, but I can assert that it was NEVER the bane of my existence. I had easy entry into puberty, easy pregnancies, and an easy menopause.
So, well, someone else posted that "menopause is the bane of my existence", because that most certainly did NOT hold true for me!!!
It is Soros, mena. (I had to ask, too.)
Did you get your email?
i don't think it's a mandala, draco. i'm no expert, but i think the characteristics of a mandal are radial symmetry and 4 distinct quadrants, but i may well be wrong.
Hmmm... my gravatar now should be Soros...
Thersites
Its magic. Clear the browser cache and everybody's gravatar - including mine - updates!
Between 30% - 70% of postmenopausal women complain of psychological symptoms such as moodiness, anxiety and irritability. Higher androgen levels have been associated with better energy levels and an increased sense of well being.
i don't think it's a mandala, draco. i'm no expert, but i think the characteristics of a mandal are radial symmetry and 4 distinct quadrants, but i may well be wrong.
I'm pretty sure it's Soros, actually.
let me guess, this is a fake sarah deere.
Just what I was thinking. The real sarah deere does not whine.
damn. haloscan is just lightning fast tonight. never seen it like this before.
Loss of interest in sex is a common complaint of postmenopausal women. Androgens have been shown, in several studies, to improve libido ( sex drive ) in postmenopausal women. One study of 136 postmenopausal women complaining of sexual dysfunction were treated initially with estrogen alone. The estrogen therapy relieved vaginal pain associated with vaginal dryness, but did little for the loss of sex drive. The women were not depressed and were in stable marital relationships. When they were given estrogen-androgen combination therapy 80% reported improved libido.
Sarah Deere
Gee whillikers - I didn;'t say that, either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is someone doing this? For heaven's sakes!!
SD
Did you get your email?
NYMary
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I'll go look.
Virilization is the appearance of masculine sexual characteristics, such as acne, deepening of the voice, baldness and increased muscle mass. Hirsuitism is the appearance of facial hair. Some women on androgens do show some of these symptoms however, the symptoms are mild and readily reversible by lowering the dose or stopping the medication. Some studies have shown that these changes are LESS frequent in estrogen-androgen users. There is no evidence for an increase in liver disease in women who use estrogen-androgen therapy. However women with liver disease should not start HRT.
(Quick, someone tell me how to do italics).
Kate:
{i}italicized wording{/i}
Replace brackets with < and >.
We know, SD. It's probably Tena & pie's woman-hating stalker again. Don't worry about it - it's not like it's not easy to spot.
Hell, I'm still trying to figure out why these crazy last-hurrah cycles give me a ferocious case of dry EYE.
Perhaps a testeyesterone supplement would stop it...
Gravatars are made from PEOPLE!
At least Rushie-poo doesn't have meth-mouth.
.
.
. Yet
sunshine
When he starts finishing up his 3 hour show in 2 hours 15 minutes, we'll know. Someone should monitor his show with a stopwatch.
Not me, though, no siree...
Oh, great, we've got a biology troll?
Should you be on an estrogen-androgen combination? Possibly, if 1. You are on estrogen and still experiencing hot flashes. 2. You are at high risk for osteoporosis. 3. You are on estrogen and still experiencing loss of sex drive. There are other questions you must answer with your physician. What is your BMD ? What is your cholesterol HDL ratio? There are still unanswered questions concerning androgens. How will androgens impact on heart disease and breast cancer over the long term? More long range studies are needed. For now take the information you have and discuss it with your physician if you think you might be a candidate for androgen therapy.
From the grave ...atar.
And they start airing Firefly this month!
How am I supposed to be transcendemtly serene if someone else has a mandala?
Shit.
I was going to use a homemade mandala, but I don't want to upset the natural order of the Universe.
BTW, I've been on the fucking phone for 3 hours now with 5 different people, and if anyone else calls they can just go square to hell cause I ain't answering.
i don't like most of these gravatars. i think it's hard to find pictures that look like anything when they are so small.
i like eli's and nymary's though.
The Secret Service *made* him do it. He wanted to fly to NYC or DC right away.
No, really!
Eli
I can't think of a single one of his predecessors in office who would have hesitated for a moment to return to Washington DC immediately.
It's like Sarah... except that it's Sarah with Incog hiding inside her and controlling her comments!
My eyes! My gravy bleeding eyes!
they can't see any of bush's flaws. that's just how it is.
And those they do, they rationalize away.
For them, Bush has no flaws. There are no contradictions because the past is always morphed into something that fits with what he is saying in the present. If something he says will happen does not happen, then he simply never said it.
I was going to use a homemade mandala, but I don't want to upset the natural order of the Universe.
Is it a mandala for all seasons?
Shoot NYMary, the link didn't work.
I've been meaning to ask, have people started talking about sharing lodging, etc., for eschacon?
Oh, great, we've got a biology troll?
Someone's discovered WebMD!
Gee, who could the real Sarah be? The sweet, good-tempered soul we know or the sex-obsessed techno-spewing cut-and-paster? Hmmm.... What to do, what to do.
It's like Sarah... except that it's Sarah with Incog hiding inside her and controlling her comments!
BWA-hahahaha!!!
"Whitney Houstoning"
I remeber reading that Judy Garland always sang the notes as written, no noodling, and that intensified the emotion she created.
The video of her singing "Glory, Glory, Hallelulah" after Kennedy was assassinated was golden.
I can't think of a single one of his predecessors in office who would have hesitated for a moment to return to Washington DC immediately.
But... but none of his predecessors were as vitally important to the Future Safety Of The Universe!
Is he paying you to blog too?
Yes, it comes out of his "Sodomize Puppies for Lenin and Osama" Fund.
I have never seen so much crap on cable in my life.
Sci-Fi doesn't lead the pack, by any stretch, but it sure has its share of just plain BAD movies and programs masquerading as science fiction but really in the "Three Stooges meets the Wolfman" genre, perhaps updated, but mostly pale echoes of 'Alien' and any bad oater.
My last pitch to Sci Fi channel was 'The Last Temptation of Billy Ray.'
I got the look going for me for starters.
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Why is someone doing this? For heaven's sakes!!
SD
Sarah Deere
I blame Eli. I'm sure it was the hot nurse fantasies what done it.
Obese people who exercise have half the death rate of those who are trim but don't exercise, a leading expert said Tuesday.
Previous studies linking obesity and death from heart disease and other major killers have missed the important influence of exercise, said Steven Blair, director of research at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas.
"There is a misdirected obsession with weight and weight loss," he told a meeting of the Association for the Study of Obesity in London. "The focus is all wrong. It's fitness that is the key."
mena,
Check the EschaCon site; we expect lotsa roomies. And google the Burns Sisters.
I've been meaning to ask, have people started talking about sharing lodging, etc., for eschacon?
ELI, NO!!!!!
Sarah, you've been cloned! It's scifi Saturday night, and this is your life!
Is your clone merely a stoopid trool mutant, or
~gasp~
a pharmaceuticals sales rep?
(cue Psycho music REEEE REEEEE REEEEE!)
g'night all. all that lennony goodness has tired me out.
manana!
David Lean's Mansquito
Nigel Havers....Police Lt. Tom Randall
Judy Davis....Dr. Jennifer Allen
James Fox....Ray Erikson/Mansquito
A repressed and prim English woman and her sexually constipated and priggish fiance turn into mutant insects. Hilarity ensues.
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Kate
Kate:
Replace the brackets with the 'greater than' and 'less than' signs < and >
I can't think of a single one of his predecessors in office who would have hesitated for a moment to return to Washington DC immediately.
blivet WAS orbitron
Absolutely right! Not one.
Is it a mandala for all seasons?
Mandala?
Whoops, I meant *mandolin*.
My bad.
and contrary to what many people think, nymary's gravatar is not shaking her fist, she is showing off her biceps.
Flory,
What did I do wrong?
italic wording
Whitney Houston needs to take a few lessons from her husband in learning how to present oneself at all times with dignity and restraint. She should also take a page from the book of that lovely little Britney Spears.
never mind.
TPM cafe has some good threads on the London bombings. The response to
this should indeed be peaceful in domestic terms. Fine who did this,
let the Yard take care of it.
This is a chance to reassert the unity of the EU against terror by
ratifaction of a Consitution and hedging extremism away from influence.
Engage the rights of Muslims and nation states to counter such violence.
Who would have ever forseen the ability of the UK to take Ghandi's
example and make it work in the West? This is such an opportunity.
Here was my TPM post about:
http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/200...7/8/02212/
73295
Re: Muslim Civil War - Second Front (3.00 / 0) (#25)
by MrMurder on Jul 08, 2005 -- 05:10:00 AM EST
A false flag would target them. It would also invite violent response.
This will be sold as the bill of goods on Iran. Ignore the DSM and lies
for war, let's carry this fight to another country.
Blair should have his balls broken for this war every bit hard as Bush.
The INC had many allies in London. Quite possibly a hit was in effect
to change the leadership priorities within their ranks.
The British kept a cool head and for the most part will take this in
stride. Most likely the other EU nations that strained will be in support
of the country now.
This should actually lead to another EU session, which the g8 may have
well been doing. Most likely the interactions there will now move
forward together.
A solid EU could court Turkey, Russia, Chechnya.
Kosovo was hit this week? A precursor- inflame ethnic hostilities
again, and polarize the West friendly groups.
This was nothing to do with freeing some cleric. Face it the clergy in
Muslim lands is itself a gentry status outside the mideast. If anything
they're made most relevant as martyrs.
They want him to face time and be on cameras, it was not about him.
A false flag or interior INC sympathizer bloodletting would be the most
likely excuses to escalate war. less probably but it would explain
lower casualties.
The motivation of influence outside europe would be this- the EU unity
and their ability to make SE Europe, West Russia, and the Mideast into
workable models would hemorrhage the advance of radicals who thrive on
shaky states. Each of these areas could become major markets and fuel
the industrial sector's growth.
The EU could make a working model and expand the rights of immigrants
to disarm this sharp rhetoric. Tony Blair, if he is smart, will use this
a launching board to EU unity and claim the credit in hopes of setting
a future post for busienss or UN representation/lobbying on the union's
behalf.
The EU could respond and help reinforce stability in SE Europe and
begin talks with Turk transition.
Warfare inspires resistance. Cultural and economic advance profits both
sides.
Enable solid status for neighboring member states as preferred trade
partners within the EU and expand market sectors so doing. With this
exchange comes a cultural transition and assimilation.
It's like Sarah... except that it's Sarah with Incog hiding inside her and controlling her comments!
Strangest namestealer ever. It knows we all know it is not Sarah yet it goes on cutting and pasting from some medical site. Maybe it truly is a bot. It was given Sarah's name and a link to the medical site and it will just go on and on until it pastes the entire contents of the site.
I once suggested to Toby that a gravatar of his penis would be a good choice as it would be the only gravatar to appear actual size.
Almost got it, Kate - you just need the </i> close tag.
Rich puts things in perspective:
We're Not in Watergate Anymore
[...]
But the most important difference between the Bush and Nixon eras has less to do with the press than with the grave origins of the particular case that has sent Judy Miller to jail. This scandal didn't begin, as Watergate did, simply with dirty tricks and spying on the political opposition. It began with the sending of American men and women to war in Iraq.
[...]
That the Bush administration would risk breaking the law with an act as self-destructive to American interests as revealing a C.I.A. officer's identity smacks of desperation. It makes you wonder just what else might have been done to suppress embarrassing election-season questions about the war that has mired us in Iraq even as the true perpetrators of 9/11 resurface in Madrid, London and who knows where else.
IN his original Op-Ed piece in The Times, published two years to the day before Judy Miller went to jail, Mr. Wilson noted that "more than 200 American soldiers have lost their lives in Iraq already," before concluding that "we have a duty to ensure that their sacrifice came for the right reasons." As that death toll surges past 1,700, that sacred duty cannot be abandoned by a free press now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/1.../10rich.html?
hp
Rich is a good man. Did they move him back to op-ed?
How will I be in right relationship to a hot-flash? I can be creative and humorous with it: “Every time a hot-flash comes I will imagine that I am having a flash of insight” or “Every time a hot-flash comes I will use that moment to think of something hilariously funny.” Or I can simply be victimized, and curse it in-the-moment, which means in Focusing parlance, that the hot-flash is bigger than you!
How do I want to be with the part of me that is experiencing these changes in my body? Notice that there is a spiritual implication here, like saying: A “part of me” is having a profound experience and going through many changes, but the “I” (the Soul, the Self) remains solid and stable. “I am that I am”.
Women nearing or entering menopause can feel overwhelmed with the amount of information and “opinions” out there, and while probably all of them have value and merit some of the time, the addition of Focusing helps to validate the reality of one’s inner knowing and direct inner experience. It is that inner “ah ha” that makes for a shift in attitude, and consequently new perception, direction and openness to the new and unknown.
Kate: Ya gotta use the < symbol in place of the {
and the > symbol for the }.
You can't just type in the greater-than or lesser-than symbols without using code or Haloscan thinks it's html, so most people substitute another bracket for 'em in instructions.
(If you want bold, use a b in place of the i.)
Olaf,
Thank you for recognizing my buffness. But it also works as a fist shake when someone beats me to a pun or a first.
Yes, it comes out of his "Sodomize Puppies for Lenin and Osama" Fund.
I want a piece of that action!!!
Oh wait. I don't have a blog.
Thank you Eli & Flory for the assistance. Much appreciated. I've been trying to figure that our for months.
Rich is a good man. Did they move him back to op-ed?
Yep. I'm amazed we haven't heard all kinds of right-wing screeching about how he's on Soros or Michael Moore's payroll...
Yes.. Great observation blivet (sorry haven't mastered italics) - there is no president in memory who would not have flown to Washington immediately. I am sure that the secret service would have told any President it is not safe and every last one - except the Shrub - would have said plainly - Fuck off, I'm in charge here and I'm going. I don't think anyone really believes otherwise. And then of course they ginned up the bullshit about Air Force 1 being a target- which is laughable- except when Marty Meehan (Congressman from MA) had the temerity to point that fact out his office was picketed. I can remember wondering how the press corps could be so gullible to report such BS (later retracted - in their mealy mouthed way- by the White House). I was mighty naive it turns out.
Billy Ray of Arabia.
Taking Leans masterpiece to the 21st century.
I lead a tribe of Bedouins to victory in Iraq, while teaching them achy breaky heart.
Some of the symptoms attributed to menopause may be secondary to lifestyle factors or the aging process itself. When considering alternative measures to treat menopausal symptoms, the first consideration should be your base line health.
First, if you smoke you must quit! Smoking will decrease the effectiveness of the estrogen your ovaries are making. Smokers go through menopause two to three years earlier than their non-smoking peers. They are also more likely to suffer from osteoporosis.
Exerciseto maintain your ideal body weight. This will reduce your risk of heart disease, colon, lung and bowel cancer, diabetes and lung disease. Exercise improves your mental outlook, reduces stress and anxiety. Regular physical exercise will help prevent or relieve many of the Common Discomforts of menopause. It will also go a long way to wards preventing the Major Health Problems we have identified. Weight bearing exercises, such as walking, stair climbing and jogging can help prevent osteoporosis.
Monitoring intake of fat, calcium, and vitamins can help treat problems associated with menopause, strengthen bones and maintain healthy distribution of body fat. Research shows that dietary changes such as the supplement of soy foods may also help increase levels of estrogen
italic words
Replace M with i and italicize your way to pure profits! Amaze your friends! Satisfy your girlfriend! Slice roast beef so thin your in-laws will Never come back!
Obese people who exercise ...
It obviously got to the end of the menopause page. Should we have a pool on how many topics it can cover before a new thread starts?
never mind.
Kate
The important thing to remember is when your entire post ends up italicized and you *know* you closed the tags after the first paragraph -- its haloscan screwing with you.
You did not f*ck up.
BTW -- replace 'i' with 'b' for bolding.
OMG. I didn't post that.
Frank Rich rocks. Thank god they brought him back on the op-ed page.
Hey, I just put instant coffee in the microwave and I almost went back in time!
Glandulars are basically preparations of animal glands (ovaries and adrenals) for menopause. They are usually from cows. There are three classes:
Whole concentrates which can include active hormones.
Protomorphogeous (PMG's) which include the protein building blocks of the hormones.
Aqueous extracts, which can contain both, the hormone and the building block.
Throughout history people have eaten the glands of animals and found them to be nutritionally sound. They have eaten liver, kidney, brain, etc. It appears by some studies that PMG's are absorbed in the gut and are transported to the target tissue in this case, the ovaries. However whether the ovaries use them to produce more estrogen and progestogen has not been shown.
Kate -- you might want to play a bit in Kent's excellent haloscan sandbox.
OMG. I didn't post that.
Sarah Deere
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We all know, Sarah.
OMG. I didn't post that.
Sarah Deere
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We all know, Sarah.
Except she didn't post that *either*.
I wonder the same thing. All the big blowhard pundits and their tough guy talk about terrorism, terrorists, evil doers. Think they'd be ashamed of the Chicken Shit in Chief hiding out like a wimp.
Kate
All lies in jest, still a winger sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest.
More important than their need for a strong man of their own tribe is their hatred for all other tribes. Priorities, ya know.
Oh, Hell's shoeshiners! That didn't work even remotely the way I intended.
Now I'm just pissed at HolaScan and its "rules" and always keeping me down. I'm a free spirit, man! I do what I want. And no HTML sucker's gonna stop me!
"OMG. I didn't post that."
-fake sarah deere
fake sarah, have you not even noticed that real sarah has a gravatar and you don't? if you aren't even willing to put in a minimum amount of effort into namestealing you really shouldn't bother at all.
How will I be in right relationship to a hot-flash? I can be creative and humorous with it: “Every time a hot-flash comes I will imagine that I am having a flash of insight” or “Every time a hot-flash comes I will use that moment to think of something hilariously funny.”
Oh, Christ. Yeah. While you're changing your shirt and wishing you could curl up inside the freezer. No woman over 45 wrote THAT drivel.
We all know, Sarah.
That wasn't Sarah either.
While menopause marks the end of a woman's reproductive cycle, it does not signal the end of her sexuality. The once popular phrase “finished at fifty” is history. Some women actually feel liberated after menopause when they no longer have to worry about pregnancy or when their child-rearing responsibilities decrease. Yet, for other women, menopause brings about a decrease in sexual interest and activity. While the physical changes associated with menopause may contribute to a decline in sexual activity, it is difficult to say that they are the only factors that may affect sexual activity. Relationship and psychological status play an important role in both sex drive (libido) and sexual satisfaction.
Declining hormone levels are responsible for many physical changes that may lead to a decrease in libido and sexual satisfaction in menopausal women. Without estrogen, the vagina is less well lubricated and the vaginal lining thins. Lower estrogen levels also decrease the blood supply to the vagina and the surrounding nerves making the vagina drier. These symptoms may contribute to painful intercourse.
Many thanks, Thersites
Billy Ray in The Invisible Poster
Posting in the comments thread, no one sees his posts, but he can see all the others.
Except she didn't post that *either*.
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Heh. Probably not, but it can't hurt. I have a feeling this is upsetting to real Sarah.
OMG. This not me. I hope you all believe me.
IN his [Wilson's] original Op-Ed piece in The Times, published two years to the day before Judy Miller went to jail
Why that would be July 6th, 2003 and July 6th, 2005. Little Boots birthday. Heh.
Notice that smell? Irony. Poetic justice maybe. Might be the flames licking at the preznit's feet.
I hope it's pleasing to Ba'al.
Hey, I just put instant coffee in the microwave and I almost went back in time!
I once put a Freez-Pop in the toaster and started a new Ice Age.
billy ray vance or billy ray jesus?
You decide.
Eli:Is he as cool and borderline crazy as he appears on screen?
God yes. He is Just amazing in life . He entered my FX shop in Europe knowing in advance that I was an absolute BR fanatic; his first words " Gosh , you sure got some nice toys in here" just to make me pee myself .
I didn't have access to him in prep so I had to make his FX ballparked size wise. ooops. He's Brando Big. He's ex-Dutch navy , so his arms are massive . Also , cause of his labor past , he actually helps make the movie, physicly. He reaches down and grabs the 400lb dolly and heaves it onto the track with the rest of the crew. But that he replaces 2 normal guys. My night drinking with him was just incredible , he's trippy, into Communication theory and walks the streets of Toronto looking for smokey bars to read poetry in . And it's trippy too...
Black Lazer Beam?
If you look closely after " lemme tell you about my mother " Leons first and second shot actually show a black lazer beam optical effect they tried in a vein attempt to be different from other Sci-Fi films. They tried it and it was realised that a black Lazer beam is really Nothing ...and thats hard to shoot or convey and they ditched it . In fact , Ridley decided to be different from Sci-Fi films , he'd actually just stick to good old fashioned ballistics , gunpowder and projectile weapons.
Selah.
Ripley sings:
Some people can be content
playing bingo and paying rent.
That's peachy for some people,
for some hum-drum people to be,
but some people ain't me!
Yep. I'm amazed we haven't heard all kinds of right-wing screeching about how he's on Soros or Michael Moore's payroll...
Then perhaps it was red meat meant for us screeching libruls. Or maybe it's so people have to pay to read (link to) him after they erect the iron curtain in the fall. The entertainment section is likely to remain free, i would bet.
Other menopausal symptoms that may affect sexual desire include hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, bladder and urinary tract problems, sleeplessness and fatigue, mood changes, and general irritability. For some women, these changes may translate into a decrease in self-esteem and eventually a loss in sexual desire.
As with any age group, relationship status may also affect sexual activity. Communication is the most important success factor for any relationship. Yet menopausal women may face other relationship issues, especially women without partners. For example, at age 65, women outnumber men by 25 percent. In addition, as men age, the male sex hormone testosterone diminishes causing a decline in their sexual desire and performance capabilities.
I once put a Freez-Pop in the toaster and started a new Ice Age.
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Just so long as you don't squish any bugs.
Sarah:
We "believe" you. Really. We do. Sure do. Absolutely.
Cool - I'm happy to hear that RH is just as awesome in person. And envious.
billy ray cyrus vance jesus jones
We Fijians are what you might call superstitiuous.
Yeesshh. Who writes this crap?
Why won't anyone believe that's not me?
Sometimes, I steal my own name.
That is so depressing.
I can't think of a single one of his predecessors in office who would have hesitated for a moment to return to Washington DC immediately.
blivet WAS orbitron
Tricky Dickie (who seems to get more props from the Left in the afterlife than he ever would have guessed...) would have rushed back. Higher motives? Prollie not, but he would have know instinctively that's where his job called for him to be.
avid Corn: "[T]onight I received this as-solid-as-it-gets tip: on Sunday Newsweek is posting a story that nails Rove. The newsmagazine has obtained documentary evidence that Rove was indeed a key source for Time magazine's Matt Cooper and that Rove--prior to the publication of the Bob Novak column that first publicly disclosed Valerie Wilson/Plame as a CIA official--told Cooper that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife apparently worked at the CIA and was involved in Joseph Wilson's now-controversial trip to Niger."
Many thanks, Thersites
thank kent!
I'm listening to Katherine Hepburn sing from the show Coco. She sounds sorta like . . . well, Mansquito
Would it be too much to ask for Haloscan to ignore failed posts when it checks for duplicate/too frequent posts?
Ask not what Haloscan can do for you...
you KNOW better.
I always hated Mansquito. I hated Mansquito before I studied Scientolomogy. And the more I studied, the more I understood why I hated Mansquitoes.
Hope your not toying with us Billy.
Hey, I just put instant coffee in the microwave and I almost went back in time!
WalterNeff
For Ghawd's sake, keep it away from the Presublimated Thiotimoline!
Effing Hell-o-scan!
One question: did the big kitties eat the cast? We need to make a decision here.
Would it be too much to ask for Haloscan to ignore failed posts when it checks for duplicate/too frequent posts?
In a word, "Fuck yes, Skippy! We're HolaScan and we make the rules. We're also not very polite."
My favorite is when Firefox tells you it didn't connect to HolaScan but HolaScan tells you you're trying to duplicate. Good times....
Hey Sallyh!
Tricky Dickie (who seems to get more props from the Left in the afterlife than he ever would have guessed...) would have rushed back.
Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy ... every last one of them would have been back in DC . Their motives might have differed, but they would all have flown right back. I don't think any of them would have sat in that classroom for nine minutes either.
"I once put a Freez-Pop in the toaster and started a new Ice Age."
So that is how they really developed Ice-9
One question: did the big kitties eat the cast? We need to make a decision here.
There is much devourage. And at least three decapitations.
He's great. A real thrill .Tanked at 3 am in Potsdam ...with the man...what a memory...
Clinton, GHWB, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy ... every last one of them would have been back in DC . Their motives might have differed, but they would all have flown right back. I don't think any of them would have sat in that classroom for nine minutes either.
Exactly. Only Chicken George ran away and hid. He's such a fraud. Runs away like a scared rat, then comes back when the coast is clear talking all his fake cowboy smack. God, I cannot stand that phony.
We're about to start watching 'Attack of the Sabretooth'!
Is anyone else having issues with Haloscan?
Hope your not toying with us Billy.
only on my film treatments-talkingpointsmemo has the post re rove.
"In a word, "Fuck yes, Skippy! We're HolaScan and we make the rules. We're also not very polite.""
Why did that pop up the phrase "guru meditation error" in my head?
avid Corn: "[T]onight I received this as-solid-as-it-gets tip: on Sunday Newsweek is posting a story that nails Rove. The newsmagazine has obtained documentary evidence that Rove was indeed a key source for Time magazine's Matt Cooper and that Rove--prior to the publication of the Bob Novak column that first publicly disclosed Valerie Wilson/Plame as a CIA official--told Cooper that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife apparently worked at the CIA and was involved in Joseph Wilson's now-controversial trip to Niger."
But this does not nail Rove. Corn would agree. Rove must also be proven to have known Plame's covert status. Josh Marshall has done much already to prove that he did, if the above is true. Novak only used the term "operative" when discussing covert agents in the past, as one would expect from someone in the know like him.
Rove's lawyer has already all but admitted that Rove discussed Plame, he has fallen back to claiming that Rove did not "knowingly" out her as a covert agent. It was an accident. You see, the dog ate the paper and...
David Corn's Karl Rove tip is truly scrumptrelescent.
"Is anyone else having issues with Haloscan?"
Well lately, I think it has begun to disrespect me and talk about me behind my back.
I figured a mirror on a photocopier would be a great way to travel time. For the future of mankind, of course.
My favorite is when Firefox tells you it didn't connect to HolaScan but HolaScan tells you you're trying to duplicate. Good times....
Your get just failed. You might want to check that.
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie? Monsieur and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today (along with the Tboggs) and would love to share our pie with you.
"I figured a mirror on a photocopier would be a great way to travel time. For the future of mankind, of course."
Either that or you have a copier screaming "I'm Blind!!!, I'm Blind!!!"
A menopause troll? Christ, what will be next? What???
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie? Monsieur and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today (along with the Tboggs) and would love to share our pie with you.
Absolutely. As a sign of respect, of course.
A menopause troll? Christ, what will be next? What???
Some questions you really just do not want the answers to.
Your get just failed. You might want to check that.
It's time for a get-check, boys.
But I don't know what you mean.... what is my get and how do I check it? And more importantly, is it a sin?
EkCenTrik--I promise, I'll still respect you in the morning.
Menopause troll?
Was it Barbara Bush?
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie? Monsieur and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today (along with the Tboggs) and would love to share our pie with you.
Whoohoo! Happy Anniversary !
Wait, you and your husband are married to the Tboggs?
Sure, it would be great to nail Rove. But even if we have him on tape and film, he'll eat a little humble pie, like Rummy over his torture snafu. Then GWB will back him. Then it will be over.
However, I look forward to Newsweek and whomever else might cause him to lose sleep.
BTW, how do youse get those cool pix in the comments window?
I always hated Mansquito. I hated Mansquito before I studied Scientolomogy. And the more I studied, the more I understood why I hated Mansquitoes.
Tom, I served with Mansquito. I knew Mansquito. Mansquito was a friend of mine. Tom, you're no Mansquito.
You are a goddamn asshole, sir.
Yeesshh. Who writes this crap?
Heh heh heh... You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Jeebus - they can't even scream convincingly!
May I have mine ala mode and slightly warmed on a cool plate? Not that I'm picky. Oh - and no flatware; a sterling silver spork will do.
Congratulations.
Happy anniversary, SallyH!
Sigh. When the gays get to marry, straight anniversaries won't count anymore, probably.
Tom, you're a Mansquitoy.
Is anyone else having issues with Haloscan?
Sallyh |
You have got to be kidding...
I'll take mine alamode, thanks, and many happy returns, lovebirds.
Buzz Bomb--fortunately, some of us ladies of an uncertain age are...past that.
Happy Anniversary, Sally.
I thought when it said *get failed*, that's computer talk for *get fucked*.
Unable to save comment (get failed)
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie? Monsieur and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today (along with the Tboggs) and would love to share our pie with you.
Sallyh
I would be honored to share your anniversary pie. And peach is my very favorite.
Thankee very much.
nympho trolls next? lessee...we've seen cave, forest, dirty, menopausal, winger, gooper, stinky,farty, LGF and uber trolls.
sometimes i think we're living a real-life version of "they live" 24/7.
pass the shades...
I came here to chew bubble gum and to kick ass... and I'm all out of bubble gum.
Lots of flashlight beam action in Sabretooth
Oops, she dropped her contact lens inside the DECAPITATED HEAD!
I hate when that happens.
trollsquitos?
nympho trolls next? lessee...we've seen cave, forest, dirty, menopausal, winger, gooper, stinky,farty, LGF and uber trolls.
Don't forget the achingly bad country singer/secretary of state troll.
Walter--I do not have sterling silver sporks. Hell, I don't have silver. And I don't have sporks. You're just going to have to accept Pfaltzgraff stainless like everyone else
nympho trolls next?
Careful. You'll get the boyz all excited - then we won't be able to get them to go to sleep.
I realize we're not talking about Sci-Fi Channel movies any more, but may I just say that I really dug their Dune adaptation. The low budget, limited exteriors, theatrical lighting effects, and bizarre casting of Czech (I think) actors rather than Middle Easterners held my interest way more than David Lynch's swanky hoo-hah; it had an elaborately cobbled-together quality that's really appropriate for Frank Herbert.
I didn't watch the Riverworld movie. I read the description on the back of the video box and ran away screaming.
Congrats Sallyh
Ripley, fix that damn get. It failed again.
You've already said that!
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie? Monsieur and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today (along with the Tboggs) and would love to share our pie with you.
Sallyh
Sure thing. Just scan that puppy, shoot it off to Gravatar, and we'll all lick our monitors clean. (Whipped cream and ala mode must be applied by the user. And cover that keyboard!)
Nympho trolls would be a capital idea! Except they'd have to be hot, and I think that could be a dealbreaker.
Nympho womensquitos from missouri
Thanks for the idea, got write up a treatment for sci fi.
Doozer--are you implying that Haloscan has not, er, been on its best behavior tonight?
Ripley, fix that damn get. It failed again.
I'm gonna fix that get, that's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna fix that get...
Sigh. When the gays get to marry, straight anniversaries won't count anymore, probably.
Well, Thers, if it's any consolation, gay couples will celebrate the hot death of Satan's tongue as he laughs at their crumbling cake of debauchery with its frosting of moral relativism and lack of national pride, the champagne of their wicked souls gone stale now that the last lambada has been danced on the polished floor of a nation too concerned with hugging trees to beg forgiveness from the lord.
/Phelpsian, Falwellianspeak
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie? Monsieur and I are celebrating 22 years of marriage today (along with the Tboggs) and would love to share our pie with you.
Sallyh
Aw contrare! It probably has. More's the pity.
And I see they've closed the bakery again...l
I'm going to bed, but if someone wouldn't mind telling me how to post a cool pic in the comments window, well, I'd just be tickled pink.
Night!
Would anyone care to share in our anniversary peach pie?
Absolutely! Congratulations to all of you.
I've just opened an elitist pinot gris, would anyone like a glass?
I only gots one thing to say:
Invalid userLost connection to MySQL server during query
Motherfucker.
Anyone else starting to think that maybe HolaScan is running on a primitive, first generation solar powered system?
/Phelpsian, Falwellianspeak
Ripley
Now if that get had failed......
I'm going to bed, but if someone wouldn't mind telling me how to post a cool pic in the comments window, well, I'd just be tickled pink.
e - find yourself an image, go to gravatar.com and follow the directions.
el, http://www.gravatar.com
Send a pic, they'll approve it and soon you'll be the Funkiest, Coldest Medina...
gay couples will celebrate the hot death of Satan's tongue as he laughs at their crumbling cake of debauchery
Boar's head = best Satan tongue
Entemann's = best crumb debauchery cake
Now if that get had failed......
I had that very thought, flory.. whew!
Sallyh:
One more thing, please, if it's not too much trouble: a nice pour of your best Cristal, preferably in a petal cut Steuben champagne flute. As always, please use a gloved hand when handling the stemware. I don't want to catch any cooties.
I only gots one thing to say:
Invalid userLost connection to MySQL server during query
Motherfucker.
That shit has been happening a LOT lately, has it not?
Third attempt at posting...
Fourth...
Fifth...
CHECK OUT DAVID CORN OVER AT HUFFINGTON POST...
BINGO !!!! ROVE DID IT !!!!
... money-saving locales like Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri.
Cheers,
Anyone else starting to think that maybe HolaScan is running on a primitive, first generation solar powered system?
Ripley
No. I think the solar powered system has failed and they've resorted to the hamster-powered backup.
Is Atrios as scary as Mansquito? Is that why he is so popular on sat. nights?
Or is Atrios saying, just sayin that the new media landscape rewards niche markets like those featuring scary monster/ scary republican content, be it the the Sci Fi channel or Atrios' blog.
It's good news for the viability of blogs.
Incoming...
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No. I think the solar powered system has failed and they've resorted to the hamster-powered backup.
And here it is.
Eli - I didn't believe you when you posted about the bulimic sabretooth's before.
Who the fuck dreams up bulimic man-eaters, ferchissakes?
HaloScan is going in and out - I'm going to go into the basement all by myself in the dark to see if I can fix it. Everyone stay here. If I'm not back in ten minutes one of you should probably come looking for me, alone and in your thong underwear and tanktop, with a flashlight that's on the blink.
Eli - I didn't believe you when you posted about the bulimic sabretooth's before.
I don't know whether to be insulted or flattered. I could never have thought of that in a million years.
And I feel so totally vindicated for sticking with Blogger when it was going through its troubles a while back...
If I'm not back in ten minutes one of you should probably come looking for me, alone and in your thong underwear and tanktop, with a flashlight that's on the blink.
Well... okay...
where shredded wheat comes from
http://photos23.flickr.com/
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"CHECK OUT DAVID CORN OVER AT HUFFINGTON POST...
BINGO !!!! ROVE DID IT !!!!"
I can't wait to see that fat toad thrown in the clink. HE'S like something outta a SciFi movie -- his brain has become so brilliantly evil that his body has deteriorated into this weak, disgusting pale ball of goo.
Fuckin' traitor. I hope he gets LIFE for this crime! No, better yet: I hope they just pour salt on him and watch him writhe and bubble and shriek, like a slug.
Keith David: Broadway veteran, Tony Award nominee, Stepfather of Cameron Diaz's Mary, Fighter of Rowdy Roddy Piper, and the best thing in The Thing
And don't forget the Imam in "Pitch Black."
Let's not forget his voice acting work, too, as Spawn in the Spawn: TAS, Goliath in Gargoyles, and the Arbiter in Halo 2.
And, fuck, do I love Sandals' icon. I've been playing that game recently and, damn. I'd like to make a MetroCop gravatar, but I'll rather keep 'ole Capt'n Gotoh telling off his superiors how they've fucked up.
Walter--would you settle for Veuve Cliquot 2001, served in fake crystal glasses from Pic-n-Save?
We're pouring now--join in, everyone.
Who the fuck dreams up bulimic man-eaters, ferchissakes?
flory, Contributing Editor
Well, the first draft was about anorexic man-eaters, but then they realized that there was a bit of a paradox there.
And here it is.
Eli
Close. I believe we have the three legged model this evening.
Well, the first draft was about anorexic man-eaters, but then they realized that there was a bit of a paradox there.
Well, *I* think Paris Hilton's scary.
Health, wealth
Happiness and love
And enough time to enjoy them all
Kanpai !
/clink
Well, *I* think Paris Hilton's scary.
And yet... no, you're right, she's scary...
"If I'm not back in ten minutes one of you should probably come looking for me, alone and in your thong underwear and tanktop, with a flashlight that's on the blink."
Roaff woof bark aieeeeee.
wag wag wag
Ok folks the burgler is gone.
HaloScan is going in and out - I'm going to go into the basement all by myself in the dark to see if I can fix it.
what are you doing Walter? This is highly irregular and not in the mission plan.
Whoa. Evil corporate type just got his head swiped off. And the girlfriend just keeps strolling on.
Well, the first draft was about anorexic man-eaters, but then they realized that there was a bit of a paradox there.
Wait... what is this stuff about anorexic cannibal pairs of ducks in thongs?
Whoa. Evil corporate type just got his head swiped off. And the girlfriend just keeps strolling on.
And so does the evil corporate type. That's the beauty of it!
Sallyh:
Yes, please. But serve the others first. Is my car okay where it is? Oh, and could you point me to the bathroom?
Flory--i'd argue that Haloscan is running on the Onyx computer in our garage. Which has been dead for nearly 2 decades, btw. This forces me to conclude that Haloscan is a Republican plot to take over the world.
Oh, and flory - wait 'till you see the main baddie get his. Incroyable.
Flory--i'd argue that Haloscan is running on the Onyx computer in our garage. Which has been dead for nearly 2 decades, btw. This forces me to conclude that Haloscan is a Republican plot to take over the world.
I was thinking TRS-80. Or one of those Timex Sinclair jobbies with the 1k of memory.
"Well, *I* think Paris Hilton's scary."
Aw, shit. I'm sicka that bony-legged slut. She ain't fucking hot: her head looks like the doctor squeezed WAY too hard when he was pulling her outta her mama's cootch and I could fuckin' slice and spread BUTTER with that fuckin' nose of hers.
Also, she's dumb as shit.
Ok - one of the best shots ever in SciFi bad movie history.
The super evil villian just gets speared by the giant fake sabretooth from the themepark mascot.
Right thru the mouth.
Right up there with the 40 foot wicker mummy.
Who the fuck dreams up bulimic man-eaters, ferchissakes?
flory, Contributing Editor
I love the way it started. Guard wanders into high security compound containing extremely dangerous carnivores - in order to retrieve a page from a frikkin' girlie mag!!
Myself, I would have been tempted to let it go but maybe it was really good pr0n.
-
Wait... what is this stuff about anorexic cannibal pairs of ducks in thongs?
Ducktoria's Secret?
(Christ, I feel bad about that one. That was really over the top. Or under the.. bottom... or whichever is worse.)
"Timex Sinclair jobbies with the 1k of memory."
with some add on memory hung on the back with a crappy conector. Had one of these once, if you jiggled the connector, boom whatever you were doing was gone.
Well, *I* think Paris Hilton's scary.
Eli
Heh. Funny. Except that it's true. That is one critter that freaks me out.
Is President Bush following the right course on Iraq?
* 16073 responses
Yes 14%
No 82%
I don't know 3%
Newsweek poll
As long as we're waiting for the article Corn mentioned, we may as well amuse ourselves.
And so does the evil corporate type. That's the beauty of it!
Eli
Twue. Vewwy twue.
Ok - one of the best shots ever in SciFi bad movie history.
The super evil villian just gets speared by the giant fake sabretooth from the themepark mascot.
Right thru the mouth.
Toldja. I liked how it was mostly CGI, too. Also seemed like there were some scale issues, but it coulda just been me.
(Bite me, Haloscan)
Okay, we got Raptor Island coming up on the Blue Coast.
And to Lorenzo Lamas: You look marvelous.
Okay, we got Raptor Island coming up on the Blue Coast.
I'm almost *positive* those raptors were lifted straight from one of those Discovery specials...
And to Lorenzo Lamas: You look marvelous.
WalterNeff
He's got that scruffy macho look going.
Aw, shit. I'm sicka that bony-legged slut. She ain't fucking hot: her head looks like the doctor squeezed WAY too hard when he was pulling her outta her mama's cootch and I could fuckin' slice and spread BUTTER with that fuckin' nose of hers.
Wow, Noel Coward is posting.
And to Lorenzo Lamas: You look marvelous.
WalterNeff
He's got that scruffy macho look going.
Lorenzo Lamas *and* Steven Bauer! And a ponytailed CIA assassin babe whose granddad was Bush I's attorney! And Raptor City!
What more could you ask for?
Also seemed like there were some scale issues, but it coulda just been me.
There was a moment where the continuity didn't seem to be working.
(And after you bite Eli, Haloscan - suck chimpy's dick...mmm'kay?)
There was a moment where the continuity didn't seem to be working.
Ever so fleeting...
Okay, I got Michael Jeter kickin' it on DVD in Grand Hotel on my Powerbook and Raptor Island on the teevee.
I don't know what it means, but it's important
I'm almost *positive* those raptors were lifted straight from one of those Discovery specials...
Eli
Yeah? Are you talon me they're falcon with you?
Spikey sez:
"But one of the two lawyers representing a witness sympathetic to the White House told NEWSWEEK that there was growing "concern" in the White House that the prosecutor is interested in Rove. Fitzgerald declined to comment."
Concern... hmmm... maybe Fitz just thinks he's hot.
here
What more could you ask for?
Eli
Personally? Fewer shirts.
Okay, I got Michael Jeter kickin' it on DVD in Grand Hotel on my Powerbook and Raptor Island on the teevee.
I don't know what it means, but it's important
Now, if someone could come up with Grand Raptor Hotel, they'd really have something.
(Of course, I mean a grand hotel of raptors, and not a hotel in Grand Raptors, Michigan)
I just found the prettiest image for my gravatar. A Maxfield Parrish detail!
And WalterNeff, you are wasting your time in insurance sales.... I hereby proclaim you King of the World!
Yeah? Are you talon me they're falcon with you?
rorschach
Vulture trying to say here? You gnu better.
Just like scifi, vat meat...
Paper Says Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale.
found here
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scit...?
ArticleID=1098
Yeah? Are you talon me they're falcon with you?
No, no, that's a veloci - you've got the wrong raptors there.
Personally? Fewer shirts.
We have that in common. But we differ on the specifics.
OK - that raptor was the worst 2 dimensional CGI since.....1950 something.
Mmm... industrial vat meat...
There was a moment where the continuity didn't seem to be working.
The freaking get failed on the continuity. I hate it whhen the get failed continuity is glib.
Steven Bauer's arm seems to have healed since that nasty run-in with the chainsaw.
you've got the wrong raptors there.
Heh. Yes, Eli, I did not notice that distinction. I mistook your reference to dinosaurs for a reference to birds of prey. MmHmm.
whoops!! she's back...and she's safe.
industrial vat meat . . . is people!
The freaking get failed on the continuity. I hate it whhen the get failed continuity is glib.
Thersites
You haven't studied continuity - I have. I know when continuity gets fail. I understand continuity.
Eli--I have no recipes for industrial vat meat. Sad, isn't it?
In 2000, my wife's grandmother passed and her then 83 year old grandfather came to Vegas to live with us. Although he talked about woodworking and fishing and outdoor sports, I soon came to realize that his days mainly consisted of sleeping 12 hours a night and watching TV and eating junk food the other twelve.
After the NYC events in September of 2001 I soon came to realize that his TV watching had come to consist of flipping between CNN and Faux News all day long. Even for someone who's seen as much life as Grand, non-stop news is a very depressing thing.
So I ordered the Major League Baseball package along with the NFL package on DirecTV and then began creating a daily viewing schedule in Excel and printing it for his use each day.
About a year-and-a-half ago I began to run out of creative ideas for his daily TV watching. Especially as the History Channela and Discovery Times began recycling 2001 in their retrospectives. SciFi channel to the rescue! He's been watching SciFi six days a week since then and stays up late each night to catch the movies. On Saturday's, he's up until at least 11:00pm and caught me as I programmed the coffee maker tonight to ask if I had watched "Raptor Island".
So thanks for the positive news Atrios and I encourage SFC to not forget that all important 88 and up demographic as well.
Lorenzo's lookin' a little Dukakisie in his helmet.
The DSL went live Saturday!
Whoo Hoo!
Unfortunatly, the PowerMac's TCP/IP stack got completely fux0r3d by some damnfool thing I did.
So I've got the ancient Bondi iMac online in its stead until I can get the software fixed.
Man, I can download Japanese tentacle pr0n at almost 200 kilobytes per second!
Eli--I have no recipes for industrial vat meat. Sad, isn't it?
What about a nice industrial vat peach pie a la industrial vat mode?
I'm passionate about continuity.
*
CybScryb -
Good for you. Sounds like grandpa's got a new lease on life!
Y'know, fer supposed SEALs, these guys are NOT good shots.
The DSL went live Saturday!
Whoo Hoo!
You will be astounded at the speed at which you will discover that invalid userLost connection to MySQL server during query.
It's very convenient.
And Chris Tucker, your get faileds come sooo much faster!
I think I've figured out the whole Plamegate thingie:
Valerie Plame to Tenet: "don't blow my cover"
Tenet to Bolton: "don't blow her cover"
Bolton to Rove: "blow her cover"
Rove to Novak: "blow me under the covers."
sallyh - the peach pie was yummy.
Did you guys do anything special for the anniversaire? And which one are you celebrating?
Y'know, fer supposed SEALs, these guys are NOT good shots.
Except for that one guy who blew up the fleeing motorboat with one shot, from, like, a mile away...
CybScryb:
Your post is my favorite of the evening.
,
You will be astounded at the speed at which you will discover that invalid userLost connection to MySQL server during query.
Not to mention the extraordinary rapidity with which your gets will fail.
Obscure & odd, a collection of 1966 Columbus OH garage bands in mp3 format.
Here,
http://www.donewaiting.com/
archi...columbus_ga.php
files here,
http://www.donewaiting.com/forum...opic.php?
t=9199
Once again, Ballard Street speaks for us all...
You haven't studied continuity - I have. I know when continuity gets fail. I understand continuity.
flory
Yeah, but you still can't handle vermouth.
Except for that one guy who blew up the fleeing motorboat with one shot, from, like, a mile away...
Eli
Well, ok. Except for the one super-sniper.
Chris Tucker-
This is a great tool for tweaking your settings for DSL.
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks
Yeah, but you still can't handle vermouth.
rorschach
I'm an extra dry kinda girl.
Doug -
Pithy and succinct.
Well said, Doug
hmmm that didn't work
try again
peach pie
http://photos18.flickr.com/
24175..._9d8dbb5eb2.jpg
Another couple hundred rounds expended, with no discernible results.
I'm worried about Doug. Do you think he's fallen and can't get up?
try again
peach pie
Correction - peach pie before introduction to Atriots.
Another couple hundred rounds expended, with no discernible results.
I like the incredibly fake little puffs of blood with no corresponding wounds...
but not vat pie, sorry
Six Degrees of Doug:
Doug.
Douglas.
Chip Douglas.
Steve Douglas.
Fred MacMurray.
Walter Neff.
Ta-Da!
That would be *six degrees of WalterNeff* !
For actual real mammal seals, though, these guys can SHOOT. I mean, you only have flippers and try it.
So has anyone seen the Emperor Penguin documentary?
"try again
peach pie"
guess it did sound a bit trolly
Not so trolly.
I like the incredibly fake little puffs of blood with no corresponding wounds...
Eli
They're good but I'm liking the fake puffy clouds of volcano steam.
"Like we needed another problem".
Well, yeah skippy - you did. Or this movie would die of its own weight.
Well, having done got dissed by Eli while I was trying to incite punnery, I guess I'll head on outta here.
Night.
So has anyone seen the Emperor Penguin documentary?
Look. You don't know the history of Emperor Penguins. I do.
Goodnight, ror!
I mean, you only have flippers and try it.
Thersites
Targeting alone would be a bitch.
Hey rors - I tried to help you get the punnery going. Eli was NOT cooperating.
Night.
*hey, if you write penguin a few times it starts to look really strange.
Hiya nightbats! Nice thread you got here - I had posted a link to Bruce Campbell's site on an earlier thread b/c he's doing a book/movie tour and I'll be seeing him Monday. Even better to do it here - doesn't look like anyone else has: www.bruce-campbell.com.
If Central Scrutinizer is still around, the Johns did a totally smokin' set to a SRO crowd of adoring fans. Although, at one point Linnell had to skip a song and come back to it b/c of a frog in the throat that he blamed on the latitude (That damn 40th parallel!) Two encores, the final being an unbelievable (in many senses) cover of the 70's rock staple by Focus, "Hocus Pocus" featuring their opening act Corn Mo on vocals. Corn Mo bears an uncanny vocal similarity to Freddie Mercury but his lyrics are right down TMBG lane. They do another (totally different) SRO show tomorrow night. Woo hoo!
All in all, not a bad way to spend a Saturday evening. And how's by you all?
Documentaries you ask? I just watched a DVD out recently called the Yes Men. It was one of the most laughable things I have ever read. All Liberals should see it.
Off topic but this is a pretty random thread.
One of the local forest circus (service) biologists was studying the effect on coyote population by wolves being introduced into Yellowstone, hence SW Montana. They've found that apparently both occupy the same niche, and when wolves numbers increase, coyotes decrease.
Still not that many wolves here, they are only seen once or twice a year. Still hear coyotes howling at night, a couple of times a month.
Flory--Monsieur and i ate lovely Mongolian Barbecue, drank a bit of champagne, and he gave me roses and XM sat radio!!!
Hey JeffCO -
Sounds like you had a great evening!
Night, all.
Walter -
Hahahaha HA!
Thanks.
Jenny ftß:
Call me Clueless (and don't call me Shirley), but I didn't understand the King of the World post.
Jenny - hello, you must be going
Walter -
It was a compliment, meaning that you are the funniest man alive.
WalterNeff
I loved that penguin documentary!!
okay. Now I'm REALLY leaving!
Jenny-
I haven't seen it but they had the preview of it before "Wild Parrots Of Telegragh Hill" which I saw today. Fantastic film.
You've been a great audience. Thank you, and good night.
it was a compliment, meaning that you are the funniest man alive.
I assume that means I am the most urbane.
No, Dad, I'm NOT going to be yet.
Hmm, I also see the widespread influx of gravatars continues unabated despite last night's trollnoramus. I'm getting tired of my big hunk of rock myself - with 120 square pixels to play with, watch out!
Monsieur and i ate lovely Mongolian Barbecue, drank a bit of champagne, and he gave me roses and XM sat radio!!!
Sallyh
What a guy. Romance and technology, both!!
Did you get him anything?
Jenny ftß:
(and note my careful spelling of your name): Well, shucks, golly, and gee. Oh, hang-on that's a law firm; I meant, thank you.
Hey JeffCO--I want to see the penguins, but I think I need to sleep. I got to see Niles get piked. I can rest happy.
I assume that means I am the most urbane. Thersites
You're a less urbane Carl Carlson!
Just listened to some of the garage bands linked above. Pretty amaturish stuff, but somehow compelling with the rawness of their sound. What later day punk bands tried to do but were too cynical & world weary to pull of generally with the execption of guys like the Ramones.
I assume that means I am the most urbane.
Thersites
Swave and deboner, too.
Flory--portable CD player for traveling. He likes it.
Hey - that's cool. The volcano just threw up the *exact* same steam cloud it did before the commercial!!
Sallyh - happy anniversary, baby, got you on our miiii-inds.... Oh, wait, that's more a bitter snark song. Anyway, congratulations on the niles piking viewing (and the satellite radio)!
What did I miss? If Tom and Katie got married while I was away, I will be soooooo angry...
I assume that means I am the most urbane. Thersites
Or a more urbane Lenny Leonard. I forget.
well, how weird to have been name-stolen then to have my connectivity (not a word I knew in my youth) compromised. Strange night!!
Anyway, thogh I most certainly am post-menopausal, it's NOT something I would normally carry on about in a post.
I apologize, however, for having identified myself as a coot-ette and thereby flagging myself as an easy target for name-stealing!!!
Sleep well. I intend to!!
What did I miss? If Tom and Katie got married while I was away, I will be soooooo angry...
Ripley
Nope. But sallyh had an anniversary.
and, Sallyh, happy anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!
SD
Oddly, JeffCO, you can hear Bush singing that very song right here.
And the LRB version at the end, if you're really tempted and desperate for LRB.
Karl Rove's Livin La Vida Lockup!
SD - dinna fash yerself about the namestealer. Its happened to all long-timers on this blog. We recognize our own here.
sleep well
if anyone is still here, Rove is nailed! Click the homepage link!
How about this for that David Corn on Rove link.
I saw that earlier, flory.
And I'll admit that I'm taking some secret pleasure in the fact that she's spending her time with us tonite.
Secret pleasure, indeed...
There we go again. Another hundred rounds and no results.
These guys need some serious retraining.
And isn't it amazing how the volcanic mud spreads on their faces in a perfect mud mask? Dinoland spa day?
Newsweek Plame/Cooper/Rove article hits da web:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525.../site/newsweek/
flory, XXOO/SD
Hah!!! I'm prescient.
"Next time you drag me to a mud bath it better be a spa"
LOL! "double super secret background source"? And hold the cheese, please.
July 18 issue - It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.
Are you still seeing my can o' Poop Cola? (Of DOOM?) Dump yer cache. The new one just indicates a love of Douglas Adams.
Silleigh | Email | 07.09.05 - 11:53 pm
oh yes, right, douglas adams. right.
too bad douglas adams isn't still alive, he could sue the pants off of a...uh...certain web master of a certain site...only have heard of it through hearsay you understand...
seaguy - you read the whole story and all it says is that Rove told Cooper Wilson's wife worked at CIA on WMD.
Not exactly a smoking gun.
Bottom line from the Newsweek article:
"Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative. Nonetheless, it is significant that Rove was speaking to Cooper before Novak's column appeared; in other words, before Plame's identity had been published. Fitzgerald has been looking for evidence that Rove spoke to other reporters as well."
And our hero, the Navy SEAL - shitty shot that he is - is able to outrun an explosive lava flow.
I don't think anyone except me wants to see Thersites as a sexy nurse.
Thersites | Email | Homepage | 07.10.05 - 12:20 am
i'll buy that for a dollar!!
You're watching stuff blow up while Warren Beatty is seducing Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Carrie Fisher, and Goldie Hawn on TCM? Where are your priorities?
Frank Rich discussing the Matt Cooper case in today's NYT:
What high-level source would risk talking to Time about governmental corruption after this cave-in? What top investigative reporter would choose to work there?
So what. Maybe that high level source will give his info to a blogger instead. Maybe that top investigative reporter will start his own blog if he can't get his work published by Time.
I don't see this as the end of the world that the MSM seems to feel it is.
You're watching stuff blow up while Warren Beatty is seducing Julie Christie, Lee Grant, Carrie Fisher, and Goldie Hawn on TCM? Where are your priorities?
JeffCO
Yawn. Ya seen one Warren Beatty seduction, ya seen 'em all.
Now, raptor devourage - that's a movie!!
You will be astounded at the speed at which you will discover that invalid userLost connection to MySQL server during query.
Not to mention the extraordinary rapidity with which your gets will fail.
flory, Contributing Editor | Email | 07.10.05 - 2:33 am
my filing technique is unstoppable.
oh, and by the way silleigh - this is what i was talking about. tell me if you recognize it.
Well r@d@r - looks like you and I are the only ones left here.
Time for bed.
G'night.
So anyways.. I bet the Cooper claims are lies. As well, Rove hasn't lied either. He read the column on July 11th, when the Creators Syndicate distributed it.
The Liberal Media Lynch Mob wants to get Rove, and they will fail.
its hot here in tokyo.
tokyo, kind of cool here in Montana. Was 65F (18C) at two PM in the afternoon.
Currently it's a balmy 85 degrees on the coast of Texas -- perfect weather to GET LAID in.
"Currently it's a balmy 85 degrees on the coast of Texas -- perfect weather to GET LAID in."
god gave you a hand. use it, pervo.
"god gave you a hand. use it, pervo."
Yeah, but a shark took both back in '98. Now all I gots is a couple o' hooks.
Dong's shipshape, though.
its still hot, getting hotter with seagirl and seaguy talking about banging boots.
"Dong's shipshape, though."
good. now stick it up your ass, seaguy.
Morning Moonbats:
Gah, muggy here. Twenty to six and light outside. So Rove is definitely it. Let's see if this goes anywhere. Jimmy/Jeff certainly didn't.
Hey QL, Good morning, Beautiful here so far. Supposed to get muggy later though.
UK in talks to hand Iraq role to Australia
"BRITAIN is negotiating with Australia to hand over military command of southern Iraq to free up British troops for redeployment to the front line in Afghanistan.
An announcement is expected within weeks that several thousand British soldiers are to be sent to Afghanistan."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
art...1688234,00.html
Morning all!
Why am I up?
Watching the
Independent Film Channel punk
rock history documentary --
damn good, actually. Footage
I've never seen before.....
Steve, because we is old and that is what we do: unfortunately, the gift of sleep is also given to the young.
How are you this day? Mrs. DWD dragged me kicking and screaming to the heavy metal portion of Muskegon's Summer Celebration. After about ten seconds I remembered why I dislike the metal brothers: too much flash and no substance.
Yeah, but we also get naps.
So have the terrorists won? Twenty thousand evacuated.
"So have the terrorists won?"
I didn't read the story. Are we talking about Bush again?
QL, just not a lot to say anymore. My head is still reeling from the statement of John Fund (ie) the other day that the bombings in London were proof that we were winning the war on terror. The moderator never bothered asking the pertinent question: How?
This up is down, black is white, wrong is right mentality of this administration and the inability or unwillingness to call them on their bullshit is the most distressing of all of the current society's considerable shortcomings.
Apparently if we win, we win. If we lose, we also win. No facts or logic can be applied to the situation because facts are merely pawns in the hands of America's enemies. Sheesh!
I remember Mr. Wilkins from his Channel 2 program in the San Francisco Bay Area in the '70s. I even saw him in the flesh at the first ST convention in San Jose, CA in the early 70s.
I still have the sticker from the "Logans Run" promotion somewhere in my voluminous files..........
People forget that the SciFi channel had 2 weekly programs, one about space travel and the other a weekly SF media review that had Chase Masterson from ST:DS9 as a hostess for a while before it went into oblivion.
They got cancelled when the Internet stock bubble burst, from what I can remember.........
I miss the "Retro TV" Friday night reruns: "Lights Out" and an ABC SF/horror anthology series. Nuttin' like the old kinescopes, the possible pitfalls of live TV, and folks like James Dean, Boris Karloff, and Basil Rathbone strutting on the electronic stage.
DWD - I know exactly what you mean. The rage is just about used up, and that is precisely why we have to keep on going. Otherwise they win by default. Just because they could outlast us.
If Karl and Rush end up as cellmates,
who wears the wig?
So you think Jimmy was doing Karl. That would explain why so many were reluctant to explore the story. Amazing how that one just died.
What I still can't understand is why the smear machine against Fitzgerald hasn't started up. Does he know too much?
Just wake up and find I've missed a Mansquito thread?
Damn.
I never took Jimmy/Jeff as someone
smart enough to find his way about the White House.
What BDM said. Morning, moonsquitoes!
Remember, DWD, it's not whether you win or lose, it's... oh, wait, yes, it is whether you win or lose. Sorry. Carry on.
What I still can't understand is why the smear machine against Fitzgerald hasn't
started up. Does he know too much?
QL in NY | 07.10.05 - 7:00 am | #
Apparently he's that rare breed --
a principled conservative Republican.
Probably the first one since Elliot
Richardson.
steve,
Thers only let me watch oart of the punk documentary last night: there is some great footage there. I put the rest on the DVR (like Tivo, only not so cool), and will watch it tomorrow.
Today, I go to a music fest to see my friend Steve Lawrenson play. Quite looking forward to it, really.
Oh, and DWD, if sleep is a gift given to the young, what does that make me and my chronic insomnia? Oh, wait....
Looks like the usual yelling and screaming is going on at USS Titanic. Keeping track of the silver spoons as the ship lists is driving Condi nuts while Bush is babbling about full speed ahead, damn the glaciers.
Anybody know anybody at the Sci-Fi
Channel?
I have a treatment for the greatest
giant cockroach movie imaginable.
We could make....well, not millions,
but serious money!!
Didn't Fitzgerald build a good rep trying corruption cases in the 80’s?
It’s all foggy now
We could make....well, not millions,
but serious money!!
The whole budget is $1 million, steve. Unless of course the giant cockroach toys catch on at McDonald's....
Today, I go to a music fest to see my friend Steve Lawrenson play. Quite
looking forward to it, really.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 07.10.05 - 7:24 am | #
You sent me a song of his, right?
I seem to recall really liking it...
steve,
I did indeed. He's excellent, very much a disciple of Jeff Lynne, pop with a nice psychedelic kick. Does all the instrumentation himself. Oh, and you'll love this, he was a bar band drummer for like 20 years before saying screw it and retiring into his basement studio. He does more regional/national stuff, hardly ever plays locally, so this should be good.
One of our Eschatonians is also playing with her well-respected vocal trio, so that'll be fun, too.
Okay, I'm off to the flea market and pop fest. Have a lovely day, moonbats, and don't forget your sunscreen!
One of our Eschatonians is also playing with her well-respected vocal trio, so
that'll be fun, too.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 07.10.05 - 7:34 am | #
And who might that be?
I can't find Eschacon link on NY Mary's blog anymore. Anyone have a link. Time is getting close.
For those of you awake who have
Turner Classic Movies:
"The RAzor's Edge" on now.
Very interesting flick with a proto-
hippie protagonist. I don't know
if anybody in the 60s counter-culture
read Somerset Maugham, but the
character (it's set after WWI)
is a quintessential drop-out/eastern
mysticism kind of guy.
More important, Gene Tierney is
in it.
Drop dead gorgeous.
"To Have and Have Not", must have that sucker at least a dozen times as a teenager. In that book, the protoganist had a club foot. Since we all had something, it was easy to identify with him. Can't watch tv in the morning. Too much to do.
Like post here. Play spider solitaire. Work on a quilt.
"Jeesh, just bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000.
MO"
God, I miss that show. Can't wait for DVD set 8 to come out.
BTW, did EVERY town in America have a UHF station with a "Creature Feature" show on it? Seems like it.
"Jeesh, just bring back Mystery Science Theater 3000.
MO"
God, I miss that show. Can't wait for DVD set 8 to come out.
Word. Best. Show. Ever.
BTW, did EVERY town in America have a UHF station with a "Creature Feature" show on it? Seems like it.
geegirl | 07.10.05 - 8:30 am
During the golden days of the late 70s and early 80s, we still had two competing ones out here in SE Michigan: The Ghoul (Ron Sweed, expatriot from Cleveland, heir to Ghoulardi), and Sir Graves Ghastly (or as The Ghoul affectionately called him, "Sir Greasy Gravy"). Loved 'em both.
Channel 20 in DC had monster theatre and kung-fu theatre.
Good times.
Mant! Half-man, half-ant, all terror!
"Sci Fi's movies are made in money-saving locales like Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri."
I wonder if the writer of that article realized how funny that sentence is?? I'll bet they film in Branson -LMFAO!
The Sci-Fi Channel can keep the bug, snake and slime films. I just wish they'd bring back Farscape.
I've always been a fan of SciFi's "Original Pictures" series... Mansquito. Frankenfish. The Snakehead Terror. All the low-budget creature features that died off with the drive-in have finally found a home in the 21st century. They're not for everyone, but everyone should be glad they're there.
The people who are making these pictures now may go on to be the next generation of great filmmakers. Don't forget that such filmmakers as Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante and John Sayles got their start in these genres (Dementia 13, Pirahna and Alligator, respectively)...
Sorry, but the 1953 version of "War of the Worlds", with Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, is quantum leaps better than the current version. The silver flying manta ray, corbra necked beam shooting alien ships are much cooler and scarier than the dumbass tripods of the new version. There was way better acting (actually there was no acting in the current one)and plotline, and the sound effects were super. It even won an Oscar for its effects. And I'm sure they didn't spend a gazillion 1953 dollars to do it.
Missouri?
I think "Creve de Coeur" would make a great name for a horror movie.
But let us not forget about the Sci Fi original "Frankenfish", which is a classic. Along with all their other monster-animal cohorts.
My girlfriend and I, when we decide to stay in on Sat., always end up being drug in to watching Sci Fi Channel movies because you can find come good BullDADA, waiting-to-be GoodBad film classics on there. Highly recommended!
I think "Mant" is a good idea!
I think the suit from "Mansquito" is the left over Mugwump from the early Nineties "Naked Lunch" with Peter Weller.
And in my first post the "come good" bit should have read "some good". Don't mind either, though.
How about "Revenge of the Branson Zombies", with Karl Rove as King of the zombies. Kind of like a "Sean of the Dead" takeoff of a "Dawn of the Dead" makeover of the original classic, "Night of the Living Dead". Directed by Robert Rodriguez, minidirected and exec produced by Tarantino. But NOT in 3D. Plotted like a zombie vs. chainsaw massacre family vendetta. Frank Miller could do the graphic novel for the cut and paste.
"Sci Fi's movies are made in money-saving locales like Bulgaria, Romania and Missouri."
I resemble that commment!
"Creve Coeur" (2005): Slime things, cleverly disguised as Ferragamo pumps, ooze out of Muffy's closet and attack her children. Anther slime thing, disguised as BMW 5-series car, engulfs husband as he leaves for work.
"Branson Blob" (2005): Hungry aliens head toward the fattest locale in America, the vacation town of Branson, where hundreds of juicy plus-sized humans are conveniently trapped in a Pez dispenser-like fifteen-mile-long traffic jam. Heroic graying country music has-been plays off-key, causing aliens to burst, and the last 2 miles of the traffic jam are saved.
I love the Sci Fi channel and Saturday night I watched both saber tooth movies. And I'm a female between 25 and 45. I am more than happy to hide in my house during Greek Weekend and chow on dominos pizza and watch monster movies. And I love Bruce Campbell.
I saw "Man with the Screaming Brain" here in San Francisco. Bruce Campbell held Q&A sessions in the theater before and after the movie, and then did book signings ("Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way") afterwards. The movie was the perfectly cheesy; it even had Ted Raimi (brother of Sam) rapping.
As for Sci-Fi, Bruce relayed the story of how Sci-Fi jerked him around. The movie was originally to be shot in East L.A., but moved to Europe to fit in budget constraints. After he rewrote the script for the new setting, and mere weeks before shooting, Sci-Fi asked if the movie could be moved back to L.A. (He said no.)
The Q&A sessions were very funny, with a (jokingly) combative and caustically sarcastic Bruce laying into some of the dumber questions and the French guy ("What are you doing in my country?"). Recommended, if you like B movies.
So Bush may get to pick 3 SC justices. Sweet.
"Democrats demanded the White House provide a full public explanation of any role played by Karl Rove in disclosing the identity two years ago of a CIA operative, turning up the political heat on a long-simmering case just as President Bush heads into a critical period in his second term. But the White House declined to answer any questions about Rove's involvement." - Drudge Report
Does anyone really care what the Democrats or New York Times think or care about? They are just so passe.
"Karl Rove is a Genius" - http://gullyborg.typepad.com/web...weblog_archive/
Can anyone tell me why any of this is supposed to concern me?
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