Fucking Bullets

I've started and deleted about 5 posts in the past few days. Just couldn't work up the energy to give y'all the insightful and humorous content that you are all accustomed to. Ahem. So instead, you get bullets. Sexy, sexy bullets. Here we go!

• Been killing it in the kitchen recently. My new favorite marinade for steak, pork or chicken is a green curry paste rub that I put together using Thai Kitchen Green Curry Paste, the juice of a couple of limes and some salt and pepper. Made some steaks with it last week and it was honestly about the best steak I've ever had. Served it with some grilled asparagus in an olive oil vinaigrette. Delicious! Grilling up some pork chops with it tonight. I'll let ya know how it turns out.
• Speaking of steaks, I'm one of those folks that doesn't cook them often enough to know exactly when to take them off the grill. Gia's sister, a fantastic chef, gave me the best ever advice for a perfectly cooked slightly-below medium steak. Three and a half minutes on each side over medium high heat/flame. Then seven minutes on a cool plate covered with foil. Came out exactly how I wanted it to come out. Finally!
• I've been digging a couple of older blues musicians lately, but I haven't found any great Youtube videos to share with y'all in this space for these gentlemen. Bill Homans aka Watermelon Slim and Charlie Musselwhite. Watermelon Slim plays some harmonica and slide guitar. Upside down lefty slide guitar, to be more accurate. He's a Vietnam Vet and long-time truck driver who got back into the recording game late in the 90's after a 26+ year layoff. And Musselwhite is a harmonica player, singer and band leader. Dan Ackroyd's character from The Blues Brothers was supposedly modeled after him. Check 'em both out if you get a chance. Good stuff.
• The Yankees have been both a pain in the ass and a delight in the past few weeks. Sure, they blew a tremendous 10-game lead over the Orioles late this year, but they've also been finding ways to win exactly when they need to win over the past few weeks. It's been a roller coaster ride, but it's been a damned fun one at that.
• The first Presidential Debate is on tonight, and I don't give a crap about it at all. In fact they should dispense with the word "debate" altogether. Not sure if I've ever seen a real debate between candidates. These things are more about focus-group approved talking points than an actual discussion. Just once I'd like to see a debate where the participants are thoughtful and actually answer the questions from the moderators and/or honestly address the comments from their opponents. Meh.
• Lies, damn lies and statistics. Speaking of political debates, let's keep track of who lies more often tonight, shall we? Both sides are fairly adept at it. But they would argue that they aren't lying. That they are using these cherry-picked half-truths to illuminate their points and agendas. Whatever, dudes. I'll let Factcheck.org clue me into the real deal tomorrow at some point. I'd say that we could make a drinking game out of it. A shot for every half-truth told by one of the candidates. I just don't think I have the tolerance for that kind of consumption.
• There is a cool craft beer and oyster festival (Malt and Mollusks) going on out east this weekend, and we are going to head out there on Saturday if the weather holds out. Which isn't a given. It's been raining pretty constantly for the past 3-4 days now. Right now, Friday looks to be the gem of the next few days. Sunny and low 70's. Maybe the beer and oyster gods can do us a solid and move that nice weather to the following day. I sure would appreciate it.
• I know that television spoilers in this day and age are just something that we have to deal with. But the number of spoilers that popped on Facebook (I'm told) and Twitter last week after that episode of Sons of Anarchy bordered on the ridiculous. We record everything and generally watch it the following night. This may be the same as shouting into the abyss, but c'mon folks....give it at least 48 hours before you start spouting off spoilers into the social media circus. Especially when it's something huge. Thank you.

That's all I got.  Have a great Hump Day!

Bullets Over Tuesday

Just because. Just for scuzz. If you follow me on Twitter, some of these items may be repeats. Sue me.

• Went out of my comfort zone and made something that I had never heard of much less made before on Monday night. Gia had a hankerin'* for steak, and a hankerin' for steak in a beurre rouge sauce in particular. I've got high school level French going on, so I knew that beurre = butter and rouge = red, but that's about all I knew, besides the hunk o' meat that is. Turns out it's a steak in a red wine/shallot reduction with butter. A LOT of butter. This is not something for the faint of heart. But it is oh-so-fucking-delicious. It ain't going on the regular weekly rotation, but maybe once a month or so... We shall see. 

The sauce was a creamy, dark pink and the meat was slightly above medium. Delish!

•  I saw today that Katy Perry has a concert video coming out. My first reaction was that I couldn't care any less. Then I saw that it was in 3-D and I suddenly became more interested. I'm still not gonna see it, but I'm definitely...interested.

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•  We just finished this season of Mad Men. That show is freakin' amazing and I don't care if you agree or disagree with me. I just love it. Now we have a month or so until the final season of Breaking Bad begins. Or ends. Sniff. I don't think I could enjoy TV as much as the dramas that AMC and FX are producing. Amazing stuff.

• Speaking of well-made television, I finally saw Season One of Game of Thrones a few weeks ago. Watched it over one weekend. I had just finished the first book in the series, so I immediately wanted to see what HBO did with it. It didn't disappoint. I'm reading Book Two right now, and I understand the second season has just ended. Excellent. I can't wait to watch it. More amazing stuff.

• Speaking of unknown television, I recorded the first couple of episodes of the new A&E drama Longwire. It's about a lawman out of Wyoming. Other than that...I have no idea. But I dig shows about tough guy lawmen in cowboy hats (see Justified), so I'm willing to give it a go. Anyone watching?

• My pee is gonna smell like asparagus tomorrow. I just know it. Too much information? Tough shit.

That's all I got. See ya!

*When you are in the mood for steak, you have to use the word "hanker". It's the law. 

Meh, whatever...

OK, I didn't really try to change the layout of this thing all that hard. Spent maybe 5 minutes on it. It's better than it was, but it's still not inspiring me to pretty up the joint with clever words and the like.  Maybe I'm just going through one of those phases. Oy vell.

Let's fuck some shit up with some bullets, shall we?

• The baseball season is closing in on being a month-old now, and it's been a whole heap of fun. My Yankees have only been a mild disappointment. Mild in that they aren't unbeaten at this point, but I'll take it. The cross-town Mets have been a pleasant surprise in that they don't suck as much as I thought they would. They just swept the Miami Marlins, and that was a real nice series for them. But I think I'm most surprised by the dominant starting pitching of the Washington Nationals. They might be my new favorite team to watch who don't wear pinstripes.  Very cool.
• This season of Survivor is easily the worst that they have produced thus far. I'm still enjoying it, but it's almost as if they select people specifically with the criteria that they either must have a low IQ or that they must have no concept of how the show works.  Because that's what we were given this year. The stupidest players in the stupidest season so far. I'm still a fan, but I can't wait until this one is over.
• Tried Jim Beam/Red Stag Honey Tea bourbon last night for the first time. It was delicious! Very similar to the Honey Jack from Jack Daniels. A little too sweet for me to drink straight, but it goes very well with mixers. Actually, mixing it with sweet tea would be a good idea. A big kick at 80 proof, it doesn't taste nearly that strong. I definitely recommend it. The Red Stag flag is an interesting concept. So far I like the Honey Tea and hate the Black Cherry.  But I'm willing to give the Spiced Cinnamon whiskey a try.
• I don't care that some people thing Jim Beam is white trash liqour. Fuck those people! I like Jim Beam and I'm gonna drink Jim Beam until it fucking kills me. Not literally. That would be sad.
• I've been ignoring this blog recently, but I've REALLY been ignoring my/our food blog. From the looks of it, so are the rest of the contributors. I plan on remedying that soon. Watch for it.
• Speaking of food and recipes, I joined Pinterest recently. I don't really get it. I wanted to use it as an online repository for recipes that I like or wanna try, but it's just not organized very well from what I've experienced. Maybe I'm just using it wrong. Probably I'm just using it wrong. We'll see if it sticks.
• I've also been using Instagram since it became available for Android and I'm really enjoying it. A really easy way to post pictures from my phone online and onto Twitter, if I so choose.  Do you Instagram? I have no idea how it's worth a billion dollars to Facebook, but that's another story.
• By the way, how is Facebook worth so much? I recently watched The Social Network (good movie, by the way), and I don't get it. I mean, I'm not ON Facebook, but I know a bunch of people who are. Just how are they making all that money? I don't get the Internet sometimes.
• Speaking of Facebook, I always that Sean Parker and Shaun Fanning were the same person. I'm stupid. Both were involved with Napster, but only one was involved with Facebook, right? I'm stupid.
• We have this one mis-matched fork in our cutlery drawer. It doesn't match any of our other cutlery, but it's the only one that I like to use. It's sturdy, and the tines aren't too long. I have no idea where it came from. I'd like to find a matching set, but there is no insignia. If we ever lose that fork, I'm going to be very sad.

That's all I got. I think I finished on a high note. Talking about a fork.Well done, Earl.

See you next time!

Brain derp dump

Just a few things that have been on my mind lately.  Hopefully if I put the words down here, then I can concentrate on more important things. Like recipes to post on our food blog. Yeah.

• I generally don't wish harm on anyone, but can Pat Robertson just die already?  Preferably in a natural disaster of some sort.  That's how I enjoy my irony.
• Speaking of public figures that should just die already....maybe the best way to stop Rush Limbaugh is to ignore him.  I really don't think it will work, but it's worth a shot!
• Do yourself a favor, do a Google search for Big Ang (short for Angela) and watch a video or two of her if you can stomach it.  She's a "character" on the show Mob Wives on one of the cable channels. I should say she's a "cartoon character", because that's exactly what she reminds me of. I hate those reality shows with a passion, but the sheer ridiculousness of Big Ang makes me smile.
• This Sarah Palin bio-pic coming to HBO looks...interesting.  I pause because I don't really think it's going to reveal anything that we don't already know. OK, she's not very intelligent or she was totally unprepared for national office. I get it. Julianne Moore sure looks the part though. Wow!
• So some people think Kirk Cameron is still relevant?  Hmm...I'd worry about those people. More than what that dude has on his mind anyway. Now you want to see real crazy? Go check out what Victoria Jackson has been doing lately.
• We watched the first 3 episodes of Homeland last night. Holy fucking fucking hell!  Great show, tense as all what-not.  Highest recommendation if you haven't already seen it.  Warning...it ain't for the faint of heart.  Or for the fart of taint. Huh?
• Sybil Law is running for President. Finally, some political news that makes sense!

Du-di-du-da-du-di....that's all folks!

Small stuff

They say you shouldn't sweat the small stuff. Or is that smell the ball stuff? I can never figure that one out.  Yet here we are, dealing with the small stuff.  In other words.....BULLETS!!!

• I really don't get politicians. I mean, you might like Michelle Bachmann or you might...not like her.  But for a person to have gotten as far as she has in politics, well...you have to respect her...savvy.  You can see how difficult this is for me. What I don't understand is why she just won't apologize for the HPV vaccine/mental retardation comment. All she had to have said is that it was irresponsible for her to repeat an undocumented claim, and we all could have moved on.  It's now going on a week and people are still talking about it. And she still hasn't said she was wrong.  The fucking ego on these people.  And by "these people", I mean all politicians.  I'd have far more respect for any of them if they just admitted to fucking up every once in a while.
• I see those photos of that teenager who caught an 800-lb alligator with a fishing rod and some kind of stick with a bullet on the end of it.  And I can't help thinking that the wrong species won out in that fight. 
• Was it me, or were there a lot of gay soldiers running around on the Internet yesterday?  Not that there is anything wrong with that.
• Watched Bridesmaids last night with Gia. I thought it was funny, and a pretty good movie with some excellent performances.  It just wasn't the "howl out loud laughing" flick I thought it was gonna be. Maybe I've just got the wrong plumbing downstairs.
• The Fall Television season has started.  I'm gonna try to be good and not add a bunch of new shows onto my DVR list.  But Up All Night with Christina Applegate and Will Arnett is one that we are going to give a chance.  Both of them are really funny people, and I hope it works out.
• Speaking of funny television, the season premiere of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia aired last week.  And it was an awesome one! Alanna Ubach's crazy crack whore character stole every scene she was in.  Amazing!

Is six enough for a bullet post? It'll have to be. I'm tired.

Bang Bang!

Because my mind is all a-flutter and I have a lot on my mind, today...you get bullets.  It's been a while, so let's get down to it boppers.

• My humble thanks to the handful of you who showed up for the Oscars chat here on Sunday night.  Apparently, my name is now Arl.  Ask Sybil Law why that is.
• I've got an exciting new project (at least to me) brewing that I'll tell y'all about a bit later in the week.  Did your nipples just get hard?  Mine did.
• I don't know if you've been paying attention, but there seems to be a lot of UFO hoaxes going on lately.  That thing in Jerusalem.  There was one near Pittsburgh, although that was probably just airplanes or weather balloons or something.  And Peru is always good for a couple of sightings a month.  I'm actually shocked that there hasn't been MORE sightings/hoaxes.  I'm done with it.  Hey alien race!  If you're out there, show yer goddamned faces.  Or whatever it is you have that would be, er, something like a face.
• Holy shit, it's March already!
• I fully expect gasoline prices to exceed $5 a gallon by the middle of the summer.  Which means I ain't going anywhere.  How the hell are we still using fossil fuel to get from here to there?  I thought 2011 was well into the idealistic "future" that we all read about when we were kids.  Sure...those tablets we all use are kinda cool.  Still...
• My cats are nuts.  Wolowitz feels compelled to play fetch for the better part of 2 hours each night.  And Bootsy Collins isn't happy unless he's fucking with my shit.  AND it's apparently time to get the new dude snipped, because he's a warbling mess.  Good thing Gogo is a skittish bag of nerves who spends the majority of each day hiding from the other cats.  One less freak to worry about. 
• Speaking of Wolowitz, go and do a Google Image search for "Wolowitz" and "cat".  Go ahead...I'll wait.  Yup...the first two pics are of my cat.  I would have thought it was a much more popular name.  Go figure.
• Anyone else but me wanna see a dual interview on Oprah with Charlie Sheen and Gaddafi?  I think they share the same crazy mind.  And how many different spellings does Gaddafi have for his name?  Qaddafi? Ghadafi? Qhadafi? Mr. Sane?  Eh...who I am to say.  I've been known to go by Arl in some drunken circles.

That's it.  Go home kids, yer botherin' me.

Stuff bullets

I have a bunch of stuff in my notepad I keep on my PC desktop.  Stuff I need to get done, stuff to tell Gia about, stuff to blog about.  And the last stuff pile keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.  Mostly because I'm lazy and new, um, stuff keeps coming up all the time.  Distracting me from the other stuff.  Well, there is only thing to do in this situation.

A bullet post.  With stuff!

• The Chicago-style hot dogs we made for the Super Bowl were just perfect, in case anyone was wondering.  The bacon-infused rye was wonderful too, but maybe I didn't use the right kind of bacon.  Because while the flavor was smoky and sweet and smooth, it didn't really have a strong enough bacon aroma for my liking.  I found a recipe from a bar in Toronto called the Hoof Cafe that I'm gonna try next.  They actually drop the cooked bacon and the grease into the rye and let it infuse for 3 whole days.  Maybe those Canadians know what they are doing after all.  Maybe not.
• I finally got a chance to sit down and watch The Hurt Locker last week.  I've been a fan of Jeremy Renner for a while now, but he was absolutely brilliant in this flick.  I don't know how "real" it is, but this was one powerfully brutal flick.  Well deserving of all the praise and awards that are being heaped on it.
• So there is this robot, a box is all it is really, that's sole purpose is to re-sell itself on eBay every couple of weeks.  It was created by an artist named Caleb Larsen who dubbed it "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter".  It was last sold for $6,350 a week ago so it will be back on sale soon.  This, um, thing keeps skipping from one owner to another and all it does is re-sell itself once it finds its temporary home.  You still don't get it, do you? It'll find you! That's what it does! It's ALL it does! You can't stop it! It'll wait for you!  Oh...sorry.  Wrong robot.
• I'm one of those guys that has the news on in the background while I am working and playing.  So I hear it, but sometimes I don't process it.  Like the story about Sarah Palin writing crib notes for her "tea party" speech on her own hand like she was cheating on a High School History exam.  I heard it, but I thought someone was just making a joke.  I mean, there is no way she would be caught doing something obvious like that, right?  Wrong.  My favorite part is how she crossed out budget on her own hand.  Way to stay in the news, Sarah!
• A while back, RW wrote a little something on his blog about Charles Bukowski.  Hank, if you prefer.  A helluva writer, he was also pretty famous for being one of those legendary drinkers you're always hearing about.  Got me to thinking about which legendary drinker I would have loved to have spent an evening with at the pub.  Hank Williams.  Ernest Hemingway.  W.C. Fields.  John Barrymore.  Oliver Reed.  There's a lot to choose from.  I'd probably pick my grandfather.  Never met the man.  He died before a few years before I was born.  But he was a legendary drinker with a capital L, if one were to believe the tall tales.  I betcha some of those more famous legendary drinkers have grand-kids that would have loved to known them better as well.  I really not trying to be maudlin here.  It wasn't really the drink that killed him.  Well, not just the drink.  I just think it would have been a hoot to hang out with the dude.
• Speaking of legendary drinking, I wish I was down in New Orleans today for the parade honoring the Saints for their Super Duper win on Sunday.  I'm sure Bourbon Street will be rockin' and rollin' the way they do.  Gonna be a bit crazy though.  Being the week before Fat Tuesday and all, Mardi Gras is gonna be a sight to behold this year, I'm tellin' ya! But instead, it's time to dust off my most favorite video ever. Clint Maegdan and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band doing their version of The Kinks song "Complicated Life".

PS - For those counting (Slyde), this is the fourth time I've posted this video here.  But it's been over a year, so...

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. Get yourself to Preservation Hall.  It's one of those magic places that you often hear about.

Dead Sexy Bullets - "I dunno" Edition

It's bullet time again! Isn't everyone excited? You know you could at least pretend. This week's episode is brought to you by the band The Airborne Toxic Event. You know how sometimes music comes at you all at once? I first heard of this band on Carrie Brownstein's blog on NPR a couple of weeks ago. Then yesterday I heard them again on an episode of NCIS. Now I'm in. Check it out. Hey, that probably should have been the first bullet on the post. What was I thinking? I dunno.

• I lost a follower the other day. So did Slyde. We don't know who it is, and it might not even be the same person. One day they are there, the next...poof! Sometimes this whole "following" thing on Blogger is a bit puzzling to me. It's a great tool for, well...following other folk's blogs. Once you click on the "follow this blog" link it automatically updates your blog list on Google Reader. I like that. But it seems kind of pretentious to have it sitting there on the sidebar of my blog. And there are other problems with it. I tend to manually update Google Reader as well to put it in a specific category, so if I want to delete that blog from my reader (it has happened) then I have to do it in Google Reader and on my Blogger dashboard or on the individual's blog itself. So it's a bit clunky and pretentious is all I'm saying. A lot of folks like it though, so I'm about 50-50 on getting rid of it. I dunno.
• The President addressed Congress and the nation last night. But it wasn't a State of the Union address. I'm a bit confused, but I like it. We've seen more of this guy in his first month than we saw of the last guy in his first nine months. Agree with him, disagree with him. At least he's out there. These addresses are a little ridiculous though. Stand up, sit down, fight, fight, fight! I'm gonna really respect the politician who instructs the audience to save their appreciation for the end of the speech. Not too much to ask. It's not like we are at a High School pep rally anymore. I dunno.
  
• Still on track to see my 500th post next Thursday or Friday. And I still haven't decided how to celebrate it. Maybe I'll just ignore it and wait until lucky number 1,000. I dunno.
• Have you ever been sitting at your computer and you find that you need another word for vagina, but you are drawing a blank? At last there is a solution. Just keep on re-loading that page. Heaven's Door might be a new favorite of mine. I dunno.
• Mel Gibson was on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of nights ago. And he did this really bizarre fake movie trailer for The Colonel. Does he hate chickens as much as he hates Jews? I dunno.
• I had the MLB Network on in the background yesterday while I was working. They were showing a replay of Opening Day in 1981 when the White Sox and their new catcher Carlton Fisk played the Red Sox at Fenway. Best thing about it, besides the Red Sox losing? Harry Caray did the play-by-play. At one point he introduces Dennis Eckersley who is starting the game for the BoSox. He says "There's Eckersley with his long, shoulder length hair. He says it helps him to hide his sinker ball." Cracked me up. I could totally picture Will Ferrell saying something like that while impersonating Caray. There used to be some great stuff on Youtube featuring Ferrell as Caray, but alot of it is gone now. I'd like to blame Hulu for it. I dunno.
• I had a lot more in my head that I was gonna write about here, but now it is gone. I dunno.
  

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. All the cool kids are doing it, I guess. I dunno.

At last

No, I don't mean the Inauguration. That was pretty cool though. No, it means that since I changed my template I can finally post bullet points properly. My last template hated bullet points. Me? I love 'em! And so should you. Because you might be seeing them a lot once again now that this place can handle them. And I'm lazy and bullets are easy. So there.

• Sure you saw the Inauguration yesterday. But did you see it from space?
• Beyonce did a nice job with "At Last" for the First Dance by the new First Couple. That Neighborhood Ball was a little strange though. Nick Cannon as the DJ? What's up with that? And did anyone else notice how Sting is beginning to look like Billy Crystal? Shivers.
• Now that we have our first African-American President, science (SCIENCE!!!) is working on a cure for racism. I tried that once, but I blew up the science lab in 9th grade instead.
• My Eagles got beat by the lowly Cardinals of Chicago/St. Louis/Arizona. Fuck those birds! My birds should have won. That way I could have made fun Super Bowl bets with bloggy friends. Now I just have to root for the Steelers while I get my drink on. Crap!
• Do these bullets make my ass look big?
• The new season of "24" just started and I'm re-hooked. But I do wonder what Jack Bauer would do without his cell phone. They would have to call it "365" or something.
• A little more than 3 weeks until pitcher and catchers report. Did your team get everything they wanted for Christmas this year? No? Just the Yankees? Too bad, so sad. Mwah-ha-ha-ha!!!
• Welcome back, ya Bastard ya!
  

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. All the Obama Mamas are doing it.

Wet Hot Bullet Action

"Bullets kill, man!"

= So it appears that we, the royal "we", might be stuck in a abnormal cosmic bubble of space-time that is void of matter. That's right bitches, when I want my science news I go straight to the source. USA Today. In all seriousness, I have been feeling a little foggy lately. I knew something wasn't right with the space/time continuum (two "u"'s in a row? Really?).

= Remember my post from a few months ago in which I called Spike Lee a racist douchebag? Yeah, he's still that guy. Now we can add hypocrite to the list. Fuck him.

= So have you seen Sarah Palin play the flute yet? Howabout her performance in the swimsuit competition? Has it really fucking come down to this? My. God. Feel free to make any obscene comments you wish about her blowing on the flute in that first clip. Go ahead, you know you wanna.

= Speaking of Sarah Palin, this painting hanging up in at the Old Town Ale House in Chicago finally puts to rest her position on the current administration. She's pro-Bush. (Credits to a certain Water Logged Canine for that particular joke - Earl)

= Do you love midgets as much as I do? Then you are gonna have a blast perusing this site's list of the 22 Most Sensational Midgets Ever. The only problem I have with the list...how come Bushwick Bill only made it to #19? That man is a fucking genius!

Reminder: Watch the VP debate tonight. However it turns out, it is bound to be entertaining.

What you need, Pt. II

1. Is this an actual commercial for Guinness? You tell me. Brings new meaning to the sharing of bodily fluids.

2. I don't know what's more impressive. The Harry Carey impersonation in this clip, or the fact that it's a pro athlete doing it rather than someone like Will Ferrell. (Well, the fuckers at MLB took the clip down already. Crap! Quick, try it here before it gets shit-canned as well! - Earl)

3. We saw The Dark Knight on Saturday evening, and we both loved it! Unlike our friend Lotus07. We saw it in a small, trashy theater that is pretty close to us in hopes that it wouldn't be packed. Not so lucky. A group of rowdy teens were behind us, and apparently they were bothering Gia and the rest of the "adults" around us. I say "apparently" because I get lost in theaters when watching movies and I rarely notice anything going on off of the big screen. The kids got thrown out at around the 1:30 mark by the manager of the joint. And there was much rejoicing. Yay!

4. Is there any bigger douchebag then Gene Simmons, formerly of KISS? Probably. But is there a bigger douchebag who has a "reality" show in which he gets to flaunt his douchebaggery to the viewing public? Maybe. But is there a bigger douchebag who has his own "reality" show that is currently playing in the background on TV as I type this? Definitely not!

5. Going back to Batman for a moment. If anyone out there enjoyed The Dark Knight then they should seek out and read Alan Moore's The Killing Joke, if you haven't already done so. It explores many of the same themes from the film and is one of the more powerful graphic novels ever written about the relationship between the Joker and the Batman. Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison is also a fascinating take on the Dark Knight, the Joker and Two-Face. The psyche of Two-Face, in particular, is very revealing. Go read 'em! Heath Ledger supposedly did.

Bullet times!

I posted a picture of a LolCat here originally, but Blogger, in it's infinite wisdom, decided to delete it or maybe I was infringing on someone's domain rights. Who knows. Deal with it, motherfuckers! Pfffft!!!!

• Remember the days when you could make a video about somebody famous fucking somebody else famous. It seemed like it was just yesterday. Alas, this trend...this fad...this amorphous thing's time has come and gone. It jumped the shark, according to Film Drunk, with this video of that hot chick from The 40 Year Old Virgin showing her utter disdain at having to fuck Seth Rogan. At least she seemed upset about it. Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel really seemed to enjoy fucking Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, respectively. Get real! Who would enjoy fucking those pricks? How typical of Slyde to post these passe videos on his blog. Harumph! That guy is always one fat finger away from the pulse of the Internets.
  
• I watched a replay of the debate between Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama late last night and I'm seriously thinking of moving to Canada. Hilary just seems out and out crazy at certain points: Hilary - "I just want to point out that I always get asked the first question in these debates. I don't mind. I'm glad to answer anything. But I think it's curious that it keeps happening. Is it some kind of plot against the plastic-faced evil chick? I dunno. WHY DO YOU KEEP DOING IT? I DON'T MIND, REALLY, BUT ITS BEGINNING TO KEEP ME UP AT NIGHT! BILL WOULD BE REALLY WORRIED IF WE SHARED A BED, BUT THAT SHIP HAS PASSED A LONG TIME AGO AND I'M PRETTY HORNY RIGHT NOW!!! Hmmm...maybe I just need to get laid. Obama, you're a good looking man. Want some of this?" And it got really uncomfortable after that. Canada is looking better all the time.
  
• Gia and I have been reading about Scientology a lot lately. Christianity just isn't working for us, and psychiatric assistance just seems barbaric so we thought we would opt for what all the cool kids are doing. Oh, we aren't joining the Cult of Scientology...I just meant that we have been boning up on the subject so that we can make fun of it with the same conviction and intelligence of everybody else on the Internets. My favorite video on the subject is this one, but I warn you that it's really long at 30 minutes. It pokes fun, sure, but it also brings up some pretty serious topics. My God(dess), did Jenna Elfman really say "AIDS is just a state of mind, not a disease?" What a tool!
• I don't know if there is some kind of official title or not, but I've decided that the Red Panda may be the cutest animal on the planet.

Seriously...I want a rug or a coat made out of this little fucker! He's so damn cute!

Hot, tasty bullet action!

Just a few, quick hits today. Blam-blam! Bullet-style.

• More meaty goodness over at MovieGrenade! today. Enjoy, or not. Whatever. We don't get paid either way. Aha...and I see that the badgerdaddy has also posted a new review. That's 2, 2, 2 reviews for the low, low price of, eh...you know what I mean.
  
• So, against my better judgement, I watched the first 2 episodes of the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox. Well, I missed the first episode on Sunday night, but I was able to watch it online. Way to go, Fox-TV! I am also slightly upset to report that I love it. Fuck! Another crappy TV show for me to get all wrapped up with. I think I would have been fine, but Summer Glau (from Serenity) stars as a good Terminator (they need to come up with a name for those) and I'm a fan. So here we go again.
• Haven't finished my book yet, but it's getting really good. I may stay up tonight to finish it.
  
• Gia remains thoroughly obsessed with The West Wing. Rather than wait a couple of days for Season 2 to start appearing in the mail via NetFlix, we went out last night to buy it on DVD because she couldn't wait. I have the rest of the seasons reserved at our library, so that foolishness will stop. UPDATE - just found out that friends of ours have all 7 seasons on DVD. Happy, happy...joy, joy!
• Still waiting for Winter to actually occur here. It's been above freezing for quite a while. We were supposed to wake up yesterday to 3-6 inches of snow, but it never quite got cold enough. Ah, but wait...snow Saturday? Maybe?
• I don't know why, but I was reading about the actor John Lurie yesterday, and I found the weirdest Internet related, um, things that I've seen in quite a long time. Those wacky Russians! PREVED!!!
• And I will leave you with exactly what I promised in the title of this post. Hot, tasty bullet action!