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Here's the one fatal flaw this film has: it makes me feel like someone out there is drawing a bead on me. As you might expect from the trailers, it is a veritable avalanche of pop culture references. But the great majority thrown out like candy from a parade are so obscure and arcane that you would have had to be hunched over your Super Nintendo ( Read more... )

How in THE FUCK is it possible that the less I paint, the better I get?

I could never do faces before. Now it's childishly simple.

"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (2010)

Really, what can be said about this newest obscenity that can't be said about the previous one or the one before that? ( Read more... )

If we can't expect them to fight off the inappropriate advances of large senior officers, how the hell can we expect them to give ABDUL CAMELPOUNDER A TASTE OF GAS-OPERATED FREEDOM, NOW TAKE THOSE GASHSTICKLERS OUT OF YOUR POCKETS AND PUSH THAT GROUND G.I. JANE BEFORE I SEND YOU OFF TO SERVE MACAROONS AT THE NCO CLUB WITH THE REST OF THE BASE ( Read more... )

Saw Henry Rollins at the Downtown Brew. My face is partially frozen in the awesomeface.

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Yeah, I totally believe that 6th graders are sharp-toothed political enough to "bully" a kid for his stance on global warming.

This video, and the film "Not Evil, Just Wrong" is references, is a part of the Balanced Education for Everyone initiative, which claims that climate change education - what little there is - needs to be as "fair and ( Read more... )

For fuck's sake, why is the shuttle Atlantis landing today. There were plans to dock it with the ISS and to have the crew take a Soyuz back to Earth. The Soyuz, of course, being tiny and lacking gigantic fucking control surfaces ( Read more... )

I won't belabor the reason why I chose to watch this, except to say that I have committed a great many sins in the pursuit of cultural literacy. At least, insofar as how debased the notion of "culture" in this country has become ( Read more... )