Guess I'm feeling my age these days, but it was a bit of shock to read that Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 40 this year. I'm not sure when exactly I saw it, but I remember it was at the Lancaster Mall in Salem, Oregon and that my sister drove me and my friend Don "the Glove" Palmer to the theater. We didn't sit with her, because, I guess, we ( Read more... )

akirlu finds something funny in the manger.

'At first I thought "Nothing symbolizes maternity better than a watermelon and a gun" and then I thought "Actually, nothing *does* symbolize maternity better than a watermelon and a gun".'

(Via my pregnant niece.)

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Redwood City, CA -- EA Sports announced today the release of NCAA Rampage 2009, a new cross-over video game that allows players to guide college football athletes as they fight, drink, and womanize their way to ( Read more... )

This would make for a very strange double-bill as the opener for The Hurt Locker. It is a satire from the British perspective of the push toward war in 2003. As a satire, it is about a collection of very bad, if all too human, people. Vanity, stupidity, cupidity, oneupmanship, sycophancy, and careerism rule the day. Alas, it feels realistic in a ( Read more... )