I can't think of an excuse for posting this picture

But I don't really have to, now do I?

Hating John McCain: Now, it's personal.

Universal Pictures has recoiled at the cost of the 3-D animated movie adaptation of the adventures of Tintin by two of Hollywood's top directors, Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

The two legendary directors submitted to Universal a 130 million dollar budget to produce a trilogy of films based on the beloved Belgian comic-strip boy reporter.

Now, look. Spielberg's had his ups and downs with me, but if ever there was a picture he was born to make...and anyway: My feelings about some of them aside, since 2001 he's produced and/or directed more than a dozen movies with a combined gross of $1806.3 million.

And he's the winner of multiple Oscars, as is Peter Jackson, whose box office total (for the same period) is "only" $1249.3 million. And that's with Jackson directing and/or producing a third as many films.

(Figures via Rotten Tomatoes)

You know the economy is really in trouble when a movie studio won't back a film project based on one of the most succesful comic book series in the world; with Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson attached.

Yet that is what has happened.

Thank you, John McCain, thank you so very much...

John McCain = George W. Bush.

It's not funny, because it's true.

Very well, if you insist.

Do You
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This girl makes me feel old, ugly and talentless

She just turned 17, for frick's sake...

Divinity
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B-List outtakes
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Vampires Beckon (Yearning for Lestat)
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A good Green, pretty in Pink

Say Ooh / Say Ahh

Say Ooh / Say Ahh
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Some would call this karma. I call it justice.

"Hello, Seth..."



WOW, I'm anticipating this movie like I don't think I've anticipated a movie in 20 years.

I think this is what they call "Eurotrash."

But whatever it is, I love it.



(it's also actress Emmanuelle Beart)

Some pictures by Matt Irwin Photography

There's more (much more) here.

House, AP

(American Pimp)

On the other hand, Julianne Moore would appear not to need no saving from nobody

Once again I am filled with the macho bullshit desire to "save" Leelee Sobieski.

Why? Because she used to look like this:



Only now she looks like this:



And that makes me sad.

Scientology on the Great White Way (edited to add photo)

So, Scientology. Some call it a church, some call it a scam. Well I'm certainly not going to get into that. However, I was amused to see that protesters outside the Broadway Theatre in which Katie Holmes is appearing in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons

held up posters and flags bearing slogans, including, "Run, Katie, run! And take Beck with you" and, "Free Katie, keep Tom [Cruise]", reports The Sun.

I couldn't agree more.


Free Katie!

(protest photos here)

I'd have thought at least one of you would've guessed this, if only because you were playing the odds

Those legs belong to Anne Hathaway.

Sleep tight, America.

Oh, shit.

Ok. You know how McCain loves to ramble on about how the "surge" has worked to reduce violence in Iraq? Well...this would be funny, except that it isn't, at all.

A new study of satellite images shows evidence that "the surge" was not the key factor in the violence dropping off. What was? Two words that should cut like knives to the spirit of anyone who loves freedom; hates tyranny & repression:

Ethnic cleansing.

heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphic evidence of ethnic cleansing that preceded a drop in violence, according to a report published on Friday.

"By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left," geography professor John Agnew of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study, said in a statement.

"Our findings suggest that the surge has had no observable effect, except insofar as it has helped to provide a seal of approval for a process of ethno-sectarian neighborhood homogenization that is now largely achieved," Agnew's team wrote in their report.

Here she comes to save the day

It appears that some people (press and others) have been calling Sarah Palin a Wonder Woman. Someone had the great idea of asking Lynda Carter what she thought of such an equation. Turns out...

She’s the anti-Wonder Woman. ...a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hilary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin.

Nor would Wonder Woman be the person to tell people how to live their lives.

...[Palin is] — anathema to what [Wonder Woman] stands for.

underwater

Bebe Pham underwater
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Wouldn't you just know it?

Victoria Silvstedt has flowers coming out of her vagina.

Were there any doubt that Lindsay Lohan has joined the the Sisterhood of Sappho

...I'd say these pictures completely put an end to it.



I mean honestly, Lindsay. A plaid shirt? I think we all know what that means...

Good lord.

I don't know which is more influential in conservative circles, the Wall Street Journal editorial page or the National Review, but I think most would agree both have to be on any short list.

So there's no way the McCain campaign wanted to wake up to news that the former publisher of National Review, Wick Allison, is now backing Obama... Why? Among other reasons:

Allison thinks the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and '03 -- which John McCain promises to expand -- were "a solution for which there was no real problem." He thinks they were downright egregious once the nation went to war.

...or that the WSJ editorial board is calling McCain's reaction to what's happening on Wall Street

both false and deeply unfair. It's also un-Presidential...Mr. McCain is sounding like a candidate searching for a political foil rather than a genuine solution.

So like I say, good lord.

That's the thing about this election. In the space of days, sometimes hours, I can go from relief that Obama is leading again to hoping McCain doesn't get punched too many times as he goes down.

Oh, I still want him to go down--and think he will. I just can't help hoping he doesn't hurt his dignity--however much of it he has left--in the process.

Either way, so fine...

So I'm watching the Tyra Banks show. As you do. In specific, it's an episode intended as a tribute to black models, and featuring a veritable team of same. And I notice something.

Is it me, or does anybody else think that Veronica Webb...

...looks like an African-American Anne Hathaway?





Or have I just reached that stage in my goddess-like worship of Anne Hathaway...


...that I'm seeing her everywhere I look?

You go, girl

Michelle Obama asked voters Thursday to make their choice on the issues, not because, "I like that guy" or, "she's cute."

Might she be talking about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin?

"I'm talking about me," she said with a smile.

Get to know Kristen Bell

This is a scene from the Reefer Madness musical. I'm posting it for Jason, but if anyone else thinks they might enjoy seeing Bell alternate between white bra/slip and a fetish outfit, looky here...



I like this movie...

Pop quiz: Whose legs are these?

(Scrolling over the picture to see the URL is considered cheating)



Answer tomorrow!

Pardon me, Duchess

The Duchess looks to be one of those movies that could be good, or it could be a Lifetime made-for-TV movie on the big screen. But I think Keira Knightley looks really great in the trailer.

Exhale, everybody, exhale...Obama's leading again

Well, the new polls are out. Seems most Americans aren't stupid enough to think McCain's tax plans will help them unless they're rich. And they also aren't buying his ramblings about change.

McCain is doing best among white men, for which I can only say: I'm sorry. Sometimes we're really, really dumb.

The survey was conducted between September 11 and Tuesday, so is likely to have been influenced by the latest US financial crisis which erupted at the weekend.

On a related matter, I walked up to my bank this afternoon. I can't tell you what a good feeling it gives you to be walking to your bank and pass not one but two headlines saying that it's up for sale.

women have returned to Obama after favoring McCain by five points just two weeks ago. Obama now leads McCain by 54 percent to 38 percent among all women.

Sarah Palin be damned.

(god forgive me, I want to make a "when women were favoring McCain, it was just their time of the month" joke...but I know if I do I'll be going straight to hell.)

To shock of all, Jessica Simpson wears top showing off her large breasts

(Celebslam)

I think I need to start paying more attention to Tiffany Amber Thiessen

My Congressman, "Baghdad" Jim McDermott, has come out for impeachment.

Better late than never, I suppose, but I still wish McDermott and a lot of other liberal congresspeople had made this an order of business at least two years ago...

Rocio Guirao Diaz may be the sexiest thing I have ever seen in or out of pants

Rocio Guirao Diaz

I like wolves.

She means me.

Anne Hathaway on coping with her ex's federal investigation:

"I have a great support system, a lot of people that love me," she said.

My favorite color wants to fuck Rosario Dawson

My favorite color is smart.

Sigh...(shakes head). Oh, Courtney. Courtney, Courtney, Courtney...

You deserve better than this. That's all I'm saying.

Sweet land-a-goshin

Three things I crave: The color green, Doctor Who, and cookies.

Now that's comedy

So. It seems that a GOP delegate, one Gabriel Nathan Schwartz, was quoted during the recent convention thus:

Schwartz was candid about how he envisioned change under a McCain presidency.

"Less taxes and more war," he said, smiling. He said the U.S. should "bomb the hell" out of Iran because the country threatens Israel.

Asked by the interviewer how America would pay for a military confrontation with Iran, he said the U.S. should take the country's resources.

"We should plant a flag. Take the oil, take the money," he said. "We deserve reimbursement."

A few hours after making that statement Schwartz, who is single, met a beautiful woman in a hotel bar. After hitting it off with her, he invited her to come back to his room. She agreed, they did, had drinks, and he got undressed.

And she took him for $120,000.

She had "bombed" his drink, no word yet as to whether or not she planted a flag...

Y'know...I know John Cusack is every woman's dream romantic comedy co-star...

...but as political spokespeople go, he's more in line with the Alec Baldwin category than the Paul Reiser.

I'm just saying is all.

I think this Biden speech is pretty right-on...what do you think?

(via TPM Election Central):

If we forget this history, we're going to be doomed to repeat it -- with four more just like the last eight, or worse. If you're ready for four more years of George Bush, John McCain is your man. Just as George Herbert Walker Bush was nicknamed "Bush 41" and his son is known as "Bush 43," John McCain could easily become known as "Bush 44." The campaign a person runs says everything about the way they'll govern. John McCain has decided to bet the house on the politics perfected by Karl Rove. Those tactics may be good at squeaking by in an election but they are bad if you want to lead one nation, indivisible.
[...]

America needs more than a great solider, America needs a wise leader.

People the McCain/Palin campaign makes look like wise, fresh truth-tellers, #'s 3 & 4

Pink.

Lindsay Lohan.

Velveteen

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Just another one I liked.

Good lord. Tits.

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Velvet does Bahamas Beach....Explore Nov 10th, #448.

Velvet does Bahamas Beach....Explore Nov 10th, #448.
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Nothin' to say, I just think this is a great photo.

I don't know who Hannah Kaminsky is, but she's cute as the Dickens

(And actually, she's the young author of a vegan cookbook)

I feel like a cheap joke...

Ahem.

"You'd be wood, too, if Kirsten Dunst was rubbing against--"

There we go.

Cor?

The New York Times profiles Sarah Palin's managerial style, and it's scary

In a few words: Imagine if Dick Cheney were to have a daughter with Mike "heckuva job" Brown.

What's most scary is, most of the people who most need to read this probably won't just because it's in The New York Times. And even some of those who do read it won't care what it says about her, because they think she's a babe...which she's not. Eva Mendes is a babe. Anna Faris is a babe.

Sarah Palin is just pretty nice-looking...for a politician. It's like 20 years ago when the George Bush, Senior, campaign tried to tell us that Dan Quayle looked like Robert Redford.

It's insulting not only to our intelligence (since Dan Quayle could only have been considered hot compared to...George Bush, Senior) but to Mendes, Faris, and real babes everywhere.

And I think you know, I'm not going to stand for that sort of thing.

Mr. Midshipman McCain

From Talking Points Memo, in its entirety:

Consequences

Yesterday I asked what consequences John MccCain might face for repeated instances of lying if he were still in the Navy. The UCMJ covers official lies and, more generally, immoral conduct. But there's also the US Naval Academy Honor Concept. The USNA makes clear it's not a 'code', in that it's not a specific set of rules but a general statement of moral conduct. But in the more colloquial sense most of us understand, it's the Academy's honor code, the rules of conduct midshipman are supposed to live by and against which they are judged.

The first two lines of the Concept are ...

Midshipmen are persons of integrity: They stand for that which is right.
They tell the truth and ensure that the full truth is known. They do not lie.

The Shaggy Dharma

"in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

Say...the last three songs were pretty blue (and long), weren't they? To make up for it, here's just two minutes-plus of almost pure love.



The amazing part is, that's not even their best fuckin song...