Bad movies for Halloween

the 10 worst "horror" movies I've ever seen:

(in no particular order)

The Fly II. One of the best things about the Charles Edward Pogue/David Cronenberg Fly was that the tension was so well maintained, and Jeff Goldblum's performance was so good. By the end when the transition is complete, you're still identifying with and thinking of the fly-creature, now completely SFX, as the man he was.

Not so The Fly II. When Eric Stolz transforms, all you're thinking is "Look! A rubber marionette!"

Most people have probably forgotten that Daphne Zuniga was in this movie, as I'm sure she would like them to.



All the Halloween sequels except 4. Shoddiest ever made.



Freddy vs. Jason. You know, I don't expect most of these films not to insult my intelligence. But FvJ actually stops its plot (such as it is) cold to look dead on at the camera, explain the plot again and then say "everybody got that?"

It does, I swear it.



The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake). I've recently come to realize that this is one of my "goto" films for worst movie comparisons. As in, "Saw IV was the least of that series to date, but compared to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, it's Hitchcock's Rear Window."

And speaking of the Saw films...



Hostel is everything I thought the Saw films were before I saw them: Thoughtless, poorly acted "torture-porn."


Beyond Re-Animator. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. And by mighty, I mean Jeffrey Combs, who owns this movie, but even he can't hold it up.

At least Bride of gave us the line, talking of a group of monsters: "My god! They're using tools!"

The Funhouse. This movie is just seedy. And not in a good way. For more, see here.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge. Gayer than a Pet Shop Boys concert but not nearly as lovable. Do not let this movie, which gives both horror and camp a bad name, taint your mind.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. He's back. And this time, it's a pleasure cruise.

Jason X. Monstrously bad, though featuring an actress I'd like to see more of, Melyssa Ade, in a supporting role.

A little gossip, a little chat

Should Barack Obama do as well as I am hoping he will on Tuesday...here (via Political Wire) is some speculation as to who he might choose to be his Chief of Staff.

Please note my use of the words "should" and "might." Again, I am absolutely not saying this will happen. Because there's a little thing called tempting fate...

This is almost as bad as when people were comparing Sarah Palin...

Kim Kardashian cheapens everything she touches.

There are no peace talks baby, No quarter given

Rick Springfield's "Honeymoon In Beirut." A review from when this record came out (I believe it was in Billboard) has always stuck w/me, it said it was like: "If Hall & Oates had collaborated with George Schultz."

I'll go along with that.



Anyway I think it's excellent. The 1988 album from which it's taken (Rock of Life) has one of the best first sides I've ever heard--the flip is, unfortunately, another story.

This speaks for itself

Prop 8 Spokesman Says Defeating Gays is Like Defeating Hitler

There's nothing I can add, really.

Something to fear but fear itself

Danny Elfman, of the old “alternative”—back when that word meant something—pop/rock band Oingo Boingo and the composer of scores for many motion pictures, started a group (political, not musical) to stop Sarah Palin.

This is the online version of an ad they're trying to get on the air over the weekend.



Spread it around.

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Be sure to watch the "Fun-E" videos. They really are.

(My favorite is the 6th)

Samantha Bee is such a MILF

Pretty lofty talk for somebody whose biggest claim to fame remains playing "Weird Al" Yankovic's love interest in a movie*

Victoria Jackson thinks Barack Obama resembles the Anti-Christ.











*A movie which, by coincidence, also starred the also possibly racist, but definitely brain dead Michael Richards.

Have I mentioned...

Today has been dubbed "Write to Marry" day. The idea is that if you oppose California's Prop 8, and by extension any attempts to deny gay people the rights that, well, human beings should enjoy...

...today would be a great day to say so.

I do oppose such attempts; my problem is I think most of you know that, I think most of you agree with that (if you don't, frankly, I can do without you). So what can I say about it that's new?

I don't know, but one thing I do want to do is repost this Salon.com opinion piece from four years ago, when some were asking whether SF Mayor Newsom's* decision to begin allowing gays to marry had cost the Democrats the election.

“Putting the blame on gays and lesbians goes against our own core values. We can’t sell our souls to take back the White House…until Newsom went on his marrying spree, I thought Democrats needed to move very slowly on gay marriage. Then I had friends and neighbors who got married — and a few whose weddings got cancelled when the California Supreme Court stopped the ceremonies in March — and my worldview permanently shifted. Now I don’t know how the party can turn its back on gay people who want to marry…I believe we’ll survive four more Bush years and recover the White House. But we won’t do it by selling out gay people.”

I agree with this. It's indecent to blame our electoral losses on any part of the gay and lesbian community...unless of course it's the loveless husks of The L Word...but I digress.



*Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, is an actress w/a recurring role on Life.

Everything is connected, have I mentioned that?

This is lovely

A black mother talks about what this election means...to her son, to all black children, and...well just about everyone, I guess. The pictures alone will make you fall in love.

Note to self:

If you ever have the chance, kidnap the Hansen brothers, shackle them to pipes in a bathroom, and force them to listen to "MMMBop" over and over again for 90 minutes straight.

Here's why.

Hot schoolgirl? Ok, so maybe it's a little made for me...

There's this movie called The Haunting of Molly Hartley. It might be good, it might not be, either way I'm unlikely to see it (but it's so not made for me).

I'm interested to see how it does in release, however, only because one of the actresses in it is Shannon Marie Woodward, who played Di Di Malloy on The Riches, where she was the very image of my character Keitha.

But I've been noticing something about the ads for the movie that have been showing up on blogs. The picture shows the hot schoolgirl of the title (Haley Bennett) on her hands-and-knees, with some guy from Gossip Girl standing behind her.

You tell me: Is it just my filthy mind, or are they trying to (not all that) subliminally suggest...

You know how "Joe the plumber" looks like a racist skinhead?

Well, funny story...

Larry Gelbart.

Playwright, screenwriter, personal hero. Most recent reason (following a quick diversion to deal with Linda Bloodworth-Thomason):

In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.

MSNBC star Keith Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday's luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed "Hollywood, America and Election '08."

...writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat...added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning Keith Olbermann.

That's inexplicable to me. Unless you shared his politics, why would anyone prefer eating with an idiot like Hannity to a sharpie like Olbermann?

Unless, of course, you're the sort of person who's so dangerously loyal to your best friend (which in Bloodworth-Thomason's case is Hilary Clinton) that you'd defend...

Bloodworth-Thomason even suggested a defense of [Sarah] Palin and her supporters should be written into TV programming, just as she went out of her way to portray Southern women as smart in her hit TV show "Designing Women."

Oh.

And now, back to the inspirational Larry G:

Attendee Michael Reagan, the radio talk-show host and son of President Ronald Reagan, said he no longer will appear as a guest on MSNBC because "I actually get death threats."

"I'll stop sending them," joked Larry Gelbart, the writer, producer and director best known for the "M*A*S*H" television series and such movie screenplays as "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!"

Bill O'Reilly still hasn't gotten over the fact that Al Franken embarrassed him and made him look stupid.

In this story, obstensibly about "America moving to the left," and how well it looks as though Obama is gonna do, it takes O'Reilly exactly three paragraphs to put all his anger on Al Franken. It's kind of amazing.

But it just goes to show you, that nothing hurts a blowhard like taking the wind out of their sails.

Not to worry: They're still idiots.

"An Obama victory will galvanize social conservatives for 2010 and 2012 and they will look for a standard bearer they can rally around," said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of America's largest evangelical group.

Land told Reuters the candidate most likely to "rally the troops" under an Obama administration looked to be McCain's running mate Sarah Palin.

William Donohue, president of the conservative Catholic League which opposes abortion rights, said religious conservatives were bracing for a new phase in the "culture wars."

"I've been on the phone the last couple of days with some of my friends ... and we're getting ready for the biggest culture war battles ever," Donohue said.

As always, the value of William Donohue is that anything he bashes (gays) or is against (Jews), you can be assured of its being a good thing...

The McCain Women's Clinic

Real American heroes

From TPM Election c:

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

You know, these days, I'm not having as much fun bashing Tennessee as I used to

Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.

The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.

Ted Stevens, come on down!

You're the next disgraced loser of the republican party!

But don't worry, you won't be lonely long.

It's so crazy, it just might work

Via Goddard's Wire:

Former Bush speechwriter David Frum: "There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him... I could pile up the poll numbers here, but frankly... it's too depressing. You have to go back to the Watergate era to see numbers quite so horrible for the GOP."

You see what's missing from that idea, don't you? McCain is getting the bill for every crime the Republicans committed while they were in power. I don't know whether to feel sorry for McCain, because as much as I think he's dishonored himself, he doesn't deserve the entirety of that check...well, yes I do.

Of course I don't feel sorry for him, because I want the Democrats to win, and if this is the way, so be it. In fact, I might speculate that is the reason why Pelosi took impeachment of Bush and Cheney off the table:

An electorate that wants to kill the GOP just to watch them die finally gets their hands on the ballot box just in time for the election.

Yes, if I thought Nancy Pelosi was some kind of a political genius, I might speculate that this has been her plan all along.

But it was probably just luck.

A new venue II

FYI:

I've created another new blog, for my more...aesthetic pursuits. The name of the new blog is dancing girls (subtlety, thy name is Ben). It's where you'll find naked girls and other flattering photographs, as well as my 125th observation that Anne Hathaway is reason enough to believe in god.

This blog will remain a repository for whatever I think of to say about news, pop culture, movies and/or music; this will probably cut my already minimal traffic here by another third.

This is not to say that all the naked girls, etc will all be over there and none over here now. There will still probably be some crossover, such as the High School Musical 3/ Saw V entry below.

That's not an entry about naked girls, but I put a couple of naked girls in it because...well, if you have to ask...

I prefer to think of it as Vanessa v. Betsy

As expected, High School Musical 3 topped the box office this weekend, but (again as I thought) Saw V was a solid second place.

On an unrelated note, here is a fun article in New York magazine:

Why High School Musical 3 might be scarier than Saw V

Doughnuts

We're back!

Doughnuts
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12-4200 studio

It's the triumphant return!

12-4200 studio
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It's only fear

The return of what, did you ask?

It's only fear
Originally uploaded by Millan Photography

4200 + Views! Sonoma County Vineyard

The Return of the Son of Night of the Living Random Flickr-Blogging, of course.

4200 + Views! Sonoma County Vineyard
Originally uploaded by OceanRudy

olam haba

No quips this time, just a handful of photos I thought were good.

olam haba
Originally uploaded by n+s

Grace Jones singing good and looking better.

Lovely version of this beautiful song.

John McCain: 1936-2008

From a lengthy-but-useful piece in the NY Times magazine:

Then the speechwriter [Mark Salter], who is not known for his dispassion, began to yell: “We’re talking about someone [McCain] who was willing to die before losing his honor! He would die!”

He must be dead.

Wow...this is hilarious.

Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama

Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has been prominently associated with several Republican leaders and candidates, most recently John McCain, for whom he expressed his enthusiastic support in January.

This week, Fried announced that he has voted for Obama-Biden by absentee ballot. In his letter to Trevor Potter, the General Counsel to the McCain-Palin campaign, he asked that his name be removed from the several campaign-related committees on which he serves. In that letter, he said that chief among the reasons for his decision "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."

ETA: This is also extremely funny. An (unofficial) Obama spot as it might have been done by Dr. Seuss...

The Vet Who Did Not Vet



Fun!

Anne Hathaway

Thinking, "If Viper comes near me, he's getting a sweeping kick to the face."

Jesus. The least you lot could've done is tell me!

The reason one goes to see [Saw V] is for the gruesome torture, and not to psychoanalyze Jigsaw and his victims. Anyone claiming to do so is a pretentious snob trying to justify their liking of the horrible and brutal.

Reason to be wary

A story goes that an admirer of Adlai Stevenson approached him on the campaign trail in 1956 and said, "Mr. Stevenson, every thinking American will vote for you."

And Stevenson replied, "That's not enough, madam, we need a majority."

I'm not suggesting you donate...

...because I don't have any money and I don't know if you do, either. But the picture of the Obama family on the "welcome" screen of his campaign website made me smile.

Speaking of curves...

...is it me, or does Jennifer Aniston need to put on some weight?

Mariah Carey puts all her talent into my favorite color

Curves are good.

Have you noticed that?

Demonstrating the point: Jennifer Love Hewitt.

I don't know much about the actress Grace Park

...But she sure doesn't hurt the eyes, does she?

Kristanna Loken lässt meine Lieblingsfarbe singen, wenn sie geht

Monica Bellucci rende il mio tatto favorito di colore vivo, damnit, vivo!

Damn, Elizabeth Banks is hot.

This is her at the UK premiere of Oliver Stone's W, in which she plays Laura Bush. George W. should be so lucky.

(Actually, no, no he shouldn't...I should)

I'd say they were a disgrace to the honor of the McCain campaign...

...but honestly, what honor?

1.

A [McCain] campaign worker who claimed she was the victim of a politically-motivated attack in which she was beaten, kicked and cut, now admits that she made the whole story up.

2.

The brother of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said Friday he'll withdraw from campaign activities after calling 911 to complain about traffic. Joe McCain also apologized for making the call.

I've got to start getting popcorn...

a review by Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker.

I agree with (almost) everything in this review of the second season of Life. As most of you know, I think the show is a treasure.

The "almost" comes because I strongly disagree with his dissing of Sarah Shahi, who I think is excellent on the show, and not just because she looks like Sarah Shahi.

But Tucker's dead on about Donal Logue as the new boss. I don't like that character at all. Frankly, I'm hoping he'll be killed. Unfortunately, given the ratings, the show will probably die before the character does.

Unless of course you start watching it...

The only thing these two movies have in common is some impressive acting

Three reviews about two movies:

Then She Found Me. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus for this film says--

A threadbare story anchored by strong performances, Then She Found Me is a mostly successful directorial debut by Helen Hunt.

--and that's pretty much right. Four screenwriters credited (including Hunt, twice) on one film are almost always a sign that at least parts of a movie are going to feel badly stitched together.

Then She Found Me is no exception. It also has some really predictable "beats" that had me thinking Hunt thought she was directing another sitcom.

However, the star performances, especially Hunt, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick, are indeed strong.

But personally, I felt Bette Midler was miscast. Of all the stars whose other work I know, she was the only one who in this movie I was never able to stop saying "Hey! That's..."

The film is worth seeing if you are an admirer of Hunt's or just appreciate good acting. If you rent the DVD, I recommend listening to Hunt's self-deprecating commentary.

PS: Oh, and I also ought to say something about the camerawork, which is excellent especially in closeup.

And now...

Oh yes...there will be Saw V.

Short, newly arrived (but) diehard fan review:

That.

Was.

AWESOME!

Slightly longer, somewhat more detached review:

Better than the fourth installment, still not as good as the second and third. But that's not bad for a series on its fifth movie. The attempted "lessons" this time were the importance of working together and learning to trust.

That's right, it's Jigsaw's after-school special--only with not enough Jigsaw. As you know if you've been reading my "takes" on the series this past month, the character of Jigsaw was killed two movies ago.

He still makes his presence known in this movie through flashbacks, and the film is at its greatest and most legitimate in those scenes. One of the luckiest decisions the makers of the original Saw ever made was casting Tobin Bell.

In a part that as far as they knew at the time, didn't necessarily require an actor of any depth, or even really an actor at all. His part in the first movie might almost have been played by an extra. But it wasn't. It was played by an actor who found something to play.

Bell still gets (and deserves) top billing. And the succeeding films have given him something that the Leather and Ghost faces haven't had enough of, and that is: A character. He already had presence onscreen; so does Costas Mandylor (below).

When they're together it almost burns your eyes.

(As an only semi-related aside, one of the trailers before the movie was for the Friday the 13th remake. Boy does that thing look ridiculous. Contain your shock.)

As usual, most of the traps were, for me, the least of it. For me these movies are all about listening to Jigsaw (or his helpers) and trying to figure out the last trap.

For the record, I did...not exactly how it would play out but what the switch was. Anyone who remembers Superman II could probably have done that too.

Minor things: Yeah, there's a plot hole or two...but no Saw movie would be complete without at least one continuity error for future films to retroactively explain. And unless I just didn't hear it, this is the first Saw movie ending with nobody saying "Game Over."



On the one hand, I missed that, but on the other, not until I was driving home. And I suppose it was better for me to miss it than to have it meaninglessly shoved in.

In closing, look: This film was made for the fans, of which I (obviously) am only recently one. Its brain is shriveling (and so indeed may mine be), but it still has more of a brain than most other fourth sequels; I don't think it'll disappoint most fans.

Me, I walked out whistling Charlie Clouser’s staple musical cue (you're listening to it right now)...

Betsy Russell!

Oh yeah, one more thing...believe it or not, with all the talking that I've done about the Saw movies this past year, there's one thing that I've yet to mention. And that is that one of the things that got me curious about seeing them was when I learned that Betsy Russell had a cameo in III; was one of the stars of IV (and now V).

See, some of you just went "Who?" and some of you said "Good Lord!"

For the first group: Russell is a woman who is well-known for appearing in different stages of butt ass-nakedness in many movies of the '80s and early '90s. Particularly for a scene in Private School in which her character goes for a horseback ride topless.



I'm not gonna shit ya,' I was one of the many, many 12-year-olds who just about wore out the rewind and freeze-frame functions on my family's old VCR watching that movie.

But anyway, I hadn't seen her in anything in over 15 years, and I was wondering how she was looking these days. The answer is...



There's also a new interview with her here, so you can decide for yourself if she's more than just a pretty face and body. I feel she is, she says some interesting things about her perspective on the business of Hollywood.

I'd say it was desperation that made these men say anything so profoundly vulgar and stupid...

...but let's face it, these men were vulgar and stupid when they were prosperous.

As you have no doubt heard, Barack Obama is taking a long weekend off from his campaign to go to Hawaii and see his grandmother, who is sick. You may also know that this woman was much more than a grandmother to Obama; if you read his books, you know he loves her very much.

I don't know if anyone (even she) could blame a politician in Obama's position right now, with less than two weeks to go before the election, if he didn't fly to her side. But I am absolutely sure that no one with an ounce of taste or intelligence could question his motivations for doing so. She made him a priority, and so now he's making her one.

Which brings me to Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Jerome Corsi, who have been saying that Obama's really going over there to get his birth certificate.

See, these professional assholes love to talk up the idea that Obama doesn't have one from the US. Even though that has been debunked at least half-a-dozen times. And now they're so attached to the idea, they're willing to question a man's love for the woman who helped raise him.

Yeah, I know. Knock you over with a feather, right?

McCain: "Elitists" were the ones attacked on September 11.

I might not have believed this if I hadn't heard it with my own ears. A few hours ago, a commenter at Political Wire tipped something he (or she--I don't know) said that McCain was going to say on the Brian Williams news tonight.

Well, I try not to go around just believing what any commenter to a political blog says, so I made I point of watching Williams this evening. Sure enough. When asked to give his definition of an "elitist," John McCain said that most of them lived in Washington, DC and New York.

I swear to god, once again I'm back to thinking that regardless of your political party...you have to wonder whether or not McCain even knows what he's saying anymore.

Don't believe he said it? I understand why you're skeptical (see above). But, see for yourself.



I suppose, if you want to be really, really, bend-over-backwards "fair & balanced," you could argue it was some half-assed attempt at a joke. But, to my ears, that doesn't make it any less unbelievable that he would say such a thing.

Remember, the McCain campaign has--very deliberately--been associating the idea of "elitists" with "un-American."

I'll let you do the math.

Observation:

Tomorrow is going to be a day of death and Life for me.

On the subject of the former, I've accepted the likelihood that "High School Musical 3" will beat Saw V at the box office. But I'm hoping my favorite will be a strong #2.

Rosario Dawson makes me want to get physical

Slow

Dangerous curves ahead.

I'm back to feeling compassionate for the unworthy swine again

Because after all, she did love him.

Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend was sentenced to four and a half years behind bars Thursday for wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

Oooh.

It really is true. Any charge that McCain tries to make stick against Obama, McCain himself is guilty of. Like, for instance, being willing to meet with terrorist leaders "without preconditions" (which of course is not the same as "total acquiescence," but forget that for the moment).

Well, surprise, surprise. Guess what McCain was advocating in the '80s?

Meagan Good...god, look at that ass

Ahem. That is to say, actress Meagan Good at the Hollywood premiere of...you see it coming...Saw V.

Survival of the fittest, my ass

I'm having second thoughts about that dress

Don't be blue, Anne...

I've got nothing really to say about this, I just think it's kinda sexy

Is this just my ego speaking, or were all my submissions better than these?

Remember the People For the America Way haiku competition? The finalists are up, and mine didn't make it.

There's a joke here somewhere, but I can't quite put it together

Possibly something having to do with my having left my heart in San Franciso...

San Francisco weighs decriminalizing prostitution

The ballot question technically would not legalize prostitution since state law still prohibits it, but the measure would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officials to go after prostitutes.

Proponents say the measure will free up $11 million the police spend each year arresting prostitutes and allow them to form collectives.

"It will allow workers to organize for our rights and for our safety," said Patricia West, 22, who said she has been selling sex for about a year by placing ads on the Internet.

Watch this...

It's calling to me...

Oh, ok, one more (obsession? What obsession?)

That probably doesn't mean what I think it does, does it?

Sevigny: For Men.

With McCain, the questions just don't stop.

The REAL McCain website, which FWIW I think is one of the two best sources on the McCain campaign (the other is Media Matters) is holding a contest.

To enter, you write the question or questions you would most like to ask McCain if you could. The prize is a t-shirt.

This is what I came up with.

I would ask McCain how he can stand being such a flip-flopper.

I would ask him, quite seriously, if he's lost his mind.

I would ask him to tell me what lessons he thinks he learned, personally from Vietnam and what we learnt as a country.

I would ask him how he could stand with an anti-Semite gay-basher like William Donohue.

Hojo, covered and classic

I think we disagree as to when he wrote his best songs, but my friend Jen and I share a fandom of Howard Jones. She sent me an email mentioning that clips from a recent "25th anniversary" (sweet Christ I'm old) concert he had made their way onto YouTube.

Neither of these are clips from that concert, because I'm like that. First is something else I found while I was looking for them. A faceless Hojo/synth fan plays a cover of Jones' song "Equality." Kinda awesome.

Next up, the cool 12" single "new version" of Jones' "New Song." I was thinking just the other day that I'd like to play this for my nephew and see if he likes it.

Hmm...

We all know I think Anne Hathaway is way above average in looks, but I'm not so sure about this dress. You?

Hey...Hilary Swank has breasts.

Who knew?

The secret's out

Here's a good piece on The Daily Show's "secret weapon," producer Adam Chodikoff.

“Without credibility,” Chodikoff said, “the jokes mean nothing.” Perhaps that’s why he likes the title The Washington Post gave him: “investigative humorist.”

This rigor isn’t news to regular viewers of the program, but it should comfort the handwringers who worry about America’s youth getting their news from “The Daily Show” alone.

And anyone who--

Explaining why he prefers print over the Web, he cites a scene from the movie “Back to School,” when Rodney Dangerfield asks his son why he’s buying used books. “And he says, ‘Because they’re already underlined, see?’ And Rodney says, ‘But that guy could have been a maniac.’ And that’s the problem with the Internet.”

--is my kind of analyst.

My eyes!

Christina Aguilera is sexy and she can sing...but her fashion sense scares me. Who knew the reason why she was going so nearly-naked a few years back was because dressed, she looks like something my hippie art teacher threw up?

More images of Anne Hathaway than one can shake the proverbial stick at (and don't you dare)

Many (though not all) of these images come from here.
















(In a metal corset, yet.)

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This is totally the cake we're serving at my wedding

Such an event being entirely hypothetical at this point.