Pay Attention Boy!

You might remember this post by Outlaw of a douchebag bailing out on a foul ball while his date got hit with the ball. I invite said douchebag to watch this. This lady falls out of the saddle and gets right back up.

It Saves on Rohypnol

A man whose girlfriend has broken up with him has bought a $15,000 sex doll that is just — mostly — like her.

The 50-year-old man took a collection of snapshots of his ex and told adult toy maker Diego Bortolin: “I want it just like her but with bigger boobs.”

Diego – who refuses to name [...]

Classic Pick O' the Day: September 3

VON RYAN’S EXPRESS (1966)
In an Italian POW camp during World War II, an American captain leads English prisoners on a daring train escape.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter, Raffaela Carra, James Brolin, John Leyton, Edward Mulhare, John Van Dreelan, Vito Scotti, Robert Henry. Director: Mark Robson. 6:00 PM EDT. Fox Movie [...]

Thursday Open Thread

Make one little change to the “Recent Comments” widget and all hell breaks loose….

Classic Pick O' the Day: September 2

High Plains Drifter (1973)
A mysterious gunman signs on to protect a small town from bandits.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan Dir: Clint Eastwood C-105 mins, TV-14. 11:00 PM. EDT. TCM.

Eastwood’s been a great director for a long time and these early films give a good glimpse into the genius inside. [...]

Uncle Sam: Enough With the Huddled Masses! (Classic Threedonia)

That green broad in New York asked for huddled masses. That’s all well and good, but I want you to remember the last part of that sentence too… “yearning to be FREE.” Not as in FREE school lunches, FREE housing bailouts, et al. There are no free rights or free things — [...]

Ahhhhh Bach…

Johann Sebastian Bach… not just good for your ears and good for your soul… good for you period. From Miller-McCune:

A newly published study from Mexico reports repeated listening to certain classical works — including one by Mozart — helps ease the debilitating symptoms of clinical depression.

“Music offers a simple and elegant way to [...]

Chim-Chiminey, Chim-Chiminey Chim Chim CherOh My God!

A Bakersfield, CA woman — a doctor — tried to break into her “on-again/off-again boyfriend’s house last Wednesday — hereafter known as Ash Wednesday.

From AOL News:

A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was [...]

Classic Threedonia

A few posts from the old site and from years gone by will appear today in honor of our second birthday. Some of these will come from our first spot at Dirty Harry’s Place — even before Chuck Kane came on board…. Feel free fellow Threedonians to get drunk and sloppily reminisce.

This one [...]

Happy Second Anniversary, Threedonia!!

On this day in 2008 some ones and zeros were uploaded to a vacant outpost on the world wide web and thus, rather inauspiciously, www.threedonia.com was born! As with most offspring, threedonia has developed quite differently than Floyd, Chuck and I foresaw, gazing through the celebratory cigar smoke on that storied day.

We began as [...]

My Job Here is Done

I taught a course called “Congress and the Presidency” this summer and I’m polishing off the finals for that course as I begin the Fall semester tomorrow. Anyway… I asked the class, as part of a larger question:

Lasty, on which, if any, President did you either change your opinion from this class or merely [...]

Classic Pick O' the Day: September 1

THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS (1989)
A feisty sexy singer joins a brother twin-piano act and sparks changes in the brothers’ act and relationship.
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Jennifer Tilly. Director: Steve Kloves. 8:00 PM EDT. Fox Movie Channel.

It’s a light day tomorrow so “classic” is a bit of a stretch for this one, [...]

Tuesday Open Thread

Caligula, born this date in 12 AD

Rest In Vinyl

Eric… I have found the perfect way… when that day comes decades hence — that you should be memorialized. L.P. = Late Porvaznik — What record would you be memorialized as? The company at the link will take your ashes and make them into vinyl records.

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 31

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
A peaceful farmer turns vigilante when soldiers murder his family.
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney Dir: Clint Eastwood C-136 mins, TV-MA. 5:45 PM EDT. TCM.

Tomorrow is Clint Eastwood’s day on TCM. TCM is showing all three Sergio Leone/Eastwood films, but this is my favorite [...]

The Mighty Thorium?

Calling all science guys and gals! I came across this piece in The London Telegraph on how thorium is the “magic bullet” — or may be — that renders oil and uranium obsolete.

There is no certain bet in nuclear physics but work by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) [...]

Monday Morning Quarterback

Welcome back Threedonians! Time once again for your weekly tiptoe through this past weekend’s dregs highlights. Now that school is back in full swing in most places the MMQB trusts that most of you will do the right thing and do nothing but read Threedonia from here on out. Summer places a [...]

Monday Open Thread

The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David (born this date in 1748)

Warning Shot

Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) sums up what’s at stake this election cycle — should Republicans be given majorities again. From the Wall Street Journal:

I ask what so many voters are pondering: If Republicans win this fall, will they have learned the lessons from the overspending and corruption that got them tossed out in [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 30

Horse Feathers (1932)
In an effort to beef up his school’s football team, a college president mistakenly recruits two loonies.
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx Dir: Norman McLeod BW-67 mins, TV-G. 9:30 PM EDT. TCM.

Tomorrow is Thelma Todd day and in a stroke of inspiration they are showing Thelma Todd comedy shorts most [...]

Sunday Open Thread

Dinah Washington was born this day in 1924.

Sunday Gospel

EPA = Backdoor Man

Somebody at the Environmental Protection Agency takes too much policy guidance from Chris Rock standup routines. Rumors — let’s call it “truth” — were circulating that the EPA was planning on banning lead — as in lead bullets. You see the lead was poisoning the environment and killing animals. Yeah.. I know. [...]

Classic Pick O' the Day: August 29

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
Two fortune hunting friends venture all the way to Paris in search of millionaire husbands. Features signature musical number “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, George Winslow, Tommy Noonan, Marcel Dalio, Charles Coburn. Director: Howard Hawks. 10:45 AM EDT. Fox Movie Channel.

Nobody did these pictures [...]

America — Hell Yeah! Weekend 5

The Restoring America rally is going on as I type – or maybe it’s just now over. Patriotism — hell even mere pride of place — has become passe to many Americans… something of which we are sometimes made to feel ashamed or reticent to talk about. To hell with that. I [...]

Saturday Open Thread

You're Welcome America

This one is on us America — and quite frankly you can thank us too World. I haven’t talked to Rufus but since I know he is independently upper middle class he won’t mind if we forgo our usual fee. We have solved America’s problems in our Friday Open Thread. Who knew [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 28

My Favorite Year (1982)
A flamboyant star throws a TV comedy show into chaos.
Cast: Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna Dir: Richard Benjamin C-92 mins, TV-14. 10:00 AM EDT. TCM

This is one of my favorites — hilarious and a great job by O’Toole whose day it is tomorrow. ON before this at [...]

Stevie Ray Vaughan -- Unplugged

On the one hand — thank God MTV had the wisdom to put SRV on Unplugged and document this genius. On the other hand… 3 friggin’ songs? Half of a 30 minutes show? What the heck MTV?

I saw him in Abilene, Texas a few months before he died — awesome… [...]

Mama Don’t Take My Kodachrome Away

h/t: Arts & Living Daily

Good-bye Kodachrome.

Friday Open Thread

Happy Birthday Tuesday Weld! Wherever you are.

Multi-culturalism

Some light dawns on self-proclaimed liberal and atheist Susan Jaboby vis a vis multiculturalism and many of her fellow travelers on the Left. From Big Questions Online:

The latest example of the Left’s blind spot on this issue is the antagonism of so many liberal reviewers toward Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent memoir, Nomad. The Somali-born [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 27

The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1936)
Two brothers love the same woman at a perilous Indian outpost.
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson Dir: Michael Curtiz BW-116 mins, TV-G. 6:00 AM EDT. TCM.

Tomorrow is Olivia de Havilland day on TCM so I’m going with this one — a great adventure film [...]

Thursday Open Thread

Joseph Montgolfier was born this day in 1740… 43 years before he had a really good washing…

Bush Rawks

While President Poopypants (thanks Scott M!) vacays somewhere… President and Mrs. Bush are putting their time to good use. They were in Maine Sunday and dropped by The Run For the Fallen. Here’s the story from WMTW Channel8:

Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura surprised participants in the third annual “Run [...]

Anti-Lady Gaga

I saw Janelle Monae a few weeks ago on So You Think You Can Dance and thought… “she’s the anti-Lady Gaga”. Yeah the hair is funky, but she was appropriately dressed, on that she danced a lot more than on this clip, and who doesn’t love horns. Lady Gaga — she’s awful, awfully [...]

GOP “Civil War”?

This AP story on the Republican “civil war” seems to me a bit of wishful thinking by the mainstream media. But the article is actually fairly balanced. From Yahoo! News:

A Republican civil war is raging, with righter-than-thou conservatives dominating ever more primaries in a fight for the party’s soul. And the Democrats [...]

From the Trailer Park: 127 Hours

I know the true story… if this is done well — it will be a compelling movie.

Keep Your Eyes on the Road And Your Hands Upon the Wheel

Colondra Hamilton (above) eschews driving automatic — dare I say it? For stick:

A Cincinnati woman was simultaneously masturbating with a sex toy and watching a pornographic video while driving last week, according to cops who arrested her on assorted criminal charges.

Colondra Hamilton, 36, was pulled over last Tuesday evening in a traffic stop triggered [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 26

Experiment in Terror (1962)
A master criminal tries to force a bank teller to help him pull off a big heist.
Cast: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Ross Martin Dir: Blake Edwards BW-123 mins, TV-PG. 12:00 PM. EDT. TCM.

When Blake Edwards was on he was really on… and this film has him channeling Hitchcock. Tomorrow [...]

Atlas Shrugging in the Playground

I’ve never liked Ayn Rand — and this tongue in cheek story reminds me why…

When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words were, “Have a ball, peas [sic]?” And I’m sure you were very proud [...]

Wednesday Open Thread

Happy Birthday Sir Sean Connery!

From the Trailer Park: Black Swan

Trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming film.

There Are Experts…

and then there are journalists. P.J. O’Rourke tells us about a special kind of expert in The Weekly Standard — the 72-Hour Expert from Kabul, Afghanistan.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: August 25

The Big Sleep (1946)
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers Dir: Howard Hawks BW-114 mins, TV-PG. 11:00 PM PDT. TCM

Tomorrow is Lauren Bacall’s day on the TCM schedule. This is one of my favorites movie of all [...]