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3D Weekend Five: Movie Lines We Love

Wankette — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:42 +0000

Always reliable.

5. “He doesn’t know it’s a damn show. He thinks it’s a damn fight!” — Tony Burton as Apollo Creed’s trainer/Rocky: Just watched the Oscar winner for the 100th time. Wow, that was some fight — and Burton’s character summarizes the whole plot here.

4. “There’s no crying in baseball!” — Tom [...]

3D Weekend Five: Disney Sidekicks (Animated)

Wankette — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:30:29 +0000

Because I just read the 10th article in as many days as to why Disney = Teh Evul.

Counterpoint #1: That studio turned out some of the most charming & unforgettable supporting performances in film over the years. And most of them were drawn that way.*

*Jessica Rabbit reference.

5. Dory (Ellen DeGeneres, Finding Nemo, 2003): [...]

A Hochuli Haiku

Wankette — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:52:22 +0000

Sports Illustrated‘s Joe Posnanski has a little fun with our favorite long-winded referee:

NFL Referee Ed Hochuli’s 57-second explanation of the new NFL overtime rules … in verse.

With the score tied at the end of regulation we will go into overtime

There are special overtime rules in the playoffs

Both teams get an opportunity [...]

3D Weekend Five: Rival Me This, Batman

Wankette — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:30:54 +0000

Championship games tomorrow; BCS come and gone; March Madness looms…

Yeah, sports are on the brain. And almost as fun (and certainly less nerve-wracking) as rooting for your favorites is rooting AGAINST the ones you scorn, despise, curse, etc.

Without getting nasty! name the sporting ones you love to hate.

5. Yankees: Of course.

4. [...]

Etta James, 1938-2012

Wankette — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:56:24 +0000

From CNN:

Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as “The Wallflower,” “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” and the wedding favorite “At Last,” has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73.

She died from complications from leukemia with her husband, Artis Mills, and [...]

Larry, Moe, & Curly = The First 3 Supreme Court Justices

Wankette — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:30 +0000

Just found out that Wikipedia’s down today (per Jonah Goldberg’s Twitter feed). (Google’s even horned in on the act. There’s a big piece of — what looks like — duct tape over their logo.) Yesterday he wrote at NR’s The Corner:

Very soon Wikipedia will go dark for a day to protest something called SOPA. [...]

3d Weekend Five: Gaming It

Wankette — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:30:53 +0000

Here’s a list I know nothing about. Lately, however, the Nephew du Wank has embraced the Wii. I have been forced to sit through Lego Star Wars and, since Christmas, Super Mario Cars.

Guilt has plagued me ever since, and I feel as if I’ve abandoned you GameBoys.

So, gimme your Top Five video games. [...]

Dear LA Times: W Magazine = Also Racist?

Wankette — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:25:52 +0000

Remember the recent flap over the Michelle Obama-as-Marie Antoinette? via the LA Times:

The caricature of Obama as a profligate queen relies on the racist stereotype of an “uppity Negro,” which emerged among slave masters in an earlier American era. Obama, born into a working-class Chicago family whose roots are traced to the pre-Civil War [...]

End-of-the-Year Hubba/Dance: Tristan MacManus

Wankette — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000

Because last fall he turned Dancing With the Stars into Must-See-TV Can’t-Miss-TV.

Because as Nancy Grace’s professional partner, he made her look so good that people who never liked her before, like her now.

Because who knew an Irish guy was so good at Latin dancing?

Because forget Michael Flatley…Tristan’s MY Lord of the Dance.

End-of-the-Year Hubba/SportsTalk: Mike Greenberg

Wankette — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:30:25 +0000

Because first I loved his voice. Then I loved his wit. Then I saw him, live. Then I just loved him.

Because now two of my favorite sports guys are New York Jets fans (Joe Queenan’s the other), and I admire such dogged devotion in the face of…well, the Jets.

Because Mike & Mike, the morning [...]