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Batman 3 is confirmed with Christopher Nolan in 2012… The Avengers will also be released. It will be billed as a showdown. Whatever… I’ll see both.

From the Trailer Park: Jonah Hex

Thanks for the tip Matt Helm…

Pro Choice

Barack Obama Hates White People

Using the Bush standard… the oil slick in Louisiana has been going on for over a week. The President has just today unleashed Big Sis Janet Napolitano (Dept. of Homeland Security and former Governor of AZ) and Sec. of Interior Ken Salazar to dispatch federal resources in any meaningful way. Oil is already hitting [...]

Much more talented than Lady Gaga...

…but still not suitable for the chilluns (and probably not for work). Dance, MFers, dance…

Classic Pick O’ the Day: May 1

Never Give A Sucker An Even Break (1941) A filmmaker tries to sell a script about con artists taking on the Russian millionaires of Mexico. Cast: W. C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Butch and Buddy Dir: Edward Cline BW-71 mins, TV-PG. 9:00 AM EDT. TCM.

I can never decide between this or The [...]

Just Because You're Paranoid...

…doesn’t mean that little green men aren’t out to get you.

Since we have had a dearth of good conspiracy theories lately, allow me to present one for your approval. I suspect – but do not know – that I’m not the first to come up with this one: what are the chances that [...]

There’s A Reason You Put Up With This Crap

Eventually, they grow up and turn you on to really cool crap that you would have never found on your own because you’re too freaking old. In this case, the daughtorial unit sent me a link to a bit of free software that makes your computer sound like an old-timey typewriter when you type. [...]

My Bright Idea

With the ban on incandescent light bulbs looming on the horizon, it’s becoming more and more difficult to find them on my local stores’ shelves.  Procrastination is the hoarder’s worst enemy.

Since I refuse to make the switch to those CFL death-traps, I have been forced to invent a new source of indoor lighting, [...]

Friday Open Thread

Paramount: Go f*** yourself, Will Ferrell

Adam McKay, he of Huff Puff and Judd Apatow’s pool boy staff, tweets – Anchorman 2 may be dead.

This would be sad news, indeed. Shortly after news broke that an “Anchorman” sequel could start filming in 2011, director Adam McKay posts a tweet that stops the train on its tracks.

“So bummed,” McKay wrote [...]

Adam Ant

I don’t know how many Adam Ant (or Adam and the Ants) fans are around these parts, but if all you know or remember of him is campy MTV videos you’ve missed one of the rockinest post-punk acts of the first half of the 1980s. Anyway… it seems as if he’s sorta kinda making [...]

Michigan Militia Case

Yesterday I linked to a story about the lack of info the FBI agent was able to offer in the detention hearing for the 9 militia members arrested for plotting to kill police officers… Here’s an update from today. Now let me emphasize — it is VERY early in the process and the government is [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: April 30

Nocturne (1946) A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide. Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney Dir: Edwin L. Marin BW-87 mins, TV-PG. 11:15 PM EDT. TCM

An interesting film noir tomorrow night as TCM celebrates George Raft’s birthday. While not up to the level of Maltese Falcon [...]

Cold Warrior Of The Day - Chester M. 'Whitey' Mack

The USS Lapon (SSN-661), doing it’s thing

The year was 1969. An important prong – some would argue the most important prong – in America’s trident of deterrence in the Cold War appeared to have been blunted by our Soviet opponents. Beginning in 1960, with the launch of the first Polaris missile submarine, [...]

Devastating Ad

How often do you run an ad where only your opponent speaks (with interviewer questions)?

Thursday Open Thread

Happy Birthday Duke!

Lapdogs get treated like dogs – lapdogs are stunned

The press has done better covering the Obama administration than I hoped, especially given the treatment of the Hope-N-Change Express during the 2008 campaign – but that’s the equivalent of being the “world’s tallest midget” or the “nation’s best turd eater.” Truth is, the press has been pretty compliant, yet increasingly skeptical. Not because of [...]

Classic Pick O’ the Day: April 29

The Desert Fox (1951) Following his work with the Afrika Korps, Field Marshall Rommell joins in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Cast: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler Dir: Henry Hathaway BW-88 mins, TV-PG. 10:30 PM EDT. TCM.

James Mason, better known for playing Rommel in Desert Rats a couple of years [...]

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