Not as busy a year in the listening department as last year, at least not when it came to new releases. Doesn’t mean enough to love doesn’t exist, though. Favorites 8-15 above the fold, the rest but a click away below it. As Kostya Govnuchkiovich Borienka would say, please be for to sharing your faves [...]
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Blue Velvet (1986) After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town. Director: David Lynch. Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell. TV-MA. 10:00 PM EST. Sundance Channel. Nothing says “Happy New Year!” like [...] Closing thoughts on the Year That Was: 2011. Fabulous new TV shows/movies/books/music you discovered? joys? irritations? anyone leave us this year you’ll especially miss? resolutions? regrets? 5. Downton Abbey (TV show): It’s soapy goodness in Edwardian England, pre- and during WWI. 4. TCM’s Robert Osborne: His time away was too long, but it made me appreciate [...] Actually this is more spot on than anything you will hear from Fox, NBC or ESPN. Especially the part about the Cowboys not succeeding until Jerry Jones dies. Share on Facebook And in these cases it may have been criminal homicide. This stuff has always gone on of course… it just has more cognitive dissonance when the prevailing legal regime is legalized abortion. Anyway… kudos and good luck to the Maryland prosecutor in these cases: Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to [...] Will 2012 be the worst year in memory or worst year EVER?? This guy makes Mark Steyn and John Derbyshire look like Up With People. From the UK Daily Mail: Eighty years ago, the world was struggling to come to terms with an entirely new financial landscape. In August 1931, the system by which [...] Share on Facebook Norman, Norman, Norman. Foolish, foolish Norman. Just doesn’t matter how many facts stack up against you when you whine about conservative media bias and backlash, does it? Larry Elder, thanks for blowing Mr. Delusional’s ill wind right back at him. How accurate is Lear’s assessment of the supposed power and influence of the right? [...] Republibot 3.0 offered up The Church as a Hall of Fame suggestion earlier in the year and while a longshot, at least the Hall’s finally starting to recognize and induct acts who got their starts in the 80s. So, Threedonia, who else ya got on your minds? Share on [...] Panic in the Streets (1950) A killer evades the police not knowing he has a deadly plague. Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel. TV-PG. 10:15 PM. EST. TCM. This is a great and under appreciated film noir. It has a great — the great [...] Here’s a great piece from John Fund over at NRO on what Islamist compromise looks like in Morocco. It looks encouraging — but they don’t have complete control. The palace’s first reaction to a street vendor’s suicide in Tunisia was to give every subject the right to place a piece of cardboard on the [...] Share on Facebook Good little article over at the National Review On-Line about how we really won in Iraq. Best line of the whole piece… shake hands in the light and kill at night Go read it HERE I can tell you I was in Baghdad the same time as the author of that piece and while there [...] Share on Facebook Shaft (1971) A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob. Dir: Gordon Parks Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi. TV-MA. 11:30 CST. TCM. TCM highlights films on the National Film Registry tomorrow and it is an eclectic group of classics tomorrow. I’ll pick this one for its awesomeness [...] How do, fellow Threedonians? If you’re a fan of the above graphic, please be sure to change that final cross “t” to an “m” and head to The Vast Conspiracy site and buy one (or two or five). With 10% of all sales going to military charity, they and I equals we, and we [...] Instapundit links to this awesome take down by a man named Ari Armstrong of a Denver Post reporter who wrote a story about the dangers of guns using bogus stats — or sketchy sourcing (he wrote diplomatically). From Armstrong’s blog Free Colorado: [Update 6:31 pm: The Denver Post has issued a revised correction for the [...] |
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