Simple Answers for Simple Presidents

Bush:

Heh, how does Iron Man go to the bathroom?

With the cast of Superbad.

Day of the Dead Forever

Photo by Xispas. Thanks!

Today is the awesome Dias de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery,and if you’re in LA, you really should go. Families line the pathways with altars to dead loved ones packed with pictures, favorite foodstuffs, stuffed animals, etc. (It’s something of a mindfuck regarding the ways we’re remembered after we’re [...]

Localized Simulacra

I have been to Disneyland three times.

First, as a child, an experience I do not remember. I am told I sat down in the parking lot and declared I was going to die if I had to walk any farther. My hatred for parking lots started early.

Second, as a teenager to participate in [...]

Prozac Music

I see Open Left’s I’m From Barcelona and raise them one Polyphonic Spree:

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The Polyphonic Spree – Light and Day
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Never go in against a Sicilian faux-hipster when indie music street cred is on the line.

Lake of Fire

I went and saw that abortion documentary today. Heavy stuff, and impressive how the filmmakers managed to make a movie where, even though the “pro-life” people come off as creepy and too ready to utilize evil means, you still can’t dismiss their concerns as crazy. I hadn’t realized how human some fetuses look [...]

Emergent Liberal Community

There’s an easy solution to the controversy over evangelical churches hosting Halo Nights:

Left Behind: Eternal Forces

Teens can get their kill on in a Christian way. Everyone wins except Satan! Unless you play as the Satanic forces. Slight bug there…

More Seriously, Zeitlin’s actual point in the above-linked commentary was that there is a [...]

Why Capitalists Want to Sell You Deoderant

There have been posters for “The Gamekillers” around my neighborhood for a long time (years?), but I’ve never known what it was about.  Apparently, it’s a strange deodorant-sponsored show, part of the continuing Axe campaign to ensure I realize that chemicals = girlz.

Which reminds me of my favorite page of Days of War, Nights of [...]

Veggie Kids Are Better

Now that I know about this contest, I’m heavily considering having a kid. And becoming vegetarian. And developing ‘cuter’ genes. Anytime I can win vicariously while cementing my dirty hippie credentials, I’m there.

Action Figures

Echidne has her Coulter, I have my Beverly Crusher. I think I came out ahead.

Bathing: Natives Do it More

I enjoyed this history of pre-modern bathing in Europe (via City of Sound), but was a little annoyed that it was willing to break its euro-focus to mention bathing in “eastern cultures” and yet ignores the Native Americans.  I’m not just peeved because I worship at the shrine of multiculturalism either.  Many NA tribes were [...]

Happy Fake Labor Day

May 1st is the more political event, and it warms my commie heart, but today is far superior in the bbq category.

Chuck E. Cheese

I never would have thought this staple of my childhood could age so poorly, but it has happened — possibly because I have reached parenting age. Numerous posts document the atrocities:

Chuck E Cheese: an Investigation
Chuck E Cheese Hell
Chuck E. Cheese: Where A Kid Can Be A Huge Pain In The Ass
Chuckie Cheese: The Horror! [...]

Disbelief

Pax Americana asks: Who can forget Lee Siegel’s “Letter to Jon Stewart”?

Me.

I somehow completely missed this comedy goldmine, and am thus compelled/justified in pulling out the referenced bit:

You know, as unappealing as he was, Tucker Carlson never told anybody that they “smelled like ass.” I don’t even know what that means. Is it [...]

A Hair of One’s Own (sorry)

…the evidence I’ve studied and my life experiences all suggest that men and women are like two overlapping Venn diagrams in almost everything. Partly different and partly the same.

Eek!  Gender…not…binary?  Does…not…compute….(Combustion)

The Goddess has/had a great post about The Armpit Wars.  A portion:

The reactions to the armpit hair revolution were swift and of the expected type. [...]

Who Wants to Go?

From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema

Debaters in Fiction

I got sucked into YouTube today, and wanted to share two clips.

First, a clip from the best movie I haven’t seen, Rocket Science:

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Rocket Science Clip
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Also, the wonderful short, Debate: The Movie:

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Awesomeness.
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Enjoy!