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Emo Phillips was standing before a judge…
Judge, “Emo?”
Emo, “Yes.”
Judge, “Emo Phillips?”
Emo, “Yes.”
Judge, “You’re Emo Philips?”
Emo, “Well why don’t you just keep adding a word each time until your brain explodes!”
I remember a day when there were were just “queers”. Then it was “lesbians and gays”. Then those crazy bisexuals had to jump on the bandwagon. Of course, if bisexuals were doing it, then the transsexugenered folks were just steps behind. Now it’s those wile intersexed people! Pretty soon, it’ll go from being the “LGBTI community” to… queer.
My friend Warren is inches away from finishing Pony Trouble, a hilariously bloody movie. I just sent away for my advance fundraising copy of the movie. He’s done the movie mostly on shoestrings. You too can get an advance fundraising copy of the movie. Give me a buzz to find out how.
I’ll be leaving the house at 4:10 am to catch my 7:10 flight to NJ. Ugh. That’s in 4 hours. And touching down at 6:30pm. Ugh. (there’s a 3 hour time difference and a 3 hour layover in all that)
Over the last 3 days, there have been a number of military jets flying overhead here in San Francisco, the Blue Angels are in town. Every time they fly by, I tense up. Each time, I am viscerally reminded of a pair of military jets that flew over my house when I was 10 years old.
The Cold War was in full swing. This was the period that movies like Red Dawn came out of. I was standing in my back yard on a slightly overcast day. I heard a noise, looked up and got a flash of 2 jet fighters flying maybe 500 feet above me. In that instant my eyes were actually focused on them, I could easily make out that they had various releasable objects on their bellies. They were gone in a split second. A thunderous whooshing sound followed that lasted a long while. The sound faded slowly. As it faded, I looked around and saw that my neighbor, Mr. Cosmai was on his upstairs deck looking at the jets too. I jokingly called over, “Ha, here comes World War III!”. But the second I said it, a sense of real dread came over me. I could feel the blood drain from my face. We called to each other a few times. I could hear the fear creep into his voice too. We told each other that we’d go inside our houses and check the TV for any news. I remember going in and changing channels, dreading the thought that I might hear that usually annoying Emergency Broadcast System beep or see some government newscaster telling us to duck and cover. I had it in my head that the regular newscasters wouldn’t give such news, it would be some neutral-looking, creme-colored jacketed newscaster sitting at a near empty desk with a blank gray wall for a background. And I knew full well that ducking and covering would be useless in the face of multiple megaton hydrogen bombs, stratospheric EMP nukes and fallout that would last 100,000 years. I swallowed my heart several times as I clicked through the channels.
Needless to say, our forces weren’t mobilizing. After a few minutes, I went out and met up with Mr. Cosmai; he couldn’t find any news on his TV either. There was no cause for alarm.
Here in San Francisco, another jet just rattled the windows of my house. I can feel myself tighten all over.
Tonight I saw Serenity at the recomendation of several friends. Yeah, it was a really good flick. :-)
I also stole off TorrentSpy the opener to the seventh season of Malcolm in the Middle. The family goest to Burning Man. Great episode! They got it absolutely right and it was darn funny!
In my attempt at hubris, I’ve added a link to Top100Bloggers.com in my sidebar. If you read my site and like it, vote for me. It’ll make me feel like one of those big-time bloggers.
The thing to click on should look something like this
Click because you love me
“Come in Moonbat Alpha. Are you there Moonbat Alpha?”
“We read you loud and clear.”
The Maoist International Movement
Strap yourself in before you read any of the movie reviews. Prepare for your indoctrination now.
Some excerpts:
Men in Black – 1997
…The Men in Black consider themselves “above the system,” and indeed they are in this movie fantasy of the aspiring intergalactic bourgeoisie which long ago went beyond petty national conflicts like that seen at the Mexican border. The Men in Black want their rule to appear “neutral” and beneficial to humyn-kind, as if it were possible for a state to be class-neutral…
The Matrix – 1999
A Hollywood film of tremendous value — a great gift to the revolutionary movement on par with that of Reds politically and done artistically as well as can be with special effects. Humyn-beings both dead and alive are tended by machines in gigantic mechanical farms where they are used as batteries for the various kinds of heat and electricity that they produce. Not only does the script-writer uphold materialism as the existence of an external world independent of the subject (humyn mind), but also the script-writer shows us how science will conquer and make everything knowable including dreams. There are a few drawbacks to this film, but on the whole, MIM could not have asked for more in a two and a half hour Hollywood movie. We can use the movie to educate people about dialectics, modes of production, Lenin’s book “Materialism and Empirio-Criticism” and the drawbacks of anarchism and individualism.
Yes, you read that right. The machines are the good guys. That’s kind of a different take than you had originally thought, isn’t it?
Dearest Lazyweb, I saw… just last week… a friend or blogging aquaintance that has started a CD duplication service specializing in small runs. I can’t recall where I saw it? Do you?
Or if you just know of a good place to get 150 CDs duplicated with pretty sleeves, leave me a comment.
Every time I come back to this site, I laugh so hard, my sides hurt.
Bash.org
The Quote Database Home.
Update 10-24-05. Bash.org was offline for a couple weeks but it’s back!
Update 10-27-08: qdb.us replaces Bash.org :-)