this better not be a press release!!!

yes, yes!! short of sending in Delta Force, cut them off! end the good ol' days!! i would prefer this to be retroactive, and make them return all that money!!!!

the brown stuff

lacking the proper environment to scare Americans which was her bread and butter during the Bush years , she now has to resort to being very critical of the new administration. i don't mind subjecting the Obama regime to criticism, but is this really "no bias, no bull"? what's next, taking Barack to task if he didn't get the dog Sasha and Malia want?

and still no iPhone killer.

you ran

is something wrong with these people, or were they just born dumb?

order yours today!

e-"con"-omy

really?? i don't see that in my brother-in-law, who's been buying Blu-Rays off the street like they were going out of style. who's conning who?

v for vivisection

are you really bringing it back? make it a lot more violent and disgusting than before!

jack and joy

saw this on the TV this morning. well, well, well. good luck to you.



another subset of our society needs a different kind of book. kinda like this one:

'cavalier disregard' is just the tip of the iceberg

Robert Reich is too polite. i say haul 'em all in a truck full of gas cans, set it on fire, and drive it off a cliff.



Michelle Malkin's cause of death

not slumming

The best old-fashioned audience picture of the year, a Hollywood-style romantic melodrama that delivers major studio satisfactions in an ultra-modern way.
- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Slumdog Millionaire is nothing if not an enjoyably far-fetched piece of rags-to-riches wish fulfillment. It's like the Bollywood version of a Capra fable sprayed with colorful drops of dark-side-of-the-Third-World squalor.
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time.
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Slumdog Millionaire has the goods to bust out as a scrappy contender in the Oscar race. It's modern India standing in for a world in full economic spin.
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Despite its elements of brutality, this is a buoyant hymn to life, and a movie to celebrate.
- Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

Boyle's feature draws the viewer in, immersing him in a fast-moving, engaging narrative featuring a protagonist who is so likeable it's almost unfair.
- James Berardinelli, ReelViews

A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, Slumdog Millionaire doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.
- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

A creative and honest narrative of the tragedies and triumphs of the human spirit. The film's recent fortunes reflect the story it wants to tell. And yes, this is the only time you will see my name alongside these respected film critics.
- grifter, newyorkjuan.blogspot.com



* speaking of reviews, i got solicited for a guest spot on my other interests. won't happen again, so i thank the cool dudes over at doomkopf for the invite.

enter the Ultimate Leader

i guess we can't build on this? (sorry, Bill Simmons)

recession, watch yo' back!

Prez Obama is out to kick ass, ask questions later.


thanks to Major Spoilers.

wordplay

the other day, it was about the balls. now its about this:



nice one, Cockamamie News Now.

Bridget's Ex is still #1

this wouldn't happen if a lot of money didn't change hands. right, Matty Matt?

duh-ish

because they figured he'd be a bad team player?

and now a word from Clint.

this? this is how i get treated? not even a whiff of anything? after all that hype of this being my final acting role? you mean i have to defer my acting retirement for another year?? i should put a bullet through each of you pussies in the Academy. wait, am i a member too? fuck you.


after all those classics i directed for the past few years, i don't even get to ride off into the sunset? what, am i identified with the Bush Administration or somethin'? do you think i really am like my character in Gran Torino? then that means i did a great acting job, didn't i??

oscars, schmoscars. this is what i think of you, shiny gold bald men:



uhhh ... any final words, Mr. Eastwood?


GIT. OFF. MY. LAWN.




apologies to KSK for stealing Clint pics and a lot more. you're still the best at this crap.

rough trade

king ryan wastes no time in throwing down the gauntlet, which is good.

6. On operational policy:

RR: You've heard of the KISS philosophy, which is Keep It Simple Stupid. That's for somebody else. Ours is a KILL philosophy. We're going to keep it likeable and learnable. We're going to make mistakes, but we're going to make those mistakes full speed. You're going to see an attack team here.

Generation Kill? i like that. let's see who keeps his promises first, you or Barack.

darkstrong

from today's ESPN front page. looks familiar?



great job, ESPN and Armstrong PR handlers. that really bolsters his case of insisting he never took performance-enhancing drugs image.

what recession??

From S.I.'s Peter King:

The league pays players in a strict formula for all playoff games, and the numbers increase slightly every other year. This is the second year in a row that the formula calls for the following payouts per player in the playoffs:

Wild-card games (division winners): $20,000.
Wild-card games (fifth- and sixth-seeded teams): $18,000.
Divisional games: $20,000.
Conference championship games: $37,500.
Super Bowl winners: $78,000.
Super Bowl losers: $40,000

Those numbers for the 2009 and 2010 seasons increase to $21,000, $19,000, $21,000, $38,000, $83,000 and $42,000.

someone plays one game, and that's instantly $20,000. it takes me almost one year to earn the same amount.

should i turn to crime or what?

brand new day

good luck, Mr. President. for our sakes and yours.

king ryan

Ravens (nice meeting ya, be seeing ya) Def Coor Rex Ryan is now Jets coach. good luck with that gig.

terrible toweling

Joe Flacco finally throws a costly interception ... Troy Polamalu brings it in all the way! (23-14, 4:24 to go)


now who's the best safety in football? (Ed Reed still has a 1 TD returned edge)


update: and my picks made it! now, who to pick on Feb. 1? hmmmmmm ....

cool iris

my boss pointed me to this software - kinda cool, if you like Apple iPhone coverflow (i do). of course, my laptop's not one of those touch screen ones, but its ok.

shown here is a cool way to browse through your Flickr account.

red tide

congratulations, Kurt Warner, God's Quarterback, for getting to your 3rd SuperBowl!

now, c'mon Steelers, git yo ass over here!

who ya got?

Bazooka Joe or Big Ben?


God's Quarterback or X-Chunky Soup?



idiot predictions (barring injuries to key players):

Pittsburgh 20, Baltimore 16
Arizona 24, Philadelphia 17

obviously, i was a child of ...

hey, hey hey!!! some of them were at most 4 hit wonders!! (i actually was hurt with them picking The Church, Midnight Oil and Swingout Sister)

gone chucky gone

no, uh, not this time.

apology accepted?

we sully-ute you, sir

and now start climbing the mountain

rebooting our democracy huh? well, those fancy words won't mean jack shit 4 years later if there are no improvements (starting with universal healthcare).

decon jon

from The Daily Show/Comedy Central

why not SteelSquared?

genius!

from shoeboxblog

rrrrrrrrrrrr

a classic.


R.I.P., Khan.

what's so civil about war?

if they can just decide on a fatwa or a jihad on anybody ... well, screw it, let's just declare open season on them, no?

i know the Arab-Israeli conflict is a Gordian knot for modern times, and it will take a lot of willpower to effect change that is acceptable on both sides, but we don't need the idiot fundamentalists to dictate this kind of shit.

never watched it but yeah, good riddance.

deep sky

the perpetually-dour Tony Almeida's (PDTA) undercover? with the old CTU gang? WTF?

well, i guess that's the most logical explanation, and now we get the standard 24 straight-up action fare. i'm just thinking ... why not go spin us on our heads and really make Tony a bad guy.


and regardless whether its CTU, CIA, FBI or the White House, for that matter ... American security SUCKS BIG TIME. at least in Jack Bauer's world.

the most annoying tech commercial ever

can i believe ...?

we've known all that for years, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. you only learned that last year?


oh, right. i'm not the target demographic of this ad.

so why the fuck am i seeing it on my TV then???

and he's baaaaaaack! (for real)

bring the popcorn. this will be much more enjoyable than those 4 football games we just had.

except the Steelers, apparently.

Marmalard hasn't moved the ball at all in the second half, and the Steelers are up 28-10, into the 4th quarter.

update:
after a brief twitch, the San Diego corpse proceeds to the funeral home, 17-35, 3 minutes to go.

Bill got it all wrong this week. i hope he lost some money.

we told you it was your turn, Marmalard, and then you blew it.




so for next week's conference championships, i'm picking the Cardinals and the Steelers to pull through, because i don't want a low-scoring defensive SuperBowl that the Iggles and Ravens might produce.

those who get a bye, loses

Iggles 23 Jints 11, 3 minutes to go and Eli just threw an INT.

Michael Strahan is probably thinking "ooooookay, they won't have more rings than me, hehehehehe."


"and we'll still have one more than Tiki."

Barry in Ben

haha! now he can claim he has eaten in a place that i have.

home disadvantage

three Carolina turnovers lead to 27 unanswered Arizona points. and we still have a half to go. gambling man now reaches for the gun.

update:
that's it. Panthers can't overcome a 26-point deficit. Jake Delhomme's 5 interceptions is damning. i hope it doesn't cost John Fox his job.

why Megatron is a stupid leader

oh, you chokers

if i were a gambling man, ... well, let's just say i'd be deeper in debt more than i am right now.

yeah, that makes sense.

training day

holy shit. a train ride? you better make sure this guy is riding shotgun!!!

not a terrorist, not yet a citizen

finally, the Philippine department of foreign affairs and the New York embassy got their acts straightened out and granted me, a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, the privilege of renewing my passport. whoooopeeeee.

it seems like i need to produce the freaking clearance document that says i am absolved of all obligations stemming from my time as a government scholar, and i am in no way in any shape or form a liability or suspicious enough to be on this stupid 'lookout list' as their database shows. hopefully within five years, that database gets straightened out and puts me in the clear so i don't have to go through this zarzuella in 2014.



or maybe i should become a citizen of another country eh?


this doesn't absolve you of your incompetence, people. i still need the reason(s) why i was put on this list, and who was/were responsible for it. i have a couple of fists to give them.

0 1 0 1 0 1

the world that's coming - more digital, less physical, according to readwriteweb.

reminds me of that Stephen Hawking episode in Family Guy.

[via NetLog]

yes, yes, dammit, YES!!!

Colt 45

the ghost of Vince Young smiled.

footie notes

i wore my Chargers slippers last night, and i didn't jinx them. will wearing my Pennington Jets jersey (hehe) jinx Miami against Baltimore? we'll see.

WTF - CBS has no sound? dammit! i need proper cable and a proper HDTV. maybe next year.

Pey-Pey KOed of playoffs

Darren Sproles just earned himself a boatload of money!

this is what you get if Fox News is your bible

having had a bad experience with AirTran, i'm not surprised.

no way!

you think you can turn him around? even if you don't win in June next year, you sure you want to lump this shithead with the championship pantheon of Russell, Bird, Hondo, et al? are you kidding me???

and a happy new year to you too.

yes, its about friggin' time someone within their ecosystem stood up to them.

hello, 2009

Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

auld lang syne

and so i say goodbye to 2008.

this was actually my year ("you rat!"), i if i go by Chinese astrology/horoscope/mumbojumbo. so every 12 years something momentous happens. or was there?

in 1984, i graduated from elementary school.
(hoooray! that means i had some form of education, and can read and write basic English.)

in 1996, i traveled to my first foreign country.
(it was China, but who cares? i rode in a gawd-damn big aeroplane!)

in 2008, i lost my Dad.
(yeah, there's that.)


i have traveled a long way and found myself right smack in the middle of an America that is in the cusp of change. i hope my children will be living in a better America, down the line.

here's to 2009, folks. another journey begins.