One of my favorite jokes to the “Jesus is coming!” shirts or bullshit.
The other possible gag, “Run! It’s that douche who goes on and on about his father being Yaweh so we have to listen to his meandering, preachy stories!”
Wait! I just thought another. This is an artist’s rendition of the first Black Friday Sale and Jesus is paragliding to get ahead. Even the messiah wants to save a few gold aurei when it comes to high quality, Gvcci Sandals.
Richard was best known as Bull on Night Court and obviously before (and after) the hit Sitcom, he was often cast is giant bad guys or monsters or somebody intimidating. What fewer people knew, Richard also had a big career as a voice actor, namely Harvey Dent aka Two-Face on the good Batman from 1992. I loved seeing him as a villain on Babylon 5, he was a gangster in the scary parts of the space station who was bullying the dead president’s ex-doctor.
Thanks for everything Richard! You were funny. You were charming. Most importantly, I could tell, just like Bull on Night Court, you were a gentle giant.
This was George Romero’s lesser known third installment of his Dead movies in which the social commentary isn’t as obvious; Night was racism, Dawn was consumerism and Day I think it’s how much we shouldn’t trust the military? You can tell it was an indie flick given the limited location usage and the acting could use some fine tuning. But was it enjoyable? Sure. Romero’s ongoing series about the Zombie Apocalypse has each movie represent the next chapter on how the world is turning to shit. Given how quickly The Walking Dead fell apart into a steaming heap of disappointment after an incredible first season, Romero has the benefit of the doubt. He really forged this genre and he’s consistent.
In this chapter of the Zombie Apocalypse, you can tell civilization has mostly collapsed. The streets are empty, there’s the usual tattered newspaper with the headline to clue you in and the main characters are searching for survivors. They obviously find nobody so they return to their base, an underground series of caves in Florida. I’m guessing it’s in the pan-handle given how the rest of the state is a giant floating piece of sod. Their base is a joint operation staffed by three scientists trying to find out more about the zombies/ghouls but they’re under the Army’s jurisdiction. Judging from the quality of these soldiers and their newly anointed commander (his superior recently died), they’re reservists. Amongst them are two civilians the soldiers “tolerate” since one is the helicopter pilot and the other keeps the radios operational.
Friction kicks in immediately. The new commander is an inept jerk who tells the scientists to do what he says. One scientist, a Dr. Logan isn’t helping the tension neither. He ignores the danger, absorbed in his proposed solution…training the dead, as if they’re pets! Logan figures humanity can’t turn back the clock by curing the dead so the survivors need to find a way to live amongst them. He has some moderate success showing the others how his favorite, Bub, retains some memories of his past by utilizing a razor, skimming a book and enjoying music on a Walkman. Logan figures, if they can reawaken the dead’s memories of what they used to do when they were alive, then they’re less likely to eat the survivors. But remember, this is a Zombie Apocalypse flick. Eventually, shit goes south and its the dead versus the crazy soldiers versus the sane.
Day is truly just for Romero and Tom Savini fans. Other than the actor playing Dr. Logan, everyone else is pretty stiff. For 1985, the ghouls and gore are pretty impressive thanks to Savini’s practical effects. I was still amused, mainly to see how these movies used to upset the squeemish. The big find was spotting Greg Nicotero in the cast; besides playing one of the unreliable soldiers, he helped Savini out on the makeup and today, he is the main guy for The Walking Dead and related shows!
I found this at Terra Toys’ coffee shop and it was quite good. Not sure if it was around back when the movie was originally released. Hollywood was still run by people with visions of making great films that made money not the other way around with the “great” part being optional.
The crap going down between Ukraine and Russia or Israel and Hamas is nothing to what happened 40 years ago. Sure, those two conflicts are ongoing but will they lead to nuclear war? Not easily. What St. Reagan did today contributed to the tension you’ll see come to a frightening boil next month.
However, many thought this action was retaliation for an earlier horrible event I forgot to bring up in September; the Soviet Air Force destroying a Korean Airlines jet, killing all 269 aboard including a member of Congress. I won’t go on too much about this other than it was a huge screwup by the Soviets, they knew it as soon as the fighter pilot described the burning debris…that wasn’t a SR-71 Blackbird spy plane! Conspiracy theories continue to go around on this, namely how the CIA knowingly used the airliner to mask an SR-71 in the area. Ergo, the Korean pilots allowing the autopilot to take a shortcut through Soviet space is the coverup. There’s probably a little truth in both ideas since Amerika isn’t very honest about its spy craft failures.
Now with Grenada, St. Reagan and his war machine ginned up a lame-ass story about the tiny island’s government becoming a Soviet dupe so we had to invade. We deployed 9000 soldiers and their support forces to liberate a bunch of American medical students, these were all Dr. Nick types too. The flimsy proof of Soviet skullduggery? Roughly 700 Cuban combat engineers. You know, people who aren’t well trained at fighting and in the case of Cuba, not in peak condition and over 30. They weren’t a serious challenge due to more US troopers being killed in accidents than by bullets; we can also thank the territorial pissing of all four military branches demanding involvement. An ignored lesson from 1980’s failed Iranian hostage rescue.
Did this have any long-term effects? You’ll see in a week or two, no. It was overshadowed by a major TV event.
Sad to see Richard go. Obviously, most people will always remember him for starring in Shaft, the Blaxpoitation movie that got the genre really going in the Seventies. Its success even spilled over into other genres, namely in the co-lead actress in The Omega Man! For me Richard had a great turn being in the underrated Speed Racer film as a Jackie Stewart type. But back to Shaft which was a helluva’ role for him. As per Joe Bob Briggs’ great book Profoundly Disturbing, Richard was a former model who grew up in the suburbs, the one where The Dick Van Dyke Show was set in. So he had to practice walking around without looking both ways, as if he owned the streets. It worked! During the opening scenes of the legendary movie, you’ll see him get clipped by a car while he was crossing. This was a real thing, not staged. Well, plus the director didn’t get NYC closed off to shoot.
Thanks for everything Richard! You were instrumental in raising Black Americans’ (and dare I say Canadians?) profile as lead actors in Action movies. Plus you helped out a whole genre with additional greats: Truck Turner, Cleopatra Jones, Black Belt Jones and all the stuff Rudy Ray Moore did. You will be greatly missed.
You see, most Austin BMW owners bought this upgrade for their cars. It’s quite expensive and explains why most drive the models that don’t come with working turn signals.
I tell ya whut! Castle Greyskull is completely powered and heated by clean burnin’, energy efficient Propane. It is abundant in Arternia too. Now if you excuse me, I need to get back to defeatin’ my mortal enemy…no not Skeletor, Featherton Fuels.
When you visit Monkey See Monkey Do down on South Congress (Austin), you’ll see this funny sticker posted around the various shelves.
This definitely puts the gag in gag gift! Unlike Fart in a Jar or I think some Influencer tried to bottle her gas, this isn’t a biohazard because it’s thankfully not real!
Before you ask, no, Chaos isn’t polydactyl nor does he have big paws, I took the photo while he was in the middle of making biscuits on the couch. After two days, he’s already sleeping on the bed with us, a great sign, it means he finds us comforting.
The long-awaited day arrived! Jennifer’s second kitten was ready to come to his forever home. His name is Chaos. Despite his “teenager” size, he is a kitten because Chaos is a Maine Coon, a domestic breed that gets pretty large. However, they are very friendly, very chatty and bond to humans very quickly. He proved all three last night! Chaos was wary of me when I got home but by bedtime, he was purring like crazy as he realized, “Oh, you’re nice and loving to my kind!”
Obviously, the other cats gave him a chilly reception. Isis is indifferent to everybody but Agamemnon. Agamemnon hissed but he’ll come around as he does with all kittens. Metztli hissed too yet she is bossy and greedy with food. Poor Klothos, she was the most upset for she is no longer the baby and spent the rest of the night growling while Chaos kept trying to introduce himself to play. I think within a month, these two are going to be the best of friends regardless of size. As for Agamemnon, he’s the Obi-Wan of the cats, he’ll be cool teaching both of them.
Personally, I’m not surprised that Cher was one of the first to use this shitty crutch which has become a standard practice in sorry excuses for music and lazy comedy. The annoying, no-talent older sister of Madonna needed something to get attention.
According to the NPR story I caught this morning discussing it, Auto-Tune’s inventor said he originally developed it to fix an occasional error real singers made. My guess, this would be performers who only do one take like Sinatra or Elvis, otherwise, the solution is sing it again. Not the whole song, digital editing can piece together the best parts of every take. If you’re too lazy to redo a section with a bad or off-key note, you probably suck.
Thanks a lot you boneheaded engineering guy!. Now you’ve given false hope to even more, no-talent sociopath nepo babies.
Dwight wasn’t exactly a huge name in music, probably a contemporary of other names I could list right now in the singer/songwriter vein: Marshall Crenshaw, Graham Parker and Paula Cole. Maybe you recall his biggest hit with the general public, “Girls” in which he got an assist via the chorus with Tom …ugh! Petty. There was more to him than that song. I started out with a greatest hits of his about a decade ago when the price was right and then picked up stuff from time to time. “I’m on Fire” is a better place to begin.
Thanks for everything Dwight. You may not have been U2 famous but you still earned a place in the soundtrack of my teen years and beyond!
The red parts of the diagram show how the value of LEGO sets have done over time versus some of the most valuable investments around. The key is patience, even with Star Wars and Harry Potter sets. On the upside, should the LEGO market bottom out, all of us who are “crazy” investors can build our homeless shelter from all the bricks we’ve accumulated!
I put in the tag “Satire” for this unusual French comedy because their sense of humor still eludes me. If someone more well-versed in the language and the larger point to Smoking, please share! Meanwhile, I think it was close since the core storyline is a French parody of The Power Rangers, maybe the big run of MCU movies too.
Meet Tobacco Force! Five special heroes who have the power to fight super cheesy-looking monsters in rubber suits. Each member’s code name is one of the many lethal ingredients in modern cigarettes: Benzene, Nicotine, Ammonia, Menthol and Mercury. Coincidentally, it’s also what each character’s super power is; all fire rays of said chemical. With Smoking being a French satire, they defeat enemies with more gore than a US Saturday morning cartoon.
After a typical mission, Chief Didier (their boss and a large talking rat) orders the team to go on a retreat to refine their teamwork and cohesion. Tobacco Force relaxes, enjoys their new leisurely surroundings in what appears to be a French camping ground. They kill time sharing odd stories the movie shifts over to show the audience; they’re rather absurd and have gruesome endings. Plus you discover that Chief Didier is quite successful at bedding women despite being a rat; both female Tobacco Force members have also had trysts with him. Then during the middle of the retreat, they are told about an enemy called Emperor Lizardin with plans to destroy the world.
Again, I’m not going to lie. I have little to no expertise with French humor. I do know they truly do love Jerry Lewis, maybe younger generations don’t, we can hope. So I will go with my interpretation by stating what was funny to me, namely Tobacco Force. Firstly, I found it pretty funny how their other mission was to tell kids how lame smoking was, especially when the de facto leader tells a young boy who admires them (paraphrased), “Hey kid your dad’s an asshole for smoking.” Secondly, the first point dovetails into this fact, the French LOVE to smoke while other Western countries’ smoker populations have declined. If their number one in the world healthcare would cover a tracheostomy so they could puff away and drink wine/espresso at the same time, there’d be a line longer than the Tour de France route to have the operation. Ergo, superheroes saving the world while warning the French about the lethality of smoking is a futile mission. Tobacco Force might as well have a US branch telling Americans the dangers of too many fucking guns and how the Republicans and NRA enable the mass shootings.
