Am I the only one who gets scared...

...when Commander Cuckoo Bananas speaks?

I've said it before, but it's not his idiocies that makes me grate my teeth down to the bloody nerve endings, it's when he decides to speak to you as if YOU'RE the idiot.

"I think the Iraqi people dealt the insurgents a serious blow when we had the elections," Bush said. "In other words, what the insurgents fear is democracy because democracy is the opposition of their vision."

Mind you, this is the stuff that the Bush-ball-nuzzling media think is QUOTABLE...

"Stink, stank, stunk" never applied to you...

Thurl Ravenscroft, singer of the Mr. Grinch song and voice of Tony the Tiger, dies and the world becomes a slightly crueler place...

If this sh*t keeps going on I may have to start drinking on a regular basis...

First it was the home security robots, then the rise of self-replicating robots...

What's the next big scientific development? Just a fucking DEATH STAR LASER BEAM!

I knew there must have been a reason Dubya was spending extra time practicing Doom 3...

Back to dumpster diving, but at least I have a reason now...

In the aftermath of the Bunnymen debacle, fans have been asked to hold on to their ticket stubs. Wouldn't it be cool if they gave us each TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS?!?

No, that's not likely. I'd settle for five and a kiss...

Damn you, Latvians!

I found this poll humorous and disturbing; the question is "Who hates Russia most of all?"

America came 3rd. 2nd? "Everybody."

Based on my own personal interactions, I voted for Estonia, but they were a bit further down the list...

Let's not be paranoid, shall we, our friend to the East? There there, you're still a great economic and military power which we all fear. No need to rattle that rusty sabre...

Well, we were spared the cutter...

Just got back from the Baltimore HFStival; I'll print some more comments later but good show notwithstanding, I was really let down by the walkoff of Echo and the Bunnymen. After two aborted attempts at "Lips Like Sugar" and then an attempt at "Rescue", Ian McCulloch walked off the stage and the band followed. I thought at the time it was a protest at faulty mic equipment, but these forums indicate McCulloch was in the bag (Sis heard something else, too, I'll let her post about it in the comments if she would like).

I find it hard to believe he couldn't stagger through 4-5 songs even if he were in the bag. A dick move, but I still to reserve the right to buy their shit in the future. After all, I'm going to give Lucas more money...

Update (May 16): There's an apology up on the website. First reaction from me is their inaccurate characterization of "their set being cut short". There. Was. No. Set.

"Revenge of the Sith" ending revealed...

Sorry to spoil you, readers, but I just caught an advance screening last night and thought you should know. Here it is...

PALPATINE

Now is the time, young Skywalker, you must make your choice!

OBI-WAN

No, once you go over to the Dark Side, THERE IS NO RETURN!

ANAKIN (in deep thought)

You know what, you're right, Obi-wan! I don't think I'll join the Sith after all!

[GEORGE LUCAS jumps into screen, drops his pants, and starts waving his bare ass at the audience]

LUCAS

HA HA! Reverse engineer THAT, nerds! I despise you all and hold you in contempt, and still you give me your money! KISS MY ASS!


Well, can't say I'm surprised...

By the way, that wasn't a clip, that was the entire movie...

Spare us the cutter...

I'm up at Sis's place in Baltimore this weekend for the HFStival. Does the fact that the band I look forward to most is Echo and the Bunnymen too readily reveal my age? Wonder if they'll still have poofy hair...

Not to be alarmist or anything, but MERCIFUL MOTHER OF GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!

This article pops up on Yahoo News and the streets AREN'T covered with the end result of millions shitting their pants in fear?? Self-replicating robots, people!! In combination with the home security technology just made available, we're talking about a potential army of death squad robots. And where's the goddamn Department of Homeland Security on this?? Are they just going to wait until Khan or Davros figure a way out of their hyperstasis? Please, call your congressperson now and alert them of this potential menace!

'Cause they've stopped taking my calls...

С днём победы!

Happy Victory Day to all those who love kicking Nazi tushie all points west from Stalingrad. Please enjoy this clip from one of my fave Russian bands, Auktyon, which has nothing to do with the actual holiday save the title, "Victory Day" (track 2 on this album).

"Please for you to enjoy, Mr. Bush, this soup without dioxin!"

If Bush wants to call Lukashenko a scumbag, well, no argument there, but using the Victory Day celebration to remind Putin of the Soviet occupation of the Baltics? Ever hear of timing, cretin? If Jacques Chirac visited DC on Independence Day and gave Bush a tongue-lashing about the Japanese-American interment camps, I wonder how that would play on Fox News. And I've been in Russia for a few Victory Days, you just don't mess with them, we as a nation have no idea how sacred this day is to the Russian people. I don't know if it's possible to be even more hated abroad as Bush is now, but this is one way to do it...

And George, just a bit of friendly advice if you can ignore the source. Maybe daddy was in the CIA, but you're out of your league here. Putin might just have you garrotted in your hotel room...

UPDATE: Told you.

Man is elected president after saying he will "restore honor and dignity to the White House" and his wife delights America with a joke about how he jacked off a horse.

I'm not kidding...

WTF, Haloscan?

It seems that my own comments have been deleted from some of my previous posts. Granted, nothing I feel particularly bad about losing, but has this happened to anyone else?

So how's by you?

You ever have those weeks? Final papers and exams to grade, combined with various other distractions, have made me lax contributing to THIS distraction...

Not feeling particularly clever today, either, not that that ever stopped me before.

I don't even have a clever title for a Larry-King-esque post like "Odds and sods" (my brother's designation)...

Oh well, let's get crackin'...

* Happy Orthodox Easter everyone! What's that, you already celebrated Easter a month earlier? Well, see you all in hell...

* Don't really have an opinion on the "kidnapping-that-wasn't" story except to say that picture they kept showing looked really creepy...

* Another reason to hate Texas. Republicans blocked a plan to name a stretch of highway after Willie Nelson, citing partisanship. Because the last thing you'd want is to name anything after partisan figures, right, STATE WITH THE FREAKIN' GEORGE BUSH AIRPORT??

Well, enjoy the day...