Walked into my bathroom just now to find the Sea Monkey King kneeling naked on a stool in front of the medicine cabinet mirror, having himself. At least, I think that’s what he was doing—though I suppose it’s possible he was just strangling a cherry Gummi Bear and really, really enjoying it. Hard to tell with these creatures sometimes, to be honest. And it’s not like you can ask them,
May 2005
May 17, 2005
The eighth set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly reactionary rightwing blogs sneer at homosexuals and minorities of all stripes
1970s, group 8 Truck Turner (1974) Bone (1972) Coffy (1973) Superfly (1972) Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) Willie Dynamite (1974) Black Caesar (1973) Hell Up in Harlem (1972) Cleopatra Jones (1973) Dolemite (1975) Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song (1971) Black Belt Jones (1974) Shaft’s Big Score! (1972) Foxy Brown (1974) Detroit 9000 (1973) Slaughter (1972) Uptown Saturday Night (1974) Adam at 6 A.M. (1970) Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) Winter
May 17, 2005
Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the discovery of two new retroviruses discovered in Central African ape hunters
Garrett: “I’m pretty sure I never slept with a Central African ape hunter. So I should be cool. Right…?”* **** update: “Wait, Colin Farrell has never hunted apes in Central Africa, has he? “Hello…?”
May 17, 2005
Galloway blasts U.S. on Iraq allegations
From the AP: British lawmaker George Galloway vehemently rejected a Senate subcommittee’s claim that Saddam Hussein awarded him lucrative allocations under the U.N. oil-for-food program and accused its chairman of maligning his good name. The subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman, claimed that Galloway allegedly funneled allocations through a fund he established in 1998 to help a 4-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukemia and received allocations worth 20 million
May 17, 2005
Random Cat Blogger thought, Tuesday, May 17, 2:27 PM EST
Christ, do I love the kitties! So fucking fluffy…! update: Kitties most definitely aren’t full of crap. No sir. Kitties friggin’ rock!
May 17, 2005
Another moment of unabashed pragmatism
Forced to choose between writing a post or running out to pick up Team America: World Police on DVD, I struck upon this as a way to do both. This.
May 16, 2005
BREAKING: “Newsweek” officially retracts story
Via FOXNews. No word on how Newsweek plans to retract the 17 deaths and hundreds of injuries caused by its eagerness to demonize the US military in general, and the Guantanamo Bay interrogators specifically.
May 16, 2005
In which I discuss hermeneutics with a leftover steamed dumpling from last night’s dim sum meal, 3
steamed dumpling: “But what you’re positing sounds to me an awful lot like intentionalism. Which, that’s been out of academic fashion since, what?—the New Critics?* me: “Sure. But just because something goes out of fashion doesn’t make it useless.” steamed dumpling: me: steamed dumpling: “Parachute pants?” me: “Sewed mine together and made a really nifty tent. With lots of little compartments for storage.”
Shannon Elizabeth comments on an April 30 match between 42 Cambodian Fighting Midgets and an African lion, called in 12 minutes after 28 Cambodian Fighting Midgets were killed and the rest seriously injured
Elizabeth: “Well, if it’s any consolation I’m sure Panthera Leo wasn’t the first huge pussy to swallow up a Cambodian fighting midget…”* “Speaking of which, did I ever tell you Joe Pantoliano says I have breasts like a couple of Gorbachev heads? Sweet guy, that Joey Pants.” **** (thanks T. Marcell)*