A conductor who can turn anything into gold enters a dance competition with a parolled murderer who wants to cure cancer. Stars Bruce Jenner and Joe Don Baker. Genre: Sci-FiAlso funny, the Froo Froo menu generator.
6.05.2007
I'd Watch It
Another great diversion, the TV Show Pitch Generator. I got:
6.04.2007
The Anti-Chronicles Of Narnia
I didn't know this, but Hollywood has made a movie from The Golden Compass, part 1 of the "Dark Materials" trilogy written by Phillip Pullman. I haven't read these books (they are on my list), but I do know that they are considered more heretical than Harry Potter by the people who find heresy in such things (including the brother of our hero, Christopher Hitchens). Why? Pullman is an atheist, and these books are allegedly VERY hostile to religion. Hence, they are on my reading list.
The trailer is up at the official site here.
The trailer is up at the official site here.
6.03.2007
So good I just posted the whole article
Fat, Happy Angst-Ridden, and Stupid
posted by Joe Noory @ 12:56 AM
One is a EU super-group of fat-fighters. Formally this is referred to as a High Level Group comprised of a representative from every member state. The group would compile programmes on nutrition, overweight and obesity health issues.The beaurocracy is a nice touch, isn’t it? It must be soothing somehow – something to break up the omnipresent anarchy of company and property owner wanting to do what they want with their own stuff from time to time:
More than 50% of the adult population is overweight or obese in most member states, the EC says. In the child population, an estimated 21 million are overweight, with the number increasing by 400,000 every year.
Shoe factory workers in southern France took four senior managers captive on Wednesday after the firm announced plans to relocate its production to Tunisia.When in doubt, the logical thing to do about a company that can’t break even is obvious: take hostages. It must be the mysterious X-factor in that “most productive people in the world” thing they keep banging on about.
Managers of Jallatte, Europe's leading manufacturer of safety shoes, told workers early Wednesday they intended to cut 285 out of 336 jobs across its four French production sites.
Furious at the news, union leaders and workers burst into a meeting in the southern town of Saint Hippolyte du Fort, attended by four top executives, including Giovanni Falco, managing director of the company's Italian owner JAL.
The managers were held captive for several hours, until Falco agreed to push back by three weeks a June 6 meeting intended to kickstart the restructuring plan.
Fat, happy, and stupid.
The Mahdi-come-lately gives even more reason to take out his nuclear capabilities
Ahmadinejad: Israel will be destroyed
Iran Focus
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the world would witness the destruction of Israel soon, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Ahmadinejad said last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah showed for the first time that the "hegemony of the occupier regime (Israel) had collapsed, and the Lebanese nation pushed the button to begin counting the days until the destruction of the Zionist regime," IRNA quoted him as saying.
"God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying during a speech to foreign guests mostly from African, Arab and neighboring countries who attended ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is known as the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Read it all.
Iran Focus
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said the world would witness the destruction of Israel soon, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Ahmadinejad said last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah showed for the first time that the "hegemony of the occupier regime (Israel) had collapsed, and the Lebanese nation pushed the button to begin counting the days until the destruction of the Zionist regime," IRNA quoted him as saying.
"God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying during a speech to foreign guests mostly from African, Arab and neighboring countries who attended ceremonies marking the 18th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who is known as the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Read it all.
Countdown to Israel's destruction has begun, says Ahmadinejad
Jihad Watch
"The countdown to Israel's destruction has begun, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech commemorating the death of Iranian revolution leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Sunday.
'The arrogant superpowers and the Zionist regime invested all their efforts during the 33-day war, but after 60 years, their pride has been trampled and the countdown to the destruction of this regime has been started by Hizbullah fighters,' the president was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency Mehr."
Read it all.
Jihad Watch
"The countdown to Israel's destruction has begun, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech commemorating the death of Iranian revolution leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Sunday.
'The arrogant superpowers and the Zionist regime invested all their efforts during the 33-day war, but after 60 years, their pride has been trampled and the countdown to the destruction of this regime has been started by Hizbullah fighters,' the president was quoted as saying by Iranian news agency Mehr."
Read it all.
I Love a Movie List
Particularly one that shows just how screwed up we are: The Best 25 Movies You've Never Seen. Well, that other people haven't seen. And there is the Divine factor, of course.
I thought Mr. Hitchens had sprung fully formed from the head of Zeus
Hitchens vs Hitchens
By PETER HITCHENS"Am I my brother’s reviewer? A word of explanation is needed here. Some of you may know that I have a brother, Christopher, who disagrees with me about almost everything.
Some of those who read his books and articles also know that I exist, though they often dislike me if so. But in general we inhabit separate worlds – in more ways than one.
He is of the Left, lives in the United States and recently became an American citizen. I am of the Right and, after some years in Russia and America, live in the heart of England. Occasionally we clash in public."
Read it all at The Daily Mail.
6.02.2007
I Had Forgotten This...
...but thanks to Christopher Hitchens, and his brilliant must-read God Is Not Great, I don't think I will again.Deo Vindice, "God on our side," the motto of the CSA. Deo Vindice is now what I say whenever anyone claims that ethereal beings of some sort or another are guiding/ advising/ advocating his or her actions. Deo Vindice, indeed.
Look At All The Delicious Medicine!
Free The Hops (which has a most enlightening website) is holding the Magic City Brewfest tonight at Sloss Furnace. Here's an organization we can all get behind: one that demands that Alabama repeal its ridiculous beer laws.
I was in North Carolina when they repealed their equally absurd beer laws. As far as I know, the state has not burned to the ground, endured any pharaonic plagues, sunk into Sheol, or been struck by a celestial body. And the beer we got was really, really good.
I was in North Carolina when they repealed their equally absurd beer laws. As far as I know, the state has not burned to the ground, endured any pharaonic plagues, sunk into Sheol, or been struck by a celestial body. And the beer we got was really, really good.
ASO Strikes Back
In yet another addition of "Why I [Heart] Highland Park," the Alabama Symphony Orchestra is in the middle of its Sounds of Summer series. It takes place in Caldwell Park, a 3-minute walk from where I live. Last night was "The ASO Strikes Back," and as you might have guessed it was all Star Wars. Here are some pictures.
The park was pretty packed for a $20 dollar/head event. The McWane Center sponsored a sleep-over event in conjunction with this, so lots of kids were there, many dressed up. After the concert they headed to McWane to play in the museum and (hopefully) learn about science through science fiction.
The 501st was there, and the kids were loving it.
This little boy wanted to know why Leia didn't come dressed in her Tatooine bikini.
The best thing: the symphony was eating this shit up. They were clearly having a good time. Several of the women in the symphony came with their hair in Leia buns, and the conductor told stories about how the music had inspired him at an early age. And it was such a pretty night too. Very memorable and a lot of fun.
The park was pretty packed for a $20 dollar/head event. The McWane Center sponsored a sleep-over event in conjunction with this, so lots of kids were there, many dressed up. After the concert they headed to McWane to play in the museum and (hopefully) learn about science through science fiction.
The 501st was there, and the kids were loving it.
This little boy wanted to know why Leia didn't come dressed in her Tatooine bikini.The best thing: the symphony was eating this shit up. They were clearly having a good time. Several of the women in the symphony came with their hair in Leia buns, and the conductor told stories about how the music had inspired him at an early age. And it was such a pretty night too. Very memorable and a lot of fun.
6.01.2007
Abe Homo Sapien
A new winner in the "But The Door Has Been Open For Years" award is David Hyde Pierce, who recently came out of his Prada-filled closet.John Travolta may try to snatch the prize away though, considering his portrayal of Divine in the movie-turned musical-turned back into a movie version of Hairspray, but every time Ms. Travolta opens his mouth, L. Ron Hubbard's purse falls out.
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