linusvanpelt

Happy St Patricks Day! I am 1/4 Irish heritage, but this holiday never meant too much to me.

I have the new Punisher movie via Netflix, and it is supposed to be hella-bad. I am trying to mood up to watch it. I love the character, and it sux that this is now the third try at a Punisher movie and the third fail (tho...
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Just watched The Man With The Golden Arm, a 1955 movie starring Frank Sinatra as a heroin addict. For a movie over 50 years old, it is surprisingly frank in its depiction. Unlike most movies of the early days (like Reefer Madness) it avoids becoming unintentionally campy. You don't laugh at it with a snide smirk. Sinatra is classic here, the scene where he goes...
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I had $100 in Borders Gift Cards and bought the following books (I am totally addicted to buying books, moreso than reading them):

Street Gang: The Complete History Of Sesame Street

Sinatra In Hollywood

The Ten Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare And How It Changed America

SuperMan Vs. Hollywood: How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, And Warring Writers Grounded An American Icon


I wanted...
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Go see Milk. It is great.

Question for all you that are writers:

Is it a funny idea to have a bunch of right-wing christians insist that Heavy Metal music has satanistic messages in it if you play it backwards becoming they themselves satanists when hearing it during a demonstration on, like, CNN in 1988?

I think so. I luv the idea that blowhard bible-literal-truth-believers can, by their obsession with Metal,...
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OK, I have been "doing" the Wii Fit for about three weeks now. I don't "get" it (like the yuppie scum in "Big" doesn't get skyscraper toys that fold into giant robot bugs). You weigh in, see, and then you do some half-assed balance tests than it calculates your Wii Fit age. Ok. Tonight I did the whole rigaramole. According to the Wii Fit, I...
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The academy awards officially suck.

How did The Dark Knight get passed over? Did anyone actually see The Reader? It didn't even get all that good of reviews. It got nominated because Harvey and Bob Weinstein bullied people into voting for it, I have no doubt.

It is Bee-Ess.

Here's hoping the promised Change can start to happen now. I am hopeful. I also hope people don't think things are going to immediately improve, as we need to un-do a lot of bad things to get us back to neutral before we can make things better again. I would hate for President Obama (man that's cool!) to be attacked because he isn't a miracle...
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Just got back from AC after seeing comedian Jim Norton, who was fucking funny. I ate Japanese for dinner (Sushi and Scallops) and didn't feel eater's guilt about it (I ate almost nothing during the day to allow for the calories such as they were and must have walked several miles in the Borgata by walking the perimeter many many times).

After the show I...
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As part of my resolve to lose weight I have been eating much less overall and much healthier to boot. Since I live in the Northeast of the USA it is too cold to walk outside (my preferred physical and mental exercise) I have been doing the Nintendo Wii Fit. It is pretty awesome, but if you are overweight it can be daunting since it...
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