Sorry, World...

[Mister Chaddy]

From our Canadian friends

[Doctor Rock]

Yep, yep, yep...

I hate his guts.  I hate his guts with a passion. 

And the last from the royal government of petrocanadia:

Americans who married their same-sex partners in Canada say they're dumbfounded a government lawyer is arguing their unions aren't valid.

Every week, if not every day, there's something that makes me cringe.  A few days ago, the minister of the environment called the people who oppose the building of a pipeline a bunch of "radicals".

[Bizarro]

It's more than two years now since my youngest sibling, A___ did that fantastically stupid thing that almost landed him in prison.

He has a new girlfriend, and had told her much of the story. But he'd left out the part about being briefly put in the booby hatch and had maybe minimized his own skeeviness in his telling. Over Xmas, J________'s girlfriend got drunk with A___'s girlfriend and ended up spilling the rest of the details. Officially, A___ and his girlfriend are cool, but unofficially, she's mostly avoiding him and has taken to posting on FB about how she needs to get out more and meet new people. It probably didn't help on the my-boyfriend-is-a-freak tip that she found out he'd been a day away from a totally inappropriately early marriage proposal this holiday season, before backing out.

Dude might seriously need to change his name. He's constantly a Google search away from disaster.

[Tripp]

Like Rick Santorum..

[Doctor Rock]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1yqVD0swvWU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/1yqVD0swvWU</a>

[Doctor Rock]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ruMO9SXto0Q" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ruMO9SXto0Q</a>

[Doctor Rock]

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[Moetown]

I'm at work so I can't see any of it.


I'm pretty outraged over the outrage over the marines pissing on the Taliban corpses. Yes, it's disgusting, but many soldiers do not practice good sportsmanship in war. Stuff much worse than this has been happening since people started fighting wars. In Vietnam, some soldiers would wear necklaces made of ears, in WW I and WW II soldiers would cut out gold teeth or cut off fingers to get a ring. It's unfortunate that someone decided to video it, but I doubt this is an isolated incident. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that this battalion has been celebrating kills this way for years. I'm not saying I think it's ok, but these guys are probably really young and probably aren't too terribly bright. They obviously hate the people they are trying to kill (how else are you supposed to feel about people trying to kill you?) and do not 'respect' the enemy just because they are dead.

[Doctor Rock]

War is hell. 

[Doctor Rock]

Funny that people are going on about this, and not saying much about the imbeciles who sent those marines there to die and kill for no damn good reason.  

This shitty low level interminable crappy little war started 10 years ago.  

[Bizarro]

I really like the new Black Keys record. They're like the new ZZ Top: blues-rock weirdos who found they had some stadium-friendly hooks under their messy riffing and that if they tweaked their drum sound and vocal recording just so, the masses eat that shit up.

Anyway, the songs are good and they sound really good turned up in your car. Loud and fast and catchy as all hell.  Cool "wall of sound" kinda thing, too. Best "play it loud in your car" record in a while, actually.

[Bizarro]

Danger Mouse was a great thing for them. He really helped them focus their songwriting.

I thought after the last record, I might like to hear them get weird again. But honestly, it just sounds even better louder and faster with the hooks even more out front.

[Bizarro]

The Jaded Viewer's Top 10 Horror Films of 2011

That guy is awesome. Terrible grammar, tons of typos, but fucking hilarious, and with the best taste in horror/exploitation of anyone I know of online. He writes reviews that show a thorough and nuanced understanding of the history of horror, of international films, and of exploitation, but he peppers them with smartass opinions, notes on how much nudity is offered, and he rates everything with "spinkicks."

Anyway, he rates The Woman as the best horror movie of 2011, which I'm pretty sure tops my list, too. Review in the horror isles, but be warned: this movie is fucked up to the point where there have been angry confrontations with the filmmakers about it at screenings.

His full list:

1) The Woman
2) I Saw the Devil
3) Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil
4) The Innkeepers
5) Hobo with a Shotgun
6) Rubber
7) Dream Home
8) Black Death
9) Attack the Block
10) The Troll Hunter

The five of those I have seen ALL make my top 10 horror films of 2011 list, too. Makes me feel like I need to get on the others right away.

One other thing by the Jaded Viewer. I quote this rant all the time. Smething to this effect:

"No signal? Really? Cell phone coverage is at 97% nationwide, but every single fucking horror movie takes place in that damn 3%. I'd totally like to visit this place. I am 100% sure it's in one of the Dakotas."

[Bizarro]

I also want to see Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids now, because Jaded Viewer describes it as "Spy Kids on acid."

[Bizarro]

Alan Moore visits the Occupy protests to talk to people wearing "V for Vendetta"-style Guy Fawkes masks.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/FumNSfY7SfI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/FumNSfY7SfI</a>