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Hollywood Be Damned!!!

Originally uploaded by sequence.

Down on Venice Beach

Male bonding in full effect

Or maybe just beer…

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(posted by tobias)

The Onion, always clever and often cuttingly topical, have outdone themselves this time… Without further ado:

Hey, Wasn’t There Some Sort Of National Tragedy A Few Months Back?

Wait a minute. I could swear that I was recently shocked and outraged about something that felt really significant. But now I can’t for the life of me recall what it was. A senseless horror that staggered the imagination in the scope of its brutality? Something so terrible, a grieving nation was never going to be the same?

Did I dream that? I must’ve dreamt that. Because if something like that had actually happened just a few months ago, I’m sure we’d all still be hearing about it and talking about it every day…

You’d think the details of something on that level would be burned into my mind forever—burned into the whole collective consciousness of the country, for that matter. Maybe after 9/11, and Katrina, and the war, and everything else that’s been happening for the last however-many years, the collective consciousness just doesn’t have any room left for new tragedies to be burned into it…

(it goes on…)

One of the better homemade mashups with excellent source material 😀

Kirby’s mid-life crisis is surely Europe’s gain…

Kirby Morrow has liquidated his worldly goods and is currently trekking distant countrysides with backpack and laptop in tow…so I had the feeling that some of you Raimi fans out there might be keen on scoping his weekly blog!

Warm wishes for a safe and satisfying journey, mate…though as an honorary Saint, I’ve got the feeling that you’re in good – albeit unseen – hands 😉

Word is Bond

B

A new Short from Mr Lynch!!!

(Just received the following mail – been getting another wave of similar sentiments lately, but this was definitely my personal favourite…piracy be damned 🙂 )

It’s 6:56 AM in the morning, and I just stepped down from my 18th floor apartment (with ocean view) into my office at the 7th floor; I just finished the last piece of BS. I’m in China, with little to do during my break time in the middle of the week, except watch DVD’s which I buy for less than a $1 a piece.

Best,
Anas

(posted by tobias)

“President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president…. When the President determines a ‘catastrophic emergency’ has occurred, the President can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities…”

… hmmm…. The president, by a unilateral directive of his own signing, can now declare a state of emergency and do pretty much ANYTHING HE WANTS, including SUSPENDING ELECTIONS INDEFINITELY, without any recourse to or oversight by congress. So let’s see… a terrorist action on home soil… at just the right time… but hey, come on, how likely is that? Err, anyone want to put money on it? My guess is that the folks with real money already have.

…then what does that say about the rest of us??? (at least concerning Health Care in the western world???)

From the makers of 40 Year-Old Virgin, this is a cut scene from their upcoming Seth Rogan romp Knocked Up.

Laugh, bitches…

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(posted by tobias)

thought I’d post a couple of differing opinions this time on the issue of the day: compromise…

First, under the heading ‘Keith Olbermann tears THE ENTIRE US GOVERNMENT a new one…

… second, Jeffrey Feldman offers a completely different viewpoint.…

thoughts?