AKA "Mr. Glowpaws" AKA "Stupid" AKA "Blue Cat" AKA "Rock"

Gandalf Grey

May 1998 - January 15, 2007

POTC: More photographic goodness

No, I still don't have anything substantial to post. I may not for awhile. But in the meantime, I have more advanced pictures of the third Pirates of the Carribean movie (via AICN). Enjoy!

Being creative a decade ago ... oops, too late!

Creative juices just haven't been flowing lately, so therefore there's been nothing interesting to post.

However, I did come across this story (via Boing Boing) , and I have to say that I totally came up with this idea way back when I was in college. Now if only I had patented it ...

Skippy of the Day: Dubya ... again (and again and again)

I really don't know whether to laugh or cry on this one (via Yahoo! News):

President Bush said Wednesday he'll submit a proposal to balance the budget in five years and exhorted Congress to "end the dead of night process" of quietly tucking expensive pet projects into spending bills.

Bush must now contend with a Democratic congress in order to succeed in these noble goals of eliminating pork and balancing the budget. Oh, it would be sooo much easier and faster for him to do if both houses of Congress were controlled by his own party for say ... oh, I don't know, six years.

Because, if nothing else, the Bush presidency and the Republican party have become the very epitome of fiscal responsibility.

Can we next see Sanjay Dutt beat the living crap out of Will Ferrell?

I visited the IMDb's Comedy Genre page today and found this top ten list:

That's right, an Indian film that was released four months ago has already surpassed Strangelove and Python for the title of greatest comedy. It just goes to show you: Never underestimate the power of Bollywood!

Delroy Lindo Quote of the Month: January 2007

May I present the Quote-of-the-Month Hall of Fame:

Yaphet Kotto: 2004

Keith David: 2005

Forest Whitaker: 2006

And presenting the next in line for the new year:

Delroy Lindo: 2007

(Of course, the title of the post was a dead giveaway. So much for building up suspense.)

Lindo has been a favorite of mine for quite a while. While I cannot pinpoint the exact moment I noticed the first three subjects of my quote series, I know precisely when I (along with, I'm sure, many other moviegoers) began to take notice of Lindo.

The first portion of Spike Lee's Malcolm X concerns the early life of Malcolm (Denzel Washington) when he still went by the last name Little and was a small-time criminal. When he meets a powerful gangster named West Indian Archie (Delroy Lindo), he gets a job as a numbers runner. Their paths divide after Archie tries to have Malcolm killed from a misundertsanding over a bet, and they only meet again years later when Malcolm has converted to Islam. He finds Archie in a far more desperate situation than when he last saw him: Living a poor existence in a ramshackle apartment and crippled from what appears to be the effects of a stroke.

Malcolm's forgiveness extends even to this man who once held a gun to his back, but this powerful message is surpassed by the performance of Delroy Lindo as Archie, who makes his physical transformation from ultrasmooth criminal into a pitiable shell of his former self. The following is the entire exchange from the movie:

Malcolm: How you doing, Archie?

Archie: My man, Red. Come here, man.

Malcolm: No, don't get up. It's all right.

Archie: Is ... really you, Red?

Malcolm: Yes, It's me. I came to, uh, just to thank you ... thank you for saving my life. When I think back to when we were on the streets of Harlem trying to gun each other down -

Archie: I wasn't going to shoot you, man. It was ... just my rep. You know? All I had was my rep. But now ... you tell me this: You did really have that number?

Malcolm: I don't know, Archie ... I really don't even remember, and it's not even important. The important thing now is to get you back on your feet.

Archie: You know, I have some angles ... ain't been figured yet.

(Archie nearly falls out of his chair, but Malcolm catches him.)

Malcolm: It's all right.

(He straightens him up and slides a stool over to prop up his feet.)

Archie: Help me with my arm. I need to exercise my arm. Yep.

(Malcolm bends Archie's right arm back and forth at the elbow.)

Malcolm: That's better?

Archie: Yep. It feels good.

Malcolm: Good.