This is some great casting. And allow me to be one of the first to use the title "Pope Bilbo". It's just a great pairing of words. It rolls off the tongue so well.
Pope Bilbo Pope Bilbo Pope Bilbo!
LONG LIVE POPE BILBO!
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Strange bedfellows
It's a weird concept, but I suppose if James Carville and Mary Matalin can be happily married, then these guys can enjoy playing a round of golf together.
What I want to see is Bush and Clinton uncover a conspiracy against them formulated by Dick Cheney, then they can go on the run through the Southern Appalachians. News coverage of that is bound to be more interesting than the runaway bride or missing teenagers in Aruba or whateverthehell they decide to focus all their friggin airtime on next.
What I want to see is Bush and Clinton uncover a conspiracy against them formulated by Dick Cheney, then they can go on the run through the Southern Appalachians. News coverage of that is bound to be more interesting than the runaway bride or missing teenagers in Aruba or whateverthehell they decide to focus all their friggin airtime on next.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Lord of the Hissy-Fit
I have just enough time during the day to write posts for this blog, but I sure don't have enough time to be playing with graphics in photoshop. Fortunately for me and everyone else, people like this guy have us covered.
The 1st anniversary is "paper", so fork over the books!
Today marks one year since I started Acrentropy. Here are some statistics:
First, I've slacked on the Movie reviews. Most of the reviews I did early on were films I loved and had lots of things already to say about them. I've run out of those for now and have yet to be inspired to write another one, though I will eventually do so. As a side note: In lieu of a full length review, allow me to say that Batman Begins kicks ass.
Chicken Caesar reviews also petered out, but I plan on gearing up on those again. It all comes down to visiting new restaurants and remembering to order a CCS when I do.
I've really enjoyed doing the "Quote of the Month" series. Most likely Keith David will be retired after December and be replaced by someone else. Being an African American actor with a cool voice is not a requirement, but it will weigh heavily in favor of any possible replacements (If all else fails, then Samuel L. Jackson will be chosen as default).
And that's about it. I hope to be here another year at least, and if all goes well, my general readership will double in that time ... making it about six people. Bye!
Site Redesigns - Twice since the original blogskinLooking back on the year that was, I notice several things.
Chicken Caesar Salad Reviews - 14
Movie Reviews - 66 (plus 13 shorts from the Jacksonville Film Festival)
"Skippy" of the Day posts - 25
Better than Ginger posts - 1 (gee, that blogging series really caught on like wildfire, didn't it?)
Yaphet Kotto quotes - 7
Keith David quotes - 6
General Movie Quotes - 11
Recycle Bin - 2
Lyrically speaking - 1
First, I've slacked on the Movie reviews. Most of the reviews I did early on were films I loved and had lots of things already to say about them. I've run out of those for now and have yet to be inspired to write another one, though I will eventually do so. As a side note: In lieu of a full length review, allow me to say that Batman Begins kicks ass.
Chicken Caesar reviews also petered out, but I plan on gearing up on those again. It all comes down to visiting new restaurants and remembering to order a CCS when I do.
I've really enjoyed doing the "Quote of the Month" series. Most likely Keith David will be retired after December and be replaced by someone else. Being an African American actor with a cool voice is not a requirement, but it will weigh heavily in favor of any possible replacements (If all else fails, then Samuel L. Jackson will be chosen as default).
And that's about it. I hope to be here another year at least, and if all goes well, my general readership will double in that time ... making it about six people. Bye!
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
A Giant among Historians has passed on.
Story here.
Mrs. Mosley, who hails from Mississippi, has often said that had she spent more of her childhood in that state, she would have a gentle, charming southern accent like Shelby Foote. Indeed, listening to him tell stories in Ken Burn's "The Civil War" is one of the pinnacles of that massively accomplished work.
Rest in Peace.
Mrs. Mosley, who hails from Mississippi, has often said that had she spent more of her childhood in that state, she would have a gentle, charming southern accent like Shelby Foote. Indeed, listening to him tell stories in Ken Burn's "The Civil War" is one of the pinnacles of that massively accomplished work.
Rest in Peace.
"Pissed away"
It was easy to go apocalyptic on Karl Rove last week. The man has come to symbolize everything that is hateful and wrong with the Bush administration. Fortunately, cooler heads than I have the media dais, so to speak. Listen to Molly:
Find me the offer for therapy and understanding in that vote. Anyone remember what actually happened after 9-11? Unprecedented unity, support across the board, joint statements by Democratic and Republican political leaders. The whole world was with us. The most important newspaper in France headlined, "We Are All Americans Now," and all our allies sent troops and money to help. That is what George Bush has pissed away with his war in Iraq.
The vote on invading Iraq was 77 to 23 in the Senate and 296 to 133 in the House. By that time, some liberals did question the wisdom of invasion because: A) Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 and B) it looked increasingly unlikely that Iraq actually had great stores of weapons of mass destruction, since the United Nations inspectors, who were on the ground, couldn't find any sign of them -- even though Donald Rumsfeld claimed we knew exactly where they were.
Since my name is Molly Ivins and I speak for myself, I'll tell you exactly why I opposed invading Iraq: because I thought it would be bad for this country, our country, my country. I opposed the invasion out of patriotism, and that is the reason I continue to oppose it today -- I think it is bad for us. I think it has done nothing but harm to the United States of America. I think we have created more terrorists than we faced to start with and that our good name has been sullied all over the world. I think we have alienated our allies and have killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did.
I did not oppose the war because I like Saddam Hussein. I have been active in human rights work for 30 years, and I told you he was a miserable s.o.b. back in the '80s, when our government was sending him arms.
I did not oppose the war because I am soft on terrorists or didn't want to get Osama bin Laden. To the contrary, I thought it would be much more useful to get bin Laden than to invade Iraq -- which, once again, had nothing to do with 9-11. I believe the case now stands proved that this administration used 9-11 as a handy excuse to invade Iraq, which it already wanted to do for other reasons.
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