My first year in St Louis after my family moved from New York in the late 90s, I watched the school bus wiz by on Columbus day, confused. Evidently Missouri doesn’t give you the day off like New York did. And why the hell not? I never got an answer…
Of course Columbus Day is a perfectly legitimate holiday, despite it being protested in recent history by dumb hippies who want to hammer a propaganda message of white European evil as often as possible.
Was Chris-Co a douchebag? uh duh. wasn’t everyone back then pretty much? Did he probably do awful things? chyea. again. kinda went with the times. So what? No one is asking a religion be created around the virtues of the guy. but he did accomplish one of the biggest Historical game-changers in all recorded time, so ya – wtf is wrong with a day to acknowledge that?
Columbus discovered America. Don’t gimmie this “the native Americans discovered it” politically correct bullshit. Columbus discovered the Americas for the civilized world. Chyea, its great that there was a stoneage society already there and yes, maybe Eric the Red had bumped into the land mass before Columbus. – and? so what? Columbus’s voyage to India was what literally put America on the map. Sorry to all the hippies that love to romanticize the Native American culture in any and all of its representations, but cut the crap. You’re not in the quad with your fellow student hippies, you’re with adults, so lets be real.
Exit note: How messed up was the horrorshow that was known as “food” back then that so many expensive and life threateningly dangerous voyages were so routinely made for spices. SPICES… not gold or slaves or sex slaves or golden sex slaves – SPICES. sacks of plant extracts that made your bland and horrible meals just a tiny bit less painful to consume. gross.
Everyone is excited for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, and it will be interesting no doubt, but the original books popularity is built on a mountain of slave labor. There is nothing intrinsically special, unique or even good about the text of the book. It’s only 9 sentences for Christ sake – how good can 9 sentences be even when at the most scholarly and brilliant? The books popularity comes 100% from the illustrations. We all liked the book for the same reason we liked Dr Seuss: the ILLUSTRATIONS. Every Charlie Brown cartoon was nothing special either. We love the Peanuts specials for the music and we love Wild Things for the pictures. lets be honest.
UPDATE: completely vindicated. Adam Carolla proves my point by going through this shitfest line by line…
I’ve been loosely following the development of this ever since I heard the news that Disney had hired David Mamet to write a screenplay for a film adaptation of an Anne Frank story. They later rejected it because it was “too dark” (wtf?) and didn’t focus on Anne enough…or at all. wait what? eh-yea… Apparently Mamet was all “mm. ya. Anne Frank. cool chick. – hey, what iiiif… we doooo… *THIS*…instead..ya?” and wrote a screenplay not about the teenage author of the diary he was assigned to write about, buuuut… about “a contemporary Jewish girl who goes to Israel and learns about the traumas of suicide bombing.” okay.. but what? Would it have been released under the title “How the Diary of Anne Frank made me think of this other neat story I think should be told”?
Made me remember some of the comments I saw on the DailyBeast – “What’s next? Giget Goes to Auschwitz?” – “Anne Frank the musical To be followed by The Diary of Anne Frank On Ice!?” Reminds me of the Saturday TV Funhouse SNL sketch of a Disney version of Titanic that included a preview of Anne Frank singing “I’m gonna write a novel some day”.
Gotta love that president we have. He’s got an awesome talent to get grades, degrees, book deals, law review editorships, presidencies, and now Nobel Prizes based on doing nothing.
Mainstream media sources didn’t quite understand why the award was made to the big O, and even Obama himself was like “wtf. lol. seriously?”
People outside the White House and in President Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama may have come too soon. They are waiting for more concrete results.
Women have hard times with generalizations (things that are generally) for some reason (this sentence is an example) so before anyone thinks the title is inaccurate because they get lady-boners all the time over big muscles – stop right there because you’re 2 layers of wrong already. Female visual stimulation is not non-existant – it just has so much less than 1% resemblance
I’m super tired of explaining this to you people as I have been for years. Luckily, best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host Dennis Prager is undertaking exactly this specific issue in one of his Prager University videos on male/female differences. The male preoccupation with the visual is the first topic raised and it is one that every female needs to learn. NEEDS. The domino effect of other realizations and understandings this knowledge will afford a female brain cannot be understated.
One of the services the video does is it reiterates a point I have been trying to cram into dumb girls dense skulls since 8th grade: What you think is “looking pretty” is in fact, to a guy, “advertising your sex”. When you wear short, low cut, tight things, no male is looking at you and thinking “gosh, she sure is pretty and/or has a great sense of color and style” more than he thinks “gosh, that sure is an artistically looking cut of beef” when he see’s a thick medium-rare Ribeye being sliced on a commercial for Outback Steakhouse. Dennis says this effect on men is impossible for women to understand. He’s probably right. But it is important for a ladies healthy development that she try her damnedest. It will make her more prudent, more happy and be a better wife or girlfriend.
He also briefly mentions strip clubs vs male strip clubs, which is the biggest “duh” ever, that it shows how illogical a females thinking is when I hear the two compared as if they were equal. Please… Male strip clubs are for gay guys and bachelorette party jokes. It’s hilarious for young women to see men strip for their entertainment and its mentally satisfying for middle aged (and older) women to see the younger men that used to be chasing them strip – neither goes out with the girls to see dudes dance as a turn-on and no female goes to these places alone because, like i said, its a gag. It’s the reason Girls Gone Wild is a billion dollar industry and Guys Gone Wild is a one-tape humor-based parody. Open your eyes people… The only reason anyone is dumb enough to equate male and female sexual nature is that college professors are dumb enough to believe it, and America has a hard time understanding how educated people can believe stupidly obvious untruths.
Prager has many more of these 5 minute condensed semesters over at PragerU.com
Obama dealt with the fact that Chicago is a crime ridden ghetto shithole with a deft and brilliant strategy: Shhhhhhhhhh.
Back in Obama’s adopted hometown of Chicago, Illinois, some members of the black community are incensed at the president for not personally speaking out about the murder of Derrion Albert, a 16-year-old boy who was beaten to death last week in a predominantly African-American neighborhood.
What really set them off was that Obama, in an awkward case of bad timing, instead flew to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago to the International Olympics Committee as the ideal city to host the games in 2016. And as it turned out, it didn’t put Chicago over the top. The city didn’t even make it to the final round in Friday’s voting.
What exactly made anyone think that our nations top 3 competitor for “most violent and crime ridden city” would be an awesome choice worthy of hosting the Olympics? Of course, Rio has a huge drug and crime problem, but that’s on the Olympic committee. I’m pointing my “wtf, really?” finger back at America and American’s who thought a non-Chicago Olympics was a bad thing.
Judging from what’s being said on talk radio, Web sites and blogs frequented by residents of Chicago, the fact that Obama put the Olympics ahead of responding to the breakdown of the social order in Chi-Town is a slap in the face.
Just yesterday, a self-identified African-American called into “The Rush Limbaugh Show” and complained about how Obama flew off to “a foreign country” while black kids in Chicago are being consumed by violence. The caller wondered when other African-Americans were going to realize that Obama wasn’t like them, because he’s an elitist living an extraordinary life and breathing rarified air.
That sentiment was all over black-oriented blogs. One blogger wrote: “More children died violent deaths in Chicago this year than in any other city in America. But all Obama cares about is bringing the Olympics to a city where basic services like water, sanitation and power often don’t work. … If Chicago does win the bid there will be plenty of police and National Guard on hand to protect the international visitors. That’s more than they are willing to do for their own residents.”
And then there’s the question of whether 2012 deserves your movie-going patronage or not. Some critics, basing only on the trailer, saying not:
It looked, however, as if the CGI experts have been given a completely free hand designing this apocalypse – with the net result that the trailer bordered on laughable.
Then the second trailer hit, which starts with a peaceful domestic scene between Cusack and Peet and ends up showing us more of that dramatic plane ride through a city which plunges into the depths of Hell as they fly by
Critics in the U.S. are already beginning to describe the movie as a disaster in itself.
The OTT effects and over-dramatic story has come in for some criticism even before the film hits the big screen.
If the trailer is anything to go by, we’re likely to see every kind of disaster imaginable, all crammed into one big turkey of a film created by a director reknowned for his overboard use of effects.
One critic says of the trailer: ‘The 2012 The Worst is Over Movie Clip that recently found its way online is full of the absurd action and grand special effects audiences have come to expect from a Roland Emmerich film.
”At the beginning of the clip we are given a glimpse of the Curtis’ family dynamic present in 2012. As the clip continues, the delivered action is so over-the-top it almost looks like an cartoon.’
So there’s a video of Seth Green yelling at someone on set. big deal.
I’m annoyed because I clicked over to the video from a link that called it a “tantrum” and had lots of Green bashing comments, and indeed on youtube “Green is a douche” is the overwhelming sentiment. But just hold the hell on: lets examine the evidence here first…
Video of a guy yelling at someone is just that. Now, at the end he does something a little tantrumy that puts it over the line, but before that its just your run of the mill “you fucked up and you’re clearly not sorry about it at all, which i find extremely irritating and disrespectful” rant. The video does not show and does not make any claims in adjoining text anywhere on how it started, so wtf? How do we know the person getting yelled at didn’t start it or at least deserved it? There are a lot of stupid idiot arrogant smug jerkass self serving assholes on movie set staff. The gophers, the assistants, the prop guys: there is a straight 50/50 chance that any one of them will be competant and pleasant or completely horrible at life and apathetic about it and needs to get browbeaten and yelled at.
Again: the table + storm off is not the finest move. but there are not circumstances that could not justify them, so I’m waiting to hear them before passing condemnational judgment.
I’m also inclined to side with Seth in this brief, out of context clip because of the bullshit “hey man, chill out” physical contact. I hate that. there’s no reason for it. Green wasn’t getting violent and wasn’t, presumably, going into unhealthy or disturbingly nasty or long winded hate rants – he was telling someone what was up, so don’t try and pull this “hey, my healing touch will settle your mood” OR the more condescending “im going to step in and mother you right now even though you’re not wildly out of hand”. Green rejects the physical contact and tells him to back off, as he should have.
You people outside the business don’t realize what big important Hollywood stars like me and Seth Green have to deal with on a daily basis… Every celebrity yelling is not necessarily a tantrum.
I fully understand the penchant to view Seth Green as a total douchebag – he has everything working against him: he’s rich, he’s successful, he’s into nerd stuff, he’s short and when he plays a character on-screen, that character has mostly negative and douchie qualities. I get it. But these are not reasons to smear the real-life Seth Green, and I have reason to believe he is a normal and possibly even cool individual. If I’m wrong then fine, but out of context yelling does not a douchebag make, and I will defend that notion to the death (or at least till there are signs of injury, then I bail. but before then: I’m fighting god dammit).
Besides: there is always the (in my opinion, likely) possibility that this, with its convenient timing/editing and quick ending, is a total setup and all you attackers are playing right into a viral marketing scheme. I did recently hear him on the Dennis Miller radio show plugging a partnership with Butterfinger candybars, though idk how that specifically would enter into a video like this where no candy is visible or present, but that could be a later-reveal too.
I give the following odds of liklihood: 53% staged, 45% Seth was right, 2% Seth’s reaction was an unjustifiable crybaby tantrum.
Anyone wanna bet with me?…
UPDATE: BAM baby. Good thing no one bet me, cuz I’d own yo azzes. The video was a preview of the Butterfinger promo site http://www.dudewheresmybar.com featuring Mr Green.
I stand by everything I said in the original post, including the defense of Green under the supposition that it was a real tantrum caught on tape (which I only gave a 45% liklihood). EAT IT SUCKERS!
Deep in the jungles, 2 BBC nature reporters find the rare kakapo, which you’ll all recognize as of course “the old night parrot of New Zealand”, whatever the hell that means. At first I read that as the “only night parrot” and that appeared to make sense. but. nope. its the “old” one.
Old or not, the dude likes rough sex, complete with clawing and face slapping. hot.
Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine have been tracking down some of the most endangered animals on the planet in a six-part series.
Men and Women alike often have a hard time understanding that females are not visually stimulated, sexually. I blame this mostly on the brainwash of college and culture that lies to kids and tells them there are no differences between the sexes and teaches them a black-and-white idiotic philosophy against generalizations (things that are generally true).
The David Letterman “I know you had sex with employee’s” blackmail attempt illustrates this as one of the girls, a former intern named Holly Hester comes forward about her affair with the Late Nite host.
“I was madly in love with him at the time,” said Hester. “I would have married him. He was hilarious.” It all started in 1990 when Letterman asked her out on a date to see a movie and the secret romance (/affair? he’s been with the mother of his child since 1989. no word on if they had gone on a “break” the year of 1990), until the funnyman called it off because of their age difference (chicks half your age are only good for one thing, and that thing isn’t “long term relationship that ends in marriage”).
So she was “madly in love” with him… because “he was hilarious”… Can you imagine for a second a man saying that about a woman? of course not, Captain Rhetorical. Not in a comparable circumstance (obviously). If the woman is Sarah Silverman, then that’s not quite the same as a 62 year old David Letterman, now is it.
Dude, whats with people lately? It’s like, they’re all actin like my boy Obama is doing something wrong by not accomplishing anything in his first 10 months as President. Whats with that? Leave Barack alone!
More importantly though is the question of why is the actor in this skit not even attempting to mimic his target? Would that be racist? It’s one thing to do it badly, but the dude isn’t even trying to sound like Obama. whats the deal with that?
Is the honeymoon really over? Pssh. I’d say “nigga pleez” but that’d be funny racist. So how dare you.
