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Catching Up

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---Having a hard time wrapping my mind around this concept: What can a film that has helped make Algore sexier than Paris Hilton possibly be about? *shudder*

---And for you straight fellers who thought you’d missed Brokeback Mountain just cuz you’re too busy/don’t give a hoot—wrong-o !!  Turns out, the real reason you’ve failed to see “this landmark film” is because you’re suffering from Brokeback Phobia.  Never fear—help is here, in the form of a 5 step program “to guarantee that even the most shallow man can enjoy the event movie of the season.” See?  There’s still hope fer y’all.

Step One: Accept your shortcomings. Considering that most of us were brought up in an era of intolerance, fear-mongering and David Lee Roth videos, it’s miraculous that guys aren’t even more screwed up in the head. Your skittishness over this movie has a lot to do with the degree to which society has failed you. But there is still some good in your heart.

So don’t be “acting like a scared goof”—accept the help, and get past that girlish skittishness. *cough*

---Remember, on this day of the incredibly decorous *urp* funeral of Coretta Scott King, that edict that prevented the CA Corrections Dept from separating prisoners by race or gang affiliation [essentially the same thing]?

A maximum-security jail was in a lockdown Sunday, a day after a race- related riot left one inmate dead and more than 100 injured. ...The motivation for the riots appeared to be a feud between black and Hispanic gangs, officials said.

Black and Hispanic inmates at the facility remained segregated Sunday. It is illegal to segregate prisoners based on race or ethnicity, but legal advisers said it could be done in emergency situations, said Sam Jones, chief custody officer with the Los Angeles County jail system.

CA:  fearlessly protecting your right to have the snot kicked outta you just for being white/black/brown/whatever.

---Hollyweird has joined the flannel-shirt-and-flats set in throwing big bux at the Hildabeast in support of her bid for the presidency [still a coyly-kept secret in the US but apparently common knowledge in the UK].  The average donation stands at around $2,000 with Jerry Springer kicking down a phat $4,200 [sniffing around for a cabinet position?][Secretary of Skeeze?] and Nancy Sinatra dribbling in at a measly $200 [c’mon… Those boots can only walk so far, eh?]

---Julian Bond, career maroon, believes that saying, “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side” does not count as likening Republicans to Nazis.  Hilarious dissembling ensues.

---Jimmy and CINDY’s little friend thinks buying AKs and rocket launchers is gonna protect him from his fevered dream that the US plans to invade him.  Bringin’ a knife to a nuke fight… Then he threatens to jail our diplomats.  Graduate of the Nikkita Kruschev School of Diplomacy.  ...here’s your shoe.

---I see Secretary of State Rice gave the Mahdi-in-an-ill-fitting-overcoat a little spanky. [say, did her invitation to the King funeral get ...erm, lost in the mail?  ...along with Clarence Thomas’ and Colin Powell’s?  Or would it be too, too deliciously irony filled to talk about de po’ o-ppressed darkies with them standing there?]

---and The Mahdi-in-an-ill-fitting-overcoat has himself a new little Red frieeend.  ...the planets are aligning.

---Your friend and mine GHWB’s frieeend, Slick Willie, is having a good week: “To the best of my knowledge, all of the wiretaps we did were conducted in accord with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, ...I called my former National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, about this and...” Stop right there.

And that “plantation” remark of Hillary’s?  “I wouldn’t say we [Dhimmicraps] were slaves… We’re more like sharecroppers.” ..."Another member of the United States Congress who worked on a plantation as a boy came up and thanked my wife for saying that.” [which member of Congress is 140 years old?  Byrd?] ... Hillary “absolutely meant nothing racial by it.” Like bringin’ a sock to a gunfight.

---’Justice’ Souter’s inbred, mono-browed relatives neighbors decided not to even allow a vote on whether or not the town oughta seize Souter’s house for the Liberty Hotel; “Why would we take something from one of ours? This is not the appropriate way.” Less appropriate than a well-deserved hangin’?  uber-Todds.

---OTOH, Tom McClintock’s home page has this quote:

"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown - it may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.”

--William Pitt

---Interesting: American Sovereignty Restoration Act

1. I posted my comment above before I had scrolled down here. Obviously, I’m not the only one who remembered Prezident Hill’s plantation remark.

   On Brokeback...I’ve two sons, 18 and 16 years old. We like going to movies together. The last one we watched together was Harry Potter or Fantastic Four or Star Wars or something. But the idea of taking my sons to Brokeback just cheese me out. I wish I was a member of the religious right, but we aren’t really religious. I wish I was a homophobe, but I’m not nor are my sons. What I am is a guy that likes spending an evening with my sons enjoying a movie. “Shining Force” was akward enough, not to mention “Storm Troopers.” (Two of the worst movies I’ve ever seen--even the last Star Wars movie was to me a futile excercise of action trying to locate a plot.)

   I’m not even sure I’d want to take my sons to a movie about two lesbian sheepherders. And I loved “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”. The book.

   So, Brokeback is icky-crawly. What in the hell were they thinking?

   Posted by  on  02/08/06  at  10:54 AM

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