Archive for February, 2009

Who Faces The Watchmen?

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

I briefly thought about writing about last Sunday’s Oscars, but then I remembered that I don’t care at all. I’m going to write about WATCHMEN instead. That’s all I care about right now.
I read the graphic novel a couple years ago and have been rereading it lately. I liked it on my first read. I [...]

Happy Deathday, Hunter T

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Happy Hunter S. Thompson Day. It is the something-year anniversary of the day Hunter T put a gun into his mouth and deleted himself from the universe.
Getting old and stupid probably didn’t appeal to the man. Yesterday I watched the movie Young @ Heart, a documentary about an old people choir that sings [...]

Offensive Word Scrabble

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Before Facebook killed Scrabulous several months ago, Dr. Kablaa and I played a game of Offensive Word Scrabble. This game gets pretty tricky after a few moves. Most moves end up being tile swaps.
Our blank tiles were misused early on. They should have been saved for better words down the road – [...]

Nickasun v. Negrosun part 2: Tagasun

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

A Chicago shoe-shinin’ hobo once accosted Nickasun. Ever since then, he’s been afraid of black people. I’ve capitalized on this fear by creating Negrosun, a kind of Bizarro Nickasun – a strong, confident, suave version of Nickasun who also happens to be black. Nickasun is afraid of Negrosun, however, his annoyance with Negrosun outweighs his [...]

“Don’t call it a comeback!” – LLCJ

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Typical Movie Critic: Mickey Rourke’s performance in The Wrestler is beautiful, a wonder, a sight to behold. It truly is his comeback performance, and perhaps the comebackingest performance of all comeback performances. Travolta in Pulp Fiction has nothing on this comebackitude. It was so comebacky of Rourke that I shed a tear [...]

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