What I am doing here is something I really hate seeing when other people do it - make a criticism based not on my own observations, but on those of others (but at least others who think much like I do).
I have never even seen FOX news but from clips I have seen on places like The Daily Show, it is a right wing news agency that rah rah's the republicans, who can do no wrong. When Stewart runs a FOX news clip, he usually mentions that the clip is exactly as FOX aired it.
The new White House Press Secretary comes from a job at FOX news.
See above: and my comment is "it figures".
Thos.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Crash
“Crash” was a good movie. I don’t know/give a crap that it won the oscar for best picture.
Who is America’s favourite lovable loser girl in those romantic comedies? Sandra Bullock. I always found it funny how in the movie universe, girls who look like Bullock have trouble getting dates. I guess Bill Gates can’t get a bank loan in an upcoming movie and Osama Bin Laden is wearing a crucifix (maybe Doris Day really was a virgin).
In “Crash” she plays a total upper-class, illegal maid hiring bitch. She was great. If she has played other roles like this, I have not sent those films.
I think, by definition, a movie with Don Cheadle in it is going to be good.
I forget Mat Dillon exists from time to time and still see that young pretty boy from the early 80s. He plays a racist LAPD cop who did not want to be a racist but it just worked out that way (racism and LAPD are two words often found together) . He tells a rookie cop that he too will become a person very different from who he thought he would be after he has been on the job for a while.
The plot is sort of contrived, but that’s what fiction is.
Both of the characters played by Bullock and Dillon turn out not to be as bad as you think they are.
Marina Sirtas, who’s English/Greek in real life, plays a Persian woman – she’s a little pale for Persian, but that was ok.
I have only watched it once, but I think “Crash” is a film that you can watch over and over again and see different things at different times.
I give it 2 ½ thumbs up.
Well, I have to go and cruise for girls who look like Sandra Bullock as they might really need to get asked out for the first time in a long time.
TF
Who is America’s favourite lovable loser girl in those romantic comedies? Sandra Bullock. I always found it funny how in the movie universe, girls who look like Bullock have trouble getting dates. I guess Bill Gates can’t get a bank loan in an upcoming movie and Osama Bin Laden is wearing a crucifix (maybe Doris Day really was a virgin).
In “Crash” she plays a total upper-class, illegal maid hiring bitch. She was great. If she has played other roles like this, I have not sent those films.
I think, by definition, a movie with Don Cheadle in it is going to be good.
I forget Mat Dillon exists from time to time and still see that young pretty boy from the early 80s. He plays a racist LAPD cop who did not want to be a racist but it just worked out that way (racism and LAPD are two words often found together) . He tells a rookie cop that he too will become a person very different from who he thought he would be after he has been on the job for a while.
The plot is sort of contrived, but that’s what fiction is.
Both of the characters played by Bullock and Dillon turn out not to be as bad as you think they are.
Marina Sirtas, who’s English/Greek in real life, plays a Persian woman – she’s a little pale for Persian, but that was ok.
I have only watched it once, but I think “Crash” is a film that you can watch over and over again and see different things at different times.
I give it 2 ½ thumbs up.
Well, I have to go and cruise for girls who look like Sandra Bullock as they might really need to get asked out for the first time in a long time.
TF
Role Models??
Harper seems to be modeling himself on Bush.
Why?
Was Nixon second on his list?
Dubya-ism stands for secrecy, torture, less rights for women, no consideration for the poor whatsoever….well you all know….
His visit to Afghanistan was a good move as we do need to be reminded when we send troops into a war that they are there and we do want to maybe have some idea of why we have sent them there (oh my: quite the run-on sentence). Yeah, he “photo-opted” it but that’s what politicians do.
Mulroney was voted the best PM we have ever had regarding the environment and he was awarded for that this week (I wonder how many SUV limos were parked outside).
That speaks volumes to me as how poor our leaders have been on this subject.
Once upon a time when I was young, the Murkans had a nice guy for president named Jimmuh, who, perhaps even a little ahead of his time for a world leader, started several programs to develop alternative energies to fossil fuels, and programs to conserve energy. Then he lost his job to a Hollywood actor, “Country Gentleman” as John Mellancamp called him, and that actor cancelled every one of those programs.
Harper has just done the same thing. Global warming is not hippie science any more it’s slapping us in the face.
See, the environment is just not one of his priorities. That’s like Pat Quinn saying goaltending just isn’t one of his priorities.
One wonders how good a PM you are going to be when you model yourself after an idiot and people wish Mulroney was still in power.
TWF
Why?
Was Nixon second on his list?
Dubya-ism stands for secrecy, torture, less rights for women, no consideration for the poor whatsoever….well you all know….
His visit to Afghanistan was a good move as we do need to be reminded when we send troops into a war that they are there and we do want to maybe have some idea of why we have sent them there (oh my: quite the run-on sentence). Yeah, he “photo-opted” it but that’s what politicians do.
Mulroney was voted the best PM we have ever had regarding the environment and he was awarded for that this week (I wonder how many SUV limos were parked outside).
That speaks volumes to me as how poor our leaders have been on this subject.
Once upon a time when I was young, the Murkans had a nice guy for president named Jimmuh, who, perhaps even a little ahead of his time for a world leader, started several programs to develop alternative energies to fossil fuels, and programs to conserve energy. Then he lost his job to a Hollywood actor, “Country Gentleman” as John Mellancamp called him, and that actor cancelled every one of those programs.
Harper has just done the same thing. Global warming is not hippie science any more it’s slapping us in the face.
See, the environment is just not one of his priorities. That’s like Pat Quinn saying goaltending just isn’t one of his priorities.
One wonders how good a PM you are going to be when you model yourself after an idiot and people wish Mulroney was still in power.
TWF
Ass over Tea Kettle Near Corktown
I was traveling on a streetcar yesterday going from Yonge to The East End. I did not get far enough to see the enflamed controversy re: “Beach” vs. “Beaches” but there is a “town” every block – Cork Town, Leslieville, Riverdale….
Somewhere on the outskirts of Leslieville, a young woman was moving towards the exit door and she was yaking on her cell phone. Nothing happened like the streetcar suddenly stopping, but she just went ass over tea kettle and landed right on her butt.
It was funny as hell (she wasn’t hurt – I really hope that is a factor).
It seems those things are dangerous not just when you are driving.
TF
Somewhere on the outskirts of Leslieville, a young woman was moving towards the exit door and she was yaking on her cell phone. Nothing happened like the streetcar suddenly stopping, but she just went ass over tea kettle and landed right on her butt.
It was funny as hell (she wasn’t hurt – I really hope that is a factor).
It seems those things are dangerous not just when you are driving.
TF
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