A while ago, I showcased one of my favorite shows, American Horror Story. One of my key talking points was that AHS‘s success was going to blaze the trail for other, similarly dark and horrific shows.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe the first of those has arrived.
Posted in Fame Day, television
Tagged accuracy, american horror story, anthony hopkins, atmosphere, cannibal, cannibalism, Confidentiality, CSI, dark, david bowie, detail, dialogue, edgar allan poe, FCC, gillian anderson, ginna torres, gore, gothic, graphic, Hannibal, HIPPA Law, horror, inception, Kevin Bacon, laurence fishburn, Law & Order, Lecter, mads mikkelsen, NBC, network television, PG 13, psychologists, psychology, rating, ratings, Red Dragon, shadowlands, show, Silence of the Lambs, television, the following, the sopranos, thriller, Violence
As this Sunday draws to a close, I’m bracing myself for the inevitable chorus of “So… what did you do over the weekend?” I’ll be encountering at work. I’ll be giving the same answer I always give:
“Nothing.”
Well, that’s not entirely true. I slept in, did a little reading, cleaned up my house, shopped for groceries, and surfed the web a bit. Barring the occasional oil change on my car, that’s pretty much all I do.
And for some reason, people take issue with that. I really and truly can’t count the number of times I’ve been called “old.” “You’re the oldest 22 year old I know.” “Your idea of fun… it’s like a 50 year old’s.” “You’re like an old man.”
Posted in America, bizarreness, Canada, Youth
Tagged 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 30s, 50s, 60s, Alcohol, baby boomer, Baby Boomers, black, Canada, Communist, crazy, drinking, gay, Generation X, Generation Y, GIF, juvenile, mature, Occupy, old, party, partying, Protest, rant, society, swag, truism, war, westerner, yolo, Youth
Having come up with the idea to have an entire day based on ruthlessly mocking and shaming something we dislike, I don’t think there’s any question by this point that I’m a relatively cynical person with a bleak outlook on life.
Even so, there are certain things which I am pretty upbeat about. Continue reading
Posted in environmentalism, health, Shame Day
Tagged allergies, camping, capitalism, city, climate, environment, Fame Day, farm, farmer, garden, health, hedges, hiking, hills, lawns, mental-health, metropolis gif, Monsanto, nature, outdoors, plant, plants, PSA, Revolution, shame day, snow, the great outdoors, trails, transportation, trees, urban, wealthy, wilderness, wildland, woods, zoning
Comedy.
Everyone likes comedy.
You like comedy. I like comedy. Even the most dour, lifeless people on the planet (Wesleyans) like comedy.
Why then, is it so hard to find a good comedy?
Let me rephrase that- “why is it so hard to find a good comedy movie?” Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, film, money, race
Tagged action, adventure, aristophanes, Benchwarmers, budget, c-level actor, Clerks, Comedians, comedy, comedy section, Die Hard, entertainment, film, flick, For Da Love of Money, horror, Hot Rod, John McClane, minstrel show, movies, Mr Woodcock, napoleon dynamite, netflix, Pixar, pothead, profit, racism, racist, sci-fi, SNL, stoner, stoners, story arc, Strange Wilderness, superbad, The Love Guru, The Other Guys, the trotsky, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil, wesleyans, zombieland
I’m writing these words in the last hours of what has been a quiet May Day.
For me, at least.
Elsewhere in the world, red and black flags are being proudly waved as people march through the streets, chanting and singing. In Greece, a nation-wide strike is being carried out in defiance of massive lay-offs enacted by the government. In Bangladesh, thousands are protesting after the collapse of a sweatshop resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of workers. Similar protests have broken out in the Philippines as nearly 10,000 workers march in Manila. Youth in Spain are raging against the nearly 30% unemployment rate. Korea, Cambodia, Turkey, Indonesia- just to name a handful- are witnessing similar turnouts.
Posted in America, Economy, education, environmentalism, Fame Day, internet, news, politics, Youth
Tagged activism, activist, America, austerity, author, Bill Maher, black flags, cambodia, capitalism, capitalist, center for economic research and social change, che, chicago, class unity, commi, conference, current-events, demoblican, democrat, education reform, exploited, general strike, GIF, greece, green party, International Socialist Organization, ISO, job cuts, john steinbeck, juan crow, Korea, layoffs, libertarian, libertarianism, limbaugh, madrid, maher, manilla, marx, Marxism, Marxist, May Day, musician, new york, Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, politics, poor, proletariat, red flag, republican, republicrat, Ron Paul, rush limbaugh. alternative, socialism, socialism conference 2013, socialist, spain, temporarily embarassed millionaires, the philipines, unemployment, we are many, we are many.org, working class, writer, Youth
Today, I’d like to do something I’ve been wanting to for a while. We’re going to go through a list of recent quotes on Arabs and Islam and replace them with the words “Jew,” “Jews,” and “Jewish.”
Most quickly springing to mind is the latest line of tripe from Anne Coulter. While you are (unfortunately) probably already familiar with some of Coulter’s statements (see: “It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact.” or “[Canada] better hope the United States doesn’t roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.”), you may not have heard Coulter’s recent assertion that the wife of one of the Boston Bombers should ““Be jailed for wearing a hijab” (right after saying “I don’t care if she knew about this [bombing]”- just so you know it’s about religion, not justice).
Posted in America, Canada, internet, Islam, language, media, morality, news, politics, religion
Tagged 1930s, 30s, America, Anne Coulter, anti-semite, anti-semitic, Arab, Arabs, Asian-American, Be jailed for wearing a hijab, blood libel, Bob Beckel, bombing, Boston, boston bomber, Canada, Christian Dior, Coulter, cutt off, Eric Bolling, FBI, Fox, germany, Givenchy, ground zero, Hijab, human-rights, Islam, jew, jewish, jews, John Gilliano, justice, manzanar, middle-east, Mosque, Muslim, Muslims, nazi, nazi germany, Olympus Has Fallen, politics, racism, racist, radical, recent quotes, Red Dawn, religion, Robert Beckel, semite, students, surveil, Synagogue, United States, US, USA, wiretap, yarmulke
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