By the way, did anyone else see that lame Rob Lowe Christmas movie the other night? The ending was just about the stupidest ending conceivable. Anyways, Mike Novick was in it. He played Rob Lowe's father. I kept wanting him to say "mister president I urge you to reconsider..."

h/t Mr. Atoz

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Thank you TIME Magazine.

You still suck.

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Details at Six Meat Buffet!

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You may have seen this already if it's been on Drudge. If not, please note that it is not safe for work because it contains video of hott topless danish blondes.

This is a new advertising campaign to get Danish drivers to slow down while racing around Copenhagen in their rubber band powered euromobiles.

Click here for video.

I love the dude in the turban who says "Denmark has redeemed itself!" Pretty funny. Although I'm not sure what gripe a Sikh might have had with the Danes.

When I was in Copenhagen, I didn't notice a big problem with speeders, at least not in the city center. Actually there's not really a lot of traffic, due to some pretty restrictive laws. Plus, if you get a ticket for speeding, I heard the policeman can collect the money right there.

More info at Zonka's.

h/t to visitor Mike C!

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Here it is, a 25-point manifesto for the new Congress.

h/t var/log/otto

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A boy got stuck inside a friggin' toy machine today! Can you believe it?

Crazy kids. Whattayagonnado?

After dropping $20 in quarters, Dad finally gave up 'cuz the stupid claw thing kept dropping the kid. "Those damn things are rigged," he was heard saying as he drove away in frustration.

Charles E. Cheese could not be reached for comment.

Developing.

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Mark Fuhrman fires announcer for insensitive comments.

I know, I know, different guy, but still it's ironic.

P.S. This ain't the first time Lamar Thomas has embarrassed himself.

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Wouldn't you know it? Somebody made an Annika action figure!

Introducing Agent Annika, member of an Operative Commando Unit so secret that few even know of its existence. Only known as Sub Five by a very few people. The name Sub Five refers to the clearance level need to access these elite forces. Alone or in large numbers these agents are lethal.

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So a small plane just happened to crash into a high rise residential building on Manhattan's Upper East Side? That's the story the government and the mainstream media have put forth.

I think it's interesting that there are no pictures of the actual plane. Look at the damage to the building. I think it's exactly the type of damage you'd see if it were hit by a missile, not a plane. I'm just saying, these are questions that need to be asked.

Also, what did Alec Baldwin know, and when did he know it?

You might say that there's no indication that this was an inside job, but if so, then what was this helicopter doing at the scene moments after the crash? Notice that there are no markings on the helicopter. Why not. Aren't all such craft required to have visible identification markings? (For instance the Enterprise is clearly marked NCC-1701.) And it's beige. Who paints a helicopter beige unless you're trying not to be noticed?

Also note the disproportionate SWAT team response. Almost as if they were trying to keep people away from the scene of the "accident." What are they trying to hide?

And only two dead? It's as if people were warned not to be in the building today. Certain people. I think you know what I mean. It is the Upper East Side, after all.

Like I said. These are interesting and unanswered questions, but don't expect the powers that be to investigate it properly. I just want to get to the truth, that's all.

Update: Cory Lidle?! I had him on my fantasy team a few years back, he did well for me. So the authorities would have us believe that a major league baseball pitcher piloted this plane into a building? I suppose they'll tell us he was distraught over the Yankees recent DCS loss. Come on! If they're going to concoct a cover narrative, at least make it believable.

Open your eyes America! Demand the truth! Ask questions! Why would a Yankee player be piloting an aircraft so close to Shea Stadium? Wouldn't it make more sense to be flying near the Bronx? Has anyone looked into George Steinbrenner's Middle East holdings? What are his ties to Halliburton? Or the Tri-lateral commission or Skull & Bones? Wake up people!

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1 The pilot was a NY Yankee pitcher named Cory Lidel. Apparently he couldn't fly much better than the Yankees could hit.

Posted by: shelly at October 11, 2006 02:14 PM (ZGpMS)

2 Ahhh, one of those cerebral baseball louts. George Bush's fingerprints are all over this.

Posted by: Casca at October 11, 2006 02:59 PM (2gORp)

3 Why do the Yankee's hate America?

Posted by: kyle8 at October 11, 2006 03:22 PM (QDmPR)

4 Annue, What is going to come out about this is that the apartment Lidel hit belongs to Alex Rodriguez and this was payback. Although as i was crossing the 59th street bridge this afternoon i noticed that the coastguard boat, one of those fast pontoon type things with a 50mm cannon mounted on the front, that is always stationed 100 yrds off the UN bulkhead was nowhere to be seen! Very strange.

Posted by: Strawman at October 11, 2006 04:32 PM (tuy00)

5 Incredible, I was called back from an assignment stirring up some unrest in SA, since this appeared to be something more sinister. Alas, I ordered a good steak at Sparks and enjoyed a Chateau Lascombes '82 in Mr. Lidle's memory. Back to the grind tomorrow, look for some fun times in a certain oil rich country to the south! X

Posted by: Major X at October 11, 2006 07:54 PM (n/TNS)

6 What is going to come out about this is that the apartment Lidel hit belongs to Alex Rodriguez and this was payback. HA! (Maybe just a touch tasteless, but pretty funny anyway.)

Posted by: Victor at October 12, 2006 04:46 AM (WHtgF)

7 Move along folks, there's nothing to see here. The whole thing was scripted for later broadcast on a new PBS reality TV show next spring 'Death of A City'.

Posted by: Wm H at October 12, 2006 06:35 AM (p90x4)

8 ordered a good steak at Sparks and enjoyed a Chateau Lascombes '82 in Mr. Lidle's memory French wine is for faggots! Drink a Cali, or an Aussie, or (shudder) something Chilean, but avoid that watered down plonk from the continent that they palm off on swishing poseurs.

Posted by: Casca at October 12, 2006 06:39 AM (Y7t14)

9 Casca, I think the only palm that concerns swishing poseurs maybe yours as it lingers a bit too long on their asses when you do your locker room pat welcoming them to the wine bar you bought outside Santaigo.

Posted by: Strawman at October 12, 2006 11:00 AM (tuy00)

10 ahhaahhahahahaha. YES! these are the questions we need to be asking!

Posted by: Dawn Summers at October 12, 2006 01:12 PM (SOf9N)

11 Okay, the plane hit a building at 524 E. 72nd Street. 7 + 2 = 9 5+2+4 = 11 9/11. This is part of the conspiracy. And no, I didn't come up with this myself. Some other person on the Screw Loose Change blog did.

Posted by: ElMondoHummus at October 12, 2006 02:20 PM (xHyDY)

12 Yes, and ignorant absolutist statements are for idiot Philistines My Dear Mr. Casca. Enjoy your Opus One, your Spottswoode or whatever fruit bomb explosion you call a wine in "your neck of the woods" to use a vernacular with which you must be familiar. One question my good man. How in the world do you unscrew your bottles with hands that must be horribly blistered from all that dragging on the ground?

Posted by: Major X at October 12, 2006 05:14 PM (n/TNS)

13 Straw, you and the major make such great music together!

Posted by: Radical Redneck at October 12, 2006 09:41 PM (SB6dH)

14 Hahaha, you caught him Red! I knew because the faggots down at the wine store are always pushing that watery mushroom runoff as "Great" wine, and they love to throw around "Fruitbomb". Only poseurs could drink such swill and pronounce it drinkable. X & Strawfuck r clearly one and the same.

Posted by: Casca at October 12, 2006 10:23 PM (2gORp)

15 It's weird. After reading the Major's post about a blonde named Annie, I'm wondering why his profile says that he's a female.

Posted by: reagan80 at October 13, 2006 03:22 AM (dFOlH)

16 It's "confused".

Posted by: Casca at October 13, 2006 06:53 AM (Y7t14)

17 I think the only thing that is evident from the Major and my posts is the transparency of the caricature who's name is Casca; A fellow who thinks we care about his taste in wine, or his childish pronouncements about those who like French wine. Clearly a knuckle walking, pontificating old mouth breathing fart of a sgt-major type, too impotent to fight, phallocentric (obviously fixated on fags and guns), constantly carping and sniping from his easy chair, crippled by indogenous depression the result of his profound sadness that a seniors war has not been organized. RedRover on the other hand is simply a guy who enjoys looking at a swinging dicks. (I'm surprised Casca still makes you wear a rubber Red! Don't he love you?) More importantly Red, and I guess this is a sign of your maturation; congrats on having sex outside the family with a bipedal!

Posted by: strawman at October 13, 2006 10:35 AM (tuy00)

18 "congrats on having sex outside the family with a bipedal!" At least I keep it within the species AND with animate beings. How's your Mustafa Shag Doll doing? Little pinpricks tend to pop them things.

Posted by: Radical Redneck at October 13, 2006 11:00 AM (uhcJE)

19 It's good to see the Yankees FINALLY hitting something in October!

Posted by: Radical Redneck at October 13, 2006 11:00 AM (uhcJE)

20 That was Cory trying to find where Alex lives.

Posted by: Strawman at October 13, 2006 11:09 AM (tuy00)

21 BTW, Redboy, on his worst hair day, my little Mustafa makes your little sister look like schwirma that's been left on a Faluja rooftop for ten days.

Posted by: Strawman at October 13, 2006 11:50 AM (tuy00)

22 Hacked! Hard to believe it could happen to me, given the series of security algorithms I'm running. Got to hand it to those commie bastards though, they can be damn smart when they put their warped little minds to the task. Obviously that cigar smoking bastard south of Florida has nothing better to do with his time now that he's handed over the island to his idiot brother, so he's hacking my profile and having a little fun. Heads up Fidel! You've had your fun, prepare to meet your doom! Oh, and for you Mr. Casca, obviously you're suffering from one of the worst cases of psychological projection that I have ever seen. You weren't invited to join in a little party in Haight Ashbury several years ago by some clean cut guys with free acid were you? Cuz, that would definately explain things.

Posted by: Major X at October 13, 2006 04:38 PM (n/TNS)

23 All this tough talk is getting our eyes off the real target: Mexicans.

Posted by: BadMule at October 13, 2006 06:08 PM (+jg2V)

24 Red a little NSFW warning would be helpful on links like that...but ultimately its my fault in that I kept reading the comments even after I saw that straw/major were here....

Posted by: Scof at October 13, 2006 08:10 PM (gliHF)

25 AAAk, just saw the link. Sorry Redneck, I gotta remove it. For those who didn't get a chance to see it, it's only a graphic representation of a pinwheel spinning.

Posted by: annika at October 14, 2006 09:34 AM (qQD4Q)

26 Without question, this is fully concocted. Just like on 911, even 'though I didn't make the connection as I was watching the "crash" scenario unfold (due to my emotional attachment to the Yankees etc...), part of me was noticing how absolutely staged so much of it appeared. With 911, when the towers fell, I knew it looked really wrong (only later understanding the controlled demolition probability). But of course this is the intention of whoever is orchestrating this...continuously weaving a web of fear, deception and emotionally charged patriotism etc... As far as Lidle goes, forget about it...I kind of liked him when he came to the Yankees, but looking at him now he was/is clearly an entitled type of dude...not your average joe ballplayer. Their "finding" his passport in the street is the dead giveaway IMO. Passport? Just like Attah's (sp) passport surviving the holocaust of a commercial airliner crashing into and collapsing a hundred story building. Yahh right. And why the F was CL carrying this conveniently found passport? On a private domestic flight to CA? And why does it look as if nothing hit that building structurally...just burned on the exterior? And why were his "wife". "son" and the pregnant wife of the "flight instructor not notified of the crash as they were "boarding a flight to CA" at JFK at the same time as his plane supposedly crashed? Why did his "twin brother" show SO LITTLE emotion or remorse in a television interview shortly after the crash? Why does he even have a "twin brother" and I've heard 3 or 4 more people around him that look remarkably like lidle? Convenient if he needed to disapear, no? Why did they quote "his" six year old "son" yesterday as saying something like "my daddy was a skilled pilot, there must have something wrong with his plane"? Quoting his "6 y/o"?? And lastly, why do the "eyewitnesses" interviewed directly after the crash appear to be really bad actors LOL? Wag the dog, I say...but they can't touch me.

Posted by: mad 1 at October 14, 2006 09:36 AM (S66yt)

27 like i said, Mad1, these are all important questions! Now, back on earth, I just paid under 2.50 a gal for gas. There's your real conspiracy.

Posted by: annika at October 14, 2006 09:42 AM (qQD4Q)

28 It makes me a little sad to think that Joe Torre etc...are deep in this doo doo ;( my Yankees !!! arghhhhhhhhhh

Posted by: mad 1 at October 14, 2006 09:57 AM (S66yt)

29 Annie, you should post this at AboveTopSecret. I'm sure you'll get some true believers running with it. I'm already a member, so I could post it for you if you like. Could be fun to see what develops in the thread.

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[part of a continuing series]

What does "turnkey" mean? I keep hearing it in radio advertisements, referring to a kind of business.

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From Monsters & Critics:

[British Airways] has hit back at reports that more than 5,000 items of passenger luggage had gone missing since security measures were implemented at Heathrow airport.

There had been suggestions that up to 10,000 bags had been mislaid at the UK's busiest airport, and while a spokeswoman for the airline admitted that bags had been separated from their owners, they had definitely not been lost.

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I bet I'm the only one here who watched (most of) it. I would have watched all of it, but thunderstorms rolled through the area and I lost the satellite signal for about ten minutes. Despite that, I had more fun last night than you did, unless you got some.

Truly, the show was a lot of fun. So what if it's another unreal reality show? Dress up as a Super Hero, get judged by Stan Lee, and if you win you'll be featured in your own Marvel comic book and SciFi channel movie. Why not? It beats the hell out of eating squid testicles for $10 grand anyday. Had I known about it, I would've given some consideration to trying out for it.

No need to recap the entire show; you can get better detail at the SciFi channel site. But I can discuss winners and losers.

Gonna be Among the First Six Booted
Not counting Levity (booted in the first ten minutes for being greedy not pure of heart), but counting Nitro G (booted at the end for changing into his costume in full view of everyone and not saving the crying girl), my picks for four of the next five to be booted are:
Tyveculus: Boring and forgettable. Cool costume, though.
Monkey Woman: Cries too much. Doesn't look anything like Raquel Welch in her fur bikini.
Creature: Annoying as all hell. Eats only raw food. Failed the purity test.
Lemuria: Boring. Might last a bit longer than I hope she does, because she always looks like she's going to fall out of her costume, if you catch my drift, and Stan Lee looks like a dirty old man. Also, she was one of the four to pass all tests. Such acuity might extend her life.

Most Likely to Make the Final Three
Major Victory: Has the right look. That is, it's embarrasing for normal people, but would look great in a comic book. Passed all tests last night. Has the schtick down pat and is fast with the Super Hero Quip: When the Iron Enforcer announced his weapon could do anything, Major Victory immediately asked, "Will it caulk a bathroom?"
Fat Momma: My personal favorite, and she'd be yours, too, if you watched. I mean, she's fat! She's a momma! She's saving the world one doughnut at a time! Plus, she already has an annoying theme song that's been going thru my head for hours: Fat Momma! Fat Momma! / I'm here to save the day! / Fat Momma! Fat Momma! / I'll take your food away! Like Major Victory, she passed all tests last night. Best Super Hero Line of the night: When saving the little girl, she told her not to worry, because, "Fat Momma's here!"
Cell Phone Girl: The last of the four to pass all tests. Has a great backstory, attitude, and personality. Don't think she'll win, but I think she'll go far. Best Super-Hero Action of the night: When she started helping the girl, she immediately reached for her cell phone. I thought she was going to dial 9-1-1, which would have been absolutely hilarious.

Dark Horse
The Iron Enforcer: Despite failing the Purity Test and the Rescue-The-Little-Girl test, I think he might make a serious run at the end. He looks like a Super Hero (Yes, ladies, he has the bod for it. Tough helmet, though.). He's always posing like a Super Hero. He's always in character. If he gets his act together and stops failing tests, he may well go far.

Who Wants to be a Super Hero? is on Thursdays at 9PM on SciFi. Don't miss it.

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Here's an example of not thinking a project through before starting.

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This has got to be a muhfukkin joke right?

Saudis Offered Scholarships for Aviation Courses in US

JEDDAH, 20 June 2006 — The Ministry of Higher Education and the General Authority of Civil Aviation are offering scholarships to Saudi men and women to study various majors related to civil aviation in the United States.

The forms are available online at the ministryÂ’s website until July 12 for both bachelorÂ’s and post-graduate studies. Nominations will be announced on July 31. Interviews will take place in August and final scholarship winners will be announced on Sept. 2.

The scholarships are available in majors such as communications, electrical and computer engineering, computer science, systems analysis, air traffic control, flight safety, and other majors related to the airline transport industry.

Applicants for the bachelorÂ’s program must have a minimum score of 85 percent in the science section and 90 percent in other sections, such as QurÂ’an memorizing, administrative and commercial sciences. [emphases mine]

Oh, I guess I shouldn't be xenophobic. Because Saudi universities are so well known for their pro-western curriculum. Student visas for everybody!

hat tip: Free Thoughts.

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When defending class boundaries gets serious, muhfukka:

Providing an example of the harm that may be done through symbolic gentrification, Halnon cited Wooden and BlazakÂ’s study of San Francisco gutter punks who took drastic measures to defend against "frat boys and pro athletes" who invaded their "symbolic turf" by appropriating body piercing as a style. One group of gutter-punks responded by cutting off their pinky fingers.

"The extremity of such action may be understood as measure of the extreme value of symbolic territory for the socially and economically disenfranchised," notes Halnon.

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I just discovered a mildly interesting new time-waster. Just when I need it most, at the start of finals.

It's called Yahoo! Answers. Okay, help me out here. One question posed by a member of the Yahoo! teeming millions is "Why do so many liberals drive imported cars?" I posted my answer, can you find it? And do you have your own theories to add?

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1 Why because the sensitive multi-culturist loves every country but his own. Chalk it up to self-loathing.

Posted by: Casca at April 30, 2006 12:27 PM (2gORp)

2 What Casca said.

Posted by: Mark at April 30, 2006 03:54 PM (Vg0tt)

3 Because they hate America. Or was this a rhetorical question?

Posted by: Robbie at April 30, 2006 04:25 PM (53jDZ)

4 aNNIKA, I had trouble finding your answer but after reading and re-reading them all I decided it was the snarky irrelevant one. Boy was I surprised to see I was right when I finally noticed that sappy little drawing. The responders pretty well summed it up. Only republicans pose such petty, argumentative and pointless questions. Why are the blue staters more cosmopolitan, better educated, consumers of dentistry, eschewers of filial sex and drivers of imports? Maybe its because they are too smart to consider jingoistic crap like "Buy American" relevant. Americans buy cars they like and rarely if ever make it a matter of politics. Although I have a cousin who with her wife decided to support union workers and bought a plastic Saturn. What a piece of shit. Although that is a real issue; union v. non union labor; corporate profits are meaningless. So all those liberals you saw driving "imports" were expressing a different kind of hypocrisy. Of course they were driving better built cars than the W stickered folks and getting better gas mileage too.

Posted by: Strawman at April 30, 2006 04:28 PM (o/gnC)

5 I'm an independent, but I bought a Honda Insight in 2000 because I was concerned about America's addition to oil (still am). The Big 3 did not make a fuel efficient car anywhere near comparable. Last year in May, we traded in the Saturn SW1 station wagon for a 2005 Prius, again because Detroit did not produce what we felt was appropriate to mitigate the fuel crunch crisis. It will likely be a few more years before Detroit comes around; they made the choice themselves, even asking Bush to kill the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles program, where they had produced prototypes of family cars that achieved over 70 mpg. But they wouldn't make as high a profit margin as SUVs, so the Big 3 continued their role as pushers for the growing ranks of addicts. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Monday, April 9, 2001 that seven years into the PNGV partnership, its ``direction is inconsistent with where the market is headed and where the automakers are headed.'' Does anyone wonder why we have high oil prices? Blaming it on the chinese would be pitifully sad denial. Source(s): http://goliath.ecnext.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2750&item_id=0199-3789327

Posted by: will at April 30, 2006 04:32 PM (h7Ciu)

6 Ok, I've asked my own question: "What are you going to do to rid American's addition to oil?"

Posted by: will at April 30, 2006 04:45 PM (h7Ciu)

7 I can't help it. Everytime this fucktard posts, pseudonomously or not, the theme music begins to play in my head; "Yes they saved alot of gas but they didn't get far in a Yugoooooooo, and they drove with pride". They're like the bubblewrap of the highway. I thank God for stupid people.

Posted by: Casca at April 30, 2006 08:13 PM (2gORp)

8 LOL, just read your comment. You might say that, I could not possibly comment. I was right across the bay in North Park yesterday, aka Lezzie country. I was not disappointed. Many Kerry stickers were spotted, but not a single dubyah sticker. Lest you think this a measure of American attitudes. There are no REAL veterans in that neighborhood.

Posted by: Casca at April 30, 2006 08:21 PM (2gORp)

9 Just for balance, I should say that I will never buy an American car for one simple reason. I've never been in one that didn't suck compared to Japanese cars. However, that's not an anti-American thing, I'd love to support American products -- my dad is from Detroit -- but not at the expense of my own peace of mind. I would never buy a Hyundai either. And German cars are cool, but they break down much more than I think is acceptable. So really, there is another reason that the jobless liberal with all them bumper stickers drives the crappy Sentra from the mid 80's. No American cars from that era are still on the road!

Posted by: annika at April 30, 2006 10:30 PM (fxTDF)

10 "Why are the blue staters more cosmopolitan, better educated, consumers of dentistry, eschewers of filial sex and drivers of imports?" Simple answer: they are not. Rep voters are, on average, both better educated and, of course, wealthier than Dem voters. Just because 15 liberals cram themselves into an over-priced apartment in SF doesn't make them more cosompolitan - just makes them collectively more stupid. By the way, Happy May Day, Strawdude! This is the day you and yours can celebrate the failures of all forms of collectivism and the utter hypocrisy, irrelevance, and decadence of unionism. To celebrate, maybe you and your friends can round up some Kulaks and starve or shoot them. Yeah, you commies are cosmopolitan as hell....Go Lennin, Go Castro, Go Chavez!!! Viva the revolution!

Posted by: Blu at May 01, 2006 09:10 AM (j8oa6)

11 Obviously, anyone who aspires to be an "eschewer" should also be a "consumer of dentistry."

Posted by: annika at May 01, 2006 09:44 AM (zAOEU)

12 HI Blu, Just got in,a little out of breath I was in the back yard running those ribbons around the pole with all the neighbor kids in their red bandanas. We sang some songs, "Joe Hill", "The four Insurgent Generals, the "International" and a few others. Nice day. Tonight we'll screen "Potemkin" and in the morning have our teeth done at the free clinic; the better to eschew capitalism. VIva Fidel to you comrade! And viva the revolution! I wasn't suprised that you were mum on the filial sex issue. That is a tough one to give up once you reach adulthood.

Posted by: Strawman at May 01, 2006 10:47 AM (o/gnC)

13 Just a theory, but I'm thinking liberals drive imported cars because they're, um, better. If GM or Ford would ever make a decent car, I'm sure the tree-huggers would come around.

Posted by: Shawn at May 01, 2006 12:44 PM (TtY+v)

14 I guess I forgot about the "filial sex" thing after reading about your cousin "who with HER wife" bought a Saturn. Who can think about a brother and sister act when the Strawdude is conjuring up images of lesbians going 1 on 1 - all in support of the fucking commie labor union. Che Guerva would be proud!

Posted by: Blu at May 01, 2006 01:26 PM (j8oa6)

15 Blu, I thought guys like you find lesbo 1 on 1 your favorite thing, no? Commie labor unions? You are a funny guy. While Filial coupling in your trailer might take place between your siblings, in the double wides closer to town it is parent and child. But, ya know, I have been too judgemental lately and if that is your preference I won't split hairs.

Posted by: Strawman at May 01, 2006 01:59 PM (o/gnC)

16 Nope, I'm not into the whole lesbian thing...in fact, just not into watching period. Straw, I'm a man of action!!!! Although your attempt at humor was weak - I am, after all, an urban dweller and have never seen the inside of a trailer - it did have a positive effect. It reminded me of a really fucking amazing X-Files episode. It was called "Home" and dealt with inbreeding and incest. In fact, I'm pretty sure all the hub-bub helped lead to the V-Chip thing in Congress. So, even in your comedic lameness, Straw, you managed to add to the Annika Journal experience. It's good to have a commie on staff just so everybody can see what things could be like if the good guys don't win.

Posted by: Blu at May 01, 2006 02:29 PM (j8oa6)

17 Blu, Although I was reared on Sci-fi I could never get into the X-Files. Too slow moving and moody. To metaphysical and spooky rather than Asimovian which was more my cup of tea. When you say urban are we talking 4 digit or 5 digit population? Never saw the inside of a trailer eh? Is that cause the rich kids moms wouldn't let you play with their little precious'?

Posted by: Strawman at May 01, 2006 03:24 PM (o/gnC)

18 Oh man. "Home" rocked. Nothing like inbred hulks having kids with their mom and beating the living shit (literally) out of innocent townsfolk. Such appropriate background music, too. I heard they pulled that episode in a bunch of markets, and some unfortunate locals didn't get to watch it, no? It's one of the episodes that makes it worth it to buy the DVDs. (::slinks away, realizing she's just revealed herself as a complete and utter Nerd Who Likes Nerdy Sci-Fi:

Posted by: The Law Fairy at May 01, 2006 03:27 PM (XUsiG)

19 Yep, Blu is a resident of that island of blue in an island of red in an island of blue, known as Sacramento. Lots of liberals here, surrounded by the trailer park meth heaven known as the San Joaquin valley. Interestingly, there are no good Mexican restaurants or delis in town, or maybe Blu could enlighten me. People keep saying Vallejo's is good, but besides the mariachi music on weekends (i adore mariachi music) the food sux. For deli food, I have to wait until my monthly trip to LA or a very occasional visit to NYC for that. Oh Straw, I could never get into X-files either, for the same reason.

Posted by: annika at May 01, 2006 03:40 PM (zAOEU)

20 LF, Yup, I don't think FOX ever replayed it. However, a few years ago, TNT (I think) went through the entire series from start to finish and replayed "Home." They had a disclaimer before the episode saying basically that the viewer better get prepared for some twisted shit and that the episode had caused a lot of controversey and had never been re-broadcast. Embrace your nerdy sci-fi self. It's cool not to be cool :-)

Posted by: Blu at May 01, 2006 03:46 PM (j8oa6)

21 "You're killing me, Smalls." No good Mexican food?! There is a lot of it, girl. My personal favorite is Tres Hermanas on K between 24th and 25th - best salsa in town if can handle HOT. (In fact, I'll be there this Friday celebrating Cinco de Mayo with my hispanic brothers and sisters.) And there also happens to be a pretty cool deli about a block away called "Beach Hut Deli" on J between 24th and 25th. There is a ton of good food in mid-town and downtown. I'll send you some suggestions off-line.

Posted by: Blu at May 01, 2006 03:52 PM (j8oa6)

22 Annika, See, we do have so much in common although I am surrounded by the best food in the world.

Posted by: Strawman at May 01, 2006 04:06 PM (o/gnC)

23 If you mean NYC, you are right. But soo expensive. Seriously, NY and SF have been the site of some of my best restaurant experiences ever. How did we get off on this tangent?

Posted by: annika at May 01, 2006 04:13 PM (zAOEU)

24 ANnika, Cars and food-the great equalizers. THe number of excellent resturants here is astounding and new ones are added weekly. It is a full time avocation keeping up. Next time you are here ask me for reccomendations.

Posted by: Strawman at May 01, 2006 06:13 PM (o/gnC)

25 Peter Pumpkin isn't a big enough time waster for you? Gag me with a spoon...

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I love this. It's hilarious. Unless you're with Sammy Davis Jr. or Peter Falk, I'm not sure this is the best idea. Might freak your man out if he happens to peek.

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Anyone who tries this, let me know if it works.

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