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June 2004 - Posts

I'm a big Jon Stewart fan. We're living in crazy times and the Daily Show does a pretty good job of exposing stuff and making you laugh about it. Jon was on Larry King Live the other day. My cable went out so my recording of the show didn't work, but Read More
Both USA Today and MSNBC have articles on whether Fahrenheit 9/11 will make a difference in this year's election. MSNBC correctly states the movie is “preaching to the choir”. MSNBC: Attempts by GOP stalwarts to intimidate theater owners into refusing Read More
I think it would amusing to find a picture of this, but haven't seen anything yet. [President] Bush was spotted by television cameras as he was standing in a T-shirt at his window at Dromoland Castle [in Ireland]. He was visible from the waist up, Read More
An ESPN film crew is coming to the Panhandle town of Pampa [,Texas] next month to interview the family of 2-year-old ESPN Malachi McCall for a feature on children around the country with the unique name. ESPN (pronounced Espen) McCall is one of at Read More
Respected writer Christopher Hitchens wrote about Moore's new film for Slate. Worth checking out. He talks about how Moore tries to make the case in his film that we should have left Saddam alone. Um, Saddam was very evil. He had to go. The timing and Read More
I posted about this earlier in the week, but Newsweek had an article that examined the facts in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Not surprisingly, Moore wasn't too happy with Newsweek's article. He took the time to reply. Frankly, I'm not going to quote Read More
What a jerk. Ralph Nader has sent John Kerry a letter urging him to pick Senator John Edwards as his running mate for President. Who the hell does he think he is? What makes him think he has any right to suggest anything to any of the candidates? It's Read More
I went to see Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 last night with a friend. We bought the tickets earlier in the day online, but wasn't able to go the normal theater we go to because all the shows were already sold out. When we arrived at the theater, the Read More
Let this be a lesson to all: A man who walked into a Wal-Mart covered in blood and bought garbage bags Friday was charged with murder after authorities found a stabbed body in a trash bin. Wal-Mart workers called deputies after a blood-soaked man Read More
I think I'm going to start a new service that will call people and check and see if they are still alive. I just saw this story on CNN.com: A man who apparently was pinned by a van he was working on lay dead in his driveway for up to four days before Read More
What would they call you if you were a pimp? Check out the Pimp Name Generator. Read More
First it was a week of Reagan and now it's non-stop Clinton coverage. I guess it's good to be an ex-President. Oh, wait, Reagan died tho, right? That's not so good. Anyways, unless you've been living under a rock you know that former President Bill Clinton's Read More
Yesterday was another excellent day tailgating and watching the MetroStars surprise the LA Galaxy with an great victory. I updated my group's silly little site with pictures and a recap: www.firstrowidiots.com Read More
Newsweek has a surprising amount of coverage of Michael Moore's upcoming controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11.What I find classic is many people who are up in arms about this film haven't even seen it yet. That's good stuff. Politics: Agent Provocateur Read More
Daily News ran a story the other day that at this year's D-Day celebration in France, a last minute platform was built for the President's entry at a cost of $100,000. White House aides advancing President Bush's Normandy visit ordered the Pentagon Read More
A panda got pregnant in China and veterinarians are crediting panda porn! Chinese veterinarians, concerned that she had little knowledge of sex after living only in captivity, showed her videos of mating pandas to prepare her for a series of "blind Read More
Ever wonder why people hate vegetarians? It's because of bullshit like this: Crew members on the set of the [Paul McCartney]’s concert are up in arms because the staunch vegetarian has banned the eating of meat by anyone working on the tour....According Read More
The Army has introduced the first redesigned Army combat uniform since 1981. It uses a lot of Velcro, according to this article.    Read More
Obviously it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that most United States Senators are very rich. An Associated Press article has some good details, but one of the things that stood out to me most is how much Senators have made on their books. People Read More
Excellent picture of President Bush (41). Gotta give the old man credit for skydiving on his 80th birthday. Read More
...at least for a few hours ;-) President Bush unveiled new official White House portraits for both the former President and First Lady (now Senator). His speech included a surprising amount of praise of Clinton and this excellent joke: He won Read More
I've been meaning to see if for a while and i finally saw Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (IMDB info) last night. Charlie Kaufman (story writer/screenplay) and Michel Gondry (story writer/director) did an amazing job. The cast was really good. I'm Read More
I really, really like the photo of the 5 Presidents at Nixon's Funeral in 1994. It's great image to see all the former Presidents together. I was hoping for something as power, but the version from Reagan's funeral is just weak. WTF is Cheney doing Read More
Don't call in sick for work just yet: It's not clear if Friday's state funeral will be in HD. It's history and I'd love to see it shown/recorded in HD. At the very least, I guess it's safe to assume there will be film cameras filming the event and that Read More
I'm going to post a lot more on this tomorrow [err, later today/Friday], but I just saw a CNN article that talked about President Bush's press conference today. The whole thing made me sick. Bush's style was appalling. Bush didn't seem to get the memo Read More
A bunch of friends are heading out tomorrow for Portugal for the Euro 2004 soccer tournament. It's a huge event in Europe and I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun. I went back and forth on whether I was going to go, but ultimately decided against it. Read More
You gotta be kidding me: I've checked C-SPAN a few times today and it appears all they are showing is a non-stop live camera of the casket containing President Reagan lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. You can see all the people walk by and “pay Read More
I just finished Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Brian lent it to me a long, long, long time ago and I finally started reading it on Monday. It was a quick and easy read. Good book, with some cheesy elements, but still enjoyable. I like Dan Brown's style Read More
The New York Post has a great article about Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings all pretty much agree that the coverage of Ronald Reagan's death has been excessive. "Even though everybody is respectful and wants to pay homage to the president, Read More
Gotta love foreign ads! Check out this soda ad in Japan staring the Simpsons! Read More
At the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference, Larry Ellison continued to show he's an idiot: ...Mr. Ellison said Microsoft continues to use "illegal" tactics to destroy innovation and protect its Windows monopoly. "I can't think of Read More
Wired News has a story about how chimpanzees may “be extinct in around 50 years because they are hunted for their meat and threatened by deforestation and disease”. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but people eat chimps? I wonder what they taste like? Read More
OK, It's official: TV executives have completely lost their fuckin minds. TBS is launching a new reality series called “The Real Gilligan's Island”. THE REAL GILLIGAN'S ISLAND is a new reality series based on the popular sitcom about seven stranded Read More
Reagan just died? Hasn't he been died for like 10 years at least? In the mind numbing race to honor "one of country's best presidents" (pfffft!), the calls for different memorials are out of control. The guy already has the Washington, D.C. airport Read More
For the record, and I'm not sure how many times I'm going to repeat this, I joke about violence in some of my posts, but I am probably one of the least violent people you'll ever meet. It's all part of my weird/sick sense of humor. Obviously there is Read More
Ok, this is absolutely crazy. Brian sent me a link for a weird-ass product that blocks remote controls from working. You can read all about it here: http://www.girlsstuff.co.uk/product.asp?id=1206&random=547146023&cid=39 What the heck is that Read More
I updated www.firstrowidiots.com last night with a quick recap and photos from the 6/5 match. I'm working on a huge update with pictures AND videos from opening day. It's gonna rock. Read More
I saw some news coverage today of President Bush awkwardly making the Prime Minister of Japan shake his hand and pose for pictures during a Q&A session in front of reporters. It gave me a great idea: from now on when I meet people, I'm going to shake Read More
This is totally my kind of stuff. Thanks to Paul for the link:http://www.mentalernie.org/sickmovies_accidents.shtml WARNING: Some of these videos are nuts and shouldn't be watched! Read More
Hey, did you hear President Reagan died? That's been my [bad] joke for the last few days in reaction to the absolutely crazy non-stop media coverage of Reagan's passing. One surprising fact I heard was that Reagan planned his funeral back in 1981. Everything Read More
In recent weeks there have been an increasing amount of posts I'd like to post to my blog, but have avoiding doing so because the blog has turned more into a "mainstream" blog than a personal blog. I'm a fairly private person and even though not many Read More