Halloween 2004: SHE made me do it!

A month ago Lisa suggested that maybe I get this Jango Fett costume she'd seen in a Halloween store at the mall, so that I could wear it with the Jango helmet that I got two years ago (when I wanted to build a good set of Fett armor). I suspect the REAL reason she wanted me to spring for it is so she could wear my Jedi Knight costume, which is practically movie quality. ...

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Karl Rove and Azzam the American: ONE AND THE SAME?!?

This has been bugging me ever since I first saw the pic of "Azzam the American" early yesterday evening. Look at this comparison photo: Bush campaign strategist Karl Rove on the left, and "Azzam the American" on the right: Azzam seems to share a very similarly proportioned head with Rove. The position of the eyebrows and size of the nose almost seem identical. The right...

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Sith happens

StarWars.com unveiled the official "teaser" poster for Episode III: Revenge of the Sith tonight. Dire portent of things to come.....

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4-0 and the curse is lifted

For the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution, the Boston Red Sox have won the World Series. Pray that Bud Selig doesn't get his expansion teams, 'cuz it might take Boston another 86 years to repeat victory ...

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TheForce.net reviews Star Wars Episode III on November 1st.

For real. I've NO idea how he pulled it off (and quite frankly I'd be more than a little scared to know, given this guy's connections: Mossad and MI-6 should look into recruiting him) but my friend Josh Griffin has somehow seen a roughcut of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He's set to deliver the goods on what he thinks of it so far in his final post as editor of TheForce.net this coming Monday, November 1st. A few tidbits have leaked...

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A bird in the Bush

Take a good long look at this picture... That's a still from a video (Quicktime format) from the mid-1990s, apparently when George W. Bush was running for governor of Texas. He calls it his "one-fingered victory salute." Notice how much he smirks and snickers at making the gesture. Maybe somebody needs to tell born-again Christian George W. Bush that holding up the middle...

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We now return you to our regularly scheduled blog-casting...

The story got around. More than I was expecting. With five days left 'til the election, might as well move on to other things instead of letting this blog go stale from lingering on that one lil' story. More fun stuff, I promise (okay, *maybe* some more stuff about the election to...

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This guy has the #1 reason why a Christian like me should vote for Kerry...

...and that's to keep the Nazis from REALLY coming to power. Carl Worden has a really good piece at The Sierra Times about why he's no longer affiliated with the Republican Party: because the fascists have taken over. Lest there be any question of his character... I've been a registered Republican since I pulled my first lever in a voting booth, and I've voted as a loyal Republican for Republican candidates consistently every year. I am 55 years...

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GEORGE W. BUSH AND ME: My Anti-Dubya Story A Week Later

Seven days ago I posted The Night George W. Bush Ordered A Thug To Tell Me To "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!", my account of what happened at the Republican rally during the Presidential Debate at Wake Forest University in 2000. No need to recap all of that here: everyone is more than welcome to read it for themselves (though I had no idea until later just how long the thing was. My editor at our student newspaper in college was right: "Chris Knight...

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The Night George W. Bush Ordered A Thug To Tell Me To "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!" (Caution: harsh language)

This has been something I’ve been saying would be posted for the past month now. I had it in mind to post today since it would be the anniversary of the incident, then said a few days ago I'd do it before then. As things turned out I was so busy over the weekend that I didn't have time to collect my thoughts enough for it. So now, I get to share it on the 11th after all. And...

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"For this is the day... that a Superman died."

I chose the final words from Superman #75 in November 1992 (the issue that saw the Man of Steel falling after saving Metropolis from Doomsday) for the title 'cuz... well, seemed all too appropriate. It's being reported on Drudge Report and a few others at this hour that Christopher Reeve - who made us really believe that a man could fly when he was tapped to play Superman...

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The Ten-Thouand Days "Wars"

One for the "Totally Useless But Still Cool Bits of Trivia" files: our friends at TheForce.net reported that as of yesterday (October 10, 2004) it has been exactly 10,000 days since the first Star Wars movie (now referred to as Episode IV: A New Hope) debuted in theaters. Ten thousand days of Star Wars. Eight-hundred sixty-four million seconds give or take. Probably more dollars than that in action figure royalties alone that "Uncle George" has...

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Might as well get this over with

Twice in the past few weeks I've hinted about having a story about George W. Bush. The first thing I wrote was a long essay on why my motives have to be pure in sharing what happened: that it can't be out of anger or malice or spite. Either at him or the cronies he sent. Then it was another post about if I were to do this, that I should be prepared for repercussions from his followers and maybe even his campaign (again). In that one I made it...

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"Doctor Strangelove" on at 10 PM EST on Turner Classic Movies

Just saw this listed and told my wife that I gotta watch. Doctor Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has to rank as one of the funniest satires of all time, if not the darkest. What an amazing cast: Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, and a very young James Earl Jones headline this scathing (but hilarious) indictment of the Cold War mentality. I watched it for the first...

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Government Hobgoblin Alert: They're coming for your CHILDREN!

From the Associated Press via Yahoo!... U.S. Alerts Schools About Terror Threat Thu Oct 7,12:28 PM ET By BEN FELLER, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON - The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia. The warning follows an analysis by the FBI (news - web sites) and the Homeland Security Department...

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"M-O-O-N, that spells 'dumb, dumb scientists'!"

Come on baby... Don't fear the Reaper Baby take my hand... Don't fear the Reaper We'll be able to fly... Don't fear the Reaper Baby I'm your man... Geez, has it really been over ten years since ABC first broadcast The Stand? I first read the novel during spring break of my senior year of high school back in 1992, and to date it's the only Stephen King novel that I've read...

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Do you know of ANYBODY who walks around dressed like this?

More evidence of my longstanding belief that fashion designers are terminally insane and should be dragged out into the street and shot for the good of mankind. Even for a black-tie affair, this seems like more than a little overkill. I can't tell if that's supposed to be a man or a woman in that getup. Hit here for more follies from those feckless French fashion exper...

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