Our first look at the Thestrals!

Darth Larry found some great new pics at The Leaky Cauldron of new Harry Potter merchandise. Look at this one: to the best of my knowledge, this is the very first good look at what the Thestrals look like:What are Thestrals? Well, if you only know Harry Potter from the movies and haven't read the books, you have seen these creatures already... kinda. Harry doesn't actually...

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Once more, pro-lifers played for chumps on ROE anniversary

Today is the 34th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. Which does not mean that abortion was something morally justified 34 years ago today. It merely means that it was allowed by law.Given enough time for the timbers to rot in a culture, and anything can become allowed by law. Still doesn't mean that it's right though.As they do every year on this day, thousands of pro-life supporters had a rally in Washington D.C....

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Were a plucky Droid and a scruffy Wookiee the REAL heroes of Star Wars?

I found this through Shane Thacker (who found it on Diane Duane's blog). A fellow named Keith Martin has written one of the most original and well-written essays about Star Wars that I've ever read.In "A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope", Martin lays out the case for how the true heroes of the Star Wars saga were Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca. You have to wonder: how, in a galaxy so big, do all of these characters keep running into each other? Well,...

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Over 130 and rising fast

And in the last little while the rate has jumped: I'm now getting about 2 or 3 new ones every fifteen minutes. And that might be accelerating too. I might have over 300 by midnight tonight.This is going to take awhile to go through.What is it? I'll be tipping my hand to what that is within the next month or so. But I thought it was something significant enough to "memorialize" here on the blog while it's happening all the sa...

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I'm a candidate for President... in 2016!

My fellow Americans,After a great deal of prayer and contemplation and consulting with those closest to me, it is with great excitement and joy that I officially announce that I am now a candidate for President of the United States... in 2016.Why am I announcing my candidacy for that far-off race instead of for one much sooner? There are several reasons. The most obvious...

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Another Bert and Ernie classic

Yet another big of comedy gold from the good old days on Sesame Street. This is the Bert and Ernie "dripping water" sketch..."G'NIGHT!...

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A question for every pro-life Bush supporter

I'm working on something for the blog right now and just had a thought while working on it:If President George W. Bush has no problem with violating the United States Constitution......and if he is supposed to be against abortion......then why hasn't Bush brazenly violated Roe v. Wade and ended abortion in this country once and for all?Well, why hasn't "the Decider" chosen to do that? He's definitely shown that he has no problem with abusing power...

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A pizza made with love

Lisa had a very special dinner ready for me when I got home from my shift at the station tonight...Can you see what it is? It's a pizza... with the pepperonis arranged to look like a heart!I did this for her about six years ago when we were dating: at the time I was terrified about doing real cooking (long story about how that came to be) but I overcame my fear and made pizza...

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Dipping some more from A BUCKET OF BLOOD

Earlier this afternoon here at the station we aired Roger Corman's 1959 movie A Bucket of Blood.Well, I've got it playing off the Tivo right now... for the second time since it first ran today.This movie has already gained a hideous hold on me. I can't believe I've never seen or heard about this before (especially since it stars Dick Miller). This is the kind of weird/funny that's sooo up my alley!I might have to add A Bucket of Blood to my DVD...

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Playing right this minute on WGSR Star 39...

...is Roger Corman's 1959 classic A Bucket of Blood, which is something about death and Beatniks.This should be running around midnight instead of the middle of Saturday afternoon, because this movie is coming courtesy of Cinema Insomnia "with your horror host Mr. Lobo". I'll forgive that though 'cuz this movie features Dick Miller: character actor extraordinaire! There's already been one pretty cool scene where Miller accidentally stabs his cat...

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A heavy example of pro-government press bias

A few days ago I wrote about Ed Brown, a New Hampshire man who is defying the federal government on the isuse of income taxes. A jury just found Brown guilty in absentia, and he's currently barricaded himself at his home. I wrote at the time that this probably won't end good for Ed Brown, because the government doesn't like independent-minded folks and it's stacked the deck against them by employing more than enough "ninja-suited" SWAT types: the...

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Yet more reason why America is practically finished

Hillary Clinton says she's definitely running for President. real tragedy of what the American political process has turned into is that inane, shallow people like Hillar Clinton, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John Edwards, John McCain, and more others than I care to name will be pimped as serious contenders by their parties and the press, while the really interesting candidates with some measure of principles - like Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul - will...

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Stuff I noticed while watching DEAD MAN'S CHEST tonight

Yeah, up at a late hour: working on something that I'll probably be talking more about soon on this blog.I haven't really admitted it here as much as I really should, but I will now: the Pirates of the Caribbean movies have become one of my most favorite film series ever. I love, love, love everything about them. Well, earlier this evening Lisa and I put in the DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest that I gave her for Christmas (here's...

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More signs that America is in trouble

No, not in "trouble". "Trouble" is a factor working to the detriment of a situation. This situation is so far gone screwy that I wonder if it's possible to get any more detrimental.Yesterday I made a post about a few things that, to me anyway, indicate that America as an idea is probably beyond hope. More than a few times since then, I've wondered if I was being perhaps too harsh (and no doubt used too much harsh language) in my assessment.Tonight,...

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A sure-fire way to tell if it's going to snow

As I mentioned yesterday morning, we had the first winter storm of the season yesterday. The snow was just starting to come down at a good clip by the time I arrived at the station at 6:40 a.m. The rest of the day I watched it keep falling, then turn to sleet and rain. It wasn't much of a storm at all but it did prompt most of the schools around here to close early, so that gave us something to do all day, what with posting cancellations and all.Even...

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Art Buchwald has passed away

Darn. He was definitely an original. The local paper used to carry his column several years ago and there's no telling how many mornings I'd be cracking up laughing reading his stuff during homeroom in high school.Here's one of the many stories about the man that came out today. Among his final wishes, Buchwald wanted his funeral to be "there, on the island, where I'd have...

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I'll go ahead and say it: America is dead

A New Hampshire man has barricaded himself inside his house while being tried in absentia on federal tax evasion charges. Ed Brown says he wants the federal government to show him where it states in law that he must pay something outside of his state and local taxes.This is something that a lot of "tax resistors" have asked over the years. Funny thing is, nobody in the federal government has ever come forward to show where paying taxes to the feds...

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