First Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who participated (all five of you).

It was a whopping 100% whose workplaces have suffered due to "catty behavior" or outright bitchiness. This was an unscientific, wholly voluntary survey, and in all ways indicative of the current climate at my current place of employement.

The Super Green Beret

Happy Memorial Day, everyone.

Here's a little treat with a timely theme for today, the online adventures of "Tod Holton, Super Green Beret". Teenage boy Tod Holton, using his magical green beret, can transform into an asskicking all-American super-soldier!

Just click on the cover images, or use the page numbers in white at the top of the web page to read his adventures.




PS--Saw the new Indiana Jones today at 9:30 a.m. (a great time to go and avoid the rudeness of teenagers). Liked it a lot. Thought it was a great revisit, but not as good a closing episode as "Last Crusade".

Harrison Ford can still crack a whip without breaking a hip!

Communists Want Indiana Jones Banned

The Russian Communist Party called for the new "Indiana Jones" movie to be banned from Russian theatres, condemning it as "crude, anti-Soviet propaganda that distorts history."

The fourth Indy film went on release in Russian cinemas on Thursday, landing 808 screens, the widest ever release for a Hollywood movie in the former USSR.

Here are some reviews from some cranky Reds:

Viktor Perov, Communist Party member from St. Petersburg: "What galls is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame."

Andrei Gindos, card-carrying party member: "Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett (are) second-rate actors, serving as the running dogs of the CIA. We need to deprive these people of the right of entering the country."

Sergei Malinkovich, St. Peterburg Communist Party chief: "Our movie-goers are teenagers who are completely unaware of what happened in 1957. They will go to the cinema and will be sure that in 1957 we made trouble for the United States and almost started a nuclear war. It's rubbish ... In 1957 the communists did not run with crystal skulls throughout the U.S. Why should we agree to that sort of lie and let the West trick our youth?"

There's nothing like the combination of failed political ideology and senility . . .
. . . or maybe they're just sore losers.


"Ha! Ha! Ha! Stupid Commies!"

Let Her Know Who's Boss

After the California State Supreme Court decision last week that legalized gay marriage, state officials are in a hurry to update marriage license forms.

The current one-page form uses ‘‘bride’’ and ‘‘groom’’ four times each, and also requires the signatures of an ‘‘unmarried man’’ and an ‘‘unmarried woman,’’ wording that is obviously out of step with the California Supreme Court ruling opening the way for gay marriages.

In Massachusetts, the only other state to legalize gay marriage, ‘‘bride’’ and ‘‘groom’’ were dropped from its marriage certificate in favor of ‘‘Party A’’ and ‘‘Party B.’’ Those individuals then check a box to indicate male or female. In Vermont, which issues certificates of civil union for gays, couples also are identified as ‘‘Party A’’ and ‘‘Party B.’’

Don't wait guys! Let your hetero wife know who's boss!

I stormed right in and told her "I'M PARTNER A! You're PARTNER B! Get used to it!"

(This official declaration will eventually come in useful, for, as we all know, sooner or later, "B" will be for "Bitch".)

And I'm going to get a lot of mileage out of that one.

Saudis Host First Film Festival

Here's a story from the Associated Press yesterday, with additions:

DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia - It's a far cry from the glamour of Cannes: No celebrities strutting their stuff; an all-male audience drinking coffee and juice rather than champagne; and if any female spectators showed up — well, "no one knew". They came in through a back entrance into a separate hall, off-limits to the male organizers.

There's been an upsurge in Saudi movies, usually short films that cannot be screened officially, and several newspapers now have a weekly movie page that highlights the cultural value of cinema.

That has angered conservatives who have flooded newspapers with statements denouncing the movie industry for encouraging decadence, showing the drinking of alcohol and portraying men and women together.

The shadow of the kingdom's conservatives was not far off at this event. Just before the celebration began, a group from the Committee to Prevent Vice and Promote Virtue dropped by. They went into the screening hall and asked that the four female Saudi and non-Saudi journalists who were present be moved from the middle of the room to side chairs in the front row. The evening then continued without further disruptions.

(What gentlemen.)

The Playbill:

"Mosque of Zorro"
"The Goats of Navarone"
"The Incredible Hakeem"
"Do Mess with the Zohan"
"What Happens in Fallujah . . ."
"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Burkha" (cancelled due to stoning)
And
"Flight 93: The Musical".

Feel free to add more titles.

Indiana Jones and the Walker of Doom

We, like half the movie-going public, are planning to see the new Indiana Jones movie this Memorial Day weekend. Despite pokes by Eurotrash movie snobs, I'm sure it will still be fantastic!

Even if Ford needs viagra for his whip.


"You damn kids keep off my lawn."

So That Accounts for the Driving

So Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor . . .

. . . what were the chances that a longterm Democrat would indeed have brain damage?

Snow Ninjas vs. the Winterkill Zombies

Here is a quick little trailer/home movie we made over winter break. There are more plans for similarly themed items this summer. Enjoy.




If you like it, here's our page at youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/groovyapeman

Hello

Since I'm now exhausted from initially setting up most of this blog, I'm going to feed the dogs and be back later.

Expect the same sort of sarcastic humor and pointed observations that you may have found at my former blog, troublebrewing.blog.com.

Unfortunately, disgust with their medieval memory restrictions and life events have taken me away for awhile.

Now with the advent of summer, I'm back.