Thursday, August 09, 2012
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Get Your Beast On
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a really fine film. The "southern wild" is lower Louisiana, outside the levees, in a ragged community of homemade shacks and independent spirits. It's in limited release, but catch it if you can.
You Better Stay Away From Downtown
After a 15 year break, Redd Kross is back. With some Fucking Terrific Power pop.
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
Monday, August 06, 2012
Olympic All-Name Team
Dong Dong
China,
trampoline
Kim Yoo-Suk
South Korea,
pole vault
Hulk
Brazil,
soccer excuse me football
If you stop watching beach volleyball for a second, you'll notice some outstandingly named athletes. Dong Dong won the gold!
Saturday, August 04, 2012
What do Joe, Barack Obama, and my mother have in common?
It's their birthdays! Have a great one Bastard Joe!
Thursday, August 02, 2012
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Get Your Filthy Poem Away From Me
Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing figures into a recent Silicon Valley venture capital sexual harassment lawsuit. The book - a gift from a senior partner to a woman in the firm - was described as "equivalent to making a crude proposal or touching in an inappropriate place". Bloggery here. Full story here.
I'm starting to see the required summer reading on this blargh in a whole new light.
Monday, July 30, 2012
The Land of Happy Little Accidents
I'm sure we've all done this at one time or another... watch The Joy of Painting that is
Friday, July 27, 2012
On YouTube, No One Cares If You Scream
I found this really, really well done Alien documentary the other day and thought I'd pass it along. Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon (R.I.P.), Ronald Shusett, H.R. Giger, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and a few others weigh in with their memories of this horror classic.
All seven parts can be found here.
Congratulations, Bastard!
Camera-wielding shark whisperer and upstanding bastard Matt has sold five photographs! Due to copyright issues, we won't post them here... but I have it on good authority that they're largely tasteful semi-nude shots of Jay, much as above.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Muppet Pride
The muppets have dumped Chick-Fil-A as a business partner. It came out that Chick-Fil-A recently donated $2 million to groups considered anti-gay. Their president mentioned something about "biblical principles", but of course no one pressed him on the more vile passages of Deuteronomy. More here.
As you can see from the above Electric Six/Muppet performance, they've always been loud and proud.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Free Willard!
Film star and Bastard hero Fred Willard (Spinal Tap, Anchorman,etc.) was arrested for lewd conduct at an adult-themed theater in L.A. last week. His only previous lewd conduct charge was in 1990, so he may get off with um, counseling. Story here.
Willard's review: a "lousy film".
I know, I know.. there are still adult theaters?
Monday, July 23, 2012
Bastards Assemble(d)!
Bastards Eric, Matt and Jay called an emergency assembly in Nashville this past Saturday. And as three bastards is all we need for a quorum (Bastard Charter, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1), several pressing orders of business were addressed. Perhaps the most surprising was Grand Poobah's closing pronouncement, which I quote word-for-word below:
Joe is no longer Consigliari. He's going to be our lawyer in Vegas. That's no reflection on Joe it's just the way I want it.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Brilliant One-Two Punch
Things are getting interesting. From CNN ("Mitt Romney's painfully bad week"):
Thursday morning, the Obama campaign released a tough ad attacking the record of downsizing and outsourcing at Romney's old firm, Bain Capital.
The Romney campaign reacted with outrage. That same day, it announced a multimillion-dollar purchase of airtime for an ad that bluntly accused President Obama of lying.
In support of the ad, Romney's team argued that he had left Bain Capital in February 1999; the incidents alluded to by the Obama campaign all occurred after that date and had nothing to do with Romney.
Wham. The first attack on Romney had been a jab, dropping Romney's guard against the haymaker: On Friday, the Obama team counter-charged that it was Romney who was lying in his ads or who had committed a felony, lying on 140 official forms that he signed as CEO and sole shareholder of Bain between 1999 and 2002.
Romney now chased the Obama story, granting five TV interviews to reiterate his version of events. The more he talked, the more deeply into trouble he sank. By Sunday, even Romney supporters were urging the thing he wants least: release of more income tax returns.
And here again, what got Romney into the trouble was his war room. It was the too-fierce response to Attack 1 -- the adamant insistence that Romney had nothing, nothing to do with anything that happened at Bain after February 1999 -- that set up Romney for Attack 2: Did he lie on SEC forms? And now he will struggle through the rest of the election trying to reconcile his answers.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
This Is Genius
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| I have a complaint. |
You bastards need to check out The Monkeys You Ordered, a sublime collection of literal New Yorker cartoon captions.
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