Clinton brought rhythm...

...now Obama has brought SOUL to the white house! C'mon, racial stereotyping aside, you have to admit most of our darker skinned brothers have that intangible "soul," otherwise why would Don Cornelius be hosting Soul Train so many years?

What's wrong with a little Isley Brothers blasting from the front lawn on a sleepy Sunday morning? Or some dubs on the presidential limo? Maybe that's what our country needs, a change of attitude, a change of pace.

One thing is for certain, it can only get better, or worse. And after W, chances are it is going to get better. A LOT better. It's like having a spelling bee, and you're stepping up to the mic right after the dyslexic kid finished. Like shooting fish in a barrel, or winnie the pooh scoring some honey.

It's gonna be easy. Easy like Sunday morning.......

I'm not a very smart man but...

Seriously, what is the world coming to when you can crash a jetliner into a river...and be called a HERO?

Maybe I'm missing something here. Is it because the plane could have crashed someplace else like a nearby hospital and caused tremendous chaos? Or missed crashing into a field like the spaceship from MIB? (although, that would have been kinda cool to see though). Well, my line of thinking must be a little bit off, because landing a plane in water is apparently the way to go.

Well, I guess as the saying goes, any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Especially if all aboard the plane survived and are "ok." Wait, one lady broke BOTH her legs. But technically she's "ok" cuz she's still alive....wuuuuuut???

On a side note...Ann Coulter and Nancy Grace. I mean come on now. When are people just going to ignore these 2 pompous biatches. They are not any authority on anything in the least. They are just self absorbed media whores who intentionally say things that they know will offend people, just so they can cause a ruckus, get media attention, and pawn off more books. We would only be so lucky that Ann is against there being single mothers in the world, because her only option to reproduce and infest the gene pool would be to BECOME a single mother. I mean who in their right mind would marry her, let alone allow her to procreate?

Here's a pic from the LBC taken over the xmas holidays...enjoy

and to all a good night...

December 25th and every other day of the year...Merry Christmas to all our loved ones, family, friends, and neighbors. You are always in our minds and hearts...

Good Day Sir!

Isn't Wally Wonka & the Chocolate Factory just the best???

blasphemy...

Been watching the Robotech series on DVD the other day, the first installment or Macross Saga. To the best of my memory, the Robotech series that I grew up on (public tv not cable of course) was a little bit different than this boxed set. I remember Rick and Lisa Hayes riding off into the proverbial sunset (he made the better choice in my opinion) and left Minmei in the dust.

That ending I remembered concluded with episode 27, but I was surprised to find a total of 36 episodes in the set, almost like someone tried to tack on an extra "ps" or throw their modern spin on the series. Needless to say I was livid. Enough to the point I had to get on the net and do my wikipedia research. I'm still not done, but what I did find was enough to make me go to bed crying.

So below, from left to right, is a pic of the voices behind the American version of Robotech: The Macross Saga, or Lisa Hayes (my pre-teen heart throb), Rick Hunter, and Lynn Minmei.

Good night cruel, cruel world. My pre-teen crush on foxy anime Lisa Hayes is forever shattered...

Vampires do not drive Volvos

So it was during my visit to the movie theater last Friday night that I experienced what may possibly be the most god awful, over-rated, cheesiest movie production ever filmed (in my humble opinion). The name of said vomit inducing, comatose making production? Twilight. This movie is offensive to me in so many levels, not only does it warrant a rant blog, but there's so many insults to hurl I don't know where to begin.

First of all, 4 words. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER!!! I know, I know, the story isn't the same, Twilight is made for today's young teens, etc, etc. Whatever! It's a story about a vampire, and a human, and their forbidden love. Don't have to be a rocket scientist to see the rip-off. Been there done that. BTVS, Underworld, Queen of the Damned...c'mon, be a little original.

But copying the main theme of other vampire movies like BTVS is where the similarities end. The entire script for this movie is horrible, it's like it was written by 5 year olds on a weekend sugar bender at Chuck E Cheese. Vampire lore has been around for some time, but the liberties taken in this movie with vampires would make Bela Lugosi roll in his grave. I mean, vampires that have skin that sparkles in the sunlight??? Um, hello?!?! Sunlight is supposed to KILL OR BURN vampires, not make them shimmer like Mariah Carey at the Hard Rock. Also, vampires do not play baseball last time I checked my legends and myths dictionary (unless the vampire is a baseball bat...get it?). And last but not least, Vampires do not drive Volvos! Where's the beat up old school 64 Dodge van with the coffin in the back?

Don't even get me started about the actors and their so called acting. The main guy who plays Edward looks like he's going to regurgitate his femur when he first sees the Bella chick. That's his way of trying to hide how much he's attracted to her? Give me a break. Vampires are supposed to be mysterious, that's a given, but this guy acts date rapist creepy one minute, and higher than Jay and Silent Bob the next. Also, what I don't get is that this character is supposed to be so beautiful to look at, but I honestly think his face looks like Edward Scissorhands on crack.

I could spend days going off on the part where the rogue vampire chases down Bella from Washington to Arizona in the span of a day by running like the Speedy Gonzalez. I mean, if they are going let the Vampires drive Volvos in the movie, you might as well let them fly coach!

Now I don't consider myself an actual movie critic...well...because for one I'm not that much of an asshole, and two because my tastes in movies is questionable to others at best. My DVD collection has easily offended the Academy time and time again, and Blockbuster has denied my requests for certain video rentals. But I do consider myself a sort of movie connoisseur. I like the good stuff like To Kill a Mockingbird and Shawshank Redemption, but I have no shame in watching Earth Girls are Easy or ConAir. But I have to say without a doubt that this movie is quite possibly the worst movie ever made, replacing Weekend at Bernies 1 and 2. I never found myself cursing the stars so much to get back my 2.5 hours back from AMC that they stole from me forever. If the book is sooooo good as Oprah and everyone says it is, then by golly someone better hunt down and shoot the script writer and director, and the studio better ask for their money back!


Oh, and for the record, Krush Grove is gonna be the bigger movie than ET. Time's gonna tell on that one.

gotta run before you can walk...

K, so the voting pretty much seems a done deal and it's gonna be Obama over the ice queen. I say the ice queen because I pretty much don't consider McCain the actual presidential nominee for the Republican Party. It's pretty obvious they were relying on the strength of Fey, oops I mean Palin, to win the white house once more for the Republican horde. Boy was that a bad hand to play, can you say "all reds?"

Say what you want about the presidential race and all, everyone's got their spin/perspective on it. Black, white, female, gay, etc.. But what I always think about is... there's got to be an easier way to do this voting stuff (well, there's got to be an easier way to do everything. Take for example the flying car....) We can pay our bills online, file taxes, but yet we can't seem to get a legit way of voting for our next leader of the free world? I can blog with more ease than it took for me to cast my ballot today. I'd love a minority in the white house as much as the next person (unless that person is Nancy Grace) but you give me a Republican that will allow me to vote for them via text like Dancing with the Stars, and that guy (or ice queen) has my vote.

Yes, sometimes I can be just that lazy.

But I did vote for Obama today, much to the chagrin of my other (better) half, and all I could think of when I drove away from the polling stations was "God, I hope I didn't leave any hanging chads, or miscast my vote," and "boy hope I didn't just vote for the anti-christ."

I don't know...somewhere I could have sworn I read it prophesized that the anti-christ would be a charismatic, smiling sonuvagun that would sweep people off their feet into eternal damnation with his sweet talk. This, depending on who you are, this could have been either candidate. Oh well, only time will tell, but the only thing we know for sure now is, Obama will be the anti-christ for most places of the South, and especially on Nancy Grace.