Hey, I have an idea! Let’s make some gross generalizations about Immigration!
I’ve seen this meme on Facebook a few times and I’ve dismissed it as something I would rather ignore. I guess that I just finally saw it one too many times and I think that it is time to really parse out what they are saying to understand the point this meme is trying to make.
Let’s start with what I must assume this means:
Shooting illegal immigrants is a better solution than allowing them into our country. I mean, look at what they do in North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran. Now those are some countries we all want to emulate!
Neil deGrasse Tyson just blew my mind. Twice.
If you aren’t following Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter, you should.
I’ll warn you, though, he inspires some big thoughts. On saturday, for instance, he tweeted the following:
Fond of bow ties & hats. Handbag is bigger on the inside. Talks to variety of creatures. Evidence Mary Poppins is a Time Lord
Ohmygoddoyouknowwhatthismeans??????
It means Dick Van Dyke is her companion, that’s what it means.
Today, he tweeted this:
Just an FYI: Stars in the Universe far outnumber all sounds & words ever uttered by all humans who ever lived.
In fewer than 140 characters, he conveys just how fucking HUGE the universe is.
He didn’t even need to qualify his statement by including only important stuff. If he did that, he would have only needed to include the Milky Way.
The Complete Works of William Shatner: Abridged
Last night we had our first “production meeting” for this year’s Fringe Festival show. As things have started to come together, I’m getting more excited about our show and about our cast.
The show is “The Complete Works of William Shatner: Abridged” and it is being co-written by me and the amazingly talented Bill Stiteler, co-writer of “Macbeth: The Video Game Remix”. We explore the complex relationship of William Shatner to some of his most iconic roles and it will feature a lot of Star Trek jokes, at least one actor riding on a car hood and an unforgettable rendition of “Rocket Man.”
What’s in a last name?
Last week, I wrote about how the ending of Hot Tub Time Machine creeped me out. This week, I’ll write about why the ending pisses me off – and it has nothing with time travel paradoxes. Rather, it has everything to do with the misogynistic notion that everything is better because of how one guy’s last name changed.
A trend in movies lately is to explore the emasculation of men in modern society. In Hot Tub Time Machine, this emasculation is shown in several ways but none more heinous than the fact that Craig Robinson’s character (Nick) has a hyphenated last name!!
Alphabetical Movie – Hotel Rwanda
Hotel Rwanda is a mercifully sanitized account of the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. I say mercifully because I can’t imagine anyone wanting to watch as many as a million men, women and children hacked to death with machetes. After some amount of time, things would start to get a little bleak.
In all the talk about how Mao and Stalin and Pol Pot were atheists, you would think that all of the senseless killing in the 20th century was perpetrated by atheists. We are the scourge of the planet, mercilessly wiping out those who would oppose us by believing in god.
Shameless Self Promotion
Hey kids! I just started producing a new podcast for Vilification Tennis!
The first episode went live this morning on the Vilification Tennis website. Please listen and tell us what you think.
I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. As our first podcast, there are definitely kinks to work out but the overall result is very promising. I’m looking forward to producing the next one.
Keep in mind, Vilification Tennis is a show that focuses on offensive and insult humor and the podcast is the same. If that is not your kind of humor, don’t listen.
Shit that Pissed me off this week – 4/6
Michelle Dugar thinks Overpopulation is “not accurate”
The mother of 19 indicates she doesn’t know very much about – well – anything when she says that the entire population of the world could fit inside Jacksonville, Florida.
If we are going by sheer volume of people, she may be right. I don’t know. What I do know is that they would still have to live somewhere and they would still need to be fed and they would need someone to produce clothes for them and….you get the idea.
She shows that having the ability to count to 19 does not mean she has the ability to do math.
Alphabetical Movie – Hot Tub Time Machine
The ending of Hot Tub Time Machine creeps the fuck out of me.
Hang on, you ask, isn’t that a wacky comedy about how some guys travel back in time to the 80’s so they can relive their mis-spent youth and possibly learn some valuable life lessons?
Yeah.
So how is that creepy?
Well, my friend, let me tell you (spoilers a-comin’):
The Stories one Picture Tells
I take a ton of pictures when I’m on vacation. It is a blessing and a curse of the digital photography age that you don’t have to worry about getting the “best” shot. You can just take a few hundred pictures and when you get home, you can identify the ten that are actually worth keeping.
My goal is to take pictures that tell good stories.
As I’ve been looking through my pictures of the family trip to Monterey, I’ve especially enjoyed this one:
Two boys on a Beach
Doubling Down on gay Marriage – Let’s get to the Kids!
The Archdiocese of St. Paul decided that it isn’t doing enough to combat the evil spectre of gay marriage in America so they have started to focus on the kids.
The Star Tribune reported on a mandatory assembly that DeLasalle High Schoolers were recently forced to attend. The subject of the assembly was, of course, marriage and we all know what that is code for, right?
Grail Diary 