separated at birth

NY Attorney General/gubernatorial candidate Eliott Spitzer


Hammerhead, fictional NYC crime lord

bang. you dead.

DC sniper found guilty of 2003 Maryland/Washington DC killing spree.




John Allen Muhammad, psycho on the left, has been found guilty by a Maryland jury of 6 killings. Maryland has no death penalty, but Muhammad will poresumably get 6 life sentences. Muhammad acted as his own attorney, and the star witness for the prosecution was his own protege, Lee Malvo, who was 17 at that time.

Malvo said that when he asked Muhammad why, the older man replied: "For the sheer terror of it -- the worst thing you can do to people is aim at their children."

burn 'em, i say.

a salute

Oh I’ve just come
From the land of the sun
From a war that must be won
In the name of truth



With our soldiers so brave
Your freedom we will save
With our rifles and grenades
And some help from God



I want to see my family
My wife and child waiting for me
I’ve got to go home
I’ve been so alone, you see



You just can’t believe
The joy I did receive
When I finally got my leave
And I was going home



Oh I flew through the sky
My convictions could not lie
For my country I would die
And I will see it soon

I want to see my family
My wife and child waiting for me
I’ve got to go home
I’ve been so alone, you see



When I walked through the door
My wife she lay upon the floor
And with tears her eyes were sore
I did not know why
Then I looked into her hand
And I saw the telegram
That said that I was a brave, brave man
But that I was dead




I want to see my family
My wife and child waiting for me
I’ve got to go home
I’ve been so alone, you see

words by sumner/hook/gilbert/morris
-update-
The Michael Behlen Sr. Circle, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn



Dewey marker











times like this, why do they even bother?


http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/

sighting

the coin fisherman





http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/362805p-309045c.html

gave me a potential option for my next career.

visualizer

Check out: Aharef's Website as Graphs


my site's:



check your sitegraph here.

picture wars

so what happens to all our photo software and digital cameras, not to mention web graphics?

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/index.blog?entry_id=1489144

on one hand, the file-size savings is great. on the other hand, it IS Microsoft.

never fails

its even worse if its your own.

- from cnn.com-

Wealthy couple guilty of enslaving maid
Woman earned just $18,000 over 19 years

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A federal jury found a wealthy suburban couple guilty Friday of harboring an illegal immigrant and forcing her to work as their maid for 19 years.

The Filipino national testified during the eight-day trial that she felt like a prisoner in Jefferson and Elnora Calimlim's home.

The couple was found guilty of harboring an illegal immigrant for financial gain, conspiracy to harbor an illegal immigrant for financial gain, forced labor and attempted forced labor.

Their eldest son, 31-year-old Jefferson M. Calimlim, was found guilty of harboring an illegal immigrant, one of three charges against him.

Irma Martinez testified she worked 16 hour days for minimal pay for the couple, physicians who are legal residents of the United States but citizens of the Philippines.

The Calimlims face prison, fines, deportation and forfeiture of their $1.2 million home when sentenced September 15. Their U.S.-born son faces prison and fines.

In closing arguments Thursday in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed Martinez volunteered to work for five years as a live-in maid and nanny for the Calimlims and their three children.

But prosecutors said Martinez "lost the best years of her life" because she feared imprisonment and deportation if she left the family.

"The defendants stole 19 years of Irma Martinez's life," said Susan French, a prosecutor from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C. "They stole 19 years of freedom."

She said the couple benefited from Martinez's cheap labor.

Jefferson N. Calimlim's attorney, Tom Brown, told jurors the couple had plenty of money to hire an American worker. He said Elnora Calimlim wanted a Filipino maid because she had one while growing up in the Philippines, and she wanted only to help a fellow Filipino.

(what, she had a frickin' toy back home, and now she also wants the same toy here?)

Elnora Calimlim testified Martinez earned $150 a month for the first 10 years and $400 a month thereafter. Most of the money went to Martinez's parents, who French said received about $18,000 over the 19 years.

Martinez would have earned about $480,000 over that period had the Calimlims paid her a U.S. minimum wage for her 16-hour days, a U.S. Department of Labor witness testified.

dun!

ok, seriously. it's time to reshoot Spider-Man 3. please, Mr. Sam Raimi.

"i want more!"

i mean, Mary Jane Watson (Parker) is supposed to be a beautiful hot model. does that pic above look like the epitome of "beautiful hot model" to you?

hell yeah.

GUILTY AND CONVICTED!



as anybody who watched The Smartest Guys In The Room can attest, you'd be cheering too. burn the bastards.

hell no.

dammit, we gotta do something. this means war!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/

dananananana-dananananana

final team movie before spinoffs?

snikt!

deluge

finally after years of staying away from torrenting, i finally caved in because of delphi's serendipitous discovery of scanned comicbooks out there in cyberspace. well, that and the decision of some uh, enterprising geeks to scan their favorite funnybooks in the first place and disseminate them to fans all over. we already witnessed software, audio and video piracy (and uh, profited from it), and it was just a matter of time before my beloved comicbooks joined the list.

we've seen how publishers balked at Google's attempt to 'catalogue' or 'index' most of the published material out there (primarily books). would it be also a matter of time before comic publishers (and you know they're owned by the same big corporations) take a hard look at the practice and start suing people? yeah, as if its still going to prevent the scanners. there's two schools of thought here. on one hand, nothing beats having the comic or trade paperback (tpb) in your hand to read, to enter a new realm (much like opening a new book by your favorite author). all these digital files won't mean anything if you don't have a PC and enough hard drive space. on the other hand, it is quite an expensive trip for normal joes like me to maintain a collection even if its for the right reasons (reading pleasure vs. reading them once and storing them in $$$ protective bags, never to be opened again - yes, that's right, i'm talking about you, bepimpled, no-life fanboy-slash-collector). and if you factor in even chances of risk to both formats (age, weather, rats, termites vs. accidental deletion/media failure), in today's rapidly tech-centric world, there's a bigger chance that anyone will still have a useable PC rather than lots of shelf space, a deep wallet, and excess time to visit the comic shop every week.

but of course, the scanners remind you to "buy it, if you like it" - just so no one accuses them of ripping off the industry outright.

that being said, i am grateful that i am able to catch up on the old stuff that i have missed in recent years (and ongoing series as well). classics like Frank Miller's Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One and Alan Moore's V for Vendetta, edgy stuff like Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan and Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, and modern marvels like Brian K Vaughan's Y: The Last Man and the Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale whodunit masterpieces The Long Halloween and Dark Victory. not to mention the requisite annual crossovers from DC and Marvel (Infinite Crisis, House of M) and even indie eye candy like Red Sonja. i feel writers and artists themselves would not object to this phenomenon, because it could actually expose their work to a wider audience.

i was actually thinking of doing this before - to share some of my stuff with my pals, and to use a digicam instead of a scanner. but i figured photographing pages is a bitch although it could save me from the potential lawsuit (its my photos, its not a duplication!). good thing the scanners came along and saved me the trouble. i'm always adopting the common Netizen line: if its out there, i'll take it.

once again ... damn you, dolphy delphi, damn you.


say, jego, want some?

office bet

NBA Conference Finals Office Pool

Edvard:

Mavs in 5, Heat in 6

Grifter:

Mavs in 6, Pistons in 7

loser gets to ... nothing. brag and gloat for 10 seconds.

TV whiplash

and what a slambang ending to this season's 24.

just when you thought that life is hopeless and unfair, Jack finds a way to sting President Logan, catching the rotten fish by the mouth and practically writing his own confession (i knew he planted a bug somehow, and it was the pen!!). the pen is mightier than the Prez. a presidential takedown - wooohooo! - not seen since the Nixon days, and in a more dramatic fashion.

i take it back: life is hopeless and unfair. as soon as you think everything's gonna end up on a happy note, the Chink bastards (led by that Chinese ambassador from Rush Hour) from last season show up and kidnap Jack and shanghai him on a ship bound for ... Shanghai? no that was the name of the ship. whatever. next season, i bet they will brainwash him and use him as a weapon against the US guvmint. wait, that was Chris Claremont's unused X-Men script for Wolverine. ah, no - it will be Brad Pitt mounting a rescue operation for Jack, to be helped out by Robert Redford.

and so ends another 24 hour season. now i have extra time on monday nights.

the only regret: minimal Elisha Cuthbert screentime the whole season! booo!

-----

while watching 24, i was checking the ongoing West Semifinals games on delphi's slingbox over the Net. there must've been lots of traffic this night, as the streaming video was worse than my badly-ripped DVDs. i stopped and restarted the whole thing throughout, and even managed to miss the overtime session of the Spurs-Mavs game. no matter, i am proud to have this cap for 3 years already. go Mavs!


my predictions are still holding. though i was rooting for the LeBron's Cavs last weekend, i knew Detroit would still meet Miami in the East Finals.

update:
Phoenix seems to be running away from the Clippers, which completes my prognostications for the semifinals.

oh lordi

now this is more exciting than American Idol!

a Finnish heavy metal rock band called Lordi, reminiscent of Kiss and Gwar, went beyond everyone's expectations, not just simply winning the nod to represent their country in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, but winning the whole thing as well with their rock song "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The Eurovision contest is an annual song competition among countries who are members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

"you're next, Simon Cowell!"

"This is a victory for rock music ... and also a victory for open-mindedness," the band's lead singer, Mr. Lordi (Tomi Putaansuu), said after the win -- Finland's first. "We are not Satanists. We are not devil-worshippers. This is entertainment."

Held in Athens, Lordi was voted for by all countries except Albania, Armenia and Monaco, thus gaining the highest number of points in any Eurovision Song Contest to date. Regarded by many as the contest good taste forgot, Eurovision is adored by fans of camp everywhere.

This year NBC announced plans to produce a similar show, replacing the member countries of the EBU with the different states and territories of the United States. As of May 2006 the EBU was in talks with NBC to license the rights to the Eurovision Song Contest format.



Which means, William Hung can have another 15 minutes of fame!!!!

dance dance evolution

that could've been me!

Are You Loving It?

Surgeon General's Warning: Continuous Consumption of Specific Fastfood May Have Adverse Effects on Pregnant Women.


* actual ad from a McDo in India

in other words, lay off the Big Mac, momma!

duh

i don't know what the fuss is about. maybe i'm just not Catholic enough?

if the protesters really want to rail on something that could offend them, maybe they should read Preacher.

of course, a Hollywood movie reaches a lot more people and means more $$ than an edgy controversial comic book.

so air the con of man

ok, the opening line there should be ... who wouldn't want to watch a film with Jean Reno? Being quite a fan since Leon (a.k.a. The Professional), its always fun to watch the big lug (despite him being French and all, nyahahaha). The cast acquit themselves, and the movie works despite the all-star ensemble: there's Doctor Octopus now a Bishop (Alfred Molina), there's Amelie now a cyrptologist (Audrey Tautou), there's the submarine commander turned greedy bank manager (Jürgen Prochnow), and there's Magneto/Gandalf himself (Ian McKellen). we had an office debate whether Tom Hanks really fit the role of Robert Langdon, symbology professor, with that goofy hair of his. i'm still not really sold, but Hanks is not a two-time Oscar winner for nothing, and i daresay i am slightly less unconvinced when i walked out the theater (and still found some protesters outside 3 hours later - hey, go home already!).

for my money, the film belongs to Paul Bettany, a.k.a. Silas Da Anak Araw, as much as it does to the two main leads. i probably won't be surprised if there are some radical Opus Dei members like him, and he exudes quite a menace that even his real-life wife Jennifer Connelly probably didn't let him near her for a few weeks.


so when will they also make a movie about the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed? i mean imagine if Dan Brown was Muslim, and this bestseller revolved around Islam. man, Salman Rushdie would have had it easy.

Once Again, I Am A Witness.


and that's how you play team basketball, Mr. Kobe "I Wuz Jes Stickin' To The Game Plan" Bryant.

I still feel the Pistons will advance, but basketball's future is solid in Bron-Bron's big hands.


thanks to dolphydelphi for providing TV feed via his SlingBox.

i fought the law

its quite a shock when you learn that the people you vote into office do some unlawful things (no! seriously? my government? my government is a clean government and my president is a saint! gedouddaheah!).



if this is true, then can they trace these people below? because from the looks of things, they can't even grasp or obey basic traffic law. who knows what other laws they could be breaking. tap their phones. they could be calling their drug dealer in Colombia. or arranging for WMDs to be smuggled into America to cause destruction.




i mean if i were one of the drivers, i'd run these assholes over. seriously.


* assholes depicted above can be observed at all times near the City Hall triangle, in front of J&R.

better late

times like these
you appreciate the fact that
even if you sacrificed home and hearth
they still remember you

Don't Vend Copies

gotta hand it to my kababayans.

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Filipino hawkers cash in on "Da Vinci Code" fever

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine hawkers are repackaging a documentary on the "The Da Vinci Code" as an authentic version of the movie, cashing in on public interest in the religious thriller ahead of its release this week.

The film, based on the best-selling novel of the same title, has whipped up a storm of controversy in the largely Roman Catholic country and the Philippines' censor has yet to grant it a release permit despite a slated opening date of May 18.

"We will decide on the permit based on whether the film attacks a religion, creed or doctrine, and if it defames a person living or dead," the censor, Consoliza Laguardia, told local radio Monday.

Laguardia said she had yet to review the film.

In downtown Manila, DVD hawkers were standing by the authenticity of their "advance copies" of the "Da Vinci Code," retailing at 35 pesos ($0.67).

"This copy came from Malaysia. The movie was already shown there," a vendor called Magda said.

A copy bought from Magda featured not the movie but a one-hour documentary titled "Unlocking the Da Vinci Code."

Read rest of article here.


and why no mention of Opus Dei? did they suppress bad publicity? are they prepared to kill anybody who badmouths them after this movie is shown? will the Albino assassin pay me a visit later?

those who should be frothing at the mouth should be Sony Pictures, who are being cheated of potential revenue because of these 67 cent DVDs. but hey, they can recoup that by charging American moviegoers $12 each. reportedly, they need about 20 movie patrons to cover Tom Hanks' visit to the salon to get rid of that ugly hairstyle.

Holy Frak.

Zombie Pic of the Week

i swear i won't tease you
won't tell you no lies
i don't need no bible
just look in my eyes
i want your sex
i want your love


sex .... aw!

happy mother's day

That's my mom!
She goes by the name of Mom!
M is for her razmatazz
O is for the way she talks
The other "M" is there because...
You can't have a mom without "M"!



thanks to Brak for the lyrics.

Wanted: Bandmates

do you recognize these names: Cactus World News. Hoodoo Gurus. Screaming Blue Messiahs. Hummingbirds. Oingo Boingo. you must love the Pet Shop Boys, strangely adore the Housemartins, bob your head to Big Audio Dynamite, and know who Electronic and Revenge are. if you guys can play the whole Deception album from Colourfield, what the hell are you standing around for?

guitarist must at least know and can play the whole 20 year catalogue of late 70s/80's/early 90's alternative music - ranging from the Clash, the Cult, Living Colour, the Smiths, Prefab Sprout, Sisters of Mercy, and even Gene Loves Jezebel. you don't have to be The Edge; you just have to be almost like him. if you don't know who Stuart Adams or Moe Berg is, goodbye.

bassist must be of the same ilk as my guitarist. knows the Cure/Bunnymen performance style down pat. should have more hair and less paunch than Hooky. can out-Prince Prince himself and create funky and dancey basslines out of thin air.

drummer/percussionist required not only to know how to program a drum machine, he must also be like one. important for those dance numbers we will be performing like spastic monkeys. think Information Society's "Walking Away", Depeche Mode's "World In My Eyes", and New Order's "Confusion".

keyboardist/pianist must be female, and aside from being the synth wiz working in tandem with the drummer to program whole sets, should also have powerful pipes as a secondary vocalist, but can also step up to perform and channel Maria McKee ("Shelter"), Tracy Tracy ("Crash"), Edie Brickell ("Love Like We Do"), Tracey Thorn ("One Place") and Annie Lennox ("The Last Time"). the way my ideal band was going to shape up, she was going to hook up with the guitarist, and everybody's one big happy family.

everyone should not be afraid to embrace technology, but still not allow it to rule our music. everyone should not be afraid to play cheesy pop songs, but still be loyal to the era we came from. we should be able to veer smoothly from A-Ha's "Living a Boy's Adventure Tale" to the Kane Gang's "Don't Look Any Further" cover, then barrel into Midnight Oil's "Bullroarer", the lazy funk of INXS's "Know the Difference", the chainsaw feedback of the Jesus & Mary Chain's "U.V. Ray", the soul stomp of Curiosity Killed The Cat's "Ordinary Day" and then mellow down with a helping of Aztec Camera's "How Men Are".

me? can't sing a lick, have no vocal training, but i will be the lead. i am the musical dictator, but you love me.

ideally, no one should think they're bigger than the band, and will hone their skills for the love of performing even if there is no money and ignore catcalls of being "just a cover band".



if you don't even know more than a couple of songs or bands mentioned, you better stop reading this and go play with your kittens. otherwise, drop me a line.



ok, what was i thinking? its not 1991 anymore. drat.

chinkpedia

China just launched their version of Wikipedia!

those who can read Chinese language websites, let us know if they're more or less truthful (*snort*) ... look up Tiananmen Square.

http://www.baidu.com/index.html

Amen!!!!

... continuing our dissection of Maddox (not Angelina's adopted son)

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=walmart

dissension? comments?

morning whine

when you paperbag my coffee and croissant and take my money, aren't you supposed to hand me back the bag, bitch???

its not enough that you have a large markup on your stuff (Red Bull $2.75 vs $2.00 or less elsewhere), you don't even know basic customer service, except to take their money and (reluctantly?) give change.

yes, i'm also freakin' Asian like you.

raaaaarrrrrr

#1 on Amazon.



should be a hoot. why the hell am i late again?



actually i'm not really. i remember reading his post skewering U2's Vertigo album because it contained the 11 worst songs of 2004.

1+1=0?

kind of reinforces the notion of beauty minus brains.

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SPLAT WALK MODEL
FALLS FROM RV ONTO HIGHWAY IN BROOKLYN

By PHILIP MESSING, LARRY CELONA and TATIANA DELIGIANNAKIS, NEW YORK POST

May 10, 2006 -- A beautiful high-fashion model apparently took a wrong turn inside her trailer's bathroom as the RV rumbled along a Brooklyn highway yesterday - and opened up a door that dumped her onto the highway.

Leggy Russian head-turner Tatyana Simanava, 21, suffered a possible broken shoulder and wrist, as well as cuts and bruises, when she took the terrifying tumble from the motor home. It was traveling 50 mph along the busy Gowanus Expressway near 76th Street around 11:50 a.m., police said.

The frantic driver of the vehicle - a 1982, black, souped-up coach sporting dark tinted windows - spotted the model in his side-view mirror as she fell out and immediately pulled over, cops said.

Simanava landed in the left lane, which the RV had been traveling in - and miraculously wasn't hit by another vehicle.

She was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where she was expected to at least spend the night for treatment, sources said.

The Next agency model - whose sultry blond, blue-eyed looks have been routinely featured in everything from demure bridal to saucy lingerie ads - was apparently on the job for a shoot when the freak nightmare accident occurred.

She told highway cops that she had gone inside the bathroom in the RV, and when she tried to exit minutes later, she apparently picked the wrong one of two doors that led from it, a police source said.

Instead of opening the one she had entered from, she turned the knob on the one that led to the road.

Reps with her modeling agency said no one was available for comment.

Simanava is listed on the Web as being a 5-foot-10, size-8 model with measurements of 32-24-35 who has been featured in ads for everyone from Alysi to Velesca to David's Bridal.

Her credits also include one bit-part acting stint - as a model - in the comic French flick "Absolument fabuleux" ("Absolutely Fabulous"), about the extravagant life of two over-the-top models in Paris.

say it ain't so.

current reports have Jon Favreau (no offense, but Jon Favreau?) in the running for writing/directing the proposed Iron Man movie, and Thomas Mapother IV (a.k.a. Loony Tune) is reportedly interested (again) to play the lead.



WTF?!

Tony Stark is a childhood idol and to have the role essayed by this alien-spewing, dancing-challenged leprechaun is an abomination.


who am i kidding? i gave him money for his MI:3 (wait! i said i was giving it to Philip Hoffman!). i'm going to watch no matter how much it will suck anyway.

still, WTF!?!? alternative directors and casting calls, anyone???

blak

Hallway. Not. (a What If)

last Saturday night, i was looking forward to Game 7 between the Suns and the Lakers. then i realized i didn't have TNT. damn. so then the Suns pulled out the win and clinched the series. but everyone else was thinking ahead for a 2nd round match between the 2 L.A. teams, including me.

and so ... rats. the post that never was. nope, am not going to make the cut in the ESPN Sportswriter exam.

============================
i had this post prepared even before the Lakers stunned the Suns in the first round. i know i was rooting for the Suns, and if it did go that way, the heading could have been ... "What IF.. ?", and i would still post it.

but here we are, Staples Center the site of a collision course between the two L.A. basketball teams, which is the first ever in history of the city's sports teams. the snobby Lakers are always expected to be playing past March, while the underdog Clippers somehow manage not to, year after year. well, for this season at least, the Sports Gods have somehow bestowed "Parity for the Pair of You", and divided the city in a Solomonic gesture. whoever wins, there will be riots.



in the Battle of L.A., here are some interesting subplots, aside from the traditional Prince-and -Pauper dynamic going on:

Kobe vs Sam I Am
who has the biggest cojones on the court? has Kobe toned his act down? has he understood the concept of a TEAM? holy cannoli! say it ain't so! drop us at least 50! Sam would, if he could!

Mike Dunleavy vs Phil Jackson
15 years ago, Jackson's Bulls won their first-ever championship at the Lakers' expense. those '91 Lakers were coached by Dunleavy. now Dunleavy is still coaching an L.A. team, its just the other L.A. team. so this time, its either Dunleavy loses, again, or the Lakers lose, again. run that by me again, will ya?

Odom vs Brand
ex-AAU (Riverside Church, NY) and ex-Clipper teammates Lamar Odom and Elton Brand meet in the playoffs as opponents, and who gets the best of whom? Odom in particular, will be booed by the Clipper fans for displaying only potential during his stint with them. Brand, meanwhile, has been a consistent force in his 7 years in the league, and getting far in the Playoffs, in his first time, is sweet.

X-Yugos
we have the Serbian Clippers, Vlad Radmanovic and Zeljko Rebraca, teaming up against a former countryman, the Slovene Laker Sasha Vujacic. should we call the U.N.? is Vlade Divac in the crowd with a sniper rifle? though we must note, Divac played for the Lakers. but who's to say his allegiance is not greater to his country?

Street Legends
its always a nice story for sports athletes to have made the "Leap" - grabbing destiny by the throat and making good. William Henry "Smush" Parker was an outstanding West 4th St player, went undrafted, bounced around the league, until finally taking the driver's seat for Jackson's Lakers. Shaun Livingston, in the meantime, was already a prep ball legend before jumping from high school to the Clippers - only to have injuries ruin most of his 2 year career. He's already healthy and showing the signs of becoming another terrific hybrid point guard (6'7" with multi-positional skills).

Von Wafer vs. Vin Baker
i am not kidding. look it up. chances are, you won't get to see them on the floor anyway. nyhahahaha!

Warm It Up Chris
Warm it up Chris
I'm about to
Warm it up Chris
cause that's what I was born to do

despite similar numbers, i'll take Clipper wildman Chris Kaman over Laker stiff Chris Mihm any day.


Separated At Birth


Did you ever see Corey Maggette and Devean George on the same court together? in the same picture? no? well, it figures ... they're the same person!!!

X-Factor pt 1 (Pussycat Dolls)
Cuttino "Cat" Mobley vs Kwame Brown. The former's a conscience-free gunner who provides bench offense for the Clippers, the latter is first-ever #1 pick from high school and considered a bust league-wide until the last few months in Lakerland. hey, even his current coach called him another name for a feline animal and a female anatomical part. see the connection?

X-Factor pt 2
Quinton Ross. who the hell names their kid Quinton (hey, for that matter, you have Von and Smush)? no matter, QRoss is another Bruce Bowen in-the-making. yes, you need to shut KB8 down. on the other side, you have Luke Walton. no matter how annoying his papa Bill is, you just got to love the hustle and brains of this kid. he won't be a superstar, but he will be an important cog in championship teams.

Jack Nicholson vs. Malcolm (In The Middle)
i don't care if he's geriatric; Frankie Muniz should kick his ass. Can you imagine ol' Jack gloating "Ever Dance with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight?" over Frankie's battered body?


and i don't have cable. ah, shiitake.

imp

yeah ok, i just gave some of my hard-earned bucks to Loony Tune.



but hey, like i said, i was gonna watch MI:3 because of The Hoff (David is no longer worthy of the moniker). being disappointed that he (spoiler alert!) dies in the movie, i wanted to watch it again just in case, you know, the ending could be different and Loony Tune dies instead.

then again, i also got my eardrums ruptured as this movie provides a lot of literal bang for your buck. upping the sound and visual fx ante always works when you have a flimsy plot (he has to retrieve some bunny appendage or else his girl dies, but what does this appendage do? maybe we're not cleared for that information). still, it does feel like an Alias episode (hello, Greg Gunberg), with the twists and turns and double-crossing, down to the timid tech-geek (Simon Pegg from Shaun of the Dead mirrors the Marshall Flinkman role - which was originally supposed to go to funnyman Ricky Gervais). at least no one from Lost showed up. not bad, Mr. JJ Abrams.

for a couple of hours, you will forget all the last eight months or so of Cruise Craziness. too bad he didn't perform this routine [clickme!] in the film. then i might believe he really earned my money. but sorry, Loony Tune, Philip Hoffman gets it. the man is deliciously evil.

if i wished upon a star

i'd wish it would take my allergies away.

photo from gettyimages.com

frozen brains

well, excuse us for using a fork and spoon!


LINK FIXED

so does this mean there are no Chinese restaurants in Quebec that allow the use of chopsticks???

let's bring the idiots back to our homeland and make them eat with their fingers.


idiots. and that's me being polite.

To Wi(ki) or Not To Wi(ki)

Wikipedia May Be Edited by Anyone.

Boon or Bane? Let the masses decide.

I have always loved encyclopedias. If you stick me in a house full of strangers and make me stay there for a week, as long as they have a set of reading materials, preferably encyclopedias, I'd be okay. When I went back home last year to attend to my ailing father, I dusted off the old set he bought for us a long time ago during my free time. There's always something about opening such books - it was always some kind of adventure to embark on.

It wasn't far-fetched that with the Internet age, someone would eventually put an encyclopedia online. To demonstrate the vision of a global village and the power of the masses, Wikipedia was born. And to me, it has been very, very useful - especially that entries are updated as often and as quickly as possible. This real-time updating practically pushed Grolier and Britannica into extinction.

But with freedom comes responsibility, as the flip/dark side of this empowerment has been demonstrated in recent events, where information is twisted for other ends.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Georgia gubernatorial candidate accepted the resignation of her campaign manager Wednesday after he was accused of changing the online Wikipedia biography of an opponent in the upcoming Democratic primary.

Secretary of State Cathy Cox's opponent, Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, said Cox campaign manager Morton Brilliant altered an online encyclopedia entry to include a reference to Taylor's son being arrested for DUI after an accident that killed his passenger.

"We have reviewed the situation carefully and everything I have seen in this short period of time indicates that the posting originated from my campaign office," Cox said. "I am genuinely sorry for any anguish this incident has caused the Taylor family."

The resignation came after Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales confirmed that the addition to the biography came from an IP address affiliated with the Cox campaign.

Additionally, this has not been the first time that a Wikipedia entry has caused an uproar. As CNN noted, " ... the site has become a popular tool among politicians wishing to slam a rival or laud themselves", and "... the problem is so widespread that Wikipedia has tightened its submission guidelines and set up alerts so that its operators know when Capitol Hill staffers edit online profiles."

Of course, if you're somewhat famous and merit an entry in an encyclopedia, you're instantly a target.

One of the most well-known instances of an error on the site involved John Seigenthaler Sr., whose Wikipedia biography said that he was linked to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The man who posted the false information later said he was playing a joke, but only after the information had been on the site for 132 days and had been picked up by other Web sites.

Seigenthaler, a retired journalist and Robert Kennedy's administrative assistant in the early 1960s, wrote a November column in USA Today calling Wikipedia a "flawed and irresponsible research tool."

"When I was a child, my mother lectured me on the evils of 'gossip,' " Seigenthaler wrote in the column. "She held a feather pillow and said, 'If I tear this open, the feathers will fly to the four winds, and I could never get them back in the pillow. That's how it is when you spread mean things about people.' For me, that pillow is a metaphor for Wikipedia."

The site has also come under fire from former contributors, but for reasons this time of being not too open at all, and overtures to improve this atmosphere get crushed under the boot heels of a select committee who control Wiki information.

http://www.kapitalism.net/thoughts/wikipedia.htm

but for some humor's sake (and forgive the jock/immature slant somewhat - and if you're offended by some entries, blame them, not me), here's the big up yours to the Wiki gods:

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Main_Page