ABBA

Happier New Year.

cuzzin ricky

No blow-up dates for us geezers ..

In my day ...

“ In my day you didn't have to blow your date up with a pump. And, if you were allergic to vinyl or silicone, it didn't matter. Your gal didn't smell like plastic either. That yonder is my friend Jimmy Montgomery Flagg with his girlfriend Muzzy.  She smelled like fresh linen after a good wash. So you gol-dang whipper-snappers ain't invented anything new, just ruined what was natural and good, ”

The Salvador Dali Award

A MAJOR AWARD The Salvador Dali Award for Most Creative Blogging: Curmudgeonly & Skeptical and Sondrakistan (tie) Dagnabbit—   If I'd left my fly open, I'da beat her by an inch and kept the whole $ 1.2 million prize money.  Except I reckon she earned it more.  Anyway, I am honored Director Blue

About to be iced ...

New Year Wishes

A New Year Blah Blah Blah

At year end I find myself  discombobulated.  The received prosopography must look like this to to the reader.   Maybe because my principle foci these past several years have been on political stuff— and I've  discovered it's been like reading James Michener novels.  All very entertaining, but scripted and quite predictable after awhile.  Adam Smith's invisible hand is clenched by a  gummint fist in a life-or-death arm wrassle.  It's down to this for me, either Democrats and Liberals win, or America wins.  Not both.  Only solution I can muster involves uninvented aircraft and death rays.  I explained in a comment below that this forum  is a stream-of-consciousness monologue. Everyday, and sometimes every hour, there's a new amuse-bouche. Lately the boosh has been airy, and without much substance. It's not that Obama & Co. have reached a depth of wretched behavior that's no longer fathomable; they have not.  Each day brings new and unique outrage.  On the day Obama was elected I posted, simply— an actual communist government As it turns out, nothing more needed to be said. Nothing written since has further advanced the understanding and tragedy of this government. blah blah blah Finally (for this post), thanks to everyone who supported me last year, either financially or with great content.  I could not function without either.   Happy New Year.  For now, I have a good deal of silliness saved up, and will indulge myself without apology.  I hope this doesn't sound too dour.  I just watched Norm MacDonald: Me Doing Stand-Up (sample→), and am laughing my ass off.  You should too.

Betty Blue ...

The Cinema  Betty Blue

Betty Blue is a 1986 French film. Its original French title is 37°2 le matin, which means "37.2°C in the Morning". (37.2°C [99°F] is the normal morning temperature of a pregnant woman.)  The film received both a BAFTA and Oscar in 1986, as well as winning a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film César Award for Best Poster. In 1992 it was awarded the Golden Space Needle of the Seattle International Film Festival. Betty (Dalle) and Zorg (Anglade) are passionate lovers who live in a shack on the beach. He works as a handyman who does odd jobs to pay the bills. As the film begins, they have only been dating for a week and are in a very passionate stage of their relationship. Zorg's boss asks him to paint the 500 shacks that populate the beach—a fact that he keeps from Betty who thinks they only have to do one. She attacks the project with enthusiasm that quickly turns to anger once she learns the actual number. In response, Betty covers the boss’s car with pink paint. During a nasty fight, Betty accidentally discovers a series of notebooks that contain a novel Zorg wrote years ago. She reads it and falls in love with him even more. She then makes it her mission in life to type every hand-written page and get it published [Wikipedia] After watching it, I'll call it "Under the Tuscan Sun meets Million Dollar Baby."  Unfortunately,  the film is marred by a lot of full nudity—   both Betty and Zorg spend much of the movie jiggling about in the altogether.  But don't let that put you off.  Bare breasts are commonplace anymore, and you can very easily pretend Betty is wearing a black Bikini bottom.  The love scenes are simulated (probably), and neither men nor women view the  gentleman's sausage as  anything erotic. So what you're left with is a pretty good film.  Instant watch on NetFlix.

gopThe Done Deal

yadda yadda yadda

“ Dionne: GOP race may be over already... . Sunday, October 02, 2011 Prediction: Mitt will be the nominee Because it is written I hate reading from the same page as E.J. Dionne Jr., but ... . I've always felt that Sarah Palin was the one chance we had to break the GOP establishment stranglehold on a phony-baloney nomination process. When she demurred, all was kaput.  Romney is the establishment choice; and he will be the nominee.  Yes, he is by far a better everything than Obama, but after his first term in office, there will be exactly no real change in the way things are done.  I'm pinning my hopes on secession of at least one state, or more likely, a shift in the Earth's crust that will send us all back to square one  (and San Francisco to Davy Jone's locker room).  I mean this in the nicest possible way, of course.

Man Missing

Jamie Mac is missing in action

“ I'd have Corporal Major of the Guard Jack Hamillton search for him, but he's AWOL too. Last time Jamie McD went missing we found him reading the bible and ministering to  some prostitutes behing the O  Club,  Will someone check? ”

Alex Len

WHY WE WIN!

Okay, that's not Maryland's 7'1" freshman center from the Ukraine, Alex Len; it's Valerija Sokolova.  Both are Russian; both are beautiful.  Alex played his first college game Wednesday, and if you're a Terp fan, you are thrilled.  We began the season with a new coach, our only true point guard (Pe'Shon Howard) sitting with a broken foot, and Len sitting out the first 10 games because he'd signed a Russian pro contract (but never played). Pe'Shon is back (the Terps had a season high 19 assists Wednesday), and Len reminds me of Ralph Sampson, only meaner. And of course,  there's Terrell Stoglin.  Life is good.  I expect it will take a month or so for this team to gel, but by March—   USA USA USA!!!

Shagging Dog Story

Shagging Dog Story Man who sexually assaulted chihuahua gets 10-year sentence →must now register as a sex offender. ←

A  “ ” Robert Edward De Shields It's hard to take anything California does seriously anymore, so I find this story hilarious.  The biggest problem this perpetrator faces from his prison mates is "The dog was in pain and shock" —  but alive!   cuzzin ricky

School Desk Nostalgia ...

Today's evocativeness

This picture is bound to evoke a memory.  For me, it was the day Boo Radley visited St. Francis to pick his date for the sock-hop at Canty Elementary.

Getting Boned Culture

Culture Kim and Bieber Culture

I cannot keep up with the pop culture.  I first noticed it some years ago when my kids giggled every time I'd use the word "sack."  Like, "I can't find my sack I just had."   I think is was only this year that I figured it out.  Just now I was reading  The 10 dumbest celeb tweets of 2011. Specifically: “ 8. Kim Kardashian She may make millions off her Twitter endorsement deals, but her attempt at a joke enraged hundreds of Beliebers after she posted the “Dancing With the Stars” 1-800 number and called it Justin Bieber’s in an attempt to drum up votes for her brother Rob, who was a contestant on the show: “OMG, I have @ JustinBieber’s ph one #!!!! 800 8683402! CALL HIM! He’s taking calls for the next hour!!!” ” I still don't get Justin Bieber, although I do know he's a teeny-bop idol.  What I can't fathom is why everybody— adults! seem  to feel obliged to ridicule this kid.  I mean, cruel and hateful stuff. as though his last name was Palin?   The other person what popped out of nowhere was Kim Kardashian.  I mean, she's everywhere.  But why?   To find out I Googled her.  There was mention of, and link to her "sex tape"  Not like Paris Hilton's, where her boyfriend taped stuff and put it on the internet without her knowledge.  No, evidently Kardashian produced this the way others have a photo portfolio.   Yes, I watched it.  She is udderly a cow, but does have a nicely sculpted vajayjay with smooth, aerodynamic lines; I'll give her that.  And, she really did seem to enjoy what she was doing, and was obviously well rehearsed.   It worked.  Having sex in public is now, evidently, what aspiring Hollywooder types feel they must do.  Watching Kardashian get boned didn't really do anything for me, other than leave me gob-smacked.  I tend to like the hint of things; fodder for the imagination.  Yes, I do like the idea that I can Google "[Top Gear celebrity name] naked" and almost always get a dozen hits.  But I don't like that I'm able to do it.  .

Apocalypto and The Help

HLLYWD Two Movies  (UPDATED)

“ I was aware that Mel Gibson made Apocalypto, but this was after his (5-Star) The Passion of the Christ (Full movie viewable here) caused Hollywood declare war on Mel.  The reviews then were not sufficient to make me overcome my aversion to paying to see Hollywood crap.  Last night, in celebration of my Netflix portal on ROKU being magically restored, I watched it on my SONY 46" 1060 HD in complete darkness, with audio delivered through my Sennheiser ear phones. Incredibly enough, you can watch it in its entirety here.  HMFS! If you've not seen this picture dealing with the last days of the Mayan civilization, before the Spaniards arrived— words fail me.  If you took the opening 30-minute sequence from Saving Private Ryan, and extended for another 106-minutes,  you have Apocalypto's level of intensity.  It 's brilliant!, and 5 Star () terrific.  Had it been made by a leftist icon like Oliver Stone, or Steven Spielberg,  I'm  convinced it would have been the 2006  favorite to win 7-8 Oscars.  WOW!    Now, while I was watching the Mayans in all their gory glory, MoSup was in another room watching The Help on her PPV 32" screen.  When I asked how she liked it, she squealed giddily,  like a virgin on her marriage bed.  She loved , and gave it her imprimatur.  Since we have access to it for another day or so, I'll watch it tonight.  ” UPDATE I watched The Help last night and ... wait.  First the explanation: Any man married to the same woman for 73¼ years will have undergone, through osmosis,  certain changes to his manly veneer. Like your Gran bolsa de bola peluda will have been draped with a lace cozy.  Okay?  Okay. I loved the movie.  I did comment to MoSup that I felt there was a good deal of stereotyping.  Specifically, I said it was not believable that an entire group of women could be so hateful.  She said, "Well, you are so wrong." Nevertheless, it was great adventure, and nicely acted.  PS -  (In case you wonder, I hated  Steel Magnolia's guts).

A Top Ten List of Obamunisms

HONORABLE MENTION: Nearly one in five Obamacare waivers went to businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s district

“ If that Pelosi item only made Honorable Mention, whatever it is must be one rich target environment.  And it is. 10. Chris Matthews officially went ’round the bend   9. What’s worse than being unemployed? Working for Sheila Jackson Lee   8. A State Department contract officer’s $52 million sweetheart deal   7. Love letters from Jon Huntsman (Dear Barry ...)   6. The “99 percent” might live better than you do   5. A Navy SEAL calls shenanigans on the official account of Osama bin Laden’s death   4. Michele Bachmann’s campaign headaches   3. POLITICO and MSNBC: a match made in northern Virginia   2. Weinergate     The #1 story, featuring Mexican fireworks and a DOJ meltdown There you have Daily Caller's "Top ten stories of 2011."  Rich target environment?  Only their #1 story would make my top 10 - were I inclined to do one.  Okay - here's my  number 10 Barack Obama Not Impeached ”

Likes Italian Beef ..

Today's Mail

“ Ro[d]ger, you are the man! Oh my goodness, oh my goodness, I did your Italian Beef today and it was DELICIOUS!  I ate a big sammich and then ladled up a coffee cup full of the hot broth and drank it.  Then I put my head in the slow cooker afterwards and licked the bowl clean. The ROI on this thing is awesome! Mrs H could not fit her itty-bitty head in the slow cooker bowl at the same time I was licking it clean, and now she’s pissed at me, but what else is new. Thank you for this, Sincerely, Sir H the (stuffed to the gills) Comet ” Aw shucks H - twern't nuthin'.  But thanks.

A nice picture

Art Appreciation Moment

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A Rotter's Poll

Most Admired People WTF?     Well, it is Gallup, a Democrat Media Complex component — but still

“ ” George Bush must be embarrassed as hell to find himself with this lot.

Jerry Brown - "Myun" Priest

Yur Stuff is Myun Stuff (Su Casa, Mi Casa)

“ Fueled by a backlash against the wealthy, Gov. Jerry Brown and left-leaning groups want voters to tax the rich next November.Californians have shown strong support for the idea in polls so far, despite the fact that they haven't passed a statewide tax hike since 2004. Brown said this month "the only tax that's overwhelmingly popular is the tax on wealthier people." [... ] Proponents of taxing the rich call it a matter of fairness. They point out that the rich got richer over the past three decades while the poor lost ground, resulting in a widening inequality gap.” [Plans to 'tax the rich' hold risks and rewards for California] Having just reviewed Apocalypto (below),  how could I not notice the similarities between those Mayan savages and California's ruling class of Liberal twats?  It's just so — so perfect!   “So the Maya essentially destroyed themselves through technology, urbanization, and thinking their sh_t didn't stink?” I asked, not wanted to hear an affirmative response. To my disappointment, the archaeologists agreed. Yup - the same bunch of rotters.  Sacrifice the doers to appease the useless.   Xactly.

Whence the pretty package

Whence the pretty package Gift Wrap

“ That feeling you have?  Called empathy. ”       Tim

TEBOW GRIP MASTER

Tim Tebow What Makes a Good Quarterback?

“ What Makes a Good Quarterback? Tim Tebow, former Florida Gators quarterback, and now the Denver Broncos quarterback has NEVER fumbled! In 2007 Florida 's Tim Tebow was awarded the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore, the first time ever the award has gone to a second year player. In addition to his amazing passing, running and TD stats is the fact that he has NEVER fumbled the ball! How is he able to hold on to the football so well?  What grip does he use?  Tim's grip training technique was  inspired by his girlfriend, of 2 years, Amber. "I really have to say, with her help and training support, I have been able to strengthen my grip, with either hand, even if I barely have any piece of the ball in my hand." Note the grip on the football shown here!  "But I feel that I can still improve my game if I stick with Amber's training method just one more year" Introducing the Amazing Tim Tebow Grip Master Training System! Any questions? I didn't think so! ”   cuzzin ricky