Amy, Justified, and Willy

At The Cinema                              “ By now you will have discovered that I am your best go-to guy for T.V. and movie reviews.  You will know that if I like something — Chances are you will too; or Chances are you will hate it Below you may scroll through three videos of stuff that I have recently fancied quite a bit. 1) A few weeks ago I told you about Key and Peele, a Comedy Central offering that I'd never seen because I don't look at Comedy Central anymore.  Inside Amy Schumer is another jewel, although it was evidently canceled after one season.  I think it's funny as hell, but it's also unbelievably naughty, even for standard cable.  No worse than South Park, but that's no-holds barred too. Some of her sketches are brilliant, brilliant parody. 2.  The second needs no introduction.  Justified is simply the best television series ever made.  Season 4 is now available on Amazon Prime. 3.  Shakespeare Uncovered is a BBC series featuring various stage actors delving into the mechanics of various Shakespearean plays. And let's be honest.  The only time most of us read Shakespeare was in high school, and then people were randomly chosen to play roles which could make it all drearier than it actually was to a 16 year old boy sitting next to that girl with the blond pageboy.  I was lucky.  As one of just two boys in her AP English class, I was always the lead role, and I think quite skilled. Episode (Original Air Date) 1. Macbeth with Ethan Hawke January 25, 2013 2. The Comedies with Joely Richardson January 25, 2013 3. Richard II with Derek Jacobi February 1, 2013 4. Henry IV & Henry V with Jeremy Irons February 1, 2013 5. Hamlet with David Tennant February 8, 2013 6. The Tempest with Trevor Nunn February 8, 2013 I've watched just the first three so far.  Ethan Hawke's Macbeth gets 4 stars; created within me a spark for it all that I never before had. (shown in full below) After 10 minutes or so of The Comedies with Joley Richardson, I stopped.  Joley's mother is Vanessa Redgrave, whom I abhor.  The two comfortably interact here, and I found it all insufferable.  I accidentally (really) Googled up a page of Joley Richardson naked; she does that fairly well. I loved the historical background of presentation of Richard the II.  Derek Jacobs is not someone I should want to take a long trip with, but his presentation is worthwhile, as are  his reasons for not believing Shakespeare is not Shakespeare.  And no, he's not part of the Bacon crowd;  not that I care one way or another.  My high school English teacher Mrs. Meginnis  would be abhorred. You're welcome AMY, JUSTIFIED and SHAKESPEARE 1 2 3 ”

HARK! A Bird in the bush

I Knew This Was Coming Back! Is America is On the Way Back?

Harmonica Therapy

“ When CO2 Matters Musical accompaniment Back in the early 1970's MoSup and I watched a Mike Douglas show guest  discuss emphysema, as COPD was then called. He opined that the only known "cure," or reversal was playing the harmonica. We knew someone who was on oxygen for emphysema so I told her.  She poo-pawd it; said she'd already been inundated with  phony cures. and then died.   Before I quit smoking for good in 1999,  I had peaked at three packs a day.  At $7 a carton it was not only an expensive habit, but I had already been sent home once with oxygen tanks.  The thought of hauling that around for the rest of my life scared the crap out of me.  I had a lung doctor.  She told me that the lungs were a remarkable organ—that would stretch to cover a tennis court.  Her point being that we only use a fraction of that so the trick is to find ways to get at the healthy stuff (I'm using medical lingo here, so I hope you can follow).   Gave me breathing exercises.  Soon, I was able to send the oxygen machine back, and haven't smoked so much as a candy cigarette since.  But still .... Just had blood work done prior to my cataract surgery and noticed that all my numbers were well within normal, save for CO2 ME Normal Range CO2 32 18 - 32 mmols/L I looked that up and saw that it was COPD related.  I took out a harmonica I'd purchased several years ago and started playing it.  That was two days ago.  I am not making this up.  I'm already breathing much better, and a lot of crap that was hiding in my clear sounding lungs is coming out. And watch this: *dancing a jig to the Irish cup thing* I'm just saying.  If you have a lung disease, get a harmonica.  BTW, I'm yet able to figure out how you're supposed to discriminatley blow one of those holes at a time, so I sent for Harmonica Playing for Dummies.  PS - I was utterly shocked yesterday to see a gas station advertising their cigarettes for $5/pack!  That's $50/Ctn.  HFS!  My habit of yore would be costing me  $5475 a year!  Fkn government. ”

Satire only works if it's based on a truth

Oh My

Queens Squats

“ Squattin' in Queens That, I think, has more to do with it being New York geezers with their attendant culture of entitlement than just senior moments.  BONUS Doin' the Hokey Pokey ”

Free Stuff

Oh My

Tommy Lee Smith

Euros Wise Up

Global Warming Fade-Out Europe to Ditch Climate Protection Goals “ Keister Island Europe Come To Their Senses. The EU's reputation as a model of environmental responsibility may soon be history. The European Commission wants to forgo ambitious climate protection goals and pave the way for fracking -- jeopardizing Germany's touted energy revolution in the process. The climate between Brussels and Berlin is polluted, something European Commission officials attribute, among other things, to the "reckless" way German Chancellor Angela Merkel blocked stricter exhaust emissions during her re-election campaign to placate domestic automotive manufacturers like Daimler and BMW. This kind of blatant self-interest, officials complained at the time, is poisoning the climate. But now it seems that the climate is no longer of much importance to the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, either. Commission sources have long been hinting that the body intends to move away from ambitious climate protection goals. On Tuesday, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported as much. At the request of Commission President José Manuel Barroso, EU member states are no longer to receive specific guidelines for the development of renewable. The stated aim of increasing the share of green energy across the EU to up to 27 percent will hold. But how seriously countries tackle this project will no longer be regulated within the plan. As of 2020 at the latest -- when the current commitment to further increase the share of green energy expires -- climate protection in the EU will apparently be pursued on a voluntary basis. [Full] So let me get this straight.  The EU, having finally decided that "Climate Protection" is so much frippery, will nonetheless continue the assault on their economies with the "green commitment for six more years?  And, will green-twat Obama exercise the power of his  magisterial pen and  declare war on  Brussels; a nation he may feel he can beat; and one certainly populated by pale white people?  All this is rhetorical since I really don't care what Euros do.  Now that we have our own National Socialist government, will any of them come to our aid?  I don't think so; we're on our own. PS - I haven't made my mind up on fracking, but I lean toward seeing a problem with it.  I'll let you know if I wake up to find myself living at 90.0000° N, 0.0000° W one morning. Thanks to What's his name - Damien.  I'm having an Alzheimers moment. Skoonj! ”

Andy - Self Indulgent Twattage

Things that could have been good, but ruined by a moment of self indulgent Liberal twattage.   Did you find it? If not, you may be a Liberal twat.

Anna Kendrick - Cups

“ I really like this one. Do you? - MoSup I like the rythems, but her voice is a little watery against the music, at least on my cheap ass computer speakers. ”

My Lying Eyes

Why you twat! “ After glancing this headline it took my brain 1 x 10 -7of a second to digest news that Peyton Manning was yet another retard celebrity twat currying favor with the libtard media.  Then my brain came from behind and cleared things up.  Day-am! ”

Obama: Down Hill Racer

“ SAD NEWS FOR SKIER LINDSEY VONN Down Hill Racer Replaced      STOWE -  Less than a year ago, Olympic champion Lindsey Vonn tore the anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in her right knee and fractured her tibia during a harrowing ski accident in Schlamding, Austria.     Concerned she wouldn’t be ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced today her spot on the U.S. Olympic Team would be filled by President Obama.      U.S. Olympic officials said Obama deserved the spot on the team because no one has ever taken a country downhill faster than he has. Skoonj News Agency ”

Is that MILF thing real?

Messy Desk

Is the MILF headline real?

Kimmel-Obamacare

Kids, I need a penis pump, it's on you now.

ICE

Wife texted husband during this morning's Arctic vortex:

"Windows frozen, won't open."

Husband texted back:...

"Gently pour lukewarm water over it."

Wife texted back 5 minutes later:

"Computer really screwed up now.”

 
 

 
Some Guy E

Leno Does Obama

Oh My

Edjukation

Academe quits me “ He doesn't come right out and say it, but he alludes to it.  Too many universities traded out classic humanities for leftist pablum which blames white males for every ailment that a leftist can imagine.  Via Ron First SeMetzger Academe quits me Tomorrow I will step into a classroom to begin the last semester of a 24-year teaching career. Don’t get me wrong. I am not retiring. I am not “burned out.” The truth is rather more banal. Ohio State University will not be renewing my three-year contract when it expires in the spring. The problem is tenure: with another three-year contract, I would become eligible for tenure. In an era of tight budgets, there is neither money nor place for a 61-year-old white male professor who has never really fit in nor tried very hard to. (Leave aside my heterodox politics and hard-to-credit publication record.) My feelings are like glue that will not set. The pieces fall apart in my hands. This essay is not a contribution to the I-Quit-Academe genre. (A more accurate title in my case would be Academe Quits Me.) Although I have become uncomfortably aware that I am out of step with the purposeful march of the 21st-century university (or maybe I just never adjusted to Ohio State), gladly would I have learned and gladly continued to teach for as long as my students would have had me. The decision, though, was not my students’ to make. And I’m not at all sure that a majority would have voted to keep me around, even if they had been polled. My salary may not be large (a rounding error above the median income for white families in the U.S.), but the university can offer part-time work to three desperate adjuncts for what it pays me. A lifetime of learning has never been cost-effective, and in today’s university—at least on the side of campus where the humanities are badly housed—no other criterion is thinkable. [Full] AHEM The Politics and Aesthetics Of Black Queer Formations - Princeton University Ecofeminism - University of South Carolina Prostitution and Social Control: Governing Loose Women - Oberlin College Mad Dogs, Vampires and Zombie Ants: Behavior Mediating Infections - Vassar College Possessive Investment In Whiteness - Stanford University This is Sparta! - Brown University How To Win A Beauty Pageant - Oberlin College How to Rule the World - Bowdoin College  (Limited to a class of One, presumably) Politics of Obesity - University of California, Santa Cruz The Survival of the Whitest: Two Centuries of Racism And Evolutionary Theory - Brown University Deconstructing the Diva - De Paul University ”

Death Threat

“ The guy must have been a Teapartier. Wot Cultural cluster-fk Just Got a Death Threat from the D.C. Area! UPDATE: AZHAR RAFAT of Fairfax, VA. If anyone wants to follow up on this, (703) 622-0373 just called my phone number listed on the Contact page and told me they were going to “come and kill me”.  Well, good luck with that, kids.  It was one male and one female, young adults.  I’m just tickled that it was in the D.C./Arlington area!  Woot!  Movin’ on up, yo! UPDATE:  What excellent readers!  Caller I.D.’d as AZHAR RAFAT of Fairfax, VA.  I told you they were all riding an I.Q. bellcurve shifted two standard deviations to the left.  This is what happens when your dad is also your uncle for thirty generations: you can’t understand the subtle nuances of CALLER I.D.   Ann Barnhardt These  people are at best ignorant as hell, but like Democrats and other ideo-radicals, their single mindedness of purpose wears people down.  Maybe time to salt the Yalu with radioactive pellets, so to speak. Ahem.   Ann begat- I OWN the World who begat el-jefe ”

Remember the Golden Hind?

Golden Poop CRAP

Dog way smarter than Georgia Democrat

Hank Johnson
You're about to be primaried

What is Courage?

COURAGE

Rover Came Over Guy E- The Rubber Man