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Tuesday July 16, 2002 |
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of the Day I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face, not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper about his decision not to take the lead role in Gone with the Wind |
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Blog Just as I went to upload this I looked and apparently never put up yesterday's update on this main page, just in the news archives. I'm not sure how I managed that, but anyway, there was an update yesterday, you can click here to read it if you didn't navigate back to it yesterday. It was funny. Or something. News. • I'd seen short headlines about this for a few days, but thought it was too stupid to bother with. However the picture of it is just too ripe not to link to. Yes, this might be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
• Actually it's not the stupidest thing, this is:
Thank goodness for the whole "under god" pledge of allegiance thing, and then this development in South African children's television. If not for those non-news items, what would politicians have had to grandstand about, in an effort to avoid dealing with the real issues of the day? • Harrison Ford is dating Callista Flockheart. You've probably heard this in the past, but there's an actual photo of them (The rear view. She looks less emaciated than usual.) at his new submarine movie premiere. He looks pretty good for his age (60), but that doesn't change the fact that she looks like his daughter. Not that it's anything new for older men with power to date younger women, but it seems weirder in this case being as she's famous in her own right. You'd expect it more if Harrison were with some Hawaiian Tropic swimsuit model; just some random bimbo he picked out of a modeling catalogue. • They are really going to make the Alien vs. Predator movie, it appears. This has been a rumored project forever, but I never thought it would actually happen, given how much money it would require, and how cheesy the idea sounds. I think we have Spider-Man and Xmen to blame for this; since now any comic book style movie with lots of action is getting the green light. There will be about 5 massive bombs next year with every obscure comic book getting a movie, and the studios will go chasing off after some new trend. The thing that's interesting about Aliens, and the Predator, are that they are unknown outside creatures. The enemy, powerful and mysterious. The movies they've made of them (4 Aliens and 2 Predators, of which only the first half in each series were any good) were told through the eyes of the humans, trying to deal with the powerful monsters. I can't see how a movie could be based on just the monsters and be anything more than mindless battle scenes. That works very well in a video game, which is what Alien vs. Predator is, but in a film? It's not as if video games made into movies have anything other than a disastrous history. The guy they've got directing this one was the guy who did the Resident Evil movie. Which was horrible and flopped to less than $40m. So expect more of the same, IMHO. And yes, despite all my better judgment, I still harbor a budding urge to see it. |
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Quite the heartwarming tale, eh? So now there are going to be three orphans, with all the parents in jail through their own stupidity. Can you imagine the other kids, in the car with these two junkies, and they have to watch while the car pulls over and the guy staggers back to the trunk to dump the other kid's body? That's one way to start a cross country trip and keep the remaining kids quiet. The kid's actual mother kept trying to get her two kids back from her junkie friends who had been taking care of them (so to speak) while she was out trying to score, or get a job, or something. Her alibi isn't real clear. The woman was trying not to report things to the police since she had warrants out for her arrest due to violating her probation and writing bad checks. She's got an extensive criminal history including marijuana trafficking and other episodes of writing bad checks. Bad checks are a funny thing. I remember reading an article a year or two ago that was a survey of what people who write bad checks and get busted for it are writing them for. I don't recall figures, but it was like 80% frivolous crap. Music, movies, designer clothing, bar tabs, etc. Hardly ever some poor person trying to cover their rent, or their car so they could get to work; it was almost always crap no one really needs in the first place. They often bounced checks on that stuff too, but that was never the only thing. I suspect it's often caused by drugs, since after all, you can't write a check for your score. You need cash, so whatever money the filthy junkie manages to scrape together is pissed away on their addiction of choice, leaving bad checks for other needless expenses, as well as food and rent and such. You have to be pretty stupid to try bouncing checks now anyway, what with every store in the US requiring your name, address, driver's license number, photo ID, etc. How the hell are you going to get away with that, unless you are just totally on the run, with no fixed address? And if you are, how do you get a driver's license in the state you are running through, or checks with a home address anywhere near the store? I guess I'm not a criminal mastermind like the people in this news item, or I'd figure out a way. I am smart enough to bury the dead child's body, or at least take it into the fricking woods though. In theory, I mean. Of course. |
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