I GOT ANOTHER EDITOR PICK LETTER ON SALON.COM

Tonight The Husband and I are going to see 300. Hopefully I will get a review up, although I doubt it. I've actually been to the movies quite a bit in the last few months, though you wouldn't know it to see the site, because I haven't reviewed any of them. I think I have half of something stored on here somewhere for THE MESSENGERS. Maybe one day it will see the light of day.

Anyway, the review on Salon.com can basically be summed up thusly:

300 is not historically accurate, it's incredibly gay while very homophobic at the same time, and it's not campy enough but doesn't take itself seriously, either.

WTF?

Not to mention that the reviewer didn't even bother to mention whether she liked the movie or not.

Crazily enough, the top story on the site the day before was an article about how the intellectual elites were ruining reading with their demands that everything be overanalyzed: author's intent, cultural relevancy, etc. I could get into it in more detail since I was an English major in college, but I think I've mostly forgotten a lot of it. Mostly.

Hegemonic master narrative.

So in response to the review, I wrote the following comment, which was starred as "Editor's Choice." Because I ROCK OUT.

Editor's Choice

Brass tacks

Ironically, yesterday's cover story was about how we're analyzing the joy out of books.

Can't I just watch some hot guys beat the crap out of each other in peace?

-- I mean, seriously

There you have it. Aren't I awesome?

I WAS RAISED ON THE DAIRY, BITCH

I have a friend who's dating a guy who loves JACKASS. She wants to share in the experience with him, but she hateshateshates JACKASS. Did I know of anything similar that wouldn't gross her out so much?

Well, no, but the question did bring to mind this: the funniest thing I have ever seen on TV, something that to this day still makes me cry when I watch it because I'm laughing so hard. And yes, having watched this video right before posting it here, I cried yet again.

I present KENNY ROGERS'S JACKASS, from MADtv

JOSH GROBAN IS MY NEW IMAGINARY BOYFRIEND

And this is my new all-time favoritest song.

THIS IS MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE SONG EVER

A BIT OF COMIC RELIEF

This is why Bohemian Rhapsody is the Grestest.Song.Ever.

Check out the dude losing his toup late in the video.

I caught my first tube today... Sir.

This is easilly the greatest thing ever



Ernio Hernandez Playbill.com
Thu Jan 25, 6:18 PM ET

Audience members will answer the call to star in the Keanu Reeves role for Point Break LIVE!, a stage adaptation of the 1991 film.

James Hook directs the new non-Equity Manhattan run of the work - previously seen in Seattle, Minneapolis and Brooklyn - starting Jan. 25 at the La Tea Theater. The limited engagement plays through Feb. 24.

Point Break LIVE! follows the story in the Hollywood film that "revolves around Johnny Utah, former college football star turned FBI Agent who must go undercover to infiltrate a gang of bankrobbing surfers."

What is unique about the stage take is that the role of Utah (played by Reeves in the film) is played by an audience member (selected at random each night) who is thrust upon the stage (guided by a PA - who also serves as stunt double) and given his/her lines on cue-cards. "Keanu Reeves roles demand a special kind of acting," explains director Hook, on the show's conceit. "Essentially, in every scene, you have to look like you've just been dropped into a room and you have no idea what's going on."

The cast features Topher Mikels (as Bodhi), Thomas Blake (Roach), George Spielvogel (Angelo Pappas), Ben Robertson (Ben Harp), Izzy Abeyta (Tyler Ann Endicott), Scout Durwood (Kathryn Bigelow), Amber Hubert (PA), Mike Kash (Cameraman), Jonathan Evan Stern, Adam Morris and Conor Tansy.

According to production notes, the play "features copious amounts of fake blood, extended fight choreography, and an indoor monsoon." The work premiered at Seattle's Little Theatre and subsequently toured throughout the Pacific Northwest before playing runs in Minneapolis and Brooklyn.

Tickets to Point Break LIVE! at the La Tea Theatre, in the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk Street (between Delancey and Rivington St.) are available by calling (212) 352-3101.



God, do I wish I could go. I would make an AWESOME Keanu.

WOE IS ME

So I'm having a problem.

I'm beginning to physically resemble Rosie O'Donnell.

And don't think I'm exaggerating here, because I confronted The Husband with my observation, and he was all like, Yeah, you kinda do.

I go to the gym and workout. My weight stays the same but my clothes don't fit. Am I retaining water? Am I gaining muscle? Am I sneaking Frappuccinos in my sleep? It's starting to piss me off!!!

I'm off to get a Cafe Mocha at Tim Hortons! Maybe that will calm me down.

BILL MOYERS--THE SECRET GOVERNMENT

On the eve of the State Of The Union...

Here's an old PBS special by Bill Moyers centered on the Iran-Contra scandal. It outlines the history behind the mindset and policies that created the "Above The Law" mentality we've all come to know and love.

(Give it a chance to load--it's 90 minutes long)

FOR NOW, I'M GIVING UP

I went back to the Movable Type default. Cascading style sheets make my brain hurt. But I kept my masthead!!

NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK

So here it is, my new layout that I stole from somebody's website. Hope you like it. I will obviously be tweaking it, beause right now it's kind of crappy. But ENJOY the pretty pictures of po-tay-toes. Because we all need mucho various potato products in our lives.