Oh Abrams, you lovable scamp. Just when you start acting like your usual “IT’S A HORSE RACE” self, someone says something so outlandish that you have to call bullshit.
P.S. please keep putting this Brad guy on, he’s a hoot.
Archive for July, 2008
I like vampires just as much as anyone who like vampires a lot but is still able to regularly make out with people of the opposite sex who aren’t larger, in overall mass, than your typical dirigible. I liked Buffy, and I will talk to you about Buffy for hours, whether you want me to or not. I have read Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter novels. A few of them, actually. I mean, come on. She has guns, is the slave or something to a vampire, is a detective and a martial artist or something, and raise the dead, of course she can, and has vampire powers herself. I don’t know, it’s better than the Mercy Thompson books, where she does all that stuff, but can also turn into a coyote…
BUT. I will not read the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter comics. (And, even though I own the first like 5, I will no longer read Buffy comics, either, because jesus fucking christ I do have standards anymore.) I will totally read these recaps of Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter comics, though, because they are just amazing.
Listen, just pick Hillary [for Vice President] already and get it over with.
Of course I was just making shit up when I accused ol’ beady eyes of being in the tank for HillCo.
(And parenthetical reviews thereof.)
Asterix at the Olympic Games (It’s the same as Sonic or Mario at the Olympics, only with ASTERIX and also OBELIX.)
Asterix & Obelix: XXL2 (What next, Europe? Tintin games? (PLZ?!))
Baby Pals (God. You wipe the poo off the baby, then you have to apply a poultice to its rashes. It’s terrible.)
Bomberman (Bomberman is the best and hardest game ever. It took me 3 months to get past the save point at level 6, but that’s mostly because I am a fucking fruitcake.)
Bomberman Land Touch! (Not fun. Do not let the exclamation point fool you. The first 5 minutes of the game, which is how much I played total, is very horrible.)
Bratz Ponies (Well, I would rather blowdry the ponies’ stupid highlighted hair than search endlessly for beads, or whatever the stupid fucking main goal here is.)
(moar)
But only when you play it on the DS.
When we played on the 360, it was pretty much 45 minutes of the guy I was in charge of falling off cliffs while Travis’s guy (always Indie, which is sexist, which I hate) was off way on the right side of the screen collecting coins.
This is actually exactly how Lego Star Wars went, too.
Both titles really work better, and are way more fun, on the DS, which is about enough to make your brain explode. Yeah, the music and graphics aren’t as good as they are for the 360, but guess what? The “fun” of getting to play as Belloq is trumped by the “fun” of stupid two-player layout and constant “wait, where are you?” Maybe this is because I am not good at video games (which is a lie, I am awesome) but mostly I think it’s just cruddy design. I can’t really reference a good local multiplayer setup, because they don’t really exist, though I have high hopes for Fable 2: The Fabling.
So, in short, I highly recommend the current Lego titles for the DS, but not for the 360 (though if you do get them, you will be really excited at how much you get a week later when you trade it in, because you get like $30 back.)
“While you’re discussing ‘message control’, people are eating ketchup soup.”
Yeah, I get accused of having some manner of bro-ner for Taibbi, but this piece is pretty hard-hitting. One has to wonder how long the corporate media can continue pretending things are “just a little rough” before people start sabotaging location shoots and the like.
If anyone can recommend other writers in this same vein, I’m open to suggestions. Here I’m assuming, of course, that anyone reads any of this.
Markos Moulitas and Harold Ford at Netroots Nation
Worth seeing Harold Ford outside of an environment where he’s considered the wacky hippie liberal moonunit
(panel actually starts at around 25:00, looks like they just ripped the stream without editing it)
Well, some little kid “working” for the Gap made it, but I colored it in.
Yeah.
In an article oh so cleverly titled “Oh, Yes She Can”, Hillary stalker Kristen Breitweister threatens reminds us that Hillary could still, in theory, lose this election for the Democrats:
The Superdelegates have not yet voted. They cast their vote at the Convention in August which means Hillary Clinton’s “suspended” campaign could be reinstated. (Because, Oh, Yes She Can!)
Of course, this reality is probably why the Republicans have remained mostly silent against Obama since they’d rather run against Obama than Hillary. The Republicans know that a small window remains open for Hillary to get the nomination. And a coup at the Convention is not entirely out of the question– particularly in light of Obama’s recent behavior in thumbing his nose at the Progressive base. Yes folks, it’s not too late.
It’s July 9, 2008. There are 6 weeks left until the convention in Denver. And I think all Americans should be paying close attention to see what Barack Obama does. Does he continue to flounder and move to the center compromising important Progressive principles? Or does he correct his wayward ways?
Firstly, I wasn’t aware that there’s an official group of (capital P) progressives out there, making decisions for all of us starry eyed socialist types. Secondly, she’s implying that the progressive left should push to replace the current candidate (the one who, ya know, got elected) with a former Wal-Mart board member who voted for the Iraq War, loves lobbyists like family members, and takes shitloads of cash from health insurance and mortgage companies.
Yeah, let’s get right on that.
UPDATE
Jesus fucking christ people, I get it, you feel burnt, but diluting the base like this only contributes to a fucking right wing Republican in the White House.
I’d start defending Obama’s consistency on these issues (except for FISA but what the fuck, can’t win ‘em all), except that this is all bullshit concern trolling from sore losers and people who refuse to accept the reality on the ground. Obama is the only left leaning (as much as you can in this stupid shitty country) candidate, McCain may actually be WORSE than fucking George fucking W. fucking Bush, and those are your fucking choices. Clinton LOST the election, and all of this hand wringing over Obama’s Liberal Street Cred is just chipping away at the base, which is already more cynical than the opposition by virtue of being far more intelligent.
So for fuck’s sake people, get a grip.
See also: this. (Bob Cesca is the dude of dudes imo).