One of the commercials for this piece of crap says something along the lines of, "If we removed all the gratuitous sex, and swearing, and violence, from Harold and Kumar's Christmas, you'd see..." and then they show a clip of Harold and Kumar calling each other's names, and then The End.
And this is supposed to entice people to see it?
Harold and Kumar are characters that have been in a couple of movies...they are apparently the minority version of Dumb and Dumber.
Sadly, it will probably be a hit.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Cop Shows That Show Armed Mano a Mano Stand offs
Just turned on an episode of CSI Miami from a couple of years ago, in which Horatio and a few uniformed police officers come to the boat of a police officer suspected of being "dirty."
Horatio stands out front, talking to the guy, the cops behind him.
The man pulls a gun and points it at Horatio.
"Gun!" the cops cry, and all point their weapons at the man... but don't fire.
And I'm like... in what universe is this happening? A man pulls a gun, the cops start shooting immediately - there is no dialog. The man is dead with 40 bullets shot at him (1 or 2 of which having found their mark).
Movies do it to, two cops or bad guys holding guns in each others faces, shouting at each other - never happen. First person who pulls a gun is going to shoot it..especially if the second person pulls a gun right after!
Horatio stands out front, talking to the guy, the cops behind him.
The man pulls a gun and points it at Horatio.
"Gun!" the cops cry, and all point their weapons at the man... but don't fire.
And I'm like... in what universe is this happening? A man pulls a gun, the cops start shooting immediately - there is no dialog. The man is dead with 40 bullets shot at him (1 or 2 of which having found their mark).
Movies do it to, two cops or bad guys holding guns in each others faces, shouting at each other - never happen. First person who pulls a gun is going to shoot it..especially if the second person pulls a gun right after!
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Allen Gregory - some kind of cartoon
Fox is bringing a cartoon called Allan Gregory to TV screens - I'm seeing commercials for this piece of garbage almost every time the NFL on Fox cuts to a commercial.
Apparently it's a young kid - male of course - with an adult vocabularly and a big head.
Of course it's a male - put a female character into a show like this and no one would put up with her talking sarcastically to adults. She'd be termed a bitch, etc. But for a male to do it - well, that's just self-confidence and its so cute.
Utter, utter garbage.
Apparently it's a young kid - male of course - with an adult vocabularly and a big head.
Of course it's a male - put a female character into a show like this and no one would put up with her talking sarcastically to adults. She'd be termed a bitch, etc. But for a male to do it - well, that's just self-confidence and its so cute.
Utter, utter garbage.
60 Minutes of Play - commercial
This isn't really "devolution media" per se. The NFL has partnered with Michele Obama's program to help reduce obesity, and we're getting commercials where NFL players are jogging along with little kids, exercising, etc.
Here's my problem.
Obesity may ba *a* problem in the USA today, but it is nowhere near are biggeset problem.
Where are the commercials encouraging kids to READ an hour a day? To study their homework an hour a day? To work hard in school, to stay in school, etc.
50% of US citizens do not pay Federal taxes - because they don't have jobs. Leave out the newly unemployed, there are hundreds of thousands of young teenagers - mostly minorities - who can't get jobs because they don't have the education, they haven't been taught any kind of a work effort - to go to work at a fast food restaurant and put up with that.... they aren't going to get jobs unless they get an education - and it is up to THEM to get that education.
But we see no commercials encouraging kids to do that - or to not get pregnant at age 15 or 16.... oh, all kinds of things that deeserve more commercial time than "play 60 minutes a day."
Here's my problem.
Obesity may ba *a* problem in the USA today, but it is nowhere near are biggeset problem.
Where are the commercials encouraging kids to READ an hour a day? To study their homework an hour a day? To work hard in school, to stay in school, etc.
50% of US citizens do not pay Federal taxes - because they don't have jobs. Leave out the newly unemployed, there are hundreds of thousands of young teenagers - mostly minorities - who can't get jobs because they don't have the education, they haven't been taught any kind of a work effort - to go to work at a fast food restaurant and put up with that.... they aren't going to get jobs unless they get an education - and it is up to THEM to get that education.
But we see no commercials encouraging kids to do that - or to not get pregnant at age 15 or 16.... oh, all kinds of things that deeserve more commercial time than "play 60 minutes a day."
Friday, October 14, 2011
Define the words "Courageous and Epic"
For uneducated idiots, it means that some fictional character in their videogame has raced through millions of zombies and come out the other side unscathed.
In the real world, it means some soldier over in Iraq racing out into enemy fire to rescue members of his squad...with the bullets real and the prospect of death real.
99% of these guys playing these violent video games don't have the nerve to go into the military where they can prove their bravery for real...but they'll boast to their friends how skilled they are in their little games.
Then we've got this loser who ran onto a golf green and threw a hot dog and Tiger because he wanted to do something "courageus and epic." What...a...loser.
http://www.cbssports.com/golf/story/15726611/hot-dog-thrower-wanted-to-be-courageous-and-epic
PETALUMA, Calif. -- A California man arrested for throwing a hot dog at Tiger Woods during a tournament said he wanted to do something "courageous and epic."
Brandon Kelly of Petaluma told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on Tuesday that he's a fan of Woods and got the idea after watching Drive -- a recently released movie starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
"I threw the hot dog toward Tiger Woods because I was inspired by the movie Drive," Kelly said. "As soon as the movie ended, I thought to myself, 'I have to do something courageous and epic. I have to throw a hot dog on the green in front of Tiger."'
The Santa Clara Sheriff's Office confirmed to the Associated Press on Wednesday that the 31-year-old Kelly threw the wiener at Woods.
Kelly was arrested for disturbing the peace Sunday after yelling Woods' name and tossing a hot dog in his direction during the Frys.com Open in San Martin.
"When I looked up, the hot dog was already in the air," Woods said. "The bun was kind of disintegrating."
Woods backed off his birdie putt during the disturbance and ended up missing the 18-foot putt.
"Some guy just came running on the green, and he had a hot dog, and evidently ... I don't know how he tried to throw it, but I was kind of focusing on my putt when he started yelling," Woods said after the tournament. "Next thing I know, he laid on the ground, and looked like he wanted to be arrested because he ... put his hands behind his back and turned his head."
Kelly posted on his Facebook page Sunday morning a photo of a hot dog in his hand in front of his vehicle's steering wheel and speedometer, the newspaper reported.
Sgt. Jose Cardoza, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, said that Kelly's misdemeanor offense would likely result in a fine and community service.
In the real world, it means some soldier over in Iraq racing out into enemy fire to rescue members of his squad...with the bullets real and the prospect of death real.
99% of these guys playing these violent video games don't have the nerve to go into the military where they can prove their bravery for real...but they'll boast to their friends how skilled they are in their little games.
Then we've got this loser who ran onto a golf green and threw a hot dog and Tiger because he wanted to do something "courageus and epic." What...a...loser.
http://www.cbssports.com/golf/story/15726611/hot-dog-thrower-wanted-to-be-courageous-and-epic
PETALUMA, Calif. -- A California man arrested for throwing a hot dog at Tiger Woods during a tournament said he wanted to do something "courageous and epic."
Brandon Kelly of Petaluma told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat on Tuesday that he's a fan of Woods and got the idea after watching Drive -- a recently released movie starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
"I threw the hot dog toward Tiger Woods because I was inspired by the movie Drive," Kelly said. "As soon as the movie ended, I thought to myself, 'I have to do something courageous and epic. I have to throw a hot dog on the green in front of Tiger."'
The Santa Clara Sheriff's Office confirmed to the Associated Press on Wednesday that the 31-year-old Kelly threw the wiener at Woods.
Kelly was arrested for disturbing the peace Sunday after yelling Woods' name and tossing a hot dog in his direction during the Frys.com Open in San Martin.
"When I looked up, the hot dog was already in the air," Woods said. "The bun was kind of disintegrating."
Woods backed off his birdie putt during the disturbance and ended up missing the 18-foot putt.
"Some guy just came running on the green, and he had a hot dog, and evidently ... I don't know how he tried to throw it, but I was kind of focusing on my putt when he started yelling," Woods said after the tournament. "Next thing I know, he laid on the ground, and looked like he wanted to be arrested because he ... put his hands behind his back and turned his head."
Kelly posted on his Facebook page Sunday morning a photo of a hot dog in his hand in front of his vehicle's steering wheel and speedometer, the newspaper reported.
Sgt. Jose Cardoza, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, said that Kelly's misdemeanor offense would likely result in a fine and community service.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
On travel til Wednesday
I'm visiting elderly relatives in Box Elder, SD who do not have internet.
Will try to sneak out now and again to an internet cafe to post, but more than likely will not be posting until Wedneday.
Will try to sneak out now and again to an internet cafe to post, but more than likely will not be posting until Wedneday.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Ohio Player Pricks Foes in Handshake Lie, Forces Tetanus Shots
Do 16-year olds even know how to think? What did he think would happen as a result of this little prank?
I'm surprised he didn't get beaten up by the 27 guys he pricked with the tack.
Sadly, if you read the article at Rivals.Yahoo.com, you've got dozens of guys who just have to make puns or jokes about the entire situation (he was a little prick, what he did was tacky, etc). They apparently think this is the height of cleverness, and just have to share it with the world.
From Yahoo.com: Ohio Player Pricks Foesin Handshake Lie, Forces Tetanus Shots
According to the Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal and NBC affiliate WCMH, a Washington (Ohio) Court House High 16-year-old who was ineligible for the game sat on his team's sideline, then walked through the handshake line after his team's 26-0 victory against McLain (Ohio) High with a studded receiver's glove. The punctures made by the player's sharp glove eventually forced all 27 of the undisclosed perpetrator's alleged victims to receive tetanus shots from the Highland County health department at a meeting between the players and the Highland County Health Commissioner days after the event.
McLain players shared the most troubling details of the incident with WCMH.
"We walked across the 50-yard line and supposedly one of the guys had tacks in his glove. Nobody knew about it. I was far back enough in the line that everyone started to turn around and I got out of the way," said Michael Aeh, a McClain football player. ...
"They felt the pain of it when it occurred and they thought maybe they had hit a nerve or something. Then some of them immediately … looked at their hands and saw blood," said Dr. Dan Strain, McClain High School principal.
While the McLain players who suffered hand injuries because of the stunt were understandably most upset about the incident, local police also opened an investigation and contacted the mother of the suspect, who reportedly told Greenfield Police Chief Tim Hester that she planned to hire an attorney to defend her son.
From Rivals.Yahoo.com: Ohio Player Pricks Foesin Handshake Lie, Forces Tetanus Shots
"It was a small, sharp object," Hester told the News Journal. "We think it was probably a tack, but we haven't recovered it so we can't say for sure."
Regardless of what instrument was used to cause the damage, the entire incident is one of the most deranged in recent prep sports memory. That any player would inflict damages requiring vaccinations against unsuspecting victims is gross and disturbing. That the player didn't even play any part in the contest itself may make the hurtful handshakes even more upsetting.
That sentiment was certainly shared by one unnamed McLain student who was interviewed by WCMH.
"I think it's stupid, and very silly, and I don't understand why anyone would have any incentive to do that. We lost anyway."
In one of the most disturbing acts by an individual high school athlete in recent times, an Ohio football player placed a sharp object -- believed to be a tack -- in his glove before walking through a postgame handshake line, pricking the hands of 27 opponents as he walked through and "congratulated" them on a game well played.
According to the Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal and NBC affiliate WCMH, a Washington (Ohio) Court House High 16-year-old who was ineligible for the game sat on his team's sideline, then walked through the handshake line after his team's 26-0 victory against McLain (Ohio) High with a studded receiver's glove. The punctures made by the player's sharp glove eventually forced all 27 of the undisclosed perpetrator's alleged victims to receive tetanus shots from the Highland County health department at a meeting between the players and the Highland County Health Commissioner days after the event.
McLain players shared the most troubling details of the incident with WCMH.
"We walked across the 50-yard line and supposedly one of the guys had tacks in his glove. Nobody knew about it. I was far back enough in the line that everyone started to turn around and I got out of the way," said Michael Aeh, a McClain football player. ...
"They felt the pain of it when it occurred and they thought maybe they had hit a nerve or something. Then some of them immediately … looked at their hands and saw blood," said Dr. Dan Strain, McClain High School principal.
While the McLain players who suffered hand injuries because of the stunt were understandably most upset about the incident, local police also opened an investigation and contacted the mother of the suspect, who reportedly told Greenfield Police Chief Tim Hester that she planned to hire an attorney to defend her son.
"It was a small, sharp object," Hester told the News Journal. "We think it was probably a tack, but we haven't recovered it so we can't say for sure."
Regardless of what instrument was used to cause the damage, the entire incident is one of the most deranged in recent prep sports memory. That any player would inflict damages requiring vaccinations against unsuspecting victims is gross and disturbing. That the player didn't even play any part in the contest itself may make the hurtful handshakes even more upsetting.
That sentiment was certainly shared by one unnamed McLain student who was interviewed by WCMH.
"I think it's stupid, and very silly, and I don't understand why anyone would have any incentive to do that. We lost anyway."
I'm surprised he didn't get beaten up by the 27 guys he pricked with the tack.
Sadly, if you read the article at Rivals.Yahoo.com, you've got dozens of guys who just have to make puns or jokes about the entire situation (he was a little prick, what he did was tacky, etc). They apparently think this is the height of cleverness, and just have to share it with the world.
From Yahoo.com: Ohio Player Pricks Foesin Handshake Lie, Forces Tetanus Shots
According to the Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal and NBC affiliate WCMH, a Washington (Ohio) Court House High 16-year-old who was ineligible for the game sat on his team's sideline, then walked through the handshake line after his team's 26-0 victory against McLain (Ohio) High with a studded receiver's glove. The punctures made by the player's sharp glove eventually forced all 27 of the undisclosed perpetrator's alleged victims to receive tetanus shots from the Highland County health department at a meeting between the players and the Highland County Health Commissioner days after the event.
McLain players shared the most troubling details of the incident with WCMH.
"We walked across the 50-yard line and supposedly one of the guys had tacks in his glove. Nobody knew about it. I was far back enough in the line that everyone started to turn around and I got out of the way," said Michael Aeh, a McClain football player. ...
"They felt the pain of it when it occurred and they thought maybe they had hit a nerve or something. Then some of them immediately … looked at their hands and saw blood," said Dr. Dan Strain, McClain High School principal.
While the McLain players who suffered hand injuries because of the stunt were understandably most upset about the incident, local police also opened an investigation and contacted the mother of the suspect, who reportedly told Greenfield Police Chief Tim Hester that she planned to hire an attorney to defend her son.
From Rivals.Yahoo.com: Ohio Player Pricks Foesin Handshake Lie, Forces Tetanus Shots
"It was a small, sharp object," Hester told the News Journal. "We think it was probably a tack, but we haven't recovered it so we can't say for sure."
Regardless of what instrument was used to cause the damage, the entire incident is one of the most deranged in recent prep sports memory. That any player would inflict damages requiring vaccinations against unsuspecting victims is gross and disturbing. That the player didn't even play any part in the contest itself may make the hurtful handshakes even more upsetting.
That sentiment was certainly shared by one unnamed McLain student who was interviewed by WCMH.
"I think it's stupid, and very silly, and I don't understand why anyone would have any incentive to do that. We lost anyway."
In one of the most disturbing acts by an individual high school athlete in recent times, an Ohio football player placed a sharp object -- believed to be a tack -- in his glove before walking through a postgame handshake line, pricking the hands of 27 opponents as he walked through and "congratulated" them on a game well played.
According to the Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal and NBC affiliate WCMH, a Washington (Ohio) Court House High 16-year-old who was ineligible for the game sat on his team's sideline, then walked through the handshake line after his team's 26-0 victory against McLain (Ohio) High with a studded receiver's glove. The punctures made by the player's sharp glove eventually forced all 27 of the undisclosed perpetrator's alleged victims to receive tetanus shots from the Highland County health department at a meeting between the players and the Highland County Health Commissioner days after the event.
McLain players shared the most troubling details of the incident with WCMH.
"We walked across the 50-yard line and supposedly one of the guys had tacks in his glove. Nobody knew about it. I was far back enough in the line that everyone started to turn around and I got out of the way," said Michael Aeh, a McClain football player. ...
"They felt the pain of it when it occurred and they thought maybe they had hit a nerve or something. Then some of them immediately … looked at their hands and saw blood," said Dr. Dan Strain, McClain High School principal.
While the McLain players who suffered hand injuries because of the stunt were understandably most upset about the incident, local police also opened an investigation and contacted the mother of the suspect, who reportedly told Greenfield Police Chief Tim Hester that she planned to hire an attorney to defend her son.
"It was a small, sharp object," Hester told the News Journal. "We think it was probably a tack, but we haven't recovered it so we can't say for sure."
Regardless of what instrument was used to cause the damage, the entire incident is one of the most deranged in recent prep sports memory. That any player would inflict damages requiring vaccinations against unsuspecting victims is gross and disturbing. That the player didn't even play any part in the contest itself may make the hurtful handshakes even more upsetting.
That sentiment was certainly shared by one unnamed McLain student who was interviewed by WCMH.
"I think it's stupid, and very silly, and I don't understand why anyone would have any incentive to do that. We lost anyway."
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Booklist: The Grammar of Our Civility
What is the opposite of Devolution Media? Evolution Media- that media: books, TV, movies, that are created to uplift and enoble, instead of denigrate.
Evolution media is also education. Most American students get out of high school and never open a book again. If they do go on to college, they get out of college and then never open a book again.
They're closing themselves off to worlds upon worlds of enjoyment.
The book below encourages the reinstallation of teaching the Classics in American education - learning Latin and Greek, and reading the great writers in those languages.
The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America
by Lee T. Pearcy
Baylor University Press, 2005
Description
Highly accessible, The Grammar of Our Civility avoids the exaggerated, gratuitous polemic, and lack of historical grounding that have vitiated previous popularizing efforts to make the case for the value of classical studies in contemporary US society. Wearing his immense learning lightly, Lee T. Pearcy cogently and eloquently sytnesizes a vast amount of previous scholarship to envision a new form of American classical education: one that reflects-much as European classical studies reflected European social realities and aspirations - the diverse, vibrant, intellectual environment and ethical ideals of our nation.
Table of Contents
Foreword
1. The Grammar of Our Civility
2. The American Dialect
3. Finis: Four Arguments Against the Classics
4. Prolegomena to a Pragmatic Claccicism
Notes
Works Cited
Idex
So okay, "Prolegomena to a Pragmatic Classicism" sounds rather more pretentious than accessible. I know what "vitiate" means but "Prolegomena" I had to look up. (It means "a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue"). Well, so the author used one word, prolegomena, instead of two or three...
Well, the book is intended for the academic. And it's definitely written for a college-level education (which can be acquired throuh one attending college, or by one implementing an educational curriculum of one's own from home). And it's interesting.
A little bit more description from Amazon.com:
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury--and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. The Grammar of Our Civility also offers a concrete proposal for the role of classical education, one that takes into account practical expectations for higher education in twenty-first century America.
(We need this education, it's true, but we also need - somewhat more urgently, I would say - an education in the sciences. In math. Learning the classics though is a matter of memorization...learning math and science is much harder...
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