August 2005
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thudfactor on
August 12, 2005
New on the Anvil & Sprocket:
The feminist teen-slasher flick “Slumber Party Massacre”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=174 and the new Pauly Shore flick “Pauly Shore is Dead”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=173.
Also, I’m digging on Roger Ebert’s review of “Deuce Bigalow II”:http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001. On Schneider’s full-page ads attacking Patrick Goldstein’s general distate for Rob Schneider, which read:
bq. Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find [...]
Posted in Art and Writing
| Tagged Los Angeles Press Club, Patrick Goldstein, Pauly Shore, Publicists' Guild, Rob Schneider, Roger Ebert, search engine
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thudfactor on
August 7, 2005
“Shannon at Egotistical Whining”:http://animeg.blogspot.com/2005/08/ive-never-seen-dvd-of-month-club.html reminded me “of this winner of a post”:http://www.thudfactor.com/textpattern/1160/attack-wingnut-friendly-fire — Marc at the “USS Neverdock” pointing to pictures of Fred Phelps and bloviating about how this proves liberals are pro-terrorist. Now, when I last checked in on this post, it had a list of comments as long as my arm calling him a moron, [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Afghanistan, America, Domestic militia, Eric Rudolph, Fred Phelps, Iraq, Lebanon, Shannon, Terry Nichols, Timothy McVeigh
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By
thudfactor on
August 5, 2005
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Ladies and gentlemen, the Era of Small Government is over[1]. In the ongoing quest to rename everything in the Washington DC area after Ronald Reagan there’s a “new proposal”:http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=550621. Some Congressman from Texas wants to rename 16th Street Northwest[2] “Ronald Reagan Boulevard.” Of course, Washington DC taxpayers would have to pay for the [...]
Posted in What The...?!?
| Tagged Bill Frist, Evil Voice, GIF, National Airport, Pentagon, Reagan National Water Treatment Facility, Reagan Presidential Urinal Cake, Reagan Washington, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Building, Ronald Reagan Defense Building, Ronald Reagan Memorial Cat Box, Ronald Reagan Washington Monument, Small government, Texas, Union Station, USD, Washington DC, Washington National Airport, White House
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By
thudfactor on
August 5, 2005
New computer, new OS. I have to reinstall all my crap. Here’s this week’s random ten:
# Here Today — The Beach Boys
# Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is — Chicago (setting the bar high for Meatloaf in the title length department)
# Perfect Disguise — Modest Mouse
# Finest Worksong — REM (A Superlative Block of Superlatives!)
# Omega Point — Cybajaz
# Oh! Darling — George Benson (covering the [...]
Posted in Art and Writing
| Tagged Aimee Mann, Chicago, George Benson, James McMurtry, Liz Phair, Modest Mouse, The Beach Boys, The Beatles
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By
thudfactor on
August 4, 2005
Tracking packages I order is great fun, especially if they are coming via ground, and very especially if they are coming from the other end of the country. FedEx is the best, with greatest detail and most frequent updates. UPS is possibly the worst, with practically no information provided in-transit. The USPS often gets packages [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Dell, East Coast, FedEx, Kansas, RAM, Rockies, West Coast
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