Tri-displays of the VP
Now that’s what it’s like when your the VP and are a board of director.
Awesome.
I wonder if its one Mac driving all that or is it 3.
Thinking Cary but ending up… Clark?
Your Score: Clark Gable
You scored 19% Tough, 28% Roguish, 38% Friendly, and 14% Charming!
You’re a pretty interesting guy, all man but approachable and friendly. You like the lovely ladies, but you’re also a real stand up guy with a true sense of honor and duty. You’re respected by most men, although they probably wouldn’t trust you alone with their girlfriends and even wives. Women find you intriguing, drawn to your playful sense of fun and true-blue core. You think most women are rather silly, but strong dames with smarts really turn you on, and you tend to marry them. Leading ladies include Claudette Colbert and Vivien Leigh, women who find you somewhat charming but a little dangerous.
Find out what kind of classic dame you’d make by taking the Classic Dames Test.
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Shooting for Barbara getting Catherine
Your Score: Katharine Hepburn
You scored 11% grit, 28% wit, 38% flair, and 28% class!
You are the fabulously quirky and independent woman of character. You go your own way, follow your own drummer, take your own lead. You stand head and shoulders next to your partner, but you are perfectly willing and able to stand alone. Others might be more classically beautiful or conventionally woman-like, but you possess a more fundamental common sense and off-kilter charm, making interesting men fall at your feet. You can pick them up or leave them there as you see fit. You share the screen with the likes of Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant, thinking men who like strong women.
Find out what kind of classic leading man you’d make by taking the Classic Leading Man Test.
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Remember the web
Here’s an interesting Barbara Stanwyck site. It’s got lots of info and vids and screen caps, but what the most impressive thing about it is how stuck it is in web design. It reminds me of 1998 and those who were on the geocities kick. Nice. Frozen in time. Like Miss Stanwyck, one for the ages.
Our Long National Nightmare
For millions of hard-working, middle-class families, life under the Bush presidency has grown less affordable and less secure. President Bush%u2019s record of fiscal incompetence and mismanagement, and Republicans%u2019 close ties with special interests, have helped lead to both lower wages on the one hand and skyrocketing costs for basic necessities like gas, health care, and college tuition on the other. Unfortunately, instead of producing solutions to the problems facing the middle class, Bush Republicans have ignored them and pushed for policies that would make matters even worse.
We are a poorer nation with that wanker in charge.
Bloggiversary Soon
My statcounter log has surpassed the 10,000 visitor mark. Probably around Friday or Saturday it went over. Were you the one?
I don’t think it’s fairly accurate account. I only installed statcounter within the last year, but I have had this blog for about 3 full years. And that’s coming up soon.
“Yo, man, Spidey is a byotch! Batman wouldn’t’ve cried!”
Spiderman 3 is no Spiderman 2. It took the momentum built from the last movie, “Go get ’em tiger,” and threw some grit and Sandman into the gears grinding the franchise to a halt.
The biggest problem was Sandman. I was at the comic shop this weekend where they had lots of old time Spidey comics on the wall. Issue 2 was Doc Ock. Issue 1 must’ve been the Green Goblin. Issue 3 was, guess who? The Vulture, but issue 4 was Sandman. So they producers felt they had to stick with the schedule of villains established by the comic book. But Venom is a fanboy favorite, and was added to the trilogy to appease them. So it feels like they started with the Sandman as the prime villain, found out his story was weak, and added Venom. It results in an uneven story.
We first get Sandman. But did I mention Green Goblin Jr? He’s in it and his story line takes the most unconvincing turn of all. Back to Sandman, he’s a two-bit crook on the lam to see his daughter. That’s it, and by the way, he also killed your Uncle Ben. Hunh? Did he really kill him or did they make that up for the movie? Fanboys, help. They needed that in order for Spidey to work himself up for a showdown. Sandman then gets defeated at the two hour mark about which I wanted thought the ending should’ve occurred. He shows up in the last reel though to team up with Venom and kick some Spidey ass. Lame.
Venom was also problematic. They had to explain the entire emotional change in Peter Parker without losing time for Sandman bits. Peter becomes emo boy without the eyeliner. So after Sandman disappears, Venom takes over, but it was plainly a compression of a longer story arc from the comic book and the measly half hour it got didn’t do it justice.
Raimi I respect for making the first two very fine comicbook movies. He had a lot here to handle. Bottom line they should’ve had one villain. I think with the third installment they should’ve gone for the tried and true final act by redoing the first movie (see Indy and Star Wars for hints).
Caught this in the last showing on opening Friday. The audience was looking for a better time. I think plenty of people were disappointed judging from the number of people leaving before the first fake out ending occurred. It didn’t stop them from running to the doors after the second fake out ending, also.
3 of 5 stars
Fresh Haul
I hope you and your friends made it to the comicbook store to celebrate Free Comicbook Store. I went with the seed and Marge from the Fish Tank. The Seeds been reading comics lately, and Marge has referenced some books she likes to read so they’re pretty much ready for the geekiness to ensue.
And how.
My usual store is Cards, Comics, & Collectibles in Reisterstown. They do a good service and they had all the free comics you can carry. And almost most of the time I go in, there’s a sale. Today was no different. $1.00 for all back issues in the bins.
So I bought a few back issues of Spiderman Loves Mary Jane. I would’ve bought them out, but didn’t want to be seen as too enthusiastic about this title. For a dollar it was a great buy. It’s a good read if you’re into that. Funny thing is sometimes I am. It’s reminds me of Evan Dorkin’s Pirate Corps from which I got the ska bug as well as these silly relationship style comics. Pirate Corps/Hectic Planet had Halby and Elsie. Spiderman Loves Mary Jane has Spiderman and Mary Jane. And all the intendent complications about those two. It’s stupid fun.
Happy Star Wars Day
May the Fourth be with you!… Now that's corny like corn beef hash…
Adventures From My Netflix Queue:Lady of Burlesque
The movies that I really wanted to see over Memories of Murder starred Barbara Stanwyck. The latest one is Lady of Burlesque.
From the sound of the title it would’ve had to take place when burlesque was big. Early on in the thirties. Yet, as Miss Stanwyck makes her appearance, I expected the pretty, young thing, but it was the mature Miss Stanwyck. I found out that this movie was made in 1943! A few years from Lady Eve and just before Double Indemnity. So this is how some of her non-classic films were like. It’s a B movie! Yet, guess again. It was nominated for an Oscar in the song category “Take it off the E String. Play it on the G-string” which Miss Stanwyck sang. WooHoo!
The plot centers around the backstage shennanigans of a burlesque grind house, and then the ladies get involved in a murder straight out of a Scooby Doo mystery. “I would’ve gotten away with it, except for these meddling ladies of burlesque.” The murder mystery was pretty thin. As was the plot.
The funniest part of watching it was that I was expecting a pre-code movie. Of course, being made in 1943, it adhered to the code of ethics of the day. Just imagine how much “burlesque” they could show. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. For Miss Stanwyck’s song and dance, she did some bumping and grinding. Or at least that was what was hinted at. Cut to the audience. She shakes it, but only in your imagination.
Lady of Burleque isn’t bad, but it’s only for those hardcore Stanwyck fans.
3 of 5 stars.