*Clang-Clang* *clap-clap*

broderic on January 14, 2011

Dear Kami-sama,

Please make sure that John Lackey and Josh Beckett continue to have subpar pitching performances in the upcoming season. Please make sure that Andy Petitte has truly retired, and if he hasn't ensure that he will not be the Andy Petitte that we all know and loathe. Please allow the Devil Rays to field a AAA level caliber team. Please allow Toronto to fall back behind the Orioles in the wild, wild AL East.

Please allow the Orioles to win some games in this tough division and to turn around their farm system so that 2012 is not El Apocalypto.

Thanks,
Orioles season ticket holder

Link of the Day [1.14.11]

broderic on January 14, 2011

A voyage back to yesteryear, Stephen Hyden goes back to his record collection in search of his youth, and as wee young lass growing up in America, liking music, and grasping for sounds that explain himself, he finds it in the alternative music of the 90s. Alt.90s if you will. From Nirvana through Alice In Chains he looks over the bands that made that era.

The funny thing is even if I had 10 years on him this was also the music I listened to as well. It was my pop music and reinforced who and what I was during that time. I spent the last hour reading all the way through to 1996, the latest article. It reminds me of good times.

http://www.avclub.com/features/whatever-happened-to-alternative-nation/

Hawaii Vacation 2010: Good Eats

broderic on January 14, 2011

Hawaii 2010/To Hilo and Back/Mmm burger time

It was all about the food. Visiting Bob was a side effect. Wonderful that it happened during Thanksgiving. More like a coincidence.

There was the usual plate lunches of kalbi short ribs, fresh tropical fruit, roasted pig, and fish, lots of fish. Fresh fish. Raw fish. It’s always so good.

Link of the Day [1.12.11]

broderic on January 12, 2011

Ran across this insightful critique of Inception and Christopher Nolan late one night as I visited movie critics on the web. Although I did give Inception a good rating, I completely regret it the more and more I think about it. This revision comes from my dislike of Nolan as a director. I remember sitting through Inception wondering why does it have to be so talkative, which for much of the film it was. I think the action in the final third plus the dream concept overrode my initial dislike. I have seen my ways, but today's link puts up ideas that help codify my revision of Inception.

http://bigother.com/2010/08/08/seventeen-ways-of-criticizing-inception/

0x1f == 11111

broderic on January 12, 2011

Happy 1F-day, motherfumpders!

Can’t wait for another 10 months for 3F-day!

Ha ha ha ha…

This should’ve been a tweet….

My Best Films of the Year: 2010

broderic on January 12, 2011

I was searching through my archives looking for that post on Inception that so many people seem to reach via google and then I remembered that I never put up 2010’s list of best movies. Now these are just the ones I believe that I had liked at the time I wrote the review. As I look at them, I wonder if these rankings even stand up now. I definitely know it doesn’t stand up for Inception, but that is because I don’t really like Christopher Nolan’s films.

Kick Ass (4)
Inception (4)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (4)
The Social Network (4)

No 5 star films? That’s usual, but looking at these only Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network I feel still deserve the ranking. I wonder about Kick Ass. Does it really? I’ll have to see.

Link of the Day [1.11.11]

broderic on January 11, 2011

Speaking from the belly of the beast. The more we spend on this shit. The more we can't spend on any other shit. Our representatives know it. Our president knows it. I doubt that the country does. When talk of tightening our belts is bandied about by those in the know, they never acknowledge this reality: we can only make bombs.I think I need to crawl out from under the belly. It makes me wholly depressed.http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/the-tyranny-of-defense-inc/8342/

Super Kawaii Pow!

broderic on January 11, 2011

Hello Kitty Plushies

All the little nieces were supposed to get a Hello Kitty plushie for Christmas. They all did, but why did I have two left over? Gave one away and no all that’s left for me is Chococat.

Link of the Day [1.10.11]

broderic on January 11, 2011

Today’s link would probably blocked at work so don’t even bother clicking it while there. And that’s why I’m having it posted late at night after family hour. Keep your kids from clicking through.

Vote for Playboy’s playmate of the year. It doesn’t matter which one (they all look the same) just vote. Vote early and vote often. Just vote. Democracy needs you.

Then again, when was the last time you thought about Playboy. It’s getting to be a joke in this day and age. That old man, Hugh Hefner, getting engaged to woman a quarter his age. I’m jealous and sickened at the same time. I mean it has to be just about the money, because no matter how charming Hugh Hefner can be to find a soul mate with that age difference has to be helped along by the millions he’s got in his bank account.

Anyhow, you need to link to some softcore porn once in awhile. And you should vote for Miss February.

http://pmoy.playboy.com/meet-the-2010-playboy-playmates (NSFW)