Since my friend Brian was kind enough to give me a Gmail invitation, I now have three of my own invitations to give out. So the first three people who e-mail me with decent reasons why they want a Gmail account will find their wish granted.
Month: June 2004 (Page 2 of 4)
Unbelievable. (via Atrios)
“But even the harshest critics concede that the nation’s spiritual leader rallied in the days thereafter.”
I’m really going to be sick now.
ME: Did you know that the flags are going to be at half-mast until the 4th of July? That’s just too much, I think.
SUSAN: …Well, Ray Charles *did* die.
Merlin was the Dick Cheney of Arthurian legend.
“Look, you crumb bum, I’m a star. Star, star, star. I don’t get a million dollars to act out of a trench. I played Miss St. John the Baptist in a trench, (she walks along in the trench and we see that she has two boxes strapped to her feet) and I played Miss Napoleon Bonaparte in a trench, and I played Miss Alexander Fleming in a furrow so if you want this scene played out of a trench, well you just get yourself a goddamn stuntman. (walks off) I played Miss Galileo in a groove and I played Mrs. Jesus Christ in a geological syncline!”
-Vanilla Hoare, “Scott of the Antarctic,” Monty Python’s Flying Circus
When I saw on Michael Moore’s advance tickets site that “Fahrenheit 9/11” would be opening at two chain theaters in Madison – Point and Eastgate, both owned by Marcus Theatres – I was excited.
Then, when they disappeared from the list yesterday, I was not pleased. I wondered if they had been a victim of the intimidation campaign that some right-wingers have launched against theater owners planning to run the movie.
When I called Marcus, I found the situation was a little more complicated than that. The woman I spoke to said they hadn’t screened the film yet, and were planning to on Monday. So they won’t be making a final decision until after that screening.
“But unless there’s something really awful in it, I have a feeling we’re going to be running it,” she said.
I asked her if they had been getting protest calls. She said they had been getting a lot of calls about the movie, but 2-to-1 in favor. That’s not as good a ratio as I’d like, but I’ll take it.
If you’d like to call them (and hopefully express your support for this important movie), their number is 414-905-1000.
Eight days and counting.
In my web wanderings today, looking up online resources for voter registration, I came upon the “W Ketchup” site.
My favorite line? “W Ketchup would like to thank President Reagan for his selfless service to this nation.”
The internet permanently disproves the phrase “I’ve seen everything.”
Fox News just published a positive review of “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
“As much as some might try to marginalize this film as a screed against President George Bush, ‘F9/11’ — as we saw last night — is a tribute to patriotism, to the American sense of duty — and at the same time a indictment of stupidity and avarice.”
What’s next? “Hannity, O’Reilly wed in lavish Boston ceremony”?
Continuing the “What were they thinking?” meme of Wacky Celebrity Child Names, Courteney Cox Arquette and her husband, David Arquette, named their daughter Coco.
My first thought was, did she give birth to a chimp?
Crapweasel reactionary Bill O’Reilly (famous for his hatred of rapper Ludacris) just announced tonight that as long as the Fox Network continues to air the sitcom “Method and Red,” starring two rappers, he *won’t watch his own network.*
Heh.