Rocking the Medieval World

The Virg returns to Movies Eat the Soul with reviews highlighting the obvious linkage between Robin Hood and Dinosaur Jr.

famous friends at A&M

The Virg's daughter emails...
"We just initiated this girl into Sigma Alpha. She gets one dollar for every three views on youtube and it's on tosh.0's blog thingy.


I KNOW THIS GIRL!"

So view away....

Actor Adam Baldwin, and co-contributor, on Firefly poster censorship

Somehow I think the University of Wisconsin-Stout police force could tolerate a staff reduction if they're down to policing posters from nine-year-old TV shows.

It ends with a script quote that helped make the series dear to the heart of libertarians and conservatives, "I know this – they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people… better. And I do not hold to that.”

... the Soul Nibbles Back

If one Googles "Movies Eat the Soul", one finds that it pops up on at least page 2 of the results, which is some kind of improvement, mostly due to my obsessive editing. In celebration, the Virg reviews a movie from this decade, Contagion, and even adds a rip-snortin' update to his Young Man's Guide to the Austen Movies pages slinking down the right side of the blog. I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more Pride & Prejudice.

9-11

As much as I would like to rant and rave, I can't imagine doing it any better than this.  "As Mayor Bloomberg’s office has patiently explained, there’s “not enough room” at the official Ground Zero commemoration to accommodate any firemen. “Which is kind of weird,” wrote the Canadian blogger Kathy Shaidle, “since 343 of them managed to fit into the exact same space ten years ago....Upon arrival at the foot of the towers, two firemen were hit by falling bodies. “There is no other way to put it,” one of their colleagues explained. “They exploded.”


All else has been sanitized for your emotional protection.

I hope someday we can justify ourselves to this guy.

Movies Eat The Soul...

...limps back into view with a new name and old attitude and a couple short reviews of mediocre movies.

Movies Eat the Soul

Paranoia strikes deep...My other blog will re-emerge in a week or so as Movies Eat the Soul or something even less clever. If I want to continue filling the intertubes with my movie musings, it is probably time to genericize it a bit. This means I will have to learn to write a synopsis. That should be fun.

Houston Downtown Tea Party

Photo Montage

The Houston Tea Party was held outside downtown with a stage in one area and a booth area about a 100 yards away. Thankfully, it was a beautiful windy day.

I''ll make a very un-SWAG and say 2000 people, but this isn't really my specialty. The crowd was polite and I saw no evidence of left wing agitator moles. All negativity focuses on Obama or the media, rather than Congress, Pelosi, Reid, et al. In my opinion, that's a mistake.

The John Birch Society had one of the most professional-looking booths, but they've had 50 years of practice.

Sorry to bust the multicultural narrative, but the crowd was solidly 99% white with very few blacks, asians or hispanics. Our South Texas racial mix doesn't allow much distinction between white and hispanic, but this crowd was white. Even the blues band "Westborn" was white. Not bad though.

Local radio talker Natalie Arceneaux appeared to be the main MC and did fine, although her voice, like Palin's and Hillary's takes some getting used to. A local Baptist minister made it all the way to the last sentence of his invocation before mentioning "my" savior Jesus Christ. I would have been happier with the standard "Father in Heaven" but at least he went with "my" rather than "our". He said he prays for "states rights" and "low taxes", so I'll take it.

This is my first Tea Party, and it looked like a typical outdoor Austin or Houston art festival, except no art, no food or drink vendors, and no damn Port-a-Potties. The biggest cheer was a from a swipe at the media in general and a mention of gratitude for Fox News.

If 2000 people seems a little thin, there were also large Tea Parties in North and South Houston that I did not attend. Only about 10% of the Houston population works downtown, in fact, we have several downtowns, so we may be a little more dispersed. Also, Texans have lived the dream of relatively small, if occasionally activist, government for a long time. We can afford to be smaller and less professional because we've all been three-fourths Tea Party in spirit for a long time.

Ice on the Missouri

....in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Well I Guess Leonard Cohen's Money Troubles Are Over For A While

Glad to see that he's back on the charts and bankin' some royalties. A Christmas classic to be sure.

For proof that the Europeans really are different from us, go see this horror show. I keep waiting for someone to start machine-gunning the zombies off the balcony.

Merry Christmas to readers one through two.

Once You Go Jap, You Never Go Back

Snow in south Texas. Is Al Gore in town?

My daughters' 96 Camry (made in Japan) with ornament, as photographed when I got home with my wife's 2001 Windstar van (made in Canada). I picked up the van from the shop after spending $369.00 to repair one (1) of the four (4) automatic windows that won't operate. All the windows on the Camry work just fine, as do all the windows on my Accord (assembled in Mexico). Now which American auto company am I supposed to bail out, exactly?

I haven't owned a GM vehicle since the front-wheel-drive '84 Chevy Citation. That's a memory I'll never shake. The sound of that thing going around a corner was similar to the sound of my shoulder joint when I slipped on a wet ladder and hung by my arm for a couple seconds.

After the Fire

....before the heartburn

Baked Alaska

Nuevo Progreso, Mexico.
Arturo's Restaurant

Rich, flamy goodness.

Dean Barnett RIP

I first ran across him as SoxBlog, and then on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, and then at the Weekly Standard. Fine writer and better on the radio than one would think, given his "Baahstan" accent. Always good natured and positive on the radio.

The only "major" blogger kind enough to visit this poor blog and send an email. I'll miss him.

Dinner at Sushi Samba - Chicago