In honor of the huge opening for the Transformers movie, I give you this:
I love that he rocks so hard that his guitar emits low-res visual effects!
(Question though - was anyone else creeped out by the intro with Optimus Prime and the little kid? Like in the "do you like Gladiator movies?" style of creepiness?)
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The Nazi Pope vs. Inmate #9818783 (or Vote for Today's Favorite Headline)
Now, I’m paraphrasing myself here, but news headlines can be peculiar things. And you don’t even need to take the time to closely examine them.
Take this article at TV Week, which just tickles my secular funny bone:
Pope To Be Named NBC Studio Head, Sources Say
Of course, the actual story is about a Katherine Pope and not my boy, Papal Benny. So, all the gullible Catholics (and atheist fans of the Peacock) can relax. The rebound pope is staying in his Italian crib. However, given that Ms. Pope is only a few months older than myself, any chuckles found from the headline were overcome by my cries of rage and jealousy.
Luckily, I then stumbled upon this lovely headline on eonline.com:
Nude Britney More Infectious Than Nude Paris
Given Britney’s propensity to walk barefoot in public bathrooms as well as her marriage to Senor Federline, this should surprise no one.
However, the article is referring to computer virus and not venereal diseases:
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are more likely to give you a virus than a nude Paris Hilton, a new study finds.
The State of Search Engine Safety report, released Monday by McAfee's SiteAdvisor group, evaluates the risks associated with approximately 2,300 of the most popular search terms based on the sites they return.
According to the study, conducting an online search for Suri's parents returns a slightly higher percentage of sites bundled with spyware and other malicious code than a search for the hotel heiress in her birthday suit.
Determined to be far more hazardous than searching for Cruise, Holmes or Hilton was scanning the World Wide Web for "Britney Spears nude," a search term that ranked above "free porn" in terms of the risky results it returned.
Less predictably, searching for a (presumably clothed) Lil' Wayne proved sketchier than hunting down either a nude Pamela Anderson or a nude Carmen Electra, while a search for Nicole Richie was determined to be more dangerous than the term "eating spiders while asleep"
Mark Maxwell, a senior product manager for SiteAdvisor, said the number of risky sites turned up by a search for a given star is not always a factor of their public profile.
"It's not necessarily an attribute of the celebrities themselves," Maxwell told E! Online.
He pointed out that typing "Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston" into a search engine returned a significantly higher percentage of undesirable results than a search for the actor and his current flame, Angelina Jolie.
"Are Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston truly riskier than Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as people? No," Maxwell said.
"Britney Spears nude" ranked higher than "free porn"? Interesting.
Some guy has a job that involves finding how likely it is to get a computer virus when searching for the phrase "eating spiders while sleep"? Kinda sad. True, it’s not as thankless a job as waiting tables at the Red Lobster, but there has got to be better ways to earn your money.
The survey does explain some of the more wacky search phrases that led people to my site. Like "girls in cocaine", "massive bowel movement", or "Paris Hilton Dead Pool." And those are just for June.
I do wonder if Paris's current stay in jail will make her more or less associated with computer-based hazards. Not that I’m making fun of Paris'’s stay in jail. Everyone else is doing that and no one will reach the heights of Sarah Silverman's slam.
Bronc would so let Paris Hilton go down on him.
wojr
Edited: If you want you can write Ms. Hilton in prison, you can do so at the following address:
Paris Hilton, #9818783 PO BOX 86164 Terminal Annex Los Angeles, CA 90086-0164
This post is utterly self-indulgent, but longtime readers know of my love for Tales of the Gold Monkey.
So, when I saw this on youtube, I had to post it. F- off, if you call it an Indiana Jones clone. Indy didn't know how to land a plane. He didn't have a one-eyed dog. Indy had an Asian street urchin as his slave labor. "No time for love, Doctor Jones."
Man, now if I could only find some videos of the twins from Double Trouble.
Journey into Morbidity: The Dead Pool – The Third Man
In terms of the recommendation of Bob Barker to the Inaugural wojr.com Halloween Dead Pool, one loyal reader chose to comment "Bob...isn't that sort of a given?" This coming from a girl who wants to pick Castro.
Yes, Bob Barker was a rather obvious choice, but I wanted to call him a "poon-hound" and now I can die a happy man.
So, not just to quell the complaints of the blonde female readers of this site but also to make an obvious bid to appear a witty and independent thinker, the third recommendation from wojr.com for the Dead Pool will be an attempt to select someone completely out of left field.
Thus the third recommendation in the DEAD POOL is:
Gheorghe Zamfir a.k.a. Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute
Now, some might say, "Why Zamfir? Is he too a hound of the poon?" Personally, I don't know, but he's currently living in his native Romania. I've heard enough tales about Romanian women to be concerned for Zamfir's health.
Others might say, "He's only sixty-five. Why waste one of the five special elderly slots on him?" To those, I counter with the fact that the average life expectancy for a male in Romania is only 68.14 years.
And others still might ask, "What's the deal with the cat? Is he a James Bond villain? Is he Liberace gay?" Again, I can't say. But if either or both are true, it does abbreviate an already abbreviated life expectancy.
Plus the man can play a sustained tone lasting about 2 1/2 minutes. Can you say aneurysm? I can.
wojr DEAD POOL SUMMARY
Number of entries submitted as of 4:06PM, 10/25/06: twenty-two.
For the White House, the charges coming their way this morning in the new book "Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction" must seem anything but heaven-sent.
The accusations are coming from an unlikely source: David Kuo, former deputy director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, which channels federal dollars to religious charities.
Kuo says the office was misused to rally evangelical Christians, the Republican base voters, to get GOP politicians elected. Not only that, Kuo claims Bush officials mocked evangelical leaders behind their backs, alleging that in the office of political guru Karl Rove they were called "the nuts."
"National Christian leaders received hugs and smiles in person and then were dismissed behind their backs and described as 'ridiculous', 'out of control,' and just plain 'goofy,' " Kuo writes.
"You name the important Christian leader, and I have heard them mocked by serious people in serious places," Kuo told "60 Minutes" Sunday night.
That mockery, he added, included the Rev. Pat Robertson being called "insane," the Rev. Jerry Falwell being called "ridiculous" and comments that Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family "had to be controlled."
While we here at wojr.com have never called the National Christian leaders ‘goofy’ out of reverence to all things Disney, we have consistently thought of the leadership as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘out of control’. Who knew the Bush Administration felt the same way? Right? Makes you just want to run to Washington and give G-Dub a big ol’ hug.
That aol article seems to show only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the content of Kuo’s book, Tempting Faith.
Here’s a more detailed report from Keith Olbermann:
I’m sure you’ll be hearing accusations that this, like the Foley scandal, is the carefully orchestrated plan of the Democrats to smear the good name of Republicans right before the upcoming election. Which is just crazy talk. The Democratic Party doing anything “carefully orchestrated” would be the harbinger of the Second Coming or the Rapture or whatever event the Evangelicals are expecting.
David Kuo is not a proponent of the Democrats. He, from my limited knowledge, left the White House because he felt the Administration was not doing enough to champion the Catholic agenda. Kuo was upset that Bush was short-changing them just like he was short-changing black people. (I know that’s not true, the Catholic leaders at least got some White House souvenirs.) I doubt Kuo believes the Democrats would treat the Evangelicals any better. And the Evangelicals, I’m sure, know that as well. So, I think most of their votes will still go to the Republicans.
Hell, the fact that Bush has been protecting us from the Evangelicals just might win the Republicans some votes from the middle as well. The Bush administration has been protecting us from the crazy, ridiculous Catholics( opposed to the sane, lovely Catholics that I hold close to heart). As crazy as it sounds, we could be in a worse state than we are in now.
Man, just be happy evolution is being taught anywhere in the United States.
I really wasn’t feeling well this weekend. Not really sick, just a general malaise. Thus, my ass was firmly planted on my couch as I caught up with my Tivo and DVDs (both purchased and Netflixed).
During the massive media digestion, my normal disgust with legal warnings reached near epic proportions. Let me walk you through it.
First up, the FBI and/or Interpol warnings. They’ve been on every DVD or VHS I’ve ever watched. I think that’s true for everyone else in this country. Obviously, it’s doing a bang-up job combating video piracy. That was sarcasm. In terms of crime deterrence, that warning isn’t even a speed bump. It’s so worthless that some companies have added commercials dissuading acts of piracy. Why these ads look like they were shot in 1986 with a budget of twenty dollars is beyond me. Just like understanding why the ads lack the presence of any minorities. Are only white folk pirates?
The anti-crime legal warning is then followed, when applicable, by the company’s disclaimer that the views expressed on any commentaries are not the views of the parent company, their subsidiaries, any affiliates, the Tijuana whore that gave their marketing department the Clap or even Whistler’s mother. Good thing that’s there given the recent rash of commentary-based lawsuits. I mean, if Shannon Doherty hasn’t sued anyone based on crappy things said about her in commentaries, I think we’re safe.
The most sadistic part of this process is the film companies’ unwillingness to allow the consumer to fast forward through these parts. No, you need to wait long enough for even the most inbred of hillbillies to be able to read these legal statements. Actually, let me that back. I don’t want to get sued by an inbred individual for inferring that they read slower than those of us spawned by people lacking close genetic ties. I’m sure they read just fine despite any genetic deformities. Just like I’m sure only white people steal.
But I digress...
The entertainment industry has a long history of litigation, so the input of their legal counsel probably holds great weight – definitely more than some cranky white guy that spent most of his weekend on his couch. Given that track record of litigious behavior, the following news item seemed apropos to include here.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Internet search leader Google is snapping up YouTube for $1.65 billion, brushing aside copyright concerns to seize a starring role in the online video revolution.
The all-stock deal announced Monday unites one of the Internet's marquee companies with one of its rapidly rising stars. It came just a few hours after YouTube unveiled three separate agreements with media companies to counter the threat of copyright-infringement lawsuits.
The price makes YouTube Inc., a still-unprofitable startup, by far the most expensive purchase made by Google during its eight-year history. Last year, Google spent $130.5 million buying a total of 15 small companies.
Although some cynics have questioned YouTube's staying power, Google is betting that the popular video-sharing site will provide it an increasingly lucrative marketing hub as more viewers and advertisers migrate from television to the Internet.
I recall reading an article in Wired from earlier this year describing youtube founders, Steven Chen and Chad Hurley, making the rounds at some tech brouhaha. They were refusing to discuss any offers for their company under a billion dollars. Look at what one plug from Dane Cook can do for your asking price.
Now, youtube has been under legal fire for copyright infringement and as Warren Ellis hypothesizes on his site:
[N]ow it’s been valued at 1.65 BILLION dollars. If you don’t think everyone and their wife is now going to start suing Google for illegally broadcasting copyrighted material, you’re insane. You’re also insane if you think the companies who weren’t somehow placated by YouTube into not destroying them a few months ago didn’t already have suits prepared and in the drawer waiting for the exact second this was announced.
At which point they get Napstered: just papered into oblivion by legal action.
1.65 billion American dollars, for some perspective, buys around forty tons of cocaine. Which may, in the long run, prove to be a better investment.
I like youtube. They don’t make me watch legal disclaimers before their videos. If they did, I bet they would let me fast forward through them with relative ease. No need to press stop-stop-menu to get where I need to go. Plus, they have Dave Chappelle singing the theme song from Different Strokes.
Enjoy it while it lasts – before the vampire lawyers swoop down and suck the life of it. Faster than a Tijuana whore can snort up 40 tons of cocaine.
Last night, I received a phone call from Senor Broncatello. I’m unaware how much, if any, Jack Daniels precipitated this call but here’s how it went: Bronc:“You know, this Audrey Hepburn ad, it’s kinda turning me on.”
That was his opening. There was no “Hello” or “Kon-nichiwa, bitch.” Just a declaration of his arousal over a Gap ad starring a dead woman.
For those that haven’t seen a television in the last month. Here is the advertisement he’s talking about:
Now, I’ve long had an asexual fascination with Audrey Hepburn. I’ve seen her movies more times than what is allowed for heterosexual males. I’m aware of it and so is Bronc. So, he decided to have some fun with that admiration. Especially, when I claimed to have real problems with the commercial. Bronc:“She’s dancing to Back in Black for christ’s sake. Plus talking about expressing herself and needing a release. It’s just hot.”
Now, I paraphrase myself here when I say “if a stripper does not appear hot dancing to Back to Black (AC/DC, not Wing), then she’s just not hot.” So, Audrey Hepburn dancing to the ultimate stripper song - come on, that’s just wrong.
Plus, they have her basically endorsing their product. Hepburn’s been dead since 1993 and I don’t remember her endorsing the Gap when she was alive. Hell, the lady was an ambassador for UNICEF, an organization against sweatshops and child labor. Remember when there was a public outcry when Coke had digitally inserted Humphrey Bogart into one of their commercials. Damn it, Bogart wasn’t even an opponent of Coke’s business practices.
I should write a will and list exactly what types of products and/or services my image can be licensed to you. I have a feeling that I’m going to be a big deal come post mortem time.
(Side note: does any one else have a problem with Coke putting Santa Claus on their packaging during Christmas time? It’s almost like Santa is endorsing their product, even though everyone knows the old man prefers Milk and cookies. I bet Coke doesn’t have to pay St. Nick for his endorsement, huh?)
This was a typical phone conversation between the two of us.
ALBUQUERQUE -- A shooting victim is in critical condition this morning after being shot in a supermarket parking lot.
Witnesses told KRQE News 13 the fight broke out Monday night between a man with a samurai sword and another man who had a gun.
Emergency personnel were called to the Albertsons at Eubank and Candelaria NE just before 8 p.m. after a man staggered in with a gunshot wound to his chest. The name of the man believed to be in his 30s has not been released.
Witnesses described the scene in the parking lot as being like something out of a movie.
“The victim pulled out that sword, and then the guy in the white shirt whipped out the revolver and shot him,” witness Erin Hurst said.
wojr.com, through its network of ace reporters, has found actual footage from the crime.
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Again, it made me laugh and really that is all that matters.