Dennis Hopper - Too Soon!

Remembering Blue Velvet in his eternal honor.



I suspect that Jeffrey Deitch's first show at LA's Museum of Contemporary Art will have added significance now.

My Small Contribution to the Blogosphere's Musical Excellence

In the spirit of blogging musical excellence (see this and this), I offer you this:



It is, of course, "Magic Bird of Fire" by the Salsoul Orchestra. Utterly fabulous.

Line of the Day

. . . and it's only 11:04AM.

Rude Pundit:

No, actually, the point here is to say, "Oh, go fuck yourself with Reagan's femur" to craven columnist and creepy commentator Peggy Noonan

Heavens to Murgatroyd, no kidding.

Read.

UPDATE 5/29/2010

Mr. Sullivan has a less heated but similarly accurate response to Peg's "journalistic" turd (Oh Dog, the title - fucking drama queen) in a post appropriately titled "Noonan Unhinged":

An incoherent tangle of prejudices and feelings wrapped up in hyperbole is the best Peggy Noonan can now muster.

Read.

Suck It SATC Haters

Was just flipping through channels here in this hotel and I happened upon the first "Sex and the City" movie.

It's impossible to be on the internet and not see some hateful treatise on how awful and ruinous "Sex and the City" is. How ugly and mean was the caricature that accompanied the New Yorker's review of the movie? What was that title on Salon? "Sex and the City - Why Won't It Go Away?" Go away? Why the fuck should it go away? (Where is the article asking why the vile "Two and a Half Men" won't go away?) Anyone else want to offer up some psychosiocologibabble about how SATC is the cause of (or was it the result of?) everything that's wrong with single women/married women/gay men/straight men these days? And then this???:

PLEASE INSTALL ZYKLON B GAS SHOWERS IN ANY MOVIE AUDITORIUM SHOWING SEX AND THE CITY 2. Because sometimes, the best way to help the world is to TAKE lives, not to save them. It's an important cleansing exercise.

Right - because people who want to see this movie should be killed - you know, like they did in the Holocaust - with fake showers an' shit? Ha ha! (Did I just see light bending and a black hole of I'm-so-clever-ness emerge as a result of that piece of over-the-top over-over-over-it-all ugliness?)

I loved, loved, love the show - and then the movie. Are we all really that much better than the four loving friends, whose experiences mirror our own, like it or not? Believe me, my treacly meter is finely, perfectly tuned - and it never went off, ever.

I had the misfortune to see the first SATC movie - in NYC - with some sanctimonious haters. I look forward to seeing the second one in more like-minded company.

UPDATE 5/27/2010 7:09AM

Well, quelle surprise. Look what we have here.

This bloated mess of a movie seems devoted to destroying what little affection you may have left for these women

Yawn. Of course. Who could possibly have more than a shred of affection left for "those women"? And "bloated mess"? Get it? Maybe it just needs some Pamprin and an appletini.

UPDATE 6/8/2010 10:53PM

Ms. McEwan agrees (basically - or maybe even just sort of, but I was glad to see her post on the vile anti-SATC/SJP vibe).

The World's Least Favourite Airline

So I'm sitting in Terminal Two at O'Hare, or as I like to call it, the Terminal of the Damned, and United "Express" decides to cancel my flight. Not delay - cancel. Something about lack of crew availability. Wevs.

Of course the ogre at the Customer "Service" counter was downright vile when re-booking my flight - she made a point of letting me know that she personally didn't cancel the flight. (No shit, beyotch.)

Since it's a business trip, and I had a refundable ticket, I was able to pull a Cartman and be all "Screw you guys, I'm going to American" - which I've done. That part was fun. If only I'd thought to actually say that - in full Cartman voice.

I heart Glenn Greenwald (re-titled)

Oh dear.

Poor Jamin Raskin.

I believe he just got his Elena Kagan-apologist-ass totally, completely, and devastatingly owned by uber-mensch and true bold progressive Glenn Greenwald. Raskin phoned in to Democracy Now to bloviate/brag about how he knows Elena Kagan from law school (Harvard Law School, in case you didn't catch that). Beyond that, he had little else to say. How could he not know that his opponent would have an encyclopedic knowledge of the subject, and prime debating skills? It's not pretty. Watch it here. It's so good.

Sidebar: I think we have two 'mos debating each other. It's clear which one won.

Talk about an harmonic convergence: Glenn will be on Rachel tonight. Can't wait.

Love how Democracy Now host Amy Goodman's attempt to thwart Glenn's blitzkrieg with some pablum about Kagan's "stand" against ROTC's on-campus recruiting on the grounds that DADT is discriminatory was demolished by Glenn's more extensive knowledge of the case.

UPDATE 5/28/2010
I have changed the title of the post. The previous title was "OMG OMG I heart Glenn Greenwald". The double OMG (not just one, two) got to be just too embarrassing to look at. I did write it, but at least now I don't see the title staring me in the face.