My Thoughts Take Flight And Alight Upon A Distant Moonlit Shore--More Random Thoughts And Shit...

I can't help but wonder if the people who are making a deliberate and concerted effort to point out that the Ft. Hood gunman is a Muslim also highlighted the fact that Dr. Tiller's killer is a Christian? Have any of them ever taken the time to condemn the religion of any other of this country's many mass murderers, assuming any of the other killers were religious? I doubt it. So, if you're a Christian you get a pass on your religion being a motivating factor for your actions, but not if you're a Muslim? How exactly does that work?

Using GOP logic about the worth of a bill based upon its number of pages or its physical size, specifically regarding the size of the DEM healthcare reform bill in comparison to the GOP version, then The Da Vinci Code is a much better book than War and Peace, or the Bible, for that matter...

In the Matrix movies, if the evil robotic overlords who enslaved mankind were so smart why didn't they just cause humanity to live under the illusion of living in a pretechnological society instead of one where humans had access to computers and telephones? Why not make humans think they're cave people and eliminate their threat? Also, the Matrix films suck donkey balls.

I don't need to be sassed by some fucking uppity snapping turtle. Keep that shit to yourself, you dickish fraud of a reptile!

Is there a better film than Andrei Rublev? Or Roadhouse? A guy can like both.

If Obama would simply do something substantial and effective for gays in this country, I would say that'd be reason enough for him to deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

I hate the Star Wars movies. With a passion. Except for the first one. George Lucas has shown nothing but contempt for the collaborative effort of filmmaking because his horrible hubris and narcissism regarding his overwrought and overblown modern space mythology wouldn't allow any other perspectives or input, and in the process he ruined not only what he already filmed when he digitally redid the first three Star Wars snooze-fests, but he is one of the main culprits responsible for the ruination of cinema in general. Asshole.

Why doesn't Rush Limbaugh just invest in the Duke University lacrosse team? As he sees things I'm sure this is a perfect reflection of all that he thinks is wrong in U.S. society today: rich white guys getting screwed over by both a poor black female and the liberal media. A perfect match!

On a related note, over the years I've heard several critics, usually conservatives, suggest that if some marginalized group is excluded from a certain club, organization or endeavor then that group should form its own enterprise that reflects its own ideals and concerns instead of trying to get into the private exclusionary organization. For instance, since gays are not allowed to be Scout Masters, they have been told to get over being in the Boy Scouts and go form their own group, and when blacks have raised concern that they weren't being fairly represented on TV, movies and in other media they were chided into forming their own groups, and for the most part this is what's happened; minority groups have gone on to form their own organizations, but this raises two issues: why are these minority organizations often subsequently called racist or exlusionary for simply being reactions to inadequate representation and lack of concern or inclusion on the part of the culture at large? And why don't these conservatives practice what they preach? Limbaugh, instead of bemoaning his inability to become an NFL owner, should just form his own league where he can make up his own rules. Right?

Chipmunks can't wrestle for shit. Pussies.

For those who doubt evolution due to a supposed lack of corroborative transitional fossil evidence, all fossils are transitional fossils. Unless, of course, the fossil species went extinct or it has an unchanged modern living descendant. Otherwise everything is a transitional species. Now, as to whether we will find every before and after fossil is another question, since the process by which fossils are formed leaves the fossil record inherently scetchy at the very best...

I love this quote from Hegel, "Only one man has ever understood me and even he didn't". It's true. Hegel is a real ballbuster.

Is it just me or do the Victoria's Secret models look like they could use at least one good, solid meal a day? I think it'd put some meat on their bones, provided they actually ingest and digest the food...

Does Mark Levin have any bass at all to his voice? I mean, this guy's tone is nothing but treble/high end. Shit, my parent's chihuahua has a deeper, more manly and commanding voice than this shrill asshat doofus, and she's much, much smarter to boot. Levin's voice is the perfect embodiment of his mentality.

I tell ya, those dumbass frat boy ghost hunters on Ghost Adventures are complete and utter jerkoffs. These douchebags are running quite a scam for themselves.

I'm a southerner, born and bred, but I'll never understand my native region's love affair with grits. It's like sand ensconced in soft, warm snot. Nasty shit!

Why the fuck can't Francis Ford Coppola fit an entire version of Apocalypse Now onto a single DVD? The Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier set has both the original theatrical and the expanded Redux versions, but shows the first half of each on Disc 1 while Disc 2 shows the second half of each film. Why not put one version on one disc and the other version on the other disc, to preserve cinematic continuity for each film? Geez! These films don't need intermissions. Fuck!

Hey, Sham Wow/Slap-Chop guy! How about if I slap-chop your annoying ass all the way back up into your mama's dried out baby-chamber!!

The woman in those Palm Pre commercials sure is creepy. She looks like a living, breathing Rene Magritte painting. I prefer Max Ernst myself...





I can't help but wonder if people who hate Jackson Pollock's unique and wonderful artwork think that a slab of marble or granite is ugly also? Usually the critique of Pollock's work runs along the lines that it has no real, substantial content or it doesn't reflect the natural world in any way, like traditional painting has tended to do. I disagree with both accounts. Why should human artwork have to reflect nature in any way for it to be beautiful? What does nature reflect? Is it not enough that it be beautiful on its own merits, without it being a mimesis of something else? Can we only see beauty in such provincial terms? Usually these critics are theists, who consider modern art godless and depraved, and they never question the basic nature of the beauty of nature and the fact that it doesn't reflect anything outside of itself, unless they chose to think it reflects the mind of god, but if this is so this notion undoes their argument, because all the patterns in nature then reflect the mind of god, not nature itself, therefore god's undertaking is pure creation, not reflecting anything outside of himself/herself/it in the creative act. So if beauty can be an act of pure creation by some being, why can it not be human? But it's all smoke and mirrors, since what Pollock does is a reflection of some aspect of nature, even if it just reflects the artist's mind itself. The artist is god, in a very basic way. Again, Pollock's No. 22 or No. 8 are beautiful in their own right, just like a piece of marble, and for similar reasons...

The next Shetland pony that looks at me cross-eyed is gonna get kicked in the balls.