Stripes
 

Ty, you know you're my brother by another mother, but please. There are precious few comedies in this world that are improved by deleted scenes. "Stripes" ain't one of them. That movie totally falls apart in the third reel as it is. You'd actually want to see more of that shite?

The only two DVDs in my admittedly small collection with alternate/deleted scenes worth watching more than once are "Blazing Saddles" (the Citizen Kane of alcoholic gunfighter movies) and "Waiting for Guffman." Parker Posey's dramatic audition is a thing to behold.

Stripes
 

Holla back, playa! She and Amanda Peet are my current fantasy threesome. Mid 90s Maura Tierney could watch and tag in when Parker got tired.

Stripes
 

Mmmm, Maura...

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Stripes
 

FWIW, a google images search turns up a whole bunch of photoshopped images of Amanda Peet having lots of sex.

Stripes
 

Is that a warning or a suggestion?

Stripes
 

I actaully understand the Maura-love. But damn, is this the best picture of her you can find? It makes her only look hot from the neck down.

Stripes
 

I saw her up close and personal maybe three, four years ago. She is small and quite average looking.

TM

Stripes
 

But you still fucked her, right?

My str8 Moment
 

For you, ironweed.

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Gorgeous to listen to and gorgeous to look at, Celtic Woman is perfect PBS fare, sort of a Riverdance without the dancing. Drawing on the same New Age-y sound and propulsive energy as that show's solo-voice and choral numbers, the live concert features four attractive young women in strapless evening gowns with soaring voices backed by an orchestra, an Anuna-like chorus, and a large percussion section. The more traditional fare includes Méav Ni Mhaolchatha's "Danny Boy" and "She Moved Through the Fair," and Chloë Agnew's "Ave Maria" (the Bach-Gounod version). Movie and TV selections range from Agnew's "Walking in the Air" (The Snowman) and "Someday" (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame) to Lisa Kelly's "May It Be" (the Enya song from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King) and Órla Fallon's voice and harp rendition of "Harry's Game." A fifth woman, Máiréad Nesbitt, adds some variety by fiddling "The Butterfly" and "Ashokan Farewell" (best known as the theme from Ken Burns's The Civil War). Occasionally the singers join together, as in Enya's "Orinoco Flow," an a cappella rendition of West Side Story's "Somewhere," music director David Downes's composition "One World," and a stately version of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Celtic Woman was created by Downes (like many of the other performers, a Riverdance veteran) along with Sharon Browne and Dave Kavanagh of the Celtic Collections record label. --David Horiuchi

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...454597-7704759

My str8 Moment
 

"Riverdance" references are the kiss of deedily-doodily death. Give me the good old Eire Nua RFB any day.

My str8 Moment
 

So your plan is to post news items, but off-beat ones? That way you'll always be seen as smarter than at least NFH. Good strategy. Did someone help you come up with the plan?

My str8 Moment
 

Why do you need to question my motives? I am resigned to my fate as dumbest (as proclaimed by the esteemed lo-berry). I simply saw the commercial for Celtic Woman on tv this morning and I was trying to be helpful to my good friend ironweed, who I think would enjoy watching and listening to Irish chicks singing such traditional Irish fare as "Danny Boy" and "Somewhere" from West Side Story.

And their voices are hauntingly beautiful. Don't believe me? Read this consumer review: "I couldn't help but notice that the group did quite a few songs by Enya which were really excellent. I couldn't help but notice how similiar their voices were to Enya's. On a couple of occasions I closed my eyes, I thought I was listening to Enya herself." I can't help it. When I think "Enya," I also think "ironweed."

Stripes
 

Both.

Ironweed outed!
 

From overheard at the office . . .

That's Quite a Euphemism for Sex with Pale Fat Chicks

Lobbyist #1: You remember how it was in school...drinking, gambling,
and being investigated by the IRA.
Lobbyist #2: Don't you mean the IRS?
Lobbyist #1: No, the IRA. Irish Republican Army.

Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC

From the Things I Did Not Need To Know About BS file
 

We can only hope this inspires continued additions to her oeufre.