FLo$ Reunion
 

I watched parts of the reunion on the dvr.

Paige came across really well. Rob finally got a hair cut.

Everyone is still boring.

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

I feel for this guy already. His life seems to be one cruel joke after the other.

"'I never had a question about whether we could pull it off; we had a question about whether we could find the right guy,' David Stanley, one of the show's producers, told Reuters.

That "right guy" turned out to be Matt Kennedy Gould, who was delivering pizzas in Pittsburgh after leaving law school."

http://us.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/08...oe.schmo.reut/

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

Well, we certainly can't fault Matt for his career choice.

But IMHO, you pimp yourself for reality TV fame, all bets are off on retaining your dignity--he walked right into it.

Better rethink those plans for March 21, 2014. No truth to the rumor that the asteroid will be written and directed by Kevin Costner.

Happy, Bilmore?
 

Done.

(I didn't know that the mailbox limit is only 20 messages. I never saw a notification that mine was full, or a warning that messages were being returned. Maybe the limit should be added to the FAQ?)

Happy, Bilmore?
 

Fuck asteroids. Asteroids are for pussies. I saw a show on the Discovery Channel this weekend about caldera volcanoes that says that Yellowstone National Park is one enormous supervolcano that is overdue to blow sky-high and end human life in North America and probably life as we know it on Earth. A few miles underneath Yellowstone is one enormous fucking pimple of lava 53 miles long and 28 miles across. Yes, miles. The last time it burst it showered the entire midwest with two meters of ash and probably dropped global temperatures by four degrees Celsius. The last caldera supervolcano to explode was Toba about 75,000 years ago, and that explosion and resulting climate change probably dropped the prehistoric human population to less than 10,000 worldwide.

So, no, I'm not afraid of a little asteroid. But Yellowstone scares the shit out of me. Thanks a bunch, Discovery Channel. A-holes.

That whole alarmist Yellowstone thing is a crock. Any respectable geologist will tell you that we have nothing to worry about until the bottom of Yellowstone Lake starts to bulge significantly.

But, once that happens, run like hell.

Of course, with our luck the asteroid will hit in the middle of Lake Yellowstone and set off the supervolcano... Oh well, if you're gonna go, go in style.

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

At the end of the show, contestants from both FLO$ 1 and 2 got to vote on who she picked, Chad or Wade. Seemed pretty evenly split. Paige just said, whoever you picked, I hope you went with your heart (meaning Chad). Paige said over and over and over again that she thinks that Rob made the right choice. Surprise at the end when Chad and Wade both showed up as a teaser for next week.
At one point, Erin appeared to be on the verge of tears and neither Chad nor Wade looked glowingly happy. Maybe that was on purpose, because I can't really be sure whether this show was live, recently recorded or before or after the fact of Erin making her choice. If she has already made her choice, it appears that she picked Chad and he took the money. Because they're making it seem like Wade would go for Erin.

That said, they showed a quote from Wade that said Erin had better step it up because if he takes the money it's her fault.

Edited to add, oh yeah, I forgot about the cat fight. Chicks wrestling - wedgies, blah blah blah. See more here.

forloveormoney

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

They would have had to tape it after because they had a big sign with "For Love or Money" on it.

Thurgreed on Survivor?
 

Well then she certainly didn't look like the happy recipient of $2mill.

SuperVolcanos
 

Pizza Dude
 

This poor guy, what a way to go.

ERIE, Pa., Sept. 2 — The bomb that killed a pizza deliveryman after a bizarre bank robbery was attached to his neck with a homemade collar containing “four separate locking devices” that prevented him from removing it, authorities said Tuesday. FBI Special Agent Bob Rush said the collar was unique in construction and had no apparent commercial application.
Wells left the restaurant to deliver a pizza to a mysterious address in a remote area about an hour before he turned up at the bank with a bomb strapped to his body. Police pursued him as he left the bank, and arrested him a short distance away.
WJET-TV of Erie captured audio and video from Wells as he sat handcuffed in front of a state police cruiser. “Why is nobody trying to come get this thing off me?” he asked.
The tape shows Wells telling authorities someone had started a timer on his bomb under his T-shirt, and that there was little time left.
“It’s going to go off,” Wells said. “I’m not lying.”
A state police spokesman confirmed Friday night that Wells had made a number of statements, including that he had been forced to rob the bank.
FBI Special Agent Bob Rudge called the case unusual, noting that while bank robbers sometimes claim to have a bomb, few actually do.

“It obviously was designed by the individual ... who carried out the bombing,” he said.
Rush and local authorities said they still have not determined whether 46-year-old Brian Wells was a victim or a willing participant in the bank robbery.
After his arrest on Thursday, Wells told police officers that that he had been forced to rob the bank after someone put a bomb on him.
He died minutes later when the bomb exploded as officers waited for a bomb squad to arrive.
The FBI and local authorities were continuing to analyze a multi-page robbery note that Wells handed to a teller during the robbery.

cite here

Pizza Dude
 

His last moments on earth must have been horrifying. In contrast, this pizza dude's agony will be ongoing. I'd say it's a tossup between them.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/tv/2076699

(spree: another story on Joe Schmo)

Monday Morning Scare
 

"The 77-year-old Lewis, his body bloated due to steroid medication he takes for pulmonary fibrosis..."

Now don't you feel mean.



Cite

Pizza Dude
 

I have a feeling that a lot more will come out about this. It almost seems like there _had_ to be someone else involved. Otherwise, why would the guy let himself die?

Also, the guy's friend and coworker overdosed and died the next night. Maybe he as involved, too. This should make a good true crime book.

Pizza Dude
 

Or by someone who watches CSI:Miami. They had an episode with locking bomb collars.

Pizza Dude
 

I could swear this was the plot in a movie. I don't normally watch broadcast television, anttwat.

Dua(too lazy to google on this dreary day)lit

Monday Morning Scare
 

No. Regardless of the reason, the fact remains that he has a gigantic whale-head.

aV

In other news...
 

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2 — As the curtain comes down on summertime with a resounding, post-Labor Day thud, it’s time to face the fact that TV’s biggest hit to emerge during the past three months came to us from — of all places — Bravo. THERE ISN’T MUCH debate that “Queer Eye For the Straight Guy” is a genuine phenomenon. Since premiering in July, it has made weekly sport of rewriting the Bravo ratings record books (not that tall an order, if truth be told) and set new marks that are double and triple the previous 18-49 and 25-54 demo standards. Kressley is the blond man in the middle, the wisecracking, pithy clotheshorse with the effortlessly witty patter. It’s hardly surprising that the 33-year-old from Allentown, Pa., is already beginning to field movie and TV offers and has enlisted an agent despite the fact that “Queer Eye” is his first work in front of the camera.
“It’s all very surreal,” says Kressley, who is also a nationally ranked equestrian. “We’re the reality show that could. All five of us are pretty blown away by this kind of attention, let me tell you. I always thought I had a face for radio, but ... well, go figure. I just did a ‘Good Morning, Miami’ (guest spot), and it looks like there’ll be a lot more. It’s safe to say that yes, I am the breakout star.”
Kressley admits he couldn’t have imagined “in 2 million years” that the show would strike the cultural nerve that it has. “It’s happened because we have no political agenda. We’re all just about having a good time and making people feel better about themselves ... I’m also pretty amazed at how much we’re able to get away with on this show. An awful lot gets left in. And I have the restraining orders to prove it.”
He has found that one unanticipated fringe benefit is the way “Queer Eye” appears to have helped open up a dialogue for some closeted gay men.
“I know one 19-year-old kid who watched the show with his parents,” Kressley says, “and when he saw how positively they were reacting to us on the show, he felt comfortable enough to come out to his mom and dad. How amazing is that?”
the rest of the story...
“We’re doing the Lord’s work,” he believes. “I’m here to be his servant.”

Hey Thurgreed, if you can't have the lord's blessing, maybe you can do his work...

In other news...
 

Yes yes. It is a burden that God, in His wisdom, has placed upon those of us who are the chosen, the few, the faaaabulous.

Monday Morning Scare
 

And they should feel mean for using the word "bloated." There is simply no kind or diplomatic way to use that word to describe another human being, ever.

Maybe "puffy"? or "rounded" instead?

And I freakin' hate Jerry Lewis' talentless earsplitting braying schtick, so I'm with aV anyway.

100 Death Sentences Overturned in San Francisco
 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...505EDT0093.DTL

Spree: More than a hundred death sentences by judges overturned in several western states.

Pizza Dude
 

Or it's someone who watched both CSI Miami (bomb collar idea) and Phone Booth (implicate the pizza delivery guy, then kill him), then added em's own "for-profit" twist.

Creepy.

Pizza Dude
 

Where is the money that he got from the bank? Was it recovered?

Monday Morning Scare
 

I had no idea that pic was of Jerry Lewis when aV posted it. I was just thinking that John Madden's long lost twin brother must have been found.

Doesn't even look like Jerry Lewis. Weird.

breasticle day
 

Just a reminder I need all pictures by Midnight the 4th (to info@lawtalkers.com.) I've not got a lot of pictures yet, so I'm counting on you folks to deliver.

As before, male or female, clothed or unclothed, any body part is ok.

L

Monday Morning Scare
 

Well that's who I thought it was, but his hair wasn't black and greasy. That's what threw me at first.

Cube
 

Yeah, I did like it, actually, even though the ending pissed me off. (Watching it also pissed me off for another long-story-outable personal reason, but nevermind.) But it was a very fine little indie flick.

On other movie news, I enjoyed watching Dead Alive very much over the long weekend. Very funny. And there is one scene, towards the beginning, which nearly made me barf. And you know that anything that nearly makes me barf is pretty extreme.

100 Death Sentences Overturned in San Francisco
 

Damn 9th Circuit commie hippies.*

*I say this not because I believe it, but because it was just begging to be said.

Pizza Dude
 

Not the entire plot, but explosive collars that blow your head off were featured prominently as security devices in "The Running Man" (1987) starring a certain California gubernatorial candidate and a certain former Minnesota governor.

If the current trend continues, either Dweezil Zappa or Maria Conchita Alonso will be governor of Florida within six years.

Cube
 

Speaking of which, I thought "Dogma," which I finally saw this weekend, was extremely high on the gross-out quotient. Must God's work be done in exploding body parts and holy machine-gun barrages?

And God is a scrawny pretentious folksinger in silver lame'? Please.

Cube
 

It's worse than that. "Dogma" fucking sucked. The extent of its sucking can only be appreciated with the passage of time. Kevin Smith has the depth of allusion of an unimaginative community college creative writing student. Angels with names taken from a high-school book list and another pantheon, the existence of which obliterates the entire mythology upon which the plot is based? Check. A cast that combines has-beens from Smith's favorite movies alongside all the usual Smith suspects? Check. A performance that has to be the fucking worst performance ever caught on film, accidental or otherwise, special Salma Hayek division? Check.

They say Kevin Smith will be remembered for having made one great movie. I assumed they meant "Clerks." However, since that film doesn't withstand the only hallmark of a great movie (i.e., stands up after repeated viewings, offering something new each time), I don't know what's left.

Lost in La Mancha
 

Adding to the FB Movie Critique:

We watched the documentary Lost in La Mancha last night, which shows the making (and unmaking) of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

This is very sad because throughout the movie you know that it doesn't get made and you cannot help but think how spectacular a film it would have been.

Cube
 

I have a Buddy Christ statue in my office at home. Husband's first comments were "that's blasphemy" until it made him laugh.

OK, and since we're on the subject of movies, can someone please remind me why XXX was so popular and how did anyone talk Sam L. Jackson into being in that crap? I kept thinking, hmm this is like a 007 ripoff without a story.

Monday Morning Scare
 

Close. How about sea-turtle?

sf

Lost in La Mancha
 

Tying two threads together. If you wanted Dogma to be good, but you didn't like it, pick up a copy of Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It's another quasi religious end of the world gone wrong story, but much, much better in every possible way. Terry Gilliam has been listed as the director in the inevitable screen version of the book.

Pizza Dude
 

I didn't recall The Body being in that one, but imdb says you're correct. I was also surprised to see that Starsky directed it.

Dua(I've got to stop viewing while intoxicated)lit

Pizza Dude
 

Speaking of bombings and general mayhem, has anyone else been watching the British spy series "MI-5"? Damn good show, but creepy and depressing like "24", so I'm not sure I can stomach continuing to watch it.

Well, 24 was depressing in that they refused to kill Kim off, but that's a whole separate reason why it bothered me.