Mr. 3000
Rating: **
It says a lot about a film, when thirty minutes into it I have to turn to my wife and ask,
“This is a comedy, right?”
It would be another 20 minutes before I managed my first laugh. The film, in its entirety garnered only one other actual laugh from me. Unlaughing and all, it […]
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Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. This week’s Hot Topic was created and edited by me. Yeah Me! Beware of the usual language, as some of my compatriates are as foul mouthed as ever.
From the fevered minds of a loose grouping of self-appointed cultural commentators comes a weekly side-swipe at the issues of the day, […]
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Jerry Garcia was a guitar playing mofo-son-of-a-ho. For thirty years he played 100+ shows with the Grateful Dead annually. When he wasn’t playing for his day job, he was gigging in clubs with an ever changing assortment of characters in the Jerry Garcia Band. Or he’d hit up Merle Saunders for a jam session and […]
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I had to fire someone today. This was not the first time I’ve had to do such a thing, so it was not a completely new experience. Yet it is still quite unsettling.
The woman I had to fire was perfectly nice. She never said a negative thing. She came to work on time, was never […]
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Stories on November 18th, 2005
They say that the film modern audiences know as The Passion of Joan of Arc, is, in fact, not the original cut of the film. They say the original print was destroyed, and not being able to reshoot, Carl Theodor Dreyer re-edited the entire film from footage he had originally cut.
The mind mush reels wondering […]
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Once again, this Hot Topic business is all I seem to be writing. But behold, just above this post you shall soon see, finally, a new review from yours truly. The the readers said, “Amen”.Standard warning about the cursing, and the cussing, and the bad words.
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From the composite intellectual consciousness of a mighty entity of […]
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Here we are again. I’ve got a couple of other things coming to the blog soon. But until then enjoy another hot topic. This one brought to you buy the Duke de Mondo. Be pre-warned the hot topic is brought to you buy adults who sling the filthy words of cursing. So if you are […]
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Saturday, the in-laws came up for a visit. We decided to take a picnic lunch at the Brown County State park. Figuring this was the last weekend to catch the changing leaf colors, we hurried out even though the cloud covers looked like rain. Luckily we got no rain, and even the sun poked its […]
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Stories on November 7th, 2005
I know, I know, once again I’ve been really lax about posting. I’d promise to do better, but we should all know better than that by now. The motivation for blogging is really low right now, there are just too many other distractions. At least my pals at the Hot Topic have locked me into […]
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