This statue where Obama gave his speech today was created for Hitler.

Otto Von Bismark, did many many things:

First he started World War One.

Second, he ruled during the Weimer Republic.

He caused the Great Depression and the Weimer Republic's Hyper Inflation.

He put Hitler into power.

Now, the truely amazing thing is that he did all of this after being dead since 1898. Damn that Zombie Bismark!

People ask why I think Americans are idiots, I point at things like this as an example.

In other news, Obama is the second coming of Hitler and the forth Reich is on it's way. I read that part and it fit right in with what the host was saying, it's the new talking point of the right as it were, and Goldberg has been a guest several times to explain and give cover to his meme, and that is, if you are not a Worshiper of St. Ronnie, you are a Fascist.

So, lurkers and other visitors come and vote on who you think will make it to the next fight, two Monday’s from now will be the next pairings:

North

2. Midnighter v 8. The Swift

3. Jenny Sparks v 5. Superman

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South

1. The Engineer v 7. Flash Gordan

3. Nighthawk v 5. Apollo

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East

1. The Hulk v 6. The Comedian

2. Emma Frost v 4. Doctor Manhattan

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West

1. Harley Quinn v 5. The Chainsaw Vigilante

2. Syndrome v 3. American Maid

Some odd match ups, with Emma Frost v Doctor Manhattan being a scary one.

Todays bit of stupid is from Fox and MTV:

MTV readies 'Rocky Horror' redux

Yes, let that sink in....Fox and MTV want to redo the Rocky Horror Picture Show....

If you enjoy odd and varied artisitic styles, art as story and the occasional non-sequitor.

If you like Tori Amos, her music, and the stories that she tells with them.

I would recommend that you go out and find Comic Book Tattoo, Vol 1. It can be best described as a Comic Coffee Table book. It is huge, 12 x 12 x by 1.5 inches (rough guesstimate) on what feels like 24# glossy paper.

Basically, a bunch of artists got together and did comics based on Tori’s songs, some of the art is incredible and lovely, the stories are interesting in how the artist decided to depict the song.

And, it’s only 30 bucks, less on Amazon…which is an amazing price.

My copy will make it to the Consortium exchange eventually.

Liars hall of fame

Lewis Black Greatness

Again, a very mixed bag movie wise like the last one. Not even close to being as good as the Incredibles, Iron Man, or Sin City, but the performance of Heath Ledger as the Joker was more than worth the price of admission….and really, that is the ONLY reason to see this movie IMHO since I found myself looking for my remote to FF though large swaths of this movie. It is nearly 3 hours long, but it felt like 4….which is never a good sign as far as I am concerned. Which is say the opposite of say the LotR movies where I was wanting more at the end of those and the felt like maybe an hour had gone and not the three hours that had actually happened.

Spoilerific reviewage below the fold:

Dave was kind enough to loan me his copy of the Movie, so I finally decided to watch it Friday night in anticipation of seeing Dark Knight over the weekend (Review to follow).

So, for the most part the movie is a mixed bag, some things were good, or at least an interesting “Do Over” on the origin. Some things were “Meh” as in they neither added nor detracted from the movie, and then there were a few “uglies” that made me grumbly.

The redoing of the Origin to have Ra’s Al Ghul as Batman’s mentor was “Meh”. It didn’t really add much to the movie, other than give Liam Neeson a chance to play Qui-Gon Jin again (I half expected Hayden Christensen to show up and whine and glower at the other two). On the other hand making Alfred a father figure to Bruce Wayne and having a mysterious background was a great idea and really helped make that relationship viable and work. Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes was a waste (I will tackle this in the review of Dark Knight) and you never really got the feeling that these two cared for each other more than just being friends…heck, I think it was the worst depicted relationship in the film. Gary Oldman was incredible as Sgt. Gordon, in fact, I didn’t even know it was Oldman until the credits rolled….he was that good.

The new Bat-Mobile was stupid…the only thing that I found entertaining was watching it function as a machine, and how much effort must have gone into learning how to drive the thing on actual city streets without hitting buildings.

Ugly wise, the one thing that annoyed me throughout was that Gotham was now Chicago and not mythical New York City, and no effort was taken to not make it seem so. The License Plates on the cars were all Illinois Plates, the cop cars were all very much Chicago cop cars and so on.

The plot, such as it was, was well done enough to hold my interest. The origin, while different, was put together well enough to be engaging, but in the end it fell apart for me since the League of Shadows did not seem to be all that Evil, and more like the Watchmen, with an Watchman-esque plan to save billions by killing a million. So at this point the movie fell apart for me and I was rooting for Qui-Gon Jin to win and Defeat Anakin….erm….Batman.

Rating: C+ overall with a solid E for Effort.

DVD wise, I am completely baffled that a DVD, of an action movie no less, would released without any Bonus Features.

And I hope that this dispels, once and for all, any notion that Katie Couric is a Liberal.

11. You're the only one who doesn't complain when your office is moved to the basement. (1)

10. You're the only one more excited about The Watchmen trailer before The Dark Knight than the actual movie. (2)

9. You're the only one capable of accurately quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (3)

8. Nobody accesses the music collection you have shared over the network. (4)

7. There's always plenty of Red Bull in the vending machine. (5)

6. On "Bring Your Daughter To Work Day" yours is the only one that's robotic.

5. Trivia competitions are always you against the rest of the company. (6)

4. The messages you leave in binary in the bathroom stalls go widely unnoticed.

3. The office slut has slept with everyone except you.

2. After looking at your T-Shirt, everyone asks which sports player has the number 42.

1. No one recognizes your Bender costume at the office Halloween party.

(1) We are being moved to the basement actually.
(2) Excited is an understatment.
(3) Sadly true.
(4) Well one person accessed it and found it tom be "Odd, not a lot of things I have heard before, but good."
(5) Well no....but I wish it were Bing!
(6) Local rules in regards the Trivial Pursuit are that I have to follow the rules and everyone else gets a piece for answering a question correctly.

Via BBSpot

Bear, cougar encounters going up

I mean talk about two different groups of individuals...having encounters and all...and then you read the Article.

Bonus is that it is actual cell animation.

~Wakes up~

Hell yeah, I'll watch the Watchmen.