Everybody knows you never go full McCarthy.

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See, the Torah is the first one and the New Testament is the sequel. Then the Qu’ran comes out, and it retcons the last one like it never happened. Sure, there’s still Jesus, but he’s not a main character anymore. In fact, the messiah hasn’t shown up yet at all.

Jews like the first movie but ignored the sequels. Christians think you at least need to watch the first two, but the third movie doesn’t count. Muslims think the third one is the best. And Mormons liked the second one so much they started writing fan-fiction that doesn’t fit with ANY of the series canon.

This is all that needs to be said:

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001852/

Fox News is a bad joke, told by an idiot who forgets the punch line.

Hmmm…”unprecedented.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I’m thinking of suing [George Bush and Dick Cheney] for the illegal and unauthorized remake of Brazil.

- Terry Gilliam

A little background

Pretty much every show that Mrs. Chickenbutt and I like, I torrent. I also use bittorrent to check out earlier episodes of shows I might like, but haven’t had a chance to watch yet. If the shows are good, I buy the DVDs and spread the word to friends.

We have a pretty decent home theater set up:

• Samsung 46″ 720p DLP HDTV
• Sony 7.1 receiver with DTS decoding
• 5.1 surround speakers

Not top of the line, but certainly nice enough to enjoy most of what modern movies and TV have to offer. I should note that we also have a nice iPod dock for when we want to play music through the home stereo.

I’m always interested in using my entertainment technology to its fullest potential. We have a hi-def DVR cable box with a full gamut of HD channels from our cable provider. The HD content always looks awesome, even on our 720p TV.

I think the jury’s still out on how successful downloaded movies will be. (I’m personally against the idea, because I know that they’ll just be infested with DRM.) In the meantime, Blu-ray has my attention. I looked at several standalone Blu-ray players but couldn’t find one that could legitimately replace the functionality of my existing DVD player, particularly DivX playback. No Blu-ray player that I know of plays DivX-encoded video, which has become the de facto standard for the bittorrent community.

Until recently, we were using a Phillips DVD player with DivX capability and a front-mounted USB port for playing media off a thumb drive. This was how we watched most of the torrented stuff. It’s often a hassle to transfer my recently-torrented shows to a 4gb thumb drive, then wait for it to load on the DVD player. And if there was a lot of intense action, or too many fast edits, the playback would become choppy due to the slow data transfer rate of the thumb drive.

I decided I wanted a solution that could play Blu-ray and DVD, as well as torrented content over our (gigabit/wireless-n) home network. After a little more deliberation, I figured such a system should also perform media-server duties and become the entertainment/media center of our home.

Read the rest…

Tim Robbins

John McCain: I did not spend five years in the Hanoi Hilton…

The American People: I don’t see any connection to Vietnam, John.

John McCain: Well, there isn’t a literal connection…

The American People: John, face it, there isn’t any connection! Everything’s a fuckin’ travesty with you, man! And what was all that shit about Vietnam? What the FUCK, has anything got to do with Vietnam? What the fuck are you talking about?

John McCain is Walter Sobchak…

Batman: The Dark Knight trailer, as performed by kids.

I’m such a work in progress at the moment, it’s crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I don’t forget the past, I’m cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but she’s really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, you’re going to be just fine.

— quoted in Rolling Stone

The Washington Times had an article about a conservative group of actors in Hollywood organized by Gary Sinise, and David Horowitz described conservatives in Hollywood as “victims” living in “terror”.

“There’s a kind of … intellectual terror in this town. People are terrorized; they’re afraid to say what they think. So what Gary is doing to provide aid and comfort to its victims is admirable, and I applaud him for it,” he said. “But my concern is it’s not going to be much more than that.”

Yes, conservatives in Hollywood are so terrorized that one of them is the governor of the state. More importantly, if Hollywood conservatives can’t face down Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, how are they going to face Al Qaeda?

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