Category Archives: Humor

Making Bad Movies Fun

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The Razzies are annual awards saluting the worst Hollywood has to offer.


I saw a really bad movie on Friday. Never mind which. One of the things I enjoy about writing this blog is that I get to be a critic without being critical, so I generally only write about works of art that I’d like to endorse. My mom would be proud that I am following her injunction to refrain from saying anything at all if you can’t say anything nice. So never mind the title. The point is that for two hours I was in a theater watching a movie that, had I know better, I would not have watched, let alone paid $12 for!!
The way I see it, when you are in that situation, your options are limited. You’ve paid a significant amount of money for a ticket. Which is more of a waste: losing the time you will spend watching a movie you aren’t enjoying, or losing the money you spent on the ticket? Theaters do not refund the ticket price because you didn’t like to movie. Moreover, its not always a straight-forward choice. For example, maybe you are at the theater with friends who want to stay.
Well, there is a third option.
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Culture Jamming Anti-Ads

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These are spoof ads from Adbusters Magazine,

a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 120,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces.

I think they are amazing. Funny, yet tragic. They point out the absurdity of advertising that promises to fulfill all our desires and yet only creates and enlarges desires that can never be filled.
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Hoarders, from The Daily Show

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Enjoy this Daily Show clip that really needs to further explanation.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Hoarders
www.thedailyshow.com
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Dear Birthers…

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I doubt any documentation would satisfy them.

Dear “birthers”,
Mercifully, you are less present in the news these days, but every once in a while some item passes before my eyes and penetrates my psyche to annoy me again. The fact that Hawaii is still so overwhelmed with requests for the President’s already published birth certificate that the legislature has passed a law authorizing “any Hawai’i department to ignore repeated requests for information from the same person if the department already has responded within a year,” is one example. (HonoluluAdvertiser.com)
Ordinarily I would applaud your sense of civic involvement. If a citizen suspects something is afoul, it’s noble to root it out. But there’s also a time to give up and accept that all the evidence should not only lay your suspicions to rest, but also tuck them in and sing a lullaby. In this case that time was about 15 months ago immediately after the President took the Oath of Office. But you can’t give up and I’m now starting to take your wacko claims personally, an implicit insult to my intelligence.
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Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Media Review

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I am late with this this week, due to a number of commitments Friday, over the weekend and Monday. Please accept my apologies.
February 26 – March 5, 2010
Compiled by Scholars at Risk
‘Book of the week: No University Is an Island’
The Times Higher Education, 3/4
‘Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets’
Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times, 3/3
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The Coolest Sport in the Winter Olympics?

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Have you seen the Google logo on their search page yet?  For tiny percentage of the public that doesn’t use Google as a search engine, Google periodically alters its logo to mark holidays or commemorate certain events, etc.  There’s a gallery in their site.  Today the two instances of the letter “o” are transformed into curling stones.  If you don’t know what curling stones are, where have you been?  It is only the coolest sport in the Winter Olympics!
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The Colbert Report and Air America

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Air America is off the air, and visitors the website are greeting with text explaining the companies bankruptcy.

It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.

In memory of a network I never actually listened to, The Indecision Forever blog has posted some of The Colbert Report’s best Air America moments. Here’s the first clip, but the best are at this link.

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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www.colbertnation.com
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