We Are In Agreement

So long, Wilbur “Shooter” Flatch

I wouldn't count myself among Dennis Hopper's fans, I could take him or leave him.

That said, he was in Hoosiers (playing Shooter Flatch), the greatest sports movie ever made. (Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, and Slapshot are about individuals who play sports, not their respective sports).

In a perfect world, Gene Hackman would follow me everywhere and bark "fundamentals!!" in my face every time I got out of line.

3, 2, 1....let'er fly!

RIP, Dennis Hopper

Good luck piecing this case together

Mexican prison warden abducted, dismembered

CNN

Study reveals why creative geniuses are usually so fucking weird

New research shows a possible explanation for the link between mental health and creativity. By studying receptors in the brain, researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have managed to show that the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in some respects to that seen in people with schizophrenia. [link]

Forgive my vulgar interpretation, I'm just happy to be this much closer to understanding Prince.

What's wrong with Joe Montana?

How is that Joe Montana, a guy who is generally ranked among the greatest quarterbacks of all time, if not the greatest, is relegated to Sketchers Shape-Ups ads?

 

Is he a complete asshole? Retarded? Is his agent both of those things?

In 1994 I would have wagered Joe would ascend to the Jordan stratosphere (with the added advantages of being white and not a chronic gambler).

And yet he has not, meanwhile ringless Dan Marino yucks it up on CBS NFL Sunday and shills man-diets with Mike Golic.

Alison Mosshart seems dangerous

Alison Mosshart brings it on Sea of Cowards, her voice is a real ball-shriveler, a sneery braying howl.

Her efforts with the Kills yield similar results:

The Kills - Hitched

The Kills - Sour Cherry

 

Rejoice, Dead Weather

Sea of of Cowards is a dirty, sweaty grindhouse.

May has been a good month.

Buy it.

I love a good caper

Half a billion dollars worth of art stolen from a museum in Paris [Gallery, NYT story]

All stolen by one guy, apparently.

Haha, suck it, Martin Luther

Once Elena Kagan is confirmed the SCotUS will be Protestant-free [WSJ].

That's weird to me, lot's of things are weird to me, though.

Other things that I find weird: Labradoodles, carob, and science.

I generally don't like bands with lots of intruments

I'm a simpleton, I like the White Stripes. 2 instruments is good.

Or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, though the addition of a singer is pushing it.

When I do like a band with tons of instruments it's stuff like Broken Social Scene.

And it sounds like this

Broken Social Scene - Meet me In the Basement

The whole record is superb.

Sitting in a garage doesn't make you a car

And dancing in front of  a pole doesn't make you a stripper.

HuffPo is running some pictures of that new Miss USA chick (Rima Fakih), pictures that prove she's a stripper.

Now I don't care about beauty pageants or beauty pageant winners, but I care deeply about stripping and stripping's noble practitioners.

And this woman:

Is not a stripper.

My proof is a complex one, based on the fact that she is (1) wearing clothes.

More pictures here, all pretty much sfw [further proof of (1)]