Sunday Funnies

Who Are We?

The Prometheus is a ship sent to make contact with a race of ancient aliens believed to be the "engineers" of humanity.  

The saga of the crew unfolds and begins to explain how the original "Alien" films came to hatch.

While exploring the distant world, the crew, and their idealistic dreams, become a horrific nightmare... Go figure.



I love prequels to good movies, especially if they're made by Ridley Scott.
I love movies that make you uncomfortable at times. I like the ones that make you think when you leave the theatre. The films that are still playing in your mind the next morning when you wake.
They leave you with so many unanswered questions, but you have to stay tuned...
Prometheus is one of those films.
This film has everything you'd expect from the Alien franchise:
The android.
The scruffy crew (in it for the money...)
Corporate greed.
An expendable crew.
Pride.
Sex.
Birth.
Death.
A resilient female who's survival instincts match that of the aliens.(Noomi Rapace is Sigourney Weaver TUFF!)
See a pattern here?
But wait!
There's also:
Ancient Aliens (Engineers).
Questions of our creation.
Questions of our doom.
Stephen Sills...
Charlize Theron. *purr*
Some badmutherfucking MONSTERS
and MORE! SO MUCH MORE!!!

Science Fiction and Horror together are a strong drink, my friends. Heavy.
A lot to SWALLOW here, that's for sure.
"Big things have small beginnings" says the resident android, David, I tend to agree with David because the next two films will be huge. This, however, was a set-up film to a much bigger universe.
I tell u what:
One shouldn't expect to understand Prometheus in one viewing, it's that good. Just my opinion.
Leave the young kids at home. It's rated R for nightmares.
I want to see it again, right now,  and the sequels, oh boy, don't even get me started...

Brave explores risk everything to get answers to mankind's biggest question, Who Are We?

Update: Notes from IMDB on the film. Good stuff.

Clinton comes out swinging for Obama in New York - Rough Cuts

"He (Mitt Romney) wants to go back to the Bush system... except on steroids..."

--Bill Clinton

Bloggers Caucus at TDP Friday June 8

The best party of the entire convention.

The Democratic Convention is in Houston this year. Although I won't be in attendance, I strongly encourage like-minded Texans to embark on the journey to H-Town, and join in the fun.
My Man, P-Diddy, is a local legend and breaks it off somethin' like dis:

As part of a longer entertainment options post -- probably coming on Thursday morning -- let's begin by saying if you aren't brave enough to be driving around H-Town, then you need to be taking the light rail. You don't want to sit around the Hilton or the GRB all day and all night, trust me. This is the nation's fourth largest city and THE most culturally diverse. It's also still just a great big old Texas town with lots of interesting things to see and do. Get out and get around it, for Pete's sake.

Never mind the previous version of this post, and don't go to W. Main like it says on this flyer; Club Curve is 410 Main Street, directly across from the Preston Street train station (southbound). Here's the map:


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From the Hilton Americas and the GRB, walk about six or seven blocks northwest, up Dallas Street, and then turn northeast (right) at Main and ride the train up one stop or just hoof it the remaining seven blocks. Or you can cab it. There might even be a pedi-cab if you're lucky. Parking downtown can be expensive and problematic so I would avoid that, especially if you're an out-of-towner.

Hope to see you there. I'm not a night owl any longer so don't show up at midnight expecting to meet the biggest, baddest asshole in the Texas progressive blogosphere.

Funnies

"Mitt Romney won the Texas Republican primary last night, crossing the crucial 1,144 delegate threshold. What a story! He came from never being behind to clinch the Republican nomination. They said it could be done, and against no odds he achieved the possible!"

-- Stephen Colbert

"Mitt Romney has begun vetting his vice presidential candidates. This is a tough thing because they want to appeal to the Republican base. They want a strong conservative there, but someone who will not upstage Mitt Romney. So the search is on for a strong conservative in a coma."

-- Bill Maher

The Democrats are headed to Houston, named for the Texas giant who led his ragged army on a strategic retreat eastward until finally engaging the enemy at San Jacinto and achieving glorious victory. Bereft of a statewide office holder for nearly two decades, the party still is in its Runaway Scrape phase.

The Republicans are convening in Fort Worth, these days a happy blend of traditional cowboy sensibilities and big-city culture that seems mighty comfortable to suit-and-boots-wearing politicians of the GOP persuasion. Fort Worth is thriving, and so is the party.

What Republican 'thriving' really looks like.

Catchup Funnies

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Ten Things This Week

I TELL U WHAT

It's been a wild couple of weeks for me...
Put my Dad in the hands of Hospice as he suffers with Metastatic Melanoma.
Been busy taking care of his effects, banking, and all the necessary business that an Only Son takes care of in times like these.  Every step has been a hurdle...
Anyway, that explains my absence in the blogosphere, oh, and I had a birthday...

Here's ten observations for ya:

1. Dallas has the most corrupt city government in the country. Whether it's the schools, the cops, the DA, the city council, whatever... Dallas hides taxpayer money like none other... Here's the latest debacle.

2. Del Frisco's is good, but Perry's Steakhouse in Austin is the shiznit. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THERE AND YOU LIVE IN AUSTIN, FOR SHAME, SHAME ON YOU!

3. Early voting totals for DFW are down compared to '08. It's always fascinated me how many of us DON'T VOTE. Less than 100,000 people early-voted, in a city of 3 million people, that is a goddamn joke.

4. If you have a home or a condo, go ahead and spend some money to fix it up and enjoy it!  Hell, you may even find a tax break if you do... Radiant barriers and Surge protectors are just a couple of ways you can improve your quality of life and lower your bills.

5. Mitt Romney is a Mormon.

6. When dealing with an unstable hospice, you do have the right to fire them and transfer to another hospice. It felt good to fire VITAS hospice in Dallas this week. They didn't listen to me, communicate with my family, or execute documentation properly. You know, basically they failed to do their job.

7. Mitt Romney is a big, BIG Mormon.

8. I received season tickets to the Dallas Theatre Center for a birthday present. I can think of no better gift for a guy like me; I encourage all Texans to check out their local professional, collegiate, and HS productions. There's some amazing talent right here in our little state.

9. The OMB released a new chart showing spending for every president since Reagan. Guess who's bar was the shortest? The black guy.




10.  Mitt Romney is to Mormons, what Donna Summer is to Disco.