(H/T Hot Air) Anyway, credit where it’s due to the View: they handled their response to Larry Flynt’s latest tired outrage (creating an obscene fake picture of conservative commentator SE Cupp) about as well as anybody could have expected them to.

No excuses, no apologetics, no attempt to try to change the subject when Cupp pointed out that this was not an exactly surprising thing to have happen to a prominent conservative/libertarian woman.  Particularly when it comes to Larry Flynt, who is of course a bitter old paraplegic who – due to an sudden encounter with a sniper bullet in the early Eighties – hasn’t had an erection for longer than some people reading this have been alive. Not that this was a particular blow to the gene pool, all things considered.

Hey.  Freedom of speech, remember?  Because I just had the happy thought that if Flynt doesn’t want to follow the courtesies of Western society – if, in fact, he wishes to defecate all over them – then he has no kick coming* when people treat him the same way…

Moe Lane

*Ahem.

(pause)

Well, actually, yes, you are being helpful.  Just not to me*.

Moe Lane

*I’m being facetious.  Sort of.  The question of what New Media brings to the table is still very much an open one.  I mean, it’s not yet established that it isn’t this:

Gilbert & Sullivan needs no excuse.

Seriously, why?

I’m not even offended; I just don’t get the point.  As Do Gooder Press notes, this is clearly not “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” – which is fine; I liked the story, but it’s not really good action movie fodder.  And we already have a perfectly serviceable action movie called Total Recall.  Why bother doing a remake?

“We’re at a complicated impasse right now,” [Star Wars producer Rick] McCallum told IGN. “We have… 50 scripts [that are] unbelievable. The most provocative, the most bold and daring material that we’ve ever done.”

I know that most of you are wincing at that last sentence, but there may be stubborn holdouts who somehow managed to save vs. stark revelation of sanity-destroying cosmic truth. Allow me to crush your souls.

McCallum added that Underworld will only enter production once George Lucas can make the show “at the cost of maybe $4 or $5 million an episode”.

Remember when that kind of news would have been good? – Because now it merely serves as a fair warning that anywhere from 90 to 120% of that money is going to appear on the screen as vaguely racist CGI, with the remainder maybe being used on incidentals, like plot. Or actors who give a tinkers dam.

BUT I’M NOT BITTER.

Via Do-Gooder Press.

Moe Lane

Something off about it, but I can’t put my finger on it.

You Be Illin’, RUN-DMC

Blame Penny Arcade… BUT I REGRET NOTHING.

Damn your eyes.

Parents Just Don’t Understand, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

…Fly, you fools.

It’s a good attitude to have.

Moe Lane

PS: My wife likes their cowboy boot selection.

Of course, if the rest of the song is as good as that, then it’s looking good for not-sucking. Easily my favorite bit of poetry from The Hobbit.

Hotel California, Eagles

I still say that it’s about vampires.  But it can be about other things, too.