December 30, 2005
Links With Your Coffee - Friday
Dante's Inferno
A horror movie brings out the zombie vote to protest Bush's war
The dizzying high point of Showtime's new Masters of Horror series, the hour-long Homecoming (which premieres December 2) is easily one of the most important political films of the Bush II era. With its only slightly caricatured right-wingers, the film nails the casual fraudulence and contortionist rhetoric that are the signatures of the Bush-Cheney administration. Its dutiful hero, presidential consultant David Murch (Jon Tenney), reports to a Karl Rove–like guru named Kurt Rand (Robert Picardo) and engages in kinky power fucks with attack-bitch pundit Jane Cleaver (Thea Gill), a blonde, leggy Ann Coulter proxy with a "No Sex for All" tank top and "BSH BABE" license plates. Murch's glib, duplicitous condescension is apparently what triggers the zombie uprising: Confronting an angry mother of a dead soldier on a news talk show, he tells this Cindy Sheehan figure, "If I had one wish . . . I would wish for your son to come back," so he could assure the country of the importance of the war. The boy does return, along with legions of fallen combatants, and they all beg to differ.Showtime clips here The next showing is on December 31st
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Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free by Robert Scheer asks a damn good question why were Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax released.
Why is it not bigger news that those infamous Iraqi female scientists once routinely referred to in the media as "Dr. Germ" and "Mrs. Anthrax" have been quietly released from imprisonment in Iraq without any charges being brought by their US captors? Don't the newspapers and TV networks that all but pre-convicted them of crimes against humanity owe them--and us--the courtesy of an explanation for the sudden presumption of their innocence?Video Fun
Delicious Library one of my favorite Mac applications.
Posted by Norm at December 30, 2005 06:18 AM
I'll start this with - Delicious Libray is the best! Period. Full Stop. Good enough that Apple has hired away one of the two creators to work on "unknown" projects that make make it Front Row and centre on your iMac and Mac min... :) (here's hopin).
I would love to have seen and or see soon Homecoming - what a blast at the current mis-adminstration.
Love this quote: "At once galvanic and cathartic, Dante's film uncorks the rage that despondent progressives promptly suppressed after last year's election and that has only recently been allowed to color mainstream coverage of presidential untruths and debacles."
In Dr. Germ and Mrs. Anthrax Set Free - Scheer says what many of us are thinking and wondering - most especially the tie ins with the press and all of the shenanigans of Bu sh and gang.
what's to say about the animation... splindiferous!
Tis' the 31st here in Oz - Happy New Year to all. May all of our dreams come true in the new year - well, at least the ones involving Bush and his cronnies out the soldiers home...
Posted by: YankInOz on December 30, 2005 09:20 AMI downloaded (BitTorrent, I think) this film some time ago. Very mediocre film that makes it's point with a hammer. Good for cutting through the fog that Bush, et al. have produced.
Posted by: Bill B on December 30, 2005 09:26 AMWhy???
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We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States.
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Gentlemen, start your proxies...
Gah freaking showtime! What's this exclusivity that boots unAmerican ips? That's it isn't it. We're unAmerican.
Trade y'all Quebec fer Maine.
Posted by: grimm on December 31, 2005 12:37 AMIf you have Showtime On Demand, the episode is also available for viewing at any time.
Posted by: smallerdemon on December 31, 2005 08:39 AMPretend to be american here..
http://www.proxy-list.net/anonymous-proxy-lists.shtml
They can't even censor the net properly.
