Mothers and hospitals go together like Queen and bombast
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Black Cherry Lupner in Profile
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/07/2010 11:07:00 PM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Thanks To Charlie for Getting Me In Touch with my Inner Alice
Charlie Parker reminded me of the glory that was Alice Cooper.
With all due respect to the Ramones, Television, and (the) Razz . . . .
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/07/2010 10:55:00 PM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Lupner In Profile
Writ by
Robert Mapplethorpe
sometime around
2/07/2010 10:40:00 PM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Oh, wait -- no line at the Chipotle
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/07/2010 07:40:00 PM
0
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Benefits of 26" of Snow
Uh . . .
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/07/2010 07:39:00 PM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
And barangus owned a restaurant, and my lecture occurred in the box-
office area o' the establishment, shortly after a parking dispute
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/07/2010 03:14:00 AM
2
Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Woke up from a horrible nightmare where young people thought you could
enjoin publication of the amount of peas eaten by soldiers
Yes, that really is a dream o' mine
And guess which "character" ruthlessly and cruelly corrected the
offending (self-righteous) girl-woman . . .
And worried that he might be wrong
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/07/2010 03:11:00 AM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Saturday, February 6, 2010
belated happies to L'il Jimmy
I grabbed this photo of him and his lady friend on his birthday.
actually, he was still forty-nine; the celebration was premature
but she did all she could to remind him he's old:
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/06/2010 09:25:00 PM
0
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Boo Hiss
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/05/2010 10:26:00 PM
4
Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Red
Twelve in a Row
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/05/2010 07:26:00 AM
3
Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Thursday, February 4, 2010
it's harder than ever to buy bullets in new york city
Writ by
Seymour Glass
sometime around
2/04/2010 09:44:00 AM
2
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
when I heard it was Hump Day,
I got the wrong idea.
Now I have a black eye and scraped cheek to show for it.
damn her. . . .
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/03/2010 01:38:00 PM
0
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
I approve of Randall and Hopkirk (deceased)
When I was eleven, I sat in my little room in Southeast Asia watching Randall and Hopkirk (deceased) on the tiny TV I had going.
I soon graduated to masturbation, which cut into my Randall and Hopkirk time considerably.
Now that I think about it, I haven't quite caught up on their doings. . . .
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/02/2010 02:49:00 PM
3
Brilliant Observations By My Pals
you know, I'm not sorry I gave up drinking
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/02/2010 02:33:00 PM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Labels: alcoholism
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Explained
This is perhaps the most insightful and understandable political statement on the implications of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy I've yet seen. Narrated by Jonah Hill.
Please watch, for the sake of our children and our neighbours. . . .
Writ by
Video Pimp
sometime around
2/02/2010 01:59:00 PM
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The Criterion Collection is Losing Some Rights!
Criterion, the makers and distributors of arguably the finest DVD collections of noteworthy films [usually chock-a-block with extras, and always with the best transfer of the print you'll find on DVD] has informed its fanatics that
it will soon be losing the rights to a number of titles.
They're discounting the titles to encourage folks to snap them up. I don't know if the titles will be lost to us for a while, or re-emerge better than ever, but here's the letter issued by Criterion:
Our three least favorite initials: OOP. Since we launched the Criterion Collection more than twenty-five years ago, we’ve endeavored to keep everything we’ve published in print. But despite our efforts to renew rights, we are losing a large group of titles from StudioCanal at the end of March, and we wanted to give you advance notice that our editions will be going out of print. Until we’re out of stock, we will be offering these titles at an additional $5 off on our website.The titles are going to Lionsgate, and we don’t know when they may be rereleased.As ever, we will continue to try to relicense the films so that they can rejoin the collection sometime in the future.
Here are the titles that will soon be out of print:
Alphaville
Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy(Eclipse Series 6)
Le corbeau
Coup de torchon
Diary of a Country Priest
The Fallen Idol
Forbidden Games(Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Gervaise(Essential Art House edition)
Grand Illusion(Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Le jour se lève(Essential Art House edition)
Last Holiday(Essential Art House edition)
Mayerling(Essential Art House edition)
The Orphic Trilogy
Peeping Tom
Pierrot le fou (DVD and Blu-ray editions)
Port of Shadows
Quai des Orfèvres
The Small Back Room
The Tales of Hoffmann (Criterion and Essential Art House editions)
Trafic
Le trou
Variety Lights(Essential Art House edition)
The White Sheik
Take note: this may be your last chance to pick up spine number 1from the collection.
Happy viewing!
The Criterion Collection
In case you wanna skip the fine print, I'll note that they offer Fellini's first flick, Variety Lights, as well as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Coup de Torchon, starring Philippe Noiret and a young Isabelle Huppert.
For those unfamiliar with Coup de Torchon: imagine a paperback. A smart potboiler, kind of a creepy potboiler, about a good-old-boy, kinda lame, kinda antisocial Texas sheriff who ignores what's going on under his feet -- and then brings the hammer down for his own evil, vengeful design.

Then put the book in the hands of French filmmaker,
let him move the setting to French-Colonial Africa, and make it a French noir comedy with the creepiness occasionally intact.It's a winner. . . . !
PS If Torchon sounds confusing, it ain't -- it sums up the colonial experience damned well, at least from my limited experience in the political and cultural climes of Southeast Asia and South America
Writ by
rodger eburt
sometime around
2/02/2010 11:29:00 AM
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Labels: Thums Up
Monday, February 1, 2010
Being a Grown Up Can Be Tiring. No. 1
What an odd weekend.
I now no longer feel old, or am old,
I choose old.
That was Saturday, with late night coffee in hipsville USA [the Atlas District], followed by more coffee at Bob and Edith's.
Sunday was lounge jazz at the Kennedy Center, with the inimitable Marilyn Older
and her imitable colleagues in Chaise Lounge doing the duties o' entertaining me and my lady friend. If you tap on this screen capture [courtesy o' the Mythical Monkey],
you can watch the show. Great sound there at the Millenium Stage. . . .
The evening continued with a flight o' raw ersters --Oyster on the HalfShell -- at the Old Ebbit Grill.
Also known as the Olde Ebbittee Grille. . . .
I heartily recommend the Wellfleets -- but keep that secret, as I don't want the stock to dwindle.
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
2/01/2010 10:28:00 AM
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Labels: being a grownup
Sunday, January 31, 2010
A Night In The Atlas District
Writ by
mister muleboy
sometime around
1/31/2010 01:09:00 PM
1 Brilliant Observations By My Pals
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Critics Are In . . .
Writ by
Husky Navarro
sometime around
1/28/2010 09:29:00 AM
3
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Labels: inventing the rock














