“We need more information.” – Chief Wiggum “Very well. It’s buried at 4723 Maple Valley Road. [Silence] “[Theatrical Sigh] You take Highway 201 south for fifteen minutes. You take a left . . . a left!” – Malloy I had a long day planned today and then I had to take my mom to the emergency room at 9:30 in the morning for an infected cat bite (she’s fine), which means I get to do much of what I had planned tomorrow instead, but I wanted to note the passing of the uniquely great Sam Neill. The above quote is…
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“Do the toilets go backwards here?” – Bart Simpson “No, to combat homesickness we’ve installed a device that makes them swirl the correct, American way.” – Amb. Avril Ward
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“I’m sorry, I can’t divulge information about that customer’s secret, illegal account. . . . Oh, crap, I shouldn’t have said he was a customer. . . . Oh, crap, I shouldn’t have said it was a secret. . . . Oh, crap! I certainly shouldn’t have said it was illegal. . . . Ah, it’s too hot today.” – Cayman Islands Offshore Banker
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“You see anything yet?” – Chief Wiggum “Nothing, captain. Somebody took all the beer and cold cuts.” – Lou “That’s it. I’m not even casting off until we go to the store.” – Chief Wiggum
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“More friends! More allies! More, I say! Hang those who talk of less! There’s a few inches over here! Ho!” – Martin Prince
Quote of the Day and Site Update
“I just want to entertain!” – Itchy Actor As you may have noticed, this have not gotten off to the smoothest restart here. An annoying irony is I spent quite a bit of time the last two days working on a blog post, but it’s for work. What I wanted to be doing was a compare & contrast with Disclosure Day and either E.T. or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, sigh. On the book front, the first chapter went up in full on Saturday, but there won’t be a new section today. Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 2 will…
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“They say he carved it himself, from a bigger spoon.” – Lenny
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“Everyone likes Whacking Day, but I hate it. Is there something wrong with me?” – Lisa Simpson “Yes, honey.” – Homer Simpson
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“Yeah, it’s a good idea, Homer, but they’ve already made some movies about World War II.” – Drunken Troy McClure “Aw, hell . . . well, what about Dracula?” – Homer Simpson
Disappointment Day
“You can’t escape, Bob! If the tennis rackets don’t get you, the pool skimmers will!” – Bart Simpson There is a dull but unpleasant feeling to being unexpectedly disappointed by a movie one had hoped to enjoy. This feeling is different depending on the kind of movie: a comedy that fails because the jokes fall flat doesn’t feel the same as a costume drama where the leads are weak or a documentary that mishandles its subject. For a summer popcorn movie where spectacle and fun are expected parts of the package, disappointment feels like a running hunger pang: I expected…
Quote of the Day
“I could get a job.” – Marge Simpson “Hey, then I could follow my dream, living in the woods and keeping a journal of my thoughts.” – Homer Simpson “March 15th, I wish I brought a TV. Oh God, how I miss TV!” – Dream Homer
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“So that’s it, after twenty years: so long, good luck?” – Kirk van Houten “I don’t recall saying good luck.” – Cracker Factory Manager
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“It’s so unfair! Just because he’s different…” – Homer Simpson
Quote of the Day and a Quick Review of Backrooms
“Are you helping me or are you going on and on?” – Homer Simpson “Oh, right, and of course within we find the, uh, doomed individual.” – Prof. Frink [Note: a discussion of the ending of the movie is at the end of this post.] Having been largely shielded from the internet discussion of Backrooms, I went into the film and my subsequent reading of its Wikipedia page as a mostly blank slate. I had completely forgotten the “Backrooms” internet meme, but as a premise for a horror movie it’s a great one. What is this image if not an…
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“Lisa, when you get to be our age, you’ll learn a few things. Like when a sign says, ‘Do Not Feed the Bears’, man, you’d better not feed the bears.” – Homer Simpson
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“Read your town charter, boy. If foodstuff should touch the ground, said foodstuff shall be turned over to the village idiot. Since I don’t see him around, start shoveling!” – Homer Simpson
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“Prostitution, loan sharking, numbers, the kid liked to wet his beak in everything.” – Jailhouse Snitch
“Myth: cable piracy is wrong. Fact: cable companies are big faceless corporations which makes it okay.” – Homer Simpson Top Line: This movie should have been called “Keke and the Clothes Factory”, it’s weird, bright, funny, and very moral. Box Score: Runtime: | 1h54m MPAA Rating: | R – strong sexual content, nudity, language throughout and brief drug use. Sweatpants Rating: | PG-14 – Kids need to learn about shoplifting and that’s a good age for them to do so. Three Stars: | 1. LaKeith Stanfield – This is unfair since he gets the Mercutio role as a cunnilingual sex…
QotD and Actual Good Simpsons News
“It’s a good thing you drifted by this brothel.” – Chief Wiggum Back in 2012, one of this coolest things this blog ever did was score free tickets for commenter Hank Pumpkins to see Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play in Washington DC. You can read his review here. Well, it turns out the play (by Anne Washburn) is getting made into a movie (by Boots Riley). I found this out clicking on Boots’s IMDb just now before going to see I Love Boosters this later this afternoon. No cast or timeline according to this, but I never saw the play so this announcement…
QotD and Book Preview Explainer
“Sure, I may have offended a few of the blue nosers with my cocky stride and musky odors.” – Homer Simpson The site is starting to look like itself again, baby steps, but progress. The first of ten preview posts for We Kicked Their Ass is now up. This one contains the preface, the author’s note, and the first section of chapter one. A new post/section will be added every Wednesday and Saturday until Fourth of July. There is an email address box for those who might later like to order it (but no pre-orders yet). Work on this book…