Gambling for the cynical

Sometimes you find a website that says what you've been thinking about for a while:

When do you think the Bush administration will finally 'find' Osama and show him off?

http://www.osamasweepstakes.com/

The Book Signing

I heard the full story told by Simon Armitage when he was a guest on Mark Radcliffe's Radio 2 show last week, and it sounded a lot funnier when fleshed out in full:

The book reading/signing is a common venue for humiliation, where victims are subjected to an assortment of difficulties, from flawed PA systems to rude spectators to an audience in the single digits. Simon Armitage, with time to spare before catching his train home after one such disappointing evening, finds a copy of one of his earlier works in the trash, signed in his own handwriting, "To Mum and Dad."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0007170580/102-8624198-2632117?v=glance

!SR

Black Gunn (1972)

If you need to ask why I'm linking to a Blaxploitation film then you know too much already....

Gunfight ensues, bodies all over the place. I really want to see how the two police detectives write this up in their report.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068281/

Future War contains neither a future, nor a war

Is that the best one line movie review ever? (I know I'm quoting a quote, how postmodern of me)

If I were to sum up this film in one sentence, I couldn’t hope to do better than IMDB User Reviewer Hancock the Superb, who notes, "Future War contains neither a future, nor a war." Moreover, remarks can also be found there from the film’s producer, who defends the picture. He complains that the people attacking it never saw the "director’s cut" (really!), and in many cases have never themselves worked on a film. Hey, I’m not a chef, either. Still, if I go into a restaurant and am served a stew made out from urine and rancid skunk meat, I think I’d still be in a position to critique it.

http://www.jabootu.com/futurewar.htm

"vampires have a superb sense of dramatic timing"

http://www.braineater.com/tresor.html

It's difficult to separate fact and fiction in the life of Rodolfo Guzman Huerta. Guzman was born in Mexico in 1917 (or perhaps 1915). When professional wrestling was introduced in Mexico, Guzman, like his three elder brothers, decided to try to make his career in the ring. He spent several years performing under a variety of names, including his own. Then, in 1943, "Rudy" Guzman essentially ceased to exist: that was the year he took on the rôle of El Santo -- "The Saint", the Man in the Silver Mask. For the next 40 years until his death, he was never known to appear in public outside of his masked "El Santo" persona. The only time he was known to have revealed his face to the public was in a single, unadvertised television appearance he made a few weeks before his death.

A review of El Tesoro de Drácula with a short bio of El Santo.

!SR

A Man We'd Like to Hang

http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/GreatBeast.htm


This is probably the best introduction to AC. It will also save you a lot of time than reading, say, The Eye in The Triangle. It is also a good read in itself.

!SR

Let's Kick Off

This is the first post (hoorah!). This blog is intended to feature all the crazy stuff that accumulates in the navel of my mind, and deserves to be stuck somewhere.

!SR