What do we learn from the below video?
1. The entire nation of Japan exists in a near-constant state of having just smoked a bunch of crack.
2. Arnold Schwarzenegger loves Cup Noodles, and is not deterred by the high sodium content. Also he sometimes is a gay genie.
3. Anyone can become governor of California. Anyone.
So, yea, this guy totally isn’t playing along with my bait to turn this into an awkward e-mail exchange about needing money for a sex change operation. Whatever. I’m bored with him now.
What is funny, though, is that in the first letter he sent me, he was Officer Incharge. Now Mr. Louis Hillebrant is Executive Secretary. Let me be the first to congratulate him on his promotion.
This is a period drama, a political thriller, a revenge movie, a murder mystery, a slasher film and a kung-fu movie. It’s also a foreign film with brief elements of romantic comedy. They’re even on an old ship at the end, which is like being in a pirate movie. What I’m saying is, Brotherhood of the Wolf is literally every genre of movie ever, mashed into one two-and-a-half hour film. I think that makes it the greatest movie ever.
The best part? I’m torn between Mark Dacascos as a kung-fu Iroquois in 18th century France and Monica Bellucci as a prostitute assassin/spy working for the Catholic Church.
Somehow this all happens without the movie ever once being ridiculous. Christophe Gans is a mad genius, enough so that I’m willing to sit through his American film debut, Silent Hill, despite it looking terrible (and very, very scary).
This is mega-lame – a bunch of bars got nailed for watering down drinks, hosting fruit flies and re-filling top-shelf bottles with bottom-shelf booze. One of the bars that got nailed by the State Liquor Authority is Crash Mansion, a decent club with good live music. That bums me out, considering how many times I’ve been there.
My drink is Jack on the rocks, and I don’t recall ever being given something else at Crash (I can taste the difference), but it’s really, really lame for people to do this. It’s just another reason for me to not want to go out to bars anymore. Besides the obnoxious hipsters and the serial-drunks that just aren’t funny anymore, now we can’t even trust what’s in the glass.
The New York Post wrote about the biggest offenders, which you can read about here.
My solution? Boycott them. The one bar I will always frequent is the bar where I get generous pours that aren’t watered down. If we don’t go to the bars that screw us, maybe they’ll stop screwing us. Viva la whisky revolucion!
There’s a rumor going around that Gov. David Paterson is going to appoint a lieutenant governor today. You can read about the speculation here.
The LG casts the tiebreaker vote in a tied Senate chamber, but when Spitzer resigned and Paterson took the top seat, the position was never filled, because there’s no function in the state Constitution to fill the vacancy. But certain groups have argued that the state’s Public Officers Law would allow for it, although the Republicans are probably going to challenge it in court. Appointing the post, if it survived the legal challenges, could compel the Senate to actually do some work.
Anyway.
Paterson probably has a pretty good idea who he’s going to appoint, since the press conference is happening in 2 and a half hours, but I have a last-minute suggestion.
Sarah Palin.
She’s perfect. It’s a bi-partisan appointment, since she’s a Republican, which might placate the GOP and keep them from suing. We’ll be treated to constant Palin-isms, which would enrich our lives with the gift of unintentional comedy. Besides casting that tiebreaking vote, the LG literally does nothing – Alfred DelBello resigned from the post in 1985 because then-Gov. Cuomo didn’t give him anything to do and he was bored! By the end of July, she’s going to be looking for a job anyway.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that we’ll see Sarah at the podium with him in a few hours.
(As I was typing this, NY1 caught up with Paterson, who declined to answer whether he was going to appoint anyone. In politics, silence can usually be taken in the affirmative).
I hate people who stand in doorways. Not because they’re in my way. It’s because of their complete lack of awareness.