Quick Hits, 10 May
BB: Disney World as a Google map.
Slate: Partisan reactions in real time to Oliver Stone's new anti-war ad.
Truly awesome. And the statistics linked to at the bottom are choice, too.
Dethroner: US Spouses' Rate of Cheating
Yep, 3.9 percent of spouses cheat, yet it occupies 60% of our short fiction.
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Hilarious Movie Review of ROTK
I tried to avoid it, I really did. But it kept getting links as 'the funniest thing I've ever read.'
And it's true, it's fucking funny. Some choice excerpts:
About the orcs, marching on Gondor:
"...while every puke-ugly bad-ass on the planet starts surrounding it, ready to open a Wal-Mart that only sells ball-stomp."
On the volume of the film:
"It’s also, thank fucking God, LOUD. Even if you bring an iPod so you can listen to VH during the Elf parts you’ll take it off because I swear to fucking Roth you do NOT know where the next big bang is going to come from, or when something big is going to crunch someone’s skull while you picture that person getting their skull crushed is really your neighbor upstairs that plays Dido all day or that dude at the Starbucks who’s always reading and looking all smart."
All in all, it's an ingeneous combination of nerd-jackass mockery and actual nerd-jackassery.
Oh, and there's an entire treatment, in the middle, about a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-esque movie featuring.... wait for it... Bruce Lee, Dirty Harry, Bluto and The Bandit from Smokey and the Bandit. Yeah, that's right.
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YDA: The Story Behind a Photograph
John August: iPhone Ad Residuals
Kottke: Best Headline of the Decade: Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo.
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