Courtesy of The Onion:

Orphanage Director Pushing Asian Orphans
AMES, IA— Plagued with a surplus, St. Joseph Orphanage director Ann Rath has been pushing Asian orphans to prospective adoptive parents. "This is Mi Ling—isn't she pretty?" said Rath, introducing Bonnie and Paul Fisher to one of the 40-bed orphanage's 27 Asian children. "Or, if you'd prefer a boy, we have Tan Dinh. He's crazy about baseball." The Fishers, who were hoping for a Russian girl, told Rath they would "think it over"—the fifth time a couple has done so in the past week.

That's some funny stuff!

Song of the Day:
1.) Coldpay - In My Place. It's growing on me.
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There needs to be some consolidation here. On my french new wave coffee table (a very swanky glass surface on faux gold horn trimmed legged affair), there's about 4 or so Remote Controls. One for the Mitsubishi, one for the Yamaha, one for the Panasonic, one for the Scientific Atlanta Cable Box. Even though the Mitsubishi controls all of the equipment, it's doesn't carry over all the functionallity. What's a broke chump like me to do? Get a monster universal remote. I've been looking at a couple already, saving my pennies and hopefully getting one in the near future.

In other news:
1.) The Pope cannonizes the Catholic Churches first Native American Saint.
2.) Store willing to shell 50k a year for you to taste chocolate.
3.) Inventor of clumping cat litter: Dead.
4.) Elton John to sing at Janet Reno rally..
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Lincoln Hawk (Sylvester Stallone) is a professional truck driver who has lost his young son in a custody battle. Lincoln wants his son back, and ends up taking him to Las Vegas, where he participates in a world champion arm-wrestling competition. I was watching Sly Stallones 1987 Cinematic Opus, Over the Top before I went to sleep last night. For those of you who are in the know, this IS the definitive Arm Wrestling movie. There is no other. This is what made the sport what it is today. For the casual moviegoer, it may sum up to be just another 'Father doing what it takes to get his son back, hard truck across America and win some bar-room sport' type of film...well, it pretty much is. That's not the point though. It's what Rudy is to College Football, Field of Dreams to Baseball and more recently, what Like Mike is to Basketball. Alot of people accredit the meteoric rise of Arm Wrestling to the pure essence of the sport--that the thrill of Arm Wrestling competition in itself, warrants the amount of publicity it is now seeing. This is all rubbish. Over the Top planted the seed in the collective consciencesness of the American people. I can remember a time when everybody was like, "Karate? does that come with Hot n' Sour soup?", but after the groundbreaking Karate Kid (love that movie) was released, people couldn't stop imitating the crane kick. Over the Top was that kind of social catalyst. Overall, I give the movie 2/10 rating. It's a pretty awful mess with enough "laugh at it" jokes that only Sly could warrant. My favorite part is during the final match, in intertwined interview footage, he turns his hat around and says "It's like a switch. I turn into somebody else." Hahahah pure magic.

posted by The H.Bomb| 8:22 AM | email | archive

A veritable plethora of reading material in the Men's bathroom! Sitting on MY toilet in the men's bathroom is a couple issues of Maxim, Car and Driver and Sound n' Vision. I have an arsenal of reading material at my disposal when i'm..mmm...at my own disposal.
posted by The H.Bomb| 11:23 AM | email | archive

The Road to Perdition. Last saturday, I went with Wally to Austin Books here in town. For those of you familiar, it's a comic book shop (which I hadn't been in in about 7 years). While perusing through the shelves and wafting away the scent of desperation off of the patrions, I saw the graphic novel that the movie The Road to Perdition was based off of. Yes, that was something I didn't know either. A movie based on a comic book that didn't involve mutant powers and skin tight jumpsuits.

Anyway, Wally bought a copy and I've been reading it. Although each page contains only three to four panels, it's a pretty good read and could see why the filmakers wanted to make a movie of this. Check out the Graphic Novel here.

Austin Books also had a girl working behind the counter, and I thought to myself: "Wally, this girl would be perfect for you. You could read Japanese Anime to each other every night and discuss the Marvel Universe over mimosa's and Mac n' Cheese." Alas, it was her lunch break and Wally was checking out this month's Justice League issues.

Song of the Day:
1.) Pete Drodge - If you don't love me. Saw Kingpin yesterday at Emily's--movie is way too funny.
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