Safe As Milk

It doesn’t look like Papa carries a comb, either.

From The Smoking Gun

This was where I was going this morning.

This was where I had come from.

And here is a burned out photo I took before the shutter on the 71 could adjust to the brightness.

Captain Kangaroo died last week. I wasn’t going to post anything about it here but I read a good article about him and I wanted to be sure to post the link.

It’s from MSNBC and it does a good job a telling what made the Captain special.

It’s still the best damn single of 2003.

And now Chuck and the gang are grooving to it.

This is the funniest one I’ve heard.

I kept reading that this was “the best book [I'm] not reading.” Yawn. There’s a lot of books I don’t read. I’m sure they’re not all crap.

Thing is, this was excellent. Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips have created quite a world. The main character is a deep-cover super-powered law enforcement agent. He’s infiltrated the premier organized supercrime cartel. But it’s been a couple years and now the only guy who knows that he’s on the side of the angels is comatose. And maybe he’s getting too deep into his roleplaying.

Brubaker’s dialogue is dead-on and the complexity of Holden’s predicament is engaging. Meanwhile, Phillips has really captured the moral ambiguity of this underworld. They have their own hangouts, their own hangups, and an interesting normalcy in their day-to-day lives.

This is a good book. Be warned, though. Like the Sopranos (and most comic books) it’s pretty violent. Not Spandex violence, either. Plus, there’s a ton of Ess-Eee-Echs. If that’s not your thing, look elsewhere.

Scene: January 15th, 2004. ETHAN, ALLISON, and neighbor LAURA are waiting at the Medical Center Metro Station for LAURA’s husband to meet them to go to dinner.

ETHAN: I saw something strange on the metro this morning. A woman wearing a full-length fur coat. It was weird, seeing someone wearing that on the metro. You’d think she’d be driving her Mercedes to work.

LAURA: My mom has a fur coat.

ETHAN: Yeah?

LAURA: Yeah, it’s not full length. It’s beaver.

ETHAN: Beaver.

LAURA: Yeah, it’s a beaver coat. It’s not full-length. It just covers her butt. And it has shaved beaver cuffs.

ETHAN: Really.

LAURA: Yeah it has, you know, closely-shaved beaver cuffs.

Here’s a link to the official site. And shame on me for laughing at it. I know, I know, I should know better. But it’s got some of my favorite guys: Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughan, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and freking Snoop Dogg as ‘Huggy Bear’.

I sure hope it turns out okay because I’m pretty sure I’m going to use one of my precious few movie passes on it.

I saw this on the Artbomb blog.

Caught this one last night. It was last year’s Project Greenlight movie.

Well, I’m sorry to tell you that Michelle and I were disappointed. It just wasn’t that good. Amy Smart is a fox. Shaia Lebouf is funny and fun to watch, but I liked him way more as the actor on the television show than as the character in the movie. And because I knew so much about the production I kept getting distracted by things I wouldn’t normally know anything about: the day they lost daylight and had to create it artificially which made the scene looks washed out, the trouble Shaia had getting a speech right which forced them to cut shots, the ‘group hug’ that was eventually cut because it was too cheesy. Because I was looking at things from a production point of view I couldn’t really enjoy the story as they were telling it.

The only real fun in watching it was to see how the whole thing looked in the end. And I hate the movie poster. It’s terrible.