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December 21, 2007

Rock Me Amadeus

See if you can spot the changing state of popular culture in these two versions of the same music video:

Exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVEY_JpxkXE

Exhibit B: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b20UzLecnHo

December 20, 2007

Last Minute Shopping

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December 10, 2007

Cannonball Run

I just watched Cannonball Run, and I can honestly say I was not prepared for how bad a movie it was. It has, on the surface, such a fun premise. And they had all those experienced actors. Where to start?

  • Captain Chaos? WTF?
  • What was up with Jamie Farr as the oil sheik?
  • Roger Moore as himself? And I thought his turn in Spice World was his first self-mocking endeavor. This time, not so good.
  • Farah Fawcett, on why she loves trees: “because you can lie under them at night, and look at the stars, and listen to the wind in the leaves, and ball your brains out!”
  • Gee, I wonder if Dean Martin was drunk on the set of this movie.
  • Peter Fonda has a cameo as the leader of a biker gang who beats up … wait for it … Bert Convy, the host of Super Password.
  • Jackie Chan plays a Japanese guy named Jackie Chan. He’s driving a tricked out  Subaru complete with a VHS player upon which he watches pornography mid-race.
  • It saddens me that there was a script and somebody actually wrote it.

In summary, watching Cannonball Run was excruciating. I feel terrible now. I feel like that cup after the 2 girls got done with it.


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