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The most important group of religious leaders, from the holiest city in Iran, Qum, called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.
The announcement came on a day when Mr. Moussavi released documents detailing a campaign of fraud, accusing Ahmadinejad’s supporters of printing more than 20 million extra ballots before the vote and handing out cash bonuses to voters.
(via NYT)
Yesterday morning, I emailed Chris Kula and Joe Wengert and asked them if they wanted to get together and write/shoot a 4th of July themed sketch with me, to put on Funny or Die.
We met up and noon and wrote/cast this in about two hours. I shot it in the late afternoon, went and did a show at UCB at night, and then went back to the office and edited until about 4 in the morning.
It was exhausting, but super fun! Happy 4th of July!
Success!
I started drinking early on the 3rd of July and my Tumblarity dropped 300 points. Is this an early birthday present from the internet or what?!
rcca:
“The Hurt Locker hones in on the fatalistic psychology of the Iraqi war zone more convincingly than any other recent film about soldiers on the battlefield.” — Robert Davis, Paste Magazine
Mr. Davis, what on earth could you possibly know about the fatalistic psychology of the Iraqi war zone? 96 Rotten Tomatoes say it’s a great movie, but a bunch of soldiers and sailors gathered one cold night in the rugged Afghanistan hinterlands will disagree.
Since our MRAPs have 110V power outlets, I decided to bring an LCD projector, laptop, speakers, and the finest bazaar bootleg DVDs $2 will buy along on a two week mission (We had a coffee maker and microwave, too—Napoleon’s want and privation be damned). After running an extension cord and 550-cording a plastic Rosomak cover over the security wall, I fired up possibly the first-ever armored vehicle drive-in movie theater. Our EOD team had already seen Hurt Locker and decreed it unwatchable. I suppose the rest took that as a challenge.
There’s some psychosis that occurs when you are actually afraid of something and simultaneously annoyed at the inaccuracy of your fear’s presentation. Maybe like confronting a giant spider wearing a top hat?
A few brave men stayed through the whole movie (masochists are overrepresented in the Army). I stayed because I brought the projector and didn’t want it damaged. The implausibity of the story and the un-real EOD tactics didn’t do any favors for the lame character direction. This IED movie bombed (ha!).
I thought this movie was well put together from a writing and directing point of view, but the character development was criminally inadequate and the director made poor choices (i.e in this movie soldiers are robots, then delicate flowers, then robots again) and made parts of the movie unbelievable at best. Reading this review was a little sobering - so happy fourth to those protecting us, not those in the movies acting like they are.
The Cleveland Show - ‘The Pilot’
I haven’t really watched an episode of (the) Family Guy since college, but this Cleveland Show pilot just made me LOL like five times forreal. Cleveland Jr really steals the show!
via Ms. Information
Very true, but it kind of seems like the Family Guy style is way too pervasive throughout.
(via doinwork)
Ha Ha, look at theeeeese massholes. Indian Orchard is such a hole in the wall it barely exists on most maps.
