Baaaaaaaaaaaaah

Yoinked from the Nemesis:

B5 fans, when you see this, post one of your favourite B5 quotes in your journal.


"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, .. or be destroyed."
"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
Delenn and Captain Drake, Severed Dreams

Some days I do miss having HBO

Bill Mahr: New Rule -

new rule: a candidate for President should not be judged by the color of his skin. And to…and to anyone who thinks differently, I say please do not reject John McCain just because he’s white. I think the recent news from Wall Street has made us all less tolerant and only reinforce the stereotype that white people are shiftless, thieving welfare queens.

Now, take a look at these pictures. Here are the CEOs of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG and the Lehman Brothers. I know the first thing that jumps out about these faces is that they all happen to be white, and they all happen to be responsible for stealing. But what you have to understand is that these whites are a product of a society that made them that way. It was the neighborhoods and the schools they went to: Harvard, Yale, the Wharton School of Business. They never learned the value of doing real, actual work and the first step to fixing that is better role models, so kids growing up white today don’t think the only way out of Westchester is corporate crime. Or a government handout or sailing. So I get it, the temptation is to look at McCain and vote against him because you don’t see an individual, you just see another typical welfare whitey.

And it’s true, he’s spent his entire life shuffling from one low-paying government job to another. Well, except those years he spent in prison. Typical! And between you and me, he’s not very articulate. Oh, he may have some street smarts, but he’s not what you call an educated man. He freely admits he’s ignorant about the economy. And apparently the only thing his white running mate knows how to do is crank out one baby after another. And now of course, her teenage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock. Because she learns it at home! But that doesn’t mean we should assume all white people are like that, just because so many of them are. I believe there is hope. I believe even the stoopiest…stupidest, greediest, laziest whites can break the cycle of dependence like this November when we finally move George Bush out of public housing.

Sunday Trade: Achewood

The Great Outdoor Fight by Chris Onstad

I can freely admit that I've never understood the appeal of Achewood. Just a bit too weird even for my broad and eclectic tastes. But The Great Outdoor Fight is the webcomic's most easily accessible story arc. And its most popular. Explaining why its the one creator Onstad went with for his printed hard-cover collection...

The story is simple enough, while retaining the odd flavoring of the webcomic. Ray Smuckles is wasting time and his money funding things like cell phones with testicles (no really) when he learns from his mom that his long-absent dad was the winner of the '73 Great Outdoor Fight. Three Days! Three acres! Three THOUSAND Men! You're disqualified when you've been beaten too bad to fight any more. Last man standing wins the honor of being champion. And Ray's dad Ramses Luther Smuckles won under the alias of Rodney Leonard Stubbs. AKA "The Man With The Blood On His Hands". So of course Ray has to enter and prove himself his father's equal. And so, along with his best friend and strategist Roast Beef, Ray enters the toughest, dirtiest, bloodiest brawl ever conceived. And enters the world of legends. "He ripped his face off!" "He made them into Cowboy Sauce." "BRING ON THE JEEPS, GODDAMN YOU!"

LEGENDARY

The Warriors

You know I probably haven't watched this since I was eight or so. Still awesome...

The Warriors are just one of a hundred gangs heading into the Bronx to hear the words of Cyrus. The One and Only. He's got big plans for uniting all the street gangs. But when he's shot and killed from the crowd, the Warriors get pinned for it. Now they've got to get back to Coney Island. Past the cops, out in force. And past every angry gang in the city. The Orphans, the Turnbull ACs, the Lizzies, the Baseball Furies, the Punks, the Rogues. And the Grammercy Riffs, the strongest and largest gang of them all. Who are looking for blood for the death of their leader Cyrus...

Delirious

You've got Buscemi as Les a paparazzi. And Michael Pitt as Toby a homeless guy who becomes Les' assistant. And hes in love with Alison Lohman's K'harma Leeds a pop singer. And then after twenty minutes I got bored and wandered off and made dinner. I come back an hour later and Toby and Les have had a fight over something and Toby is now Hollywood's latest "it" boy and is sleeping with his manager played by Gina Gershon. And then Toby accidently confesses his love for K'harma during an interview and so they become the new Super Couple. Or something. Really, I could barely make myself pay attention. Pitt and Lohman are very pretty people though...