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MSN - News - Maggie Gyllenhaal Hacks Politics (heh. I rewrote the headline.)

I’ve always liked those Gyllenhaal kids. Well not always. But ever since watching Donnie Darko. And Jena Malone too.

I really think it’s edgy and integritous for a huge movie star like Maggie Gyllenhaal to say something true and carefully worded about a controversial and painful moment in our nation’s history. But actually, I’m not sure I understand what all the fuss is about, judging by what her statement was.

PS: Another thing I can’t quite figure out: how come none of the dozens of news items about this show a decent appealing picture of Miss Maggie G, except for MSN Movies?

PPS: Oddly enough I bungled across the picture I’m using at the exact moment a friend of mine was relating the extreme chopping down of a huge tree in her behind of her home by a neighbor.

Recommendationed reading: Query Letters I Love — it’s some guy from the movie industry who shares really awful screenplay ideas because they’re funny. What really works about the queryletters site, is not only how funnay the queryletters are, but also how they’re framed by the authors of the queryletters site.

Like this one: Query Letters I Love: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Mrs. Claus? Featuring the first Holiday-Non-Holiday kiss in Cinema!

American Idol: Vicodin to Paula Abdul: “Stop Eating My Family”

I’ve always thought Paula was high on something. Well, especially this year. TVGasm gets a big hifive from me because they hate the way I hate.

They’ve picked a new pope!

Today they picked a new pope!

It’s interesting, I almost already know more about this new pope than I ever really did about the old pope.

One newspaper report from before Cardinal Ratzenberger — I mean Ratzinger — became pope refers to him as “God’s Rottweiler.” Which is really cool. I sort of wish they could change the rules for the pope’s name, because it could also be cool to be able to call him “Pope Ratzinger.” That’s a really great name for a pope, don’t you think? Now, he gets to choose is pope name, and he picked Benedict XVI which isn’t bad. I like the XVI part. But they’re going to say “the sixteenth” instead of “XVI.” Which isn’t quite as rad.

When you look at this man’s life prior to being pope, there are some curious, and kind of funny things. Like the fact that he was in Hitler Youth. Of course it was the law that when you were a German 14 year old boy you had to be Hitler Youth. But then later, after he got to be Cardinal, he was also “prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, formerly known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition.” Yep, they changed the name a while back, but, Pope Ratz was the big boss of the Inquisition. Nobody expected that! My friend Matt said, “He’s like the pope Mel Brooks would make up for Vatican: The Musical!”

James Wolcott: On Some Sad Laps, No Heads Bob

Now normally I don’t try to hard too much to be all political about things. I try to not really mention world affairs and such. I’m just not that interested in putting out any kind of opinion on the matter. However, I like this little opinion commentary that James Wolcott wrote. It’s funny.

Here’s one line that might make you think about reading it.

Yet, like so many products and pleasures, blowjobs aren’t evenly distributed in society.

One thing though that Wolcott gets wrong, which you can see in the picture.

that’s a colorful phrase. unless you think of the brand name. then it’s not.

I got it from an interesting little box section of Friendster. I never ever go in Friendster anymore, except for today, when I went in Friendster to see what’s up with this whole celebrity blogging thing where they kind of partner with a hot new television program, and get all the stars on that program to blog stuff.

Anyhow, the box I’m referring to is called something like Top 10 Searches in Your Network, which I guess means something in Friendster. I never did really figure out all of Friendster. So, it was funny. The list of searches. I guess my Network, whatever that is, is a pretty oddball place, or thing, or whatever, because people in it search for these things:

1. emo tattos
2. indonesian woman
3. free mp3 songs
4. guys in jockstraps
5. deisel shoes
6. how to get your boyfriend back
7. how to get rid of pimples
8. what indie-rock song are you quiz
9. william Hung death
10. how to get over a breakup

I’d like to spend the rest of the afternoon searching these very colorful phrases in the google to see what I could come up with. And present sort of a portrait of my Friendster network. It would be a painful and awkward portrait I think. I suppose I’d change the spelling of the first item to emo tattoo to get better results. I’d try and take the quiz, but be disappointed because I’m sure I’ve never even heard the song that I would be identified with. I’m pretty sure William Hung is still alive and doing commercials playing second fiddler to Ryan Seacrest (who, you may or may not realize looks frighteningly like Jeffrey Dahmer). But best of all, I’m sure eventually I would stumble across not guys in jockstraps, but girls in jockstraps.

However, I’m content just reading the blogs of the people on new FOX sitcoms. Like Christopher Lloyd, and Paget Brewster — who was on Friends last night, and I didn’t even KNOW she was on a new FOX sitcom!

Oh yeah: This whole silly thing was inspired by this TV Squad post about Kathy, er Paget.

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Originally uploaded by Quacky.

I checked every single one! They claimed it was just an imaginary place. But I found it!

Hey, I started using flickr for hosting my pictures. I guess I kind of finally figured out what flickr is useful for. I dunno.

Also, through flikr tags I found some other guy is doing fun stuff with google maps, I mean I guess it’s a guy. Go check out Tropic of Cubicle’s photos, or Tropic of Cubicle www page to see what I’m talking about.

Funny!

Google Maps - 1250 1st Ave S,Seattle, WA 98134

I was going to futz around with the map, and put the little red bulb-syringe thingy where I’d like to be sitting for much of the rest of the spring and summer. But I’m bored, and tired of doing things. I’m just looking.

A FOAF, Ben at magnetbox.com gets mad props and shit for doing all the MLB stadiums. Cool! I only care about SafeCo. But, way cool to list them all!

Everybody is going nuts over the new satellite photo service offered by google maps. I like it too. I was just motoring, or I guess “satellite-ing” around the region the day they added the imagery, and I came across this eye-boggling natural expression of geography. It’s really amazing the forms you can find in nature, if you look at things from a completely new, wide-open, perspective! I really marvel at the shape of Spirit Lake. It looks like a magic liger.