Edwin MacPhisto

Inc has no love for Black Rob. Stop putting us on, you rapscallion.

SATs, GPA, and courseload (hint: take AP classes) are all really key, but in recent years the essay has become possibly the most important of all. With so much interest in diverse, vibrant demographics, the essay is pretty crucial for the university to ensure that they're getting someone who'll 'contribute to the community.' It's a dealbreaker. 1530, by the by.

I don't get the "you suck for referencing Tennessee Williams or making a crack that Hardcore is stupid" stuff. You yourself have acknowledged on many occasions that you like the folder ause you can do stupidish things there. I mean, no big foul either way, but I wouldn't get so bent up about it. The first yoga fire remains better, I think, just because I was really feeling the warmth more.

I liked it, but it wasn't as good as Super Troopers. The guys spent too much time setting up these big, silly gags with their odd, one or two-joke characters. I liked it better in Super Troopers when they were all pretty much standard and just let their wit and delivery shine through. Still, I did laugh until body parts of my own fell off. Worth seeing if you're a fan of Super Troopers, worth seeing even if you're not and want a fun, stupid, silly time.

Oh, c'mon. He just cited probably the greatest use of the phrase "loco-nuts" in the history of American theater. The more appropriate flame would have been, "Rudo acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, talks like one, moves like one!" Followed by some business about being apelike. Tennessee Williams is a true motherfucking thug.

Well, his dad seems like a crazy piece of shit, and the whole run of interviews for this movie has me a bit freaked by Mel, too. I'm a bit unsettled to give him my money. I still haven't decided if I'm getting ripped on Jager tonight and seeing this, or going lighthearted with Club Dread.

Are they online? I'd like to see voting records, because I'm a nerd. Edit: Nevermind, it's Nationaljournal.com, duh. Didn't see it on the initial search.

Mike, there's a big difference between all the arbitrary laws you cite and amending the US constitution to say that gays don't deserve the rights associated with marriage. Someone will come up with a bullshit reason as to why the 14th Amendment doesn't apply here, and they will be wrong. We have age limits for this sort of things because of what has been decided as the age at which people can responsibly make this sort of decision. There's a difference between saying "We, the US government, don't believe you can properly make this decision until you're 18 years old and have had significant life experience," and "We, the US government don't believe you ever will be deserving of this right because of the qualities with which you were born." A question: when you're looking at gays as not needing these rights, how are you viewing homosexuality? Do you believe it's a deliberate lifestyle choice, or a genetic imperative - something wherein the feelings gays feel are as natural as those felt by heterosexuals towards members of the opposite sex?

You know you don't want Mole gone. He brings light to this dark little world of ours.

I don't think Tampa is going on sale till Saturday. Same with the Raleigh show I intend to partake of. 10 AM eastern should do the trick.

1,000. Pretty damn fast. I've gotten over it and will use the leftover money for the best Prince ticket in the house.

The Darkness show at the 9:30 Club went on sale this morning at 10 am. Sold out in about 5 minutes. I didn't get tickets. I am openly weeping.

Oh, and also? Not mentioned much yet, but Sad Eve was wondrous. There's a lot more charm to a character who can seem so vulnerable and lonely. I thought she was a shitty villain, but knowing that she actually seemed to be in love with Lindsey adds miles more of dimension. Joss has still got it, to no one's surprise.

I love not reading spoilers. I had no idea ANY of this was coming and I'm absolutely enchanted. Now I actually deeply care about this show getting cancelled. I liked the slight twitch in Angel's glare when they learned that it was an Old One, birthing from a body...again. Have they been planning to have Evil Knox from the outset? I dunno, this episode just blew me away in every facet. The world it created - the Hole in the World especially - shows that team Mutant Enemy is still surpassing themselves creatively. These are the best sci-fi ideas I've seen in forever and now I'm really depressed it's ending. ::whimper:: Come back to us, Fred.

I'd go to the Tampa show, but since I'll still be off at school, it's a 4-hour drive to Raleigh. ...Which is perfectly acceptable. Read this last night and it filled me with delicious, bubbly feelings.

Oh, don't bust out the Sean Paul hate. It embarrasses me, because I really like "Like Glue" and "Get Busy." Perfect party stuff. The song that's bothered me most recently is the Yellowcard single. Insufferable twits with a geeky electric violin. I also have to shake my head at Iggy Pop after that depressingly bad song he did with Sum 41.

Ghostface Killah w/Mary J. Blige, "All That I Got Is You." Gorgeous. If you want soulful rap, this is what you're after.

Hey, I thought it was cool. Go team mod.

Yeah, I'm with Tom. I thought it was going to be about you accidentally hooking up with that crazy woman Frost used to tap.

The best part is that there's no way this passes. Sure, the Defense of Marriage Act passed, but even the Republican gentleman who co-sponsored that isn't keen on this: All sorts of stuff at CNN sort of declaring the obvious - I'll be astonished if any proposed constitutional amendment restricting the rights of gays passes the Senate, much less the states. It seems like unless there's a sea change in the way people view amending the constitution, there's no way any sort of amendment gets through. So, this is essentially a waste of time and a political decision, throwing a bone to the religious right and people who don't care that it won't pass, while simultaneously demonizing homosexuals and determining that, yes, they are second-class citizens. Exactly what I want the leader of the free world to be saying to stay in office: some people are, in fact, more equal than others. For anyone dismissing gays as a small, meaningless minority, consider that it's a widely held statistic that between 5 and 10% of Americans are gay. There's a big swing because a lot of people haven't come out yet and the polling is always odd (questions about homosexual activity occasionally obscuring whether or not a person is actually gay or just made out with another guy/girl at a party), but to dismiss homosexuals as insignificant because you personally don't know many is simply wrong.

A review from the New Yorker that takes a different perspective than Ebert. David Denby sees the gore as excoriating and pretty much destructive to any message of goodness, living up to most of the criticisms early screeners of the film had suggested. I do kinda want to see it. I mostly really want to see it in one of these screenings full of church groups who were stupid enough to rent out a whole theater and bring all their children to see it just because it's about Jesus. There's going to be vomit and tears everywhere.

Well, Bush is on TV now openly declaring his support of an amendment to ban gay marriage. This is foul and a waste of the nation's time. "Activist courts have left the people with one recourse" my ass. It's a shallow and disgusting bid for votes, and it's obscene.

This Mortal Coil is the band, actually. The song was originally written by Tim Buckley, singer-songwriter and father of Jeff Buckley.

Man, you guys are dicks. Anglesault, the only threads in the music folder you ever seem to post in are the ones where you get to marginalize blacks. Chill. I actually think that, given his musical style and obvious influences, Justin Timberlake isn't too bad a choice. I definitely get the argument, though. Motown was a black thing and immensely important for blacks in music, art, and America in general. Let Mos Def and Alicia Keys host and you'll have a very classy evening.

You goddamned right. Even the casual fan still needs Hits 2 as well, since the amazing songs are spread out pretty randomly across both. So get shopping. Then Purple Rain, then Dirty Mind, then Sign O' The Times...