LessonInMachismo

I know I can't speak for everyone, but knowing the political beliefs of most people here, I don't think anyone is arguing against someone's right to brandish the Confederate flag on their truck, their clothes, whatever. However, it's not really a left/right issue to feel that it's a bad thing that these images and the messages they resonate are being encouraged as some kind of cultural icon. While nobody should be denied the rights to wear a Confederacy t-shirt, hopefully society's reaction will shame them into making the choice not to. Kind of like why I don't go burning American flags to protect my right to do so. "Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear." Seriously, it IS a partisan issue because you come back to the argument of what exactly the message is that is resonating from these images. Or what the perceived message is.

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Maybe I should watch this show. I have heard that it's good. A guy at work got hooked on it after an ep where the guy hit a thug in the face with a phonebook. Does this show have an arc, like a serial, or is it more episodic with confined installments?

No Ewok movies????

Oh, he does! The second part of the book is very Mace-heavy. Mace is fired up and ready to depose Palpatine BEFORE they even find out he's a Sith Lord. Kotzenjunge's kicked my ass and took my lunch money. Also: Still no sign of Jar Jar. Sounds good. My friend, who is almost done with the book, told me that there was no sign of Jar Jar on the gaydar. He is listed on IMDb, though. Maybe Anakin kills him in the movie and they didn't want to spoil it? Maybe one of those Neimodians in the trailer is actually Jar Jar, but they altered the shot for the trailer? The wonders of CG... Man, I'm only forty pages in (not a slow reader, just no time to read) and Stover is kicking my ass. Stover rocks.

Back in California, we'd play on Fridays and Saturdays. I bought an old poker table at a garage sale and we'd set it up in someone's garage and order pizza. When whoever's house it was parents weren't home, we'd light up the cigars. Here, some of my friends were playing a year or so ago, in relatively high stakes games. I'm talking about losing a few hundred in one night, maybe more. At the Cherokee Casino, my wife won $1500 at slots in 2003 and we subsequenly won $500 or so a few weeks later. They now have these new Cherokee Resorts from the same outfit, and they are really cool. You can get toasted, get some good food, hear some good music, make or lose some money and still be able to get to your room without driving or being charged with public drunkenness. And all at a killer price. Can't wait for my next vacation.

CAAAAAAAAL WORTHINGTON...and his dog spot!

Mosi doesn't mention how black rappers sometimes use African and Middle-Eastern iconography, an area where in some places slavery is still legal in 2005. As for the Dixie Sticks...who cares? It's a free country. I wouldn't wear that redneck stuff, but it doesn't bother me if anyone else does. Morons would wear that stuff where I grew up in northern California. And have window stickers. But I mean...they can do it. It's the USA.

At least Batista got the ME spot. Jericho was pushing curtains against the likes of Tazz and Maven, yet they'd still play up how he was the first ever UNDISPUTED CHAMPION.

I've made mention of this before, where Bantam was really just throwing Star Wars novels out there for the sake of having Star Wars novels. "The Crystal Star" is a prime example of that, where McIntyre seemingly shoehorned the EU into an existing story. Del Rey has better focus, but I don't think that they'll be trying for an 18-part series again. That was just insane, and I'll say that Star by Star was probably the best book of the lot. Kudos, however, for tying things into the prequels. I think Star By Star was good, but I also think it's highly overrated. I liked the duologies by Stackpole and Allston the most, along with Traitor. Don't ge me wrong, Star By Star was good...I met Troy Denning at Celebration II and he was a really nice guy. But the book really dragged at some points. What actually happened in the book was important, though. It was a turning point in the series. And don't forget that the NJO was originally supposed to be a 24-book series.

Oh, Canada!

The thing to do is to get your hands on a laser disc version and transfer it to DVD. Not a simple task, but doable. I have a widescreen edition set that I bought off of QVC when Mark Hamill hosted years ago. It was one of the first times they offered widescreen editions of the films.

I am reading both For Us, The Living by Robert A. Heinlein and the Revenge of the Sith novelization by Matt Stover.

Apparently there was a concern over pissing off WWF/E, too. After all, they owned most of the footage that RD used.

His name is Sandy Berger. He is a Splinter Cell.

And they had the tempo turned up again, so Lemmy had to sing very quickly.

I just turned 29...

I found the camera work funny in its desperate attempt to make the matches seem exciting. Constantly changing angles, zooming in and out...funny stuff.

The whole thing about seagulls and antacid tablets is really true.

I heard he snuck them out in his sock.

I'm quite fond of the EU. And as such, the prequels have been exceptionally depressing to me. Because not only are they mediocre at BEST, but Lucas has used them to retcon a ton of really, really cool shit done in the EU. The EU is just like the movies...you gotta take the bad with the good. The Good: X-Wing series by Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston. Military action at its best. The first half of the New Jedi Order series. Really good stuff in there, but the series went downhill, mainly due to shitty writing and possibly shitty editorial decisions. The last good book was Traitor by Matt Stover, which changed the way I think about things. Cloak of Deception and Shatterpoint, by James Luceno and Matt Stover, respectively. The only prequel novels that I like. CoD is both an action and political thriller. Shatterpoint is a spiritual experience. Read it. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn. The books that jumpstarted EU. They FEEL like the movies more than the prequels do. His follow up Hand of Thrawn duology is good, too. Classic and newer Han Solo trilogies. I enjoyed both series by Brian Daley and AC Crispin. Star Wars Tales quarterly comic...it's got something for everyone. Star Wars: Republic and Star Wars: Empire. These two comic series have some really good stories. Tales of the Jedi comics...some are really good. The Bad: Dark Empire I & II and Empire's End comic series. Terrible. A lot of novels. Namely, ones by Hambly or McIntyre. The rest, if not listed in The Good are mediocre at best, terrible at the worst. Pretty much every SW game out there. Jedi vs. Sith comics. Many other comics. The Ugly: The Star Wars Holiday Special.

I watched the first episode, "Booby Trap," and I found it watchable. I don't like it as much as I like Star Blazers, though. BTW, guys, pretty much every reply in this thread is Greek to me.

The thing that people don't realize is that socialist countries aren't free countries. Freedom isn't simply the ability to speak your mind or believe as you wish...it's also being able to have financial freedom. If you live in Norway and have a 60%+ tax rate, then you aren't free.

That poster would suck. Get someone cool to take real pics of us and then draw them with Adobe, combine them and then we have our poster. I nominate Budapïst, if he is the one who drew that pic in his post.

Shit. I was going to watch my new Robotech DVD, but after seeing your sig, I really want to watch The Karate Kid now. "FEAR DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS DOJO, DOES IT?!" "NO, SENSEI!"