Archive of entries posted on 15th May 2009

Reminder: RiffTrax Live Tonight *UPDATED*

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Be there or be square. You can watch them riff a short for free and then it’s Planet of Dinosaurs.

I’m pretty excited – I can’t believe I’ve gone on this long without MST3K – so they better not disappoint or I’ll be mad!

UPDATE:

Well, that could have gone better. As someone who works with web apps, it did seem to me the system probably needed a bit more testing before so much load got thrown on it and I was already expecting things to be a little shaky. I guess who put the servers together thought he could save himself a couple minutes and instead SHOOK HANDS WITH DANGER!

Well, the short was hilarious and everyone who paid (such as me – that’s right, they made Internet’s Frank pay!) will be getting a refund. Hopefully they’ll have more luck in the future because that would have been pretty cool had it worked. Going to watch the Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban riff with my wife now to get my fix.

UPDATE 2:

Harry Potter 3 riff = Pure WIN. “That’s the nerdiest use of time travel since I used it to get ‘Firsties’ on a message board.”

I might try doing a movie riff with SarahK some day, but they do not make it look easy. I am constantly in awe of their clever observation and pop culture references.

Republicans Need to Be More Elitist

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Here’s an idea to help the Republican Party: a review process and membership dues to join.

Right now, anyone can call themselves a Republican, and that has to change. While we should keep it so that anyone can vote for a Republican, to actually be a Republican means meeting board approval and paying not a small sum to listed in the ranks.

Will this mean a lot less Republicans. Yes, but it will also mean more people will want to be a Republican since it’s exclusive. While any loser can be a Democrat, being a Republican will actually mean something.

SCHMO: “Wow, you’re a real Republican!”

REPUBLICAN: “Yes, with the badge and decoder ring.”

SCHMO: “I wish could be a Republican.”

REPUBLICAN: (laughs) “Everyone wishes they could be a Republican, but we can’t just let anyone in. That’s how we got Specter back in the dark ages. Now why don’t you run along and join the Democrats or something. I hear they need help passing out fliers about how kids should be able to smoke pot and gay marry.”

SCHMO: “Aww! But I hate the Democrats!”

REPUBLICAN: “Everyone does.”

consurned consurveetiv

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hello. i am carl the consuveetiv. you hav not seen me befor, but i am a consuveetiv lik u who voted for raygun, hates poor peepul, and reads the blog imoa. i am consurned tho that the reepublikans are going in an extreemust direcshun.

i am consurveetiv who like the jebus and nascar but i do not like all this crazy talk of cutting spending and taxes and not letting teh gheys marree and racist tee partees. we need to stop lissuning to bad dum consurveetivs like limbah who eets the drugs or palin who is stoopid and do not reed. insted we shood lissun to meghan mccain an colon powel hoo ar not dum stoopid neocon heelbilly jues. an we shood not be so meen to obama hoo we must admit has gud ideas.

also we shood not lissun to crayzee pairanoyd talk frum bad dum consurveetivs hoo say that libruls want to eet our eyeballs. this is not troo. an even if it wer troo i am shure dey wood not turn our eyeballs into poo and throw the poo at us. we hav nuthing to worree about except bad dum consurveetivs.

Capitalist Propaganda: “Going Places”

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From 1948, “Going Places”:


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Notice how when they say the word “profit”, they don’t use tones of disgust.

Wish we had a President that considered profit a virtue instead of a necessary evil that’s more evil than necessary.

Random Thoughts

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Instead of Gitmo, can we just store the terrorists in crates in that warehouse from Indiana Jones?

The 3% of people who approve of Pelosi’s job performance really need to explain themselves.

If the Obama administration keeps angering Cheney, his robot half could take over causing him to go on a killing spree.

I bet the memos prove that millions would not be here today if it weren’t for Dick Cheney and a pitcher of water.

Maybe Pelosi is speaking the truth, but it’s the truth from an alternate universe like on Fringe.

If the CIA were smart, they would put forward Jennifer Garner and that girl from Chuck to respond to Pelosi.

Why don’t we waterboard Pelosi and see if we can get the truth out of her? That should prove once and for all whether it works.

Government is like an anus; it’s necessary, but it’s never going to be anything pretty or worth celebrating.

Over the Line

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Ya know, I’m as sick and tired of Nancy Pelosi lying about her waterboarding knowledge as the next guy, but Rev. Right of America is an Obamanation went WAY too far with this, and I think he owes someone an apology.

Specifically, John Banner.