When Will the Super Collider Just Get it Over With?

rashomon 2010
ok, this is just fucking stupid. first of all, yes, that's the official title of the movie, not a working title while they're filming. second of all, they're ditching a large part of the story and turning it into a courtroom drama. if you're going to do that then why do you need the fucking name. is hollywood really so far up its own ass that it thinks that the average american movie viewer - who they are responsible for dumbing down over the past 30 years - is even going to know what rashomon is, let alone know it well enough that they'll pack into theaters for a film that shares its name and little else?

i was all sorts of angry head last year when george clooney was talking about remaking seven samurai - with six japanese samurai and him as an american transplant none the less, but at least he was attempting to keep the plot somewhat similar to the spirit of the original, and at least he had the sense to ditch the project after sobering it up and thinking it through a little. i don't even have an insulting word big enough to describe how stupid this is. fuck you hollywood...fuck you.

dallas 2009 budget
so dallas passed their budget this week. and guess what their new revenue stream is going to be? apparently it's going to be charging out of town drivers a fee for getting into a wreck in their fine city. so if you drive through dallas and get hit by a car you're both going to be charged between 400 and 600 dollars for the wreck...oh wait. no, that's not right. if the driver that hit you is from dallas, well he won't get charged a cent. this is great for those of us in the surrounding area. i'm going to love driving from bedford to downtown dallas wondering if i'm going to end up being charged by the city for someone else's mistake...this should help drive tourism to unknown heights...good job dallas...

the bridge to nowhere debacle
biden and obama have both been making their snide comments the past few weeks about the alaskan bridge to nowhere - this would be the bridge that palin backed for awhile before flipflopping and saying no way once she got into office. but i notice that i'm not seeing much about the fact that both biden and obama had multiple chances to shoot down the bridge bill but both voted for it and were supporters of the plan...and people wonder why i get so angry about american politics...too many people treating the presidency like it's an episode of the hills and voting telegenic instead of intelligently.

the "honest to god they're real" palin pictures
if i have one more fucking person email me those horribly doctored photos of palin in a miniskirt or - even worse - the picture of her in a bikini holding a rifle and insisting that it's got to be real because they had it forwarded on from a friend that they totally trust i'm going to lose my fucking mind. do people have no concept of doing research anymore? we live in a society where anything you want to know is just a google query away and we still can't be fucking bothered. you can literally put anything you want into an email, send it to someone who will send it to someone else, and it's immediately fact.

seriously, i would pack my shit and move to europe, but they're so dumb at this point that they fined someone for not having a lifeguard present next to their inflatable wading pool...
my brain hurts...

(rob)