Shocked? Don't be

I wasn't too surprised when The Movement to Restore Decency came out against sex education in schools.

God damn you Al Gore

It's 70 degrees here where I live.  We never had this kind of heat this time of year until Al Gore started flapping his gums about 'global warming.'

My week of lazy blogging continues with this post of mid century German collages

They are quite striking, aren't they.

Clean up on aisle 3

Movie reports

Hands down this is the best Daniel Craig Bond film out there.  It's also in my top five Bond films of all time.  In this outing the consequences of M's actions in the past come back to haunt the agency when an agent she'd left for dead comes back with a vengeance.  There's a shit ton of gun play, a solid metric ton of action, and the right amount of hot women.  I highly recommend this one.

This indie film is a sapphic take on the old Hitchcock film Strangers on a Train.  Two women meet up and one hatches a plan for them each to kill their enemies and then the twists and turns begin when one of them starts to carry out the plan.  The film is full of pretty women in skimpy clothes who kiss one another, caress one another, and back stab one another.  All the females in it are perfectly fine but the one main drag on the film is the male lead who is about as charismatic as a sleeping hobo, but thank goodness he's not the focus of the film.  If you like twisty thrillers, this one's not bad.  Recommended.

You can see everything coming a mile away in this fluffy little French pastry of a film, but even though you see it coming and you know what's going to happen, it's still cute enough to keep watching.  The estranged son of a rural grocer has to take over his ailing father's business while juggling a budding romance with e super cute leggy brunette.  The kid does right by his family and he gets what's coming to him in the end.  If you're into cute films chock full of cute oddball characters, then this is your film.  I recommend it.

Festival of lights

This bat shit crazy light explosion features one of my favorite holiday things, the cross in the light display.  Jesus is barely born and already they want him dead.

Found on Tumblr

Black Friday shoppers reveal what they're looking for on this our national retail orgy day

 "I'm looking for mustache wax."

 "I'm looking for something that will fill the gaping hole in my life that I currently fill with self loathing and peanut butter."

 "I'm picking up chicks."

 "I'm hoping to score some weed."

 "I'm looking for true Christians, I doubt I'll find any."

 "I'm hunting for the DVD box set of all the celebrity sex tapes."

 "A few good men."

 "Kittens."

"Revenge on the bitchy hairdresser who gave me this ridiculous hairdo."

Happy Thanksgiving You Jive Turkeys

I hope your holiday is dyno-mite!

You're not helping

Hey waitress in New Jersey who claimed you got stiffed by a couple who said they didn't like or agree with your 'lifestyle choice,'  now that you've been caught in a lie, you need to admit you lied, then shut the fuck up because you're not helping the LGBTQ cause.

Look, I know LGBTQ people face all sorts of discrimination and hatred, some from their own family, so it's especially egregious when you make shit up about being discriminated against.  Okay, we get it.  You wanted some attention and you got it.  Now you're getting the negative attention you and your stunt deserve.

But because of your stupid stunt, others will suffer when people assume that LGBTQ people are making up mythical shit like you did.  Your bullshit isn't helping.  It's hurting.

Seriously, you're one stupid attention whore who only hurts LGBTQ people with your stupid bullshit.  Shut up and go away.

Mid century kid's book illustrations by Eberhard Binder

Thankful

It's time for the most trite of all the blog posts, the annual 'What I'm Thankful For' post.  Ready?  Okay!

I'm thankful for:

• my penis
• Sarah Silverman
• sleep
• central heat and air
• scented candles
• Roku
• Sparky
• my friends (both off and online)
• spell check
• anti diarrheals
• the chance to make idiotic lists
•  beer
• some other shit that I can't remember now

That's about it.

What I'm watching

Nothing much happens in this sweet little show about the goings on at a cafe in a seaside British town.  People come and go and they interact and go about their lives, yeah, I know, it sounds boring but it's really cute and sweetly humorous.  We watched the first series on HuluPLUS and are currently catching the second on KPBS Presents on the Roku PBS channel.

I confess, I'd watch James Corden in about anything.  I find him to be funny and he's got an every-man quality that I really empathize with, although I will say I fucking hated History Boys.  This series is about two ordinary blokes who get drawn into international intrigue and sexual and financial shenanigans when one of them picks up a cell phone that fell out of a car after a nasty wreck.  It's all very good and well done.  And Croden and Matthew Baynton and both excellent in it.

I'm catching this show on Netflix and it took me a few episodes to get into the rhythm of it.  But now, midway through the third season, it's funny as hell.  I love Katie Aselton and the guy who plays her brother in law.  And the character of Rafi is pure fun.

I'm also watching this show on Netflix, I'm two episodes in and it's pretty good.  I'm hoping it gets better because there's so much there to work with.  A cop who works for a fascist corporate state in the future goes back in time accidentally with a bunch criminals.  Will they get back to the future?  Will she catch them in the past?  So many questions.  My only problem with this show is the bland lead.  She's pretty, but she's pretty dull too.

I watched the first episode of this BBC import the other night.  It's about a man and a woman in their mid 30's who hook up one night and how they deal with the consequences of their having had sex with one another.  The first episode was painfully funny and to be honest, I'd watch Sharon Horgan in anything.  She's cute and funny as hell.

I quite like this police procedural that's playing now on HuluPLUS.  As you can tell from the publicity photo, it's a female centered cop show and that's where it's strength lies.  I really like the two leads and the messy back-stories they've concocted for them. Sometimes the episode is more about their lives than the crime du jour.

I am over the moon about this Australian import that's currently running on Netflix.  Essie Davis is strikingly gorgeous in her role as the self confident and wildly sexy Miss Fisher, a semi private detective in 1920's Australia.  It's hard to notice anything else when she's onscreen, and thankfully, she's on screen most of the time.  The show is well written, well acted, and well produced.  And I love the fact that Miss Fisher doesn't hide the fact that she likes having sex.

I watched a couple episodes each of UFO and Space 1999, a pair of sci fi TV shows from my youth in the early 1970's, that are currently running on HuluPLUS, but I had to bail on them both.  They were so bad that I wanted to punch everyone involved with making them.  If you're into nostalgia for cheesy sci fi from the 1970's then these shows are for you, but for me, there's too many other TV shows and films on Netfilx and HuluPLUS that are way better than these two.

Think about this for awhile

Discarded furniture