Like: That Every Day, Some Individual Looks Up My Blog Under the Search Term: “Fuck Her” and Clicks On It … EVERY DAY

I don’t know who you are random blog reader, but I find your devotion to this blog incredible and commendable. But what I do find odd is your use of the search term “fuck her” repetitively. Is there some kind misogynistic thing going on? Perhaps instructional? Or is it a simple way of finding my blog? I don’t even know how that gets you to my blog anyhow, but apparently it does.

I find this whole saga fascinating, please dutiful reader, clarify your intentions to me! I thank you!

Like: THE BALLS OF THIS HEADLINE!

THIS HEADLINE

“Clinton Creaming Obama in Ky”

http://www.kentucky.com/254/story/402089.html

zoinks!

One more like: Blogs with Pictures!

ZOMG! Neat!

Don’t Like: Jay Mariotti

Hilarious picture.

Jay Mariotti is a columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times and a daily guest on ESPN’s Around The Horn. He’s also an insufferable know it all who knows nothing about the nuance of sports. He is a wholly reactionary figure who will swing whichever way the way wind is blowing around. He’s not stupid or anything, he’s just makes completely blatant assumptions based ONLY on final results. It’s part of the growing trends of sports writers where they’ll be contrarian just for the sake of it or completely fair-weather and call for completely asinine moves from front offices. You’re a journalist and that is a sometimes-privilege of your job. You’re supposed to give insight we don’t know about you blowhard.

Perfect example: Today he said that the Suns have to fire exceptional coach Mike DiAntoni and actually tried to give an example. He mentioned that Steve Kerr gave a suggestion on how to use Shaq in a certain situation and DiAntoni disagreed and this is obvious sign of dysfunction.

Luckily Jackie Mac was there to completely beat his ass down and point out that this is part of the DAILY EXCHANGE of every single GM and coach in the league. This happens every single day between GMs and coaches and a lot of times it gets testy. But see Mariotti wouldn’t know that cause he doesn’t spend any time with actual teams. You know, the stuff actual sports journalists do. He sits in his Chicago office and appears on Around The Horn spouting off whatever dumb, reactionary opinion he gets from trolling the internet. It’s disgusting. DiAntoni is fantastic coach and apparent Mariotti thinks catching bad breaks and losing to arguably the best team in the league means that he should be fired.

Gah, it’s infuriating. What a complete idiot. And at least Woody Paige knows he’s an idiot.

Also Like: www.chud.com

I couldn’t find a more accurate picture of the website but I still like it.

CHUD is by far my favorite site on the internet. It’s a genre movie website that is NOT soaked in the fanboy hysterics of something like Ain’t it Cool News (IE they don’t rely on nonsense sneak preview spies). They have a smart and dedicated staff that know how to judge action/comic book/horror/genre movies on their own merit, BUT they also do a surprisingly grounded and intellectual job of handing the the more artistic films that come out every year.  Most of the reviewers seem to be well rather well read and versed in film study. They appreciate the truly interesting directors. They’re plugged into the critic circuits yet they’re completely removed from the industry BS that strangles publications like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. They approach big Hollywood prestige pictures with just the right amount of skepticism.  They have a great eye for films flying under the radar. They also have a lot of contrasting opinions among their reviewers which is rather nice to see.

Best of all, they approach their subjects with a nice sense of humor. It’s the kind of humanism that most publications lack in their seriousness. The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, all of them are completely humorless when that’s exactly the kind of honesty a lot of criticism needs. Even funnier publications like Entertainment Weekly, and the AV Club have surprisingly mundane and serious reviewers.  (The AV Club I find to be  awfully snarky and “holier than though thou”). I also have to be sure to clarify that by needing humor I don’t mean to make a joke of the subject, but just an understanding of the levity needed to analyze the medium with any kind of accuaracy.

To wit, here’s a decidedly adult and intelligent excerpt by Devin Faraci, one of CHUD’s writers: “There’s explicit sexuality in Towelhead that will shock some. Another journalist at Sundance, who hadn’t seen the film, wondered to me why Alan Ball would even want to make a movie about this subject. To me that question is its own answer; the way that society sexualizes young girls is something that we don’t address because it makes us uncomfortable. Ball looks the issue squarely in the face and, instead of delivering epiphanies like he did in American Beauty, he leaves us to examine the shards of perspective and truth. And in the end he has the courage to make a wonderful, sex-positive statement; it’s perhaps the movie’s closing scene that will send Puritanical Americans out of the theater with the most unease. To me it was uplifting, and I imagine it will be to the millions of women who identify with Jasira’s struggles”

Now compare it with another one of his excerpts for Steven Coogan’s Hamlet 2: “When Steve Coogan’s character reads a bad review of his latest high school play (a two hander version of Erin Brockovich) in the high school newspaper and yells, ‘I feel like I’m being raped… in the face!’, I knew that Hamlet 2 was a funny film.  “

Ladies and Gentlemen, this exactly the kind of respective criticism film needs.

Like: Whoever Wrote This Article

http://filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/dexters1.htm

Thanks go out to Mark, who found this by simply googling: “Dexter Sucks”
I feel completely re-affirmed:

This is kind of like “I hate Showtime Part 2″