Salt City Sinner

R.I.P., Peter Steele. I loved Type O Negative, and not in an ironic or snarky way. I'll miss the only band that can (at times) make the Melvins sound like a ska band.

I've made no secret of the fact that I listen to Glenn Beck (so you don't have to!). Over the time that I've listened to Glenn's show, he has rotated through three theme songs: first Glenn opened the show with a pop-punk number that was pretty nondescript. He then dabbled with a lengthier opening theme with a "NEVER AGAIN!" theme that sounded sinister (this coincided with Glenn's continuing slide into scenic clowntown Crazyville). His current theme: ...is a schmaltzy little number called "We Will Be The Key." Apparently this ditty is sung by a man named Stephen Lyons , but with a heavy assist from Beck ( says Beck *: "I am instrumental in the writing of the theme song of the radio show ... and the music behind the documentaries on the Internet"). From the very first time I heard the new theme, I noticed it's similarity to Muse and I'm not the only one . I mean, for god's sake: This doesn't exactly come out of left field:...

OK - first off, I *hate* the militia movement : On Monday, nine members of a Christian terrorist militant group were arraigned and charged by a grand jury with conspiring to attack and kill police officers including those attending a funeral in an attempt to expand their war against the group’s enemy, namely the United States... The group, Hutaree, consists of several members in several states, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. The members were planning to kill a police officer, and then when other officers attended the funeral, they planned to detonate IED devices to kill police officers in attendance of the service. FBI officials stated that the attacks were being planned by the group to occur some time in April. Hey, assholes! My cousin just got back from Afghanistan where he led a counter-IED team. Way to give him a warm welcome home by trying to encourage a second "War of Yankee Aggression," you illiterate, rancid bastards. You can join Fred Phelps and enjoy a special place i...

From Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian : It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and the stands he'd made against them, laid up in a sag on some rise with the dead animals scattered over the grounds and the herd beginning to mill and the riflebarrel so hot the wiping patches sizzled in the bore and the animals by the thousands and tens of thousands and the hides pegged out over actual square miles of ground and the teams of skinners spelling one another around the clock and the shooting and shooting weeks and months till the bore shot slick and the stock shot loose at the tang and their shoulders were yellow and blue to the elbow and the tandem wagons groaned away over the prairie twenty and twenty-two ox teams and the flint hides by the ton and hundred ton and the meat rotting on the ground and the air whining with flies and the buzzards and ravens and the night a horror of snarling and feeding with the wolves half crazed ...

With my obligatory "health care, meh" post out of the way, time to geek out a bit. There's been a lot of scuttlebutt in the dorkus malorkus community about which actor will play Captain America in the upcoming movie adaptation. I, myself, think that DC has a better track record than Marvel when it comes to films (then again, I'm a DC partisan in general), but Marvel has improved their record lately with the impressively non-awful Iron Man and Spider Man franchises. Well, scratch that last, actually, as they canned Sam Raimi recently , along with the entire Spider Man cast, in the interests of a truly poorly though-out 3-D reboot. Now I get this news : Chris Evans will play Steve Rogers, also known as Captain America. Sources tell us the actor has not only accepted Marvel's offer, first detailed on Friday, but that the dealmaking moved so fast it's now all about dotting the i's and crossing the t's. Evans, if you recall, played Johnny Flame in the shitf...

So, (some semblance of) health care reform passed, and I suppose that's a good thing, generally speaking. I'm not stoked that it passed without a public option, and I think that Sadly, No! nailed it , as they so often do, when they wrote: That even this crappy version of HCR — which is better than nothing and is worth fighting for — passed at all was because of Nancy Pelosi. I’m sure this will make D.A. cry, but Hopey Changey, who has managed his own political capital with the same skill neocons managed the occupation of Iraq, deserves negative credit for its passing. When elected, he had a mandate to kick Republicans in the teeth; he wouldn’t have lost a single supporter had he immediately demonized and demagogued the shit out of insurance companies and Wall Street, two of the most hated groups in American history. But he didn’t; he sucked-up, he kissed-up, he fucked-up. And it almost ruined everything. I'll give Obama one thing: it's a start (of course, whether I shou...

Jon Voight , who I'm almost willing to forgive for his sins considering how hot his daughter is, speaks out against health reform in a Snuggie : This is no way should encourage you to think that the Tea Party thing has a particular flavor to it that might be described as a blend of "old" or "white" or "wingnut."