BK Burger Shots – Part Deux

I agree, don’t get them, mine tasted like balls.

Finally, a rice that personifies me

BK Burger Shots

BK Burger Shots are a SCAM! They aren’t delish, they aren’t cute, and they aren’t what they look like on TV! Blasphemy!

Looks like rumpled foreskin…

rumpled foreskin?

Movie Review – Righteous Kill [2008]

 Righteous Kill

Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino

Runtime: 110 minutes

OVERALL: C

The first thing this movie does it remind you of The Boondock Saints. You have a good guy, killing bad guys. As you would expect, Pacino and De Niro deliver fantastic performances. John Leguizamo and Donnie Walberg also play excellent supporting roles.

At the start of the movie, we hear Robert De Niro narrating a confession, and much of this continues throughout the movie. For the first 100 minutes of this movie, we see a steady spiraling decline of De Niro’s character into madness and rage. The interaction, or passiveness in his actions of Pacino balances the movie well, as the other two detectives (Leguizamo and Walberg) close in on the serial bad-guy killer.

However, the last 10 minutes of the movie completely ruin the journey. John Avnet (who produced  such ejaculate filled movies such as Homeward Bound, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Steal This Movie, Inspector Gadget, etc) and penman Russell Geriwitz (of Inside Man) decide to throw in a retarded plot twist at the end. Knowing of Inside Man’s clusterfuck ending, it should have been no surprise that great performances by two of our most respected actors would be completely blown by the trend to mindfuck the viewer at the end.

You see, there’s this trend right now that if you can’t guess the ending of a movie, it’s good. You’ll go into work and say, “Dude, you so won’t guess the ending, you have to go see it.” Unfortunately, these are too often thrown in last minute, destroying the first 7/8 of the movie. This is the case here.

[SPOILER ALERTS]

The whole movie is telling you that De Niro is the killer. It makes sense, and for the most part, Pacino is a supporting actor, little is devulged about him. Then right at the end, bam, we learn that all of those 1st person shots were from his point of view.

The movie wasted a brilliant 100 minutes of acting for 5 minutes of shock value and water-cooler talk.

Overpaid Athletes and our Country

Sports are a big part of not only fans’ lives, but everyones lives. Whether you like it or not, the big business that is sports, touches each and every one of us. It may affect your city’s traffic on Sunday afternoons, it may affect casual conversation with people you’ve just met, and it certainly affects our day-to-day lives in the form of advertisement.

Whether we like it or not, sports are a big business, and it generates a lot of revenue. To be honest, I’m pretty damn tired of people complaining about athletes’ pay.

We live in a country that was founded upon certain principles. We have the right to religion, the bill of rights secures what we consider fundamental laws of humanity, and we have the right to prosper.

Prosperity is something that people flock from all over the world just to get a taste of. People in communist countries come because they want to decide their prosperity. Indian people come here and work their asses off. When we can’t keep up, we complain; we tell them to stop stealing American jobs. Why?

The great thing about this country is that we can decide essentially our path. We can choose to work hard. We can choose to become skilled. However, with the good comes the bad. Unfortunately human nature often times overrides this fundamental belief. How does this relate to athletes?

Athletes are skilled. The skill they they excel at is something that very few people can do. Its cold to think of it, but that’s how this country was founded. Do you think they make too much? Then you sit your ass in the box and try and hit CC Sabathia (notice no periods between first initials anymore). OK, now let’s see how well he can screw a bolt into an exhaust manifold.

The problem is green. Not only is the grass perpetually more elsewhere, but people can be it with envy. We will bust our ass getting to where we want to be. When the neighbors come over, we flaunt our new flat-screen TV, tell them about the hot tub that’s being put in. We enjoy that part of the capitalism our country (for the time being) embraces. We look down on those less fortunate, tell them to get better jobs; go back to school. However, when Bob moves in across the screen rolling in his Porsche, all of a sudden things just aren’t fair. I deserve a Porsche too. Communism takes over for the less willing and lazy. We have a natural greed about us that won’t let someone else enjoy what they have. The problem isn’t their fault.

We have come to accept this monetary exchange, and the standard has been set. It’s you people who are willing to pay $10 to go sit in a dark room and watch a moving picture for two hours. It’s you same people that are willing to go spend $50 so sit in a 12-inch plastic coffin, getting sunburnt, while your pits water down your sides because you can’t extend your arms. I’m not going to bang on anyone for doing it though, just as I’m not going to bang on anyone for spending thousands of dollars on a car.

You see, when it comes down to it, sports are simply coorporations. They put out a product, which the public purchases. They then take the overhead out, put money aside for growth and the rest goes to its employees. The only problem is that there are 10,000,000 other people out there that are more than capable to do your job. How many can do theirs?

On the bright side, athletes getting paid a lot is great for the economy. Every week that Pacman Jones gets paid, dozens of strippers can take home money to pay their rent. When Plaxico Burress gets his signing bonus, all the people who manufacture firearms are employed for another week. Every check they give to Larry Johnson lets one more woman who he’s jacked in the face sue him, which will in turn let her pay her rent….and her weave.

Luckily, when most of these assholes go bankrupt, it will be us helping them pay their rent.

Cockflavored Brew Co. – Rusty Trombone

This is the Cockflavored Brew Co. first batch of homebrew. I call it the Rusty Trombone, a delicious Porter brewed with chocolate malts.

For Buddy – Change Bitches

Limited Government?

As the years go by, government seems to get bigger and bigger. Why does the government feel the need to have control over everything and everyone?

I believe that limited governments allow for free market competition and personal choices. This leads to a rise in the standard of living, lower government spending and increased trade. Along with this comes freedom. The same freedom that our founding fathers wanted for us. Freedom to me is the granted opportunity to be successful and to have the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them. This is what was meant by constitutional definition of freedom and equality. Everyone has the same right to this freedom as anyone else. This is NOT freedom and equality defined by our current administration.

I understand that the tail end of the Bush administration has just as much to do with expanding government as Barry does, but we need to turn this around.

I mean what happened to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? We should never compromise these basic rights for “an easier path”!

Think for yourself, Question authority….