Jun11

The Walk Show: Northern Liberties

by tonyd on June 11, 2011 at 12:01 am

The Walk Show is back, bros. This time, me and missus are in hipster central, Northern Liberties in Philadelphia.

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Jun10

Rewritten Headlines: Wells Fargo to Wallow Fire

by tonyd on June 10, 2011 at 3:29 am

Bah-bah-but-baaaaah! Bah-ba-bah, but-bah-bah! Bah-bah-but-baaaaah! Bah-ba-bah, but-bah-bah!

Hey, bros, it’s time for Rewritten Headlines. When you don’t have time to read actual news stories, let Tony D tell you the news in rewritten headlines. Saves time and brain cells. It’ll allow you to drink more! Now, the news!

Real Headline: Wells Fargo: Financial Winner

Rewritten Headline:  Bankers Still Laughing All the Way to Work

Real:  Alabama Enacts Tough Illegal-Immigration Law

Rewritten:  Alabama Done Hating Black People, Moving Onto Mexicans

Real: Red Sox Wipe Out Yankees

Rewritten:  God Still Rooting for Boston

Real: Newt Gingrinch Loses Key Members of His Campaign

Rewritten:  Resume Emails Pay Off for Gingrich’s Smarter Staff Members

Real:  MTV Cancels Racy Teen Drama “Skins” After One Season

Rewritten:  MTV Fans Realize They Can See Fully Naked People on Internet

Real:  Weiner Insists He Won’t Resign

Rewritten:  Weiner to Resign in 3…2…

Real:  Wallow Fire Crosses Border Into New Mexico

Rewritten:  Even Fire Gets Fed Up with Living in Arizona

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Jun10

Frat Boy At the Movies: X-men First Class

by tonyd on June 10, 2011 at 1:17 am

X-men: First Class is a pretty decent prequel to the X-men franchise.  It manages to entertain, keep the continuity of the previous movies and keep much of the comic book.   I found it somewhat entertaining and a little too long, for those of you who have no idea who the X-men are, you’ll probably like it a lot more.

Where does the movie miss?  Well, I guess that depends on your demographic.  If you’re old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, then you’re probably too old to have read the X-men comic books in their hey-day.  And if you grew up with the X-men movies, the historical context might be lost upon you.

The story takes place mostly in 1962, which, for those of you counting was 49 years ago.  The Soviet Union has been gone since 92 (19 years ago).   That kind of takes the punch out of the threat.

Charles Xavier is just getting started and is recruited by the CIA to fight a growing mutant menace started by the Hellfire Club.  Using them as the villains was probably one of the strongest choices in the movie.  I was pretty wary of Kevin Bacon playing the lead villain, but I got to say, he’s the bright spot in the movie.

James McAvoy does a pretty great Charles and Michael Fassbender a fairly ominous and haunted Magneto.  The rest of the cast is decent, but they’re not given much to do.  I mean, there’s action and powers and stuff, but some of X-men lore is thrown overboard for the story, while other lore is rigidly adhered to for no reason that I can figure out.

I guess you can say, it kind of suffers from what the comic books always did in that there are too many characters, too many stories going on.  It’s both too old (the time period of the story) and too young (hey let’s see all the X-men party instead of train) all at the same time.  The only one that seems focused on a plan is evil Kevin Bacon.

Growing up in the 80’s with Claremont X-men, I gotta say I’m pretty biased.  I did enjoy the first two X-men and thought they were fairly true to the comic.  Maybe if I didn’t know so much about comic books and history I would’ve enjoyed it more.  I guess you can say its entertaining, but not compelling.

Anyhow, with that admitted bias, I give X-men: First Class 7 out of ten keggers.

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Jun08

Twitter in Focus: Tim Matheson (AKA: Otter from Animal House)

by tonyd on June 8, 2011 at 12:01 am

Hello, bros!

Welcome to Twitter in Focus, where media comes to die. Today is a special TIF, bros. It’s not often I get to analyze the tweets of a legend, but today’s contestant is Tim Matheson! Otherwise known as Otter from Animal House! (He was also once the co-owner of the National Lampoon magazine.) Let’s see if his tweets are just as funny.

May 15th:  “I get to direct @kathygriffin this week! And Margaret Cho! Look out for some fun!”

Don’t piss Kathy off.  Remember what she did to Anderson Cooper.

May 19th: “Kathy Griffin rocked on Drop Dead Diva. So funny, so smart, so talented, and what a great, great ass! We miss you already!”

That’s not bad for 51.

May 22nd: “(mostly wht I’m doing now!) Small world Department: Landis & I saw HOT FUZZ tgthr in Vancouver, BC, when it opened. Fell out of seat!”

Hot Fuzz? Uh, oh. These may be some very old tweets.

May 23rd: “wrppd shooting DROP DEAD DIVA.What a blst.Gd 2 go 2 wrk&laugh all day!Thnx 2 Brooke, April, Kate, Josh, Jackson, Ben,Kathy Griffin+Gst Strz!”

Wow, that’s gotta be a new record for cramming a lot of info in one tweet.

May 23rd: “and Margaret Cho!! DDDIVA!”

Ah, dammit. So close.

May 23rd: “Oh, My God! How good is Dirk Nowitzki??”

Okay, this is from 2011.

May 25th: “a man’s core: RT @robdelaney: I just mentally undressed, fucked, married, had 3 beautiful kids w/ & died of old age w/ a woman that jogged past me.”

Yeah, except those last three.

June 6th: “dccc.org/page/share/med… Sign a petition to save Medicare from destruction by unthinking Republicans!”

Ah, getting political. I respect that. People always tell me to keep that stuff off the site, but I say why? It’s interesting.

June 6th: ““More Sarah Palin ‘gotcha’ questions: Paper or plastic? Would you like fries with that? What do you think Sarah?””

Oh, let me in on this!
“Should I bring your bus around, Ms. Palin?”
“Can I wrap the rest of that sandwich for you?”
“Hot enough for you?”
“Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?”
“Anyone have the time?”
“Are you okay?”
“Do you know how fast you were driving?”
“Why don’t you think of a question?”
“Isn’t America great?”
“Can you pass the salt, please?”
“I’m sorry, who are you?”
She’s just an endless font of comedy, isn’t she?

Okay, let’s rate Otter’s tweets. He’s pretty laid back, so I give him only a 6 for Insanity, he retweets a lot and pretty much knows everyone in Hollywood, I give that a 9 for Style and he posts semi-regularly, so an 8 for Mustness. That’s about 7.6 overall. I’m going to round it up to 8. C’mon, bros. You gotta follow Otter! He’s pre-law! Or pre-med, what’s the difference?

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