Author: Mark Alexander

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My Initial Summer Movie List

Dark Shadows
Battleship
Snow White and the Huntsman
Men in Black 3
The Raven
Lockout*
The Avengers
Wrath of the Titans*
Chernobyl Diaries
Cabin in the Woods*

and most anticipated…

Prometheus (OMFG yes! This flick had better live up to the hype!)

*I know at this point I’m going to have to find dollar theaters for several on the list as they’re well past their “sell by” dates. And since Ben has has also indicated he’s also not interested in seeing them, guess what I’m going to be doing while he’s in Phoenix in two weeks?

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Saturday Dance Party: THP Orchestra – Dancing is Alright

THP Orchestra’s third LP, aptly titled THP 3 is one of my all time favorite dance records. The summer of 1979 was awesome in terms of the music coming out. And then “disco” died, but after a brief hiatus, reincarnated as “dance music.” (I remember how my DJ friend Steve used to roll his eyes at the term.)

When I first heard Patrick Cowley’s Megatron Man in 1981, I knew the genre—whatever you wanted to call it—was back, stronger and better than ever.

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Five Minutes of Pure Batshit Insanity

This is what happens when dementia wards are left unlocked.

“Whitney Houston was found without clothes in a bathtub. Every corpse found without clothes has a partner that did away with them.” Also: Did you know that you’ll die within thirty minutes of rimming somebody?

My advice? Ignore the whack-job. Concentrate on the cute guy sitting in the background. His reactions to this cray-cray are PRICELESS!

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Quote of the Day

“The problem—often not discovered until late in life—is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies that they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, and they generate their own emotion.” ~ Neil deGrassi Tyson

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I Just Don't Get It

So all the usual suspects are foaming at the mouth because of Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality.

Quelle surprise. BREAKING: the sun rises in the east.

At least for me, all their yammering on about the sanctity of marriage is simply becoming so much background noise. While Obama has yet to do anything concrete to back up his supposed “evolution” on the matter, it still feels like a seismic shift has occurred in the American psyche. As I said to a coworker today, “The dam has burst, and there’s no turning back.”

After what happened in North Carolina on Tuesday, Obama’s announcement was nothing less than a thing of beauty and a very stiff middle finger pointed straight in their direction.

But what I really don’t understand—and maybe I really shouldn’t waste any more brain power because of the inherent stupidity associated with it—is why all these knuckle-dragging Christofascists are so upset that it’s happening. I mean, if they take it as a sign of  the imminent arrival of their beloved “End Times” (“Ooh Santa is coming tonight!) why aren’t they embracing it?  Don’t they want their invisible sky fairy to finally descend from the heavens, reveal himself to all the unbelievers and condemn the Atheists, gays, abortionists, Muslims, yada, yada, (basically anyone who isn’t them), to eternal damnation and never-ending hellfire so they can stand there smugly with their arms crossed and say, “I told you so!”?

Is it maybe because in their shriveled little black hate-filled hearts, while they have no doubts whatsoever about the existence of hell and the righteous judgment of unrepentant sinners, they do have doubts that maybe—just maybe—their names won’t be found written in the desired column on Jeebus’s Big List of Naughty and Nice®?

Let’s face it: we’re human. Who among us hasn’t done something we shouldn’t have. Show me someone who claims that he’s never lied and I’ll show you a liar. (The same goes for masturbation.) And the ones who are always screaming most loudly about GAWWWWD are the ones bathing in champagne and pissing out their penthouse windows on the masses below.

Wasn’t it their very own Lord and Savior® himself who supposedly said, “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone?”

I’ve thought about this probably more than I should have, and this is the only explanation I can come up with. They have that one little bit of doubt about their own worthiness to enter the Magic Kingdom that’s bouncing around in their empty skulls, and basically, deep down, they’re scared shitless.

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Thank You, Mr. President


President Obama today announced that he now supports same-sex marriage, reversing his longstanding opposition amid growing pressure from the Democratic base and even his own vice president.

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