I just met Nikki Sixx. Radical.
Archive for June, 2004
How does this make sense - the assault weapons ban in California is not going to get renewed after it expires on September 13? What? What POSSIBLE good reason can there be to not renew a ban on ASSAULT weapons? There is no good reason to own one of these things unless you want to blow someone away.
Six puppies were killed when stupid teenagers in put fireworks in their mouths. Seriously? WHO DOES THAT? How screwed up and neglected and dysfunctional do you have to be to not know that this is NOT OK?? Violence against animals is one of my biggest triggers for uncontrollable rage. Makes me want to go home and hug my dogs.
J.K. Rowling has announced the title of the sixth installment of the Harry Potter series: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Interesting. And she says that the Half Blood Prince is neither Harry nor Voldemort.
The class/race warfare theme in her books is really interesting, and a great way to introduce the subject to kids, get them thinking about it.
Weekend was good. Started off with seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 at the ArcLight cinema in Hollywood (best place ever to see a movie). What can I say, really. Amazing film, I laughed, I wept, I was ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS when I left the theater. Go see it yourself.
Went to my friend’s bridal shower, which was nice, then stayed home for the rest of the weekend. Picked my not-so-little bro up from the airport and took him to his friend’s house. They left this morning for seven weeks in Europe. He started a blog, Drunken Tourist, so we back home can see what he’s up to while he’s there. I left him with two instructions: 1) Have fun and be safe, 2) Bring me back something cool.
VP Cheney told Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont to either “go f–k” himself or “f–k off” on the FLOOR of Senate on Tuesday.
Jason Buckley, San Francisco blogger extraordinaire, suggests that everyone send the FCC the following email:
I saw something on CSPAN today that greatly offended me. Vice President Dick Cheney used the F word live on television this afternoon from the floor of the Senate. What sort of message is he sending to our children by using language like this on the floor of the Senate and on live television? When the Brownback bill is passed, will it be possible to fine Vice President Cheney for this indecency? As an important public official in this country, he really needs to be made an example of. I would like to see him fined to the maximum extent of the law.
Thank you, and God bless America.
I sent mine off a few minutes ago 
[link via freakgirl]
Arnold Schwarzenegger, our LOVELY Governor here in California, wants to repeal a state law that requires animal shelters to hold stray dogs and cats for up to six days before killing them. He wants to lower that to three days. Other animals, including birds, hamsters, potbellied pigs, rabbits, snakes and turtles, could be killed immediately. What a fucking asshole. I was having dinner with a friend of mine last night and we were talking about how you can tell so much about a man’s character by the way he treats animals. CASE IN FUCKING POINT!!!
This is ridiculous - found on imdb.com under the headline “Conservative Group Claims Victory over ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′”.
Although its distributors claim that Michael Moore’s controversial Fahrenheit 9/11 will open in 858 theaters on Friday — the biggest release for a documentary ever — the conservative outfit Move America Forward, set up to battle the film, claimed victory Wednesday in its effort to induce theater owners to refuse to screen it, noting that the distributors will fall short of the more than 1,000 theaters that they had originally forecast.
These people are proud of thumbing their nose at the first amendment? They are proud of endorsing censorship? I find this really scary, because it shows that the Bush administration’s warped view of patriotism is permeating this country. Time for a f’ing regime change ’round here!
Supposedly a nude scene was removed from Colin Farrell’s new movie because his..ahem…package…is so large that it “distracted” test audiences from the plot. I can’t WAIT for the director’s cut!!!
And seriously, how much must Colin Farrell be loving this publicity right now? To have it all over the web that his wang is so ungodly huge that it made women gasp out loud when they saw it? Every man’s dream, right?
Here is a great article from the New York Times about Michael Moore’s new film Farenheit 9/11. It sounds like Moore went out of his way to check and double and triple check the facts in the film to make it as unimpeachable as possible. I can’t wait!! I think we already have our tickets for Friday night!
MR. MOORE usually revels in his role as the target of conservative attacks, and his delight in playing the mischievous, little-guy bomb-thrower has brought him fame, wealth and the devotion of fans more interested in rhetorical force than precision. But with “Fahrenheit” he has taken on his biggest and best-defended target yet, and his production staff says that on his orders they have taken no chances in checking and double-checking the film, knowing Bush supporters would pounce on factual mistakes.
Mr. Moore is readying for a conservative counterattack, saying he has created a political-style “war room” to offer an instant response to any assault on the film’s credibility. He has retained Chris Lehane, a Democratic Party strategist known as a master of the black art of “oppo,” or opposition research, used to discredit detractors. He also hired outside fact-checkers, led by a former general counsel of The New Yorker and a veteran member of that magazine’s legendary fact-checking team, to vet the film. And he is threatening to go one step further, saying he has consulted with lawyers who can bring defamation suits against anyone who maligns the film or damages his reputation.
