Licensing GONE WILD!

All my life I've dreamed of owning a 2003 Phildelphia Eagles Stealth Bomber. Thank you FLEER TM and the National Football League TM, for making my dream come true:



2003 Philadelphia Eagles Stealth Bomber

"Fleer Collectibles proudly presents the newest edition to its aircraft lineup, the 1:44 scale 2003 NFL Stealth B2 Bomber. This plane is a technological wonder and will be splashed with the official colors and logos of 14 of today's hottest NFL teams. Grab your favorite or collect them all. The roster of teams includes the Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears, New York Jets, New Orleans Saints, New England Patriots and Houston Texans. Each team will be produced in limited quantities!

· Officially licensed product of the NFL
· Featuring the official logos and colors of 14 of the hottest NFL teams
· 1:44 scale die-cast B-2 Stealth Bomber
· Each aircraft is approximately 6 inches long, 1 ½ inches tall and 14 inches wide "

EAGLES Everything

Hey, you got religion in my peanut butt..er, movie

Dear Christianty-

Please claim every popular movie as a symbol of religion and use each as a tool for preaching conservative, self-righteousness around the world.

Sincerely-
The Pagan Herd that is society

Finally, a study guide to explain the biblical imagery in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. While viewing the epic battle of good vs. evil lucky readers can dig into chapters like:

—The Struggle for Virtue(Romans 6:15-7:25; Philippians 2:1-3; 4:2-9)

—Resisting Power and Sin(Genesis 3:5; Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:11-12; Luke 4:1-13; 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)

Religion is everywhere and if some people had their way it would be the only thing, anywhere, but efforts like this remind me how pathetic, and yet resourceful, the fanatically faithful can be. An article or review can present an opinion, but crafting a document and calling it a study guide makes assumptions about the artists' original visions and twists them to meet an agenda. I suppose it gives someone, somewhere, something to do. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is no more about God as it is about New York City hot dog vendors.

Now there's a study guide: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy as it relates to the NYC Hot Dog Vendor manifesto.

Other weekend activities:
God meets the Matrix
Jesus goes to Shawshank
Harry Potter and the Holy Ghost

Scientist Action Figures

A great article about the present and possible future of Scientist Action Figures:

• Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro: "What a mouthful! But you've got his number now--you'll have 6.02x1023 hours of fun with the man who figured out that equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules. No, really, you will."

  Check out the whole collection.

Albert Einstein in the house (or on eBay at least):

Spaceballs vs. It Happened One Night

You ever have one of those moments when you're watching a late night old movie and suddenly a little light comes on in your head and you realize that something you saw 15 years before in a comedy turns out to be the over the top parody you're embarrassed you never got it in the first place. So I'm watching It Happened One Night, best picture 1934, and I'm thinking "I've seen this ending somewhere before." Nothing like finding parody by seeing the original last.
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Thank you Mel Brooks and Spaceballs. Clark Gable turns down the $10,000 reward and takes only $39.60 for his trouble to buy gas money. Lonestar turns down Dick Van Patten's (King Roland) reward at the end and only asks for money for gas & tolls. How the hell I made this connection I have no idea. I never picked up the parody through dozens of Spaceballs viewings, but seriously, how many 17 year-olds had seen It Happened One Night in 1987...how about now?

Now let's get crazy with google:
1. Daphne Zuniga starred in Spaceballs as Princess Vespa and also, from imdb.com:
"Spin City" (1996) playing "Carrie" in episode: "It Happened One Night" (episode # 3.5) 20 October 1998

2. Both movies are listed on this comedy page

3. Even this reviewer of Anastasia is light years ahead of me:
"The story isn't bad, either. I understand it's something of a remake of an old, live-action Anastasia movie. (Which didn't stop them from lifting the ending device--the same one parodied in Spaceballs--from It Happened One Night.) In fact, outside of the evil-sorceror subplot, which feels tacked-on at times, there seems little reason to have used animation for Anastasia."

4. More Daphne Zuniga. What? Read on about The Sure Thing:
"A kind of modern take on Capra's "It Happened One Night," Rob Reiner's second movie has charming underachiever John Cusack sharing a cross-country ride with prim, pretty Daphne Zuniga. She's heading out to see her tea-drinking preppie fiancé and he, to a "sure thing" -- a night of sex -- set up by his pal Anthony Edwards. Of course, love conquers all."
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5. Apparently this is common knowledge. Even snikrdoodle knew.

6. This site lists One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest as the first film to sweep the big 5 Academy Awards since It Happened One Night in 1934. Inexplicably, listed below Spaceballs. These films are linked everywhere.

Other forums smarter than I am.

M-1 Abrams tank nicknames

U.S. tank crews (aka TREAD HEADS) in the Middle East have taken to naming their vehicles in the field with stencils and spray paint. There's not much on the internet detailing the best names, but here is a small article outlining the grass roots morale movement. A dead link from last year showed a long row of M-1 Abrams tanks, each with a name painted on the barrel. My favorite? The term for acquiring a target's range and potential firepower needed for its destruction: BALLISTIC SOLUTION.

"Each side of the main gun tube is stenciled with white letters over a black background; cutout photos of a Saddam Hussein doll dressed in drag are pasted next to the name.

Naming the tanks is a heated process. The tank crews offer up their suggestions; the tank commander can veto the crew; and the higher company leadership has final say over whether the names are too offensive to grace a multimillion-dollar piece of military hardware."

Name this tank

Happy Birthday to me!

Heading to PEPSI 400 tomorrow night. Could be very cool. Throwing 4th of July bash Sunday afternoon. Taking tomorrow off to rest up.

Hey Moira!

Welcome to my blog. First order of coolness from WAXY.ORG

"First up, the best TV pilot you've never seen: Ben Stiller's Heat Vision and Jack from 1999. Jack Black stars as Jack Austin, an astronaut on the run from NASA after a solar accident makes him the smartest man in the universe. Owen Wilson plays his talking motorcycle. Produced by Stiller, who also appears in the introduction and as a strip club DJ."

Heat Vision and Jack

Saturday 1

Wasted the morning. Heading to a Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament.

"Ruffian Mastadons living with 9964"

Can someone explain this to me?