"If I Start Running This Place"

quiller · August 11, 2014, 01:27:29 PM

One of the better lists of things you'd do, if indeed you ran things, from the terrific Sarah Palin-supporting blog House of Eratosthenes.... (Crossed-out text is in the original.)

Quote1. No movie shall ever be made, from here on, containing ~~a scene in which the hero and heroine have an argument about whether she's coming with him or not~~ any of the things on my list of things I don't want to see in movies. This is to be punished by a fine equal to two percent of the opening weekend's box office revenue.

2. All holidays except "fun" holidays are hereby abolished. I define a "fun" holiday this way: Ordinary people — not bank people, not postal service people, but real people — get the day off. Christmas. Thanksgiving. New Years, Labor, Memorial, July 4th. All that other stuff, from Columbus Day to Martin Luther King day...if non-bank non-mail non-DMV people have to work, the bank and mail and DMV people have to work too. Groundhog day. President's Day. Keep printing them on the calendars if you want, but if we don't all get to go home and get drunk, then none of us do.

3. Speaking of people getting the day off. Veteran's Day. Each year on October 11, real veterans are invited to write in to their local newspapers with reports about whether they have to work on November 11. Within each county, if ten or more veterans have to work on 11/11, then all the non-veterans in that county have to work too. From this day forward, we celebrate Veteran's Day for for the vets, or we don't celebrate it for anyone.

4. The feminist movement is hereby suspended. Feminists have an opportunity to apply, annually, to re-instate their movement. Each year they are to announce whether they think Bill Clinton should be prosecuted for assaulting and/or exploiting Juannita Broadderick, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, et al. If they answer in the negative, they can go away for another year. And they can keep that cycle going as long as they care to, but in the meantime they have nothing to say.

5. For a nominal additional charge, you can have your pizza delivered with beer. The goal is supposed to be to keep drunks off the road, so from now on we're going to get serious about it. Also, the corner bar has parking spaces...just a couple of them, for the employees. That's all. You get a ride down there however you can.

6. Franklin Roosevelt's face is hereby removed from the United States ten-cent piece, otherwise known as the "dime," because of his efforts to pack the Supreme Court and his violation of the fourth and fourteenth amendments when he locked up U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. The United States stands opposed to racism, and in picking out racism to oppose, we start with his.

http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/when-i-start-running-this-place/

And this list of stuff he doesn't want to see in films? The list is truly epic, as is this quote...

QuoteIt's a funny thing about creativity. People get into the business of providing it, and the first thing they want to do is skimp on it. It's a weak corollary trying to connect software applications development to Hollyweird...but I think it works, and if it does work, then I've seen more than my share of this.

It's sad watching people throw everything away to chase off after a livelihood, and then betray that livelihood. People, generally, sacrifice an awful lot to stay un-creative.

http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/what-i-dont-want-to-see-in-movies/

taxed · August 11, 2014, 01:30:04 PM

I love this guy's writing.

quiller · August 11, 2014, 01:47:12 PM

Quote from: taxed on August 11, 2014, 01:30:04 PM
I love this guy's writing.

May I suggest you add a link to his site, to encourage his reciprocity? I too love this guy's writing. Glenn "Puppy Blender" Reynolds (Instapundit) and the exalted liege lord Emperor Misha I over at the Idiotarian Rottweiler are both huge fans as well. (See the sidebar to either piece and some of the quotes under THEY SAY.)

http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog

taxed · August 11, 2014, 01:48:02 PM

Quote from: quiller on August 11, 2014, 01:47:12 PM
May I suggest you add a link to his site, to encourage his reciprocity? I too love this guy's writing. Glenn "Puppy Blender" Reynolds (Instapundit) and the exalted liege lord Emperor Misha I over at the Idiotarian Rottweiler are both huge fans as well. (See the sidebar to either piece and some of the quotes under THEY SAY.)

http://www.peekinthewell.net

We went back and forth actually, but I think we let it fall to the floor.

quiller · August 11, 2014, 01:54:58 PM

My error. It's the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler. And here's their link as well....

http://nicedoggie.net

...along with today's video post (this from the YouTube original link).... (You WILL sing along, jawohl?!?!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zy297Xgr8Q

kit saginaw · August 11, 2014, 02:41:07 PM

And no more of this:

The West Wing - Opening Titles in High Definition

quiller · August 11, 2014, 02:53:19 PM

Quote from: kit saginaw on August 11, 2014, 02:41:07 PM
And no more of this:

The West Wing - Opening Titles in High Definition

And then like the Adamses and the Bushes, the father/son acting team of Sheen and Estevez (Charlie, that is) both portrayed presidents. (Machete II for the whoremonger, and of course the TV show for a guy whose own early acting roles were as creepy as his real-life son to0ok to heart, years later. But I digress.)

The heroism involved! The epic grandeur of their glossy facile fable-making!

Welcome to Camel Lot. It ain't a TV show.

kit saginaw · August 11, 2014, 08:03:41 PM

Quote from: quiller on August 11, 2014, 02:53:19 PM
The heroism involved! The epic grandeur of their glossy facile fable-making!

Welcome to Camel Lot. It ain't a TV show.

I have a feeling that the new show, Madam Secretary will be about libs paying-tribute to themselves again. A red flag went up when I noticed that the woman is second-billed to some man.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501074/