Archive for the 'Movies' Category
As we reach the end of the first decade of the 21st century the news is filled with not only year end reviews but also decade end reviews. I began this decade in a simple and unglamorous fashion. In late 1999 my girlfriend’s parents at the time were paranoid Trilateral Commission types convinced [...]
December 23rd, 2009 | Posted in 2008, Afghanistan War, Business Matters, Entertainment Garbage, Footballtown TSE, History, Iraq War, Media, Movies, Politics, Sports, The Holidays, World Affairs | No Comments
I’ve really been impressed with conservatives awkwardly trying to pin Roman Polanski’s sins on the whole of the political left. Along with “the media” “Hollywood values” have always been the meat and potatoes of knee-jerk conservative political excuses for anything wrong with the country. They feel that since Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein [...]
October 1st, 2009 | Posted in Entertainment Garbage, Movies, Politics | No Comments
June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Humor, Movies | 1 Comment
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Movies | 1 Comment
me: I always forget how good Air is
the band
Biggus: That’s probably because they aren’t that good.
me: oh yea
Biggus: But it’s fine that you like them. I just think less of you because of it.
Would “Polka Dots and Paisley” be a good title for a blog that had nothing to do wiht [...]
November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Entertainment Garbage, Humor, Media, Movies | No Comments
The Sunshine Empire would like to give our condolences to the family of comedy and film legend Rudy Ray Moore. His Dolemite series is legendary and he will be truly missed. Our good friend Jolemite’s name is derived from Moore’s most legendary character, but Moore was a stand-up comedy veteran aside from that. [...]
October 20th, 2008 | Posted in Humor, Movies, Sunshine Empire Masters Series | No Comments
I’ve had only four non-family heros in my life. Teddy Roosevelt, David Letterman, Hunter S. Thompson, and James Bond are the people I want to be when I grow up. With the new James Bond film coming at the end of the month, I watched one of the more underrated James Bond films [...]
October 19th, 2008 | Posted in Movies, Music | No Comments
The conservative approach to battling the rock star following for Senator Barack Obama has been hap-hazard, and contradictory to the point of absurdity. Initially, many conservatives began the email whispering campaign insisting that Obama was a secret Muslim. An Islamic Maxwell Smart if you will. They stated that since he had an Islamic sounding middle [...]
July 21st, 2008 | Posted in Iraq War, Movies, Politics, World Affairs | 3 Comments