Issue 71
News: Election 08
As you may know, next year will be a presidential election. This will be the first presidential election in which neither an incumbent president nor vice president will be running since 1928, since Bush's two terms will have run out and Cheney has (thankfully) refused to run for presidential office. More importantly, it will be the first election in which I will vote (since I will turn 18 in a few months). As one can imagine, I will vote Democrat (unless the Republican and Democratic parties switch agendae and the Democrats become the more theocratic party). Currently, my family is supporting Barack Obama, for some obvious reasons, like he's a Democrat from Illinois, although some people in my class don't support him, saying that he's too young to have enough experience (my current teacher, who does not support Bush has been saying this) and some students have been disapproving of him because he smokes (which seems to be an extremely stupid reason to disapprove, since the fact that he smokes has nothing to do with whether he can do a better job of running the country than Bush has done, and I believe he can do better, even though I also believe a monkey can do a better job running the country than Bush has done.) Of Course, I do not have much else to say at this time since the election is currently 618 days away.
Band Name: Square Circles. A contradiction in terms.
Film Review: Die Mommie Die. Based on the off-Broadway play by Charles Busch, who also plays Angela Arden in the film, this confirms my suspicion that limited-release films are often better than wide-release films. Ex-singer Angela Arden poisons her husband and when her daughter finds out, she teams up with her brother, and her maid to find a way to help her confess to the crime.
How to Murder Your Wife. Jack Lemmon plays a Hugh Hefner-like playboy comic strip writer named Stanley Ford who lives in a New York Penthouse and learns that he married a woman who can't speak English. With this change, the focus in the strip changes from espionage to married life. Later, he decides to shift the comic strip back to espionage by killing off his main character's wife whilst killing off his own wife in the same ways as described in the strip. Ultimately, his attempts to kill her are unsuccessful, and thwarted when she leaves him. He is arrested for her murder and his comic strips are used as evidence against him. The film's novel twist comes as he decides to claim he actually did kill her and after an interview with his attourney, he gets off on justifiable homicide. Immediately afterwards, she comes back to him.
Quote: "You don't want Teenagers having sex and you don't want them playing Dungeons and Dragons, either? Isn't that like saying you don't want them to get sick but would hate for them to get vaccinations?"
_______Fred MacIntire, Something Positive: 10/08/06
Link: And now for Something Positive.
As you may know, next year will be a presidential election. This will be the first presidential election in which neither an incumbent president nor vice president will be running since 1928, since Bush's two terms will have run out and Cheney has (thankfully) refused to run for presidential office. More importantly, it will be the first election in which I will vote (since I will turn 18 in a few months). As one can imagine, I will vote Democrat (unless the Republican and Democratic parties switch agendae and the Democrats become the more theocratic party). Currently, my family is supporting Barack Obama, for some obvious reasons, like he's a Democrat from Illinois, although some people in my class don't support him, saying that he's too young to have enough experience (my current teacher, who does not support Bush has been saying this) and some students have been disapproving of him because he smokes (which seems to be an extremely stupid reason to disapprove, since the fact that he smokes has nothing to do with whether he can do a better job of running the country than Bush has done, and I believe he can do better, even though I also believe a monkey can do a better job running the country than Bush has done.) Of Course, I do not have much else to say at this time since the election is currently 618 days away.
Band Name: Square Circles. A contradiction in terms.
Film Review: Die Mommie Die. Based on the off-Broadway play by Charles Busch, who also plays Angela Arden in the film, this confirms my suspicion that limited-release films are often better than wide-release films. Ex-singer Angela Arden poisons her husband and when her daughter finds out, she teams up with her brother, and her maid to find a way to help her confess to the crime.
How to Murder Your Wife. Jack Lemmon plays a Hugh Hefner-like playboy comic strip writer named Stanley Ford who lives in a New York Penthouse and learns that he married a woman who can't speak English. With this change, the focus in the strip changes from espionage to married life. Later, he decides to shift the comic strip back to espionage by killing off his main character's wife whilst killing off his own wife in the same ways as described in the strip. Ultimately, his attempts to kill her are unsuccessful, and thwarted when she leaves him. He is arrested for her murder and his comic strips are used as evidence against him. The film's novel twist comes as he decides to claim he actually did kill her and after an interview with his attourney, he gets off on justifiable homicide. Immediately afterwards, she comes back to him.
Quote: "You don't want Teenagers having sex and you don't want them playing Dungeons and Dragons, either? Isn't that like saying you don't want them to get sick but would hate for them to get vaccinations?"
_______Fred MacIntire, Something Positive: 10/08/06
Link: And now for Something Positive.
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