“In fact, most of this ‘analysis’ practices the dreadful art of reviewing.’”


by RJ White

Todd Alcott is a screenwriter, playwright and monologist who has been writing incisive film analyses online for a few years (Examples: his exhaustive film-by-film look at the work of the Coen Brothers or Venture Bros. episode breakdowns, to name but two of many). He approaches everything from the basic question, “What does the protagonist want?” which also is the subtitle of his recently-launched site. In the process, he’ll go through a film, finding things you had no idea were there, but once they’re pointed out, you can’t not see them.

Okay, there’s your background. Now- Heidi MacDonald, proprietor of comics web-log The Beat, asked Mr. Alcott if he’d apply his methods to comic book-based films from time to time. First one? Batman: The Movie, the 1966 film starring Adam West, based upon the television series. The piece is typical Alcott, which is a good thing, looking at the film from a story standpoint, pointing out what works and what doesn’t, what makes sense and what is ridiculous. But also, it’s a bit of a joke to devote an ostensibly serious analysis such a goofy, fun film like this, which is sort of the point. Some folks got it, but this being the comics internet and all, many nerds bristle at even the vaguest hint of not taking a film starring Caesar Romero as a clown villain with white grease paint over a mustache and a character named “Commodore Schmidlapp” with the utmost respect.

Do you seriously not understand how camp humor works? Or have never in your life seen The Batman TV show from the 60s? You are a complete idiot and I don’t understand why The Beat asked you to do a guest post when you employ the blandest analytical style possible and completely miss the point of what you’re looking at.

Although I wouldn’t level the charge of “idiot” as vlucca does,I would say “misguided” or “sloppy.” I’d have to agree with vlucca’s assessment that the writer is missing the point of the film, and by extension, the series…You cannot use a one size fits all critical method in which you treat “Batman: The Movie” as the same sort of text as “The Dark Knight.” In fact, most of this “analysis” practices the dreadful art of “reviewing.”

Anybody with half of the brain power of the 60s Bruce Wayne could have cobbled together such random obvious remarks about this movie, which doesn’t go into any detail at all about the 40s Batman movie serials which had clearly informed the camp humor on display here.

If you really want to analyze this film, try looking at it in the context of Hollywood in the mid-1960s, where the influence of French New Wave film making was changing the way movies were made. Look at it as a transgressive narrative, much the way Bonnie and Clyde was a transgressive narrative, in that it subverted public perception as to what a superhero movie “should” be. Argue the influence of Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement on the look and style of the film, or look at it as pure political satire, in a day and age when authority was being held up to question and ridicule. All of these provide fertile ground for analysis. Simply recapping the film’s plot and making snide comments contributes nothing, and makes you appear as shallow and uneducated.

I have to think that this is the first time that the 1966 Batman has been associated with the French New Wave. If not, I have a hat nearby and some salt with which to eat it.

…a piece of film criticism needs to stand on it’s own– you need not read the backlog of writings by Anthony Lane, Pauline Kael or Jonathon Rosenbaum in order to “get” the critic. Film criticism is not like reading the collected works of a fiction writer– it needs to communicate directly to its audience a well-crafted set of rationalized positions regarding that film. Regardless of whether Mr. Alcott’s previous writings are “first-rate,” this, alas, is not. Additionally, this piece of writing qualifies as snarky, rather than campy. Camp is far more enjoyable.

And lord knows that, if there is one thing there is absolutely no room for in that part of the internet inhabited by comics nerds, it is “snark.” Also- this is a personal thing- can we please stop it with that word? Just for old Uncle RJ? I get the palpitations.

I’d fail my Junior and Senior level film students if they tried to hand this type of crap in as “analysis.”

Perhaps Mr. Alcott would be better served by calling his material “commentary.” The bar is set much lower in that regard.

Having read this “analysis,” it is easier to understand why so few interesting films ever get made any more. Has our modern understanding of the superhero become so cramped and reified that an intentional comedy has to delve into the murder of the protagonist’s parents to be enjoyable?

Hear! Hear! Batman has never been about some little kid who witnesses the violent murder of his parents, thus setting him on the path to actually become Batman.

The odd thing about all of this is the very obvious stretching some of these folks make to sound very intellectual and oh so serious while denouncing a dry tongue-in-cheek analysis of a goofy interpretation of a story about a fellow who dresses as a bat and punches crooks.



I hope someone breaks a bottle over your skinny little dome at your next show.


by RJ White

This week, the strange tale of Kari Ferrell, the “Hipster Grifter,” came to an end, as so many things do, in Philadelphia, with her arrest this week. Initial reports stated that she had turned herself in to authorities, but in a recent post at the City Paper weblog, local musician Sam Tremble takes credit for setting up the bust.

In the comments, there is a perfect storm of anti-hipster rage, class warfare and anti-snitching sentiment. Let’s go to the tape-

That’s totally rock and roll, man, working with the cops to set people up for a bust. Good work, crime stopper.

Um, since when does Philly like snitches? Impressed, yet surprised. I’m guessing dudes in an emo, not punk, band!

pretty slick pal. Now you get your headline publicity too. I´m really surprised you didn´t name check your band 50 times. Guess you figure it´s even cooler to get the google hits on your name. Fucking losers. Both of y´all. enjoy yr 15 minutes. That´s all you´re gonna get.

Wow, your folks must be so proud. They raised a snitch. And you look like your bands sucks.

You’re a rat fuck, Tremble. Ratting some girl out that didn’t even do anything to you, just to get your ugly mug in the papers. I hope someone breaks a bottle over your skinny little dome at your next show.

Dear Sam Tremble a.k.a. The Hipster Snitcher,

You expect us to believe your motives for setting her up to be arrested were because “she wasted (your) time and energy with her cancer stories”? You’re a prick who wants attention. I’m in no way a Kari Ferrell fan but I’d rather have her around then you any day.

I can’t wait to tomato your band. I can’t wait to watch what everyone else does too!

And stop shopping in the juniors department you dick.

She isn’t rich. Plenty of semi-rich people or people who forge things on their cc apps lie and have debt up to and above $60,000. Should we set them up too?

“Bloviation?” You’re an f***ing douche. You sent a girl to jail and then blogged about it. What a proud moment for you.

Sam Treble is such an ugly deuchebag, even Kari probably didn’t want to fuck him, or take his $, which is why he snitched on her and went to such great lengths to set her up. What a weasel.

Can I call him a deuchebag anymore times? Sam, get a fucking nosejob and buy a grown man’s shirt.

Maybe we are taking it out on the wrong criminal here.
Why aren’t we posting the pictures of the CEOs of major corporations that stole and lied from us on the most wanted lists? I’m a lot more hurt about them and their lies and cons.

Where was her bail out?

So what if she lied about cancer, and didn’t have money. We aren’t all so fortuate to have it ALL together ALL the time. We all make mistakes.
If she had a little more trust and compassion given to her maybe she would have turned it all around gotten a job and paid off her debt – like other people do with credit cards.

She’s totally like Robin Hood or something! A folk hero, like Winona Ryder!

I guess no one with cancer stories will cross you again!

Lol, bitch ass snitch. Like you’re fucking perfect? Die in a fire, snitch.

Avalon’s Willow? You’re in Philadelphia? Let’s get drinks! We’ll hit Fat Jack’s, get some comics. Call me.

of course it was a hipster who dropped the dime on her. god hipsters are scum

http://freekari.com/

Snitch-ass Bitch-ass Tremble! I implore all insecure Asian woman (and men for that matter) to start preying on these hipster assbags. Non-Asians too. Hipsters are a bain upon society. It’s hard for a regular guy like myself to enjoy record shopping, going to the movies, or simply having a smoke outside without having to listen to these tools go on about Calexico or Jarmusch or whatever.

I have to admit- his taking the photo, writing the post- I almost agree with a couple of these folks, but the whole thing, top to bottom, from Mr. Tremble to the commenters, is filled with high levels of jerkitude. I think we can agree that they all need to get off the internet.

People who commit crimes deserve what’s coming to them. People who help police solve crimes are to be commended. But this? This is shameless egotistic self-gratification parading around as civic duty. Congrats – everyone knows who you are now, Sam! And isn’t that what you really wanted in the first place?

Well, okay- except for that dude. That actually made some sense.



I too have bought the DLC and have not played it. I have a lot of other games to play.


by Brought to you by Carl's, Jr.

In the world of grown ups, there are many things you will find are not to your taste. Because you’re busy with a job and family and life, “not liking something” is pretty good motivation to discard it and move on. You certainly wouldn’t hang around the internet looking for articles and announcements about the thing you don’t like in order to harangue it for no appreciable gain… right?

Well, do you own a console?

Such is the case with Fable II, the immersive 2008 RPG that boasted a heavy emphasis on storytelling and far-reaching consequences for the player’s actions. One friend cannily pointed out that Fable II is something like a cross between The Sims and The Legend of Zelda. Just so.

The makers of Fable II have announced the second downloadable content (DLC) pack for the extremely reasonable price of about $5. You would think this would be a point of interest for fans and something to ignore for everyone else… and yet.

I downloaded the first DLC, but I haven’t played it. I’m relishing life spent outside of the Peter Molyneux hype machine of ridiculously inflated expectations.

I too have bought the DLC and have not played it. I have a lot of other games to play. Ones where they don’t hold my hand the whole way through.

At first glance this doesn’t make any damn sense: two morons acting like they got one over on a game studio by purchasing the product and then not playing it. But you need to understand something about the entitlement mindset of gamers.

To a gamer, it is inconceivable that they not own anything that rouses their interest even a little; any product that so much as flashes its ankle at them must be owned, even if it is not enjoyed or (in this case) even played. Gamers, rather than exert some iota of self-control by being wiser with their money and time, then reflexively rail against their masters in some limp attempt at regaining some control of their lives. Lucky for us, the Internet has enabled them to do all this in public.

Let’s check out this gamer’s dilemma.

I bought the DLC and started to play it, then my girlfriend took the controller for a killing spree on Knothole Island and manage to “break” the expansion.
Do I download the new one and get rid of the girlfriend or ignore it?

The advice comes in fast and furious:

The girlfriend a real gamer? If so keep her. But if she is a Wii generation gamer I’d move along. You don’t want one of them trying to tell you how to play a game.

That bit of sage wisdom comes from “DravenX23,” the same guy who stated above that he didn’t like it when games (or, presumably, live human women) “hold his hand.” Not content with that bit of overblown pomposity, DravenX23 further discusses what to him is “real” gaming.

What does Rock Band have to do with gaming? I’m talking actual games. Not the casual stuff.

But good glad she has gone back to the classics. best way to go to get her to understand the difference between old school and new school.

If she can beat Mega Man then you sir have found a great gamer wife.

Someone quite rightly responds that there’s very little that’s “casual” about much of Rock Band‘s following, but ah, that way lies fallacy, says Draven.

Just because it has a hardcore fanbase doesn’t mean much. Twilight and High School Musical have tons of fans that would do anything for that stuff. Doesn’t mean its more then it is.

Rhythm games are by nature casual games. Nothing wrong with what it is. But in the end its just people hitting the buttons they see on the screen.

Unlike other games, of course, which are more mature because you have to memorize the buttons first.

Further down-thread, a Fable II fan reminds everyone that the point of the game is not the “challenge” (which would be that button-mashing bit Draven was talking about, only don’t confuse that with the wrong kind of button-mashing) but rather experiencing a good story that you yourself have a large hand in creating. Draven, predictably, misses the point.

So to make it a ‘Real Game’ I have to play it naked and with a wooden sword? Sure there are lots of ways to make the game more challenging. But I didn’t think it was MY job to make the game harder for myself.

I know I am too old to understand the fun of beating an easy game that holds your hand. I was the guy laughing at kids who brag about beating a game when they used the Game Genie. Is it really an experience when there is no challenge?

I wonder what seeing a movie with this guy is like. Did he walk out of The Godfather griping that it was all this B.S. about tragedy and the inescapable gravity of family and how come it was so easy for Michael Corleone to take over, huh? Back in my day, movie mobsters had to work to take over the family business…

It’s pointed out that Draven is completely missing the point, but really, how can you argue with someone who says something like this with complete sincerity?

Gamers used to have pride.

And that pride is increasingly tarnished by morons like you, DravenX23. Keep on rocking.



we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money


by Ted Grant

Pity the poor fan of sports video-games. Already duty-bound to spend $60 a year on the same game over and over and over again, in some perverse preview of their Purgatorial tedium, now it transpires that the very athletes whose likenesses, names and game statistics make their favorite games possible are suing the makers of those games for using their likenesses, names and game statistics with neither permission nor compensation.

This is, of course, an insult to the real victims. The fans:

I’ve always hated lawsuits about people being upset about being in a video game. They should be honored it’s not like it ruins their reputation and makes them evil or anything. Just a bunch of old money grubbers.

Suing happens to be one of the easiest ways of making money in the US. Trust me, they’re proud, but greed is a mofo.

wow, bitter old jerks much?

seems that they spent all of their money, and they need more

Huh, so this is what happens when you retire without any proper real world job skills. Lazy douches.

i hate lawsuits, we should go back to the middle ages where you were inslaved if you owed someone money.

Football players have enough money. EA has enough money. I don’t know who to hate more. I find American Football to be the worst sport ever, curling is better. On the other hand, EA is a terrible developer and generally published crap.

hi, im a nfl player and earn millions upon millions of dollars from my contract and endorsments alone, now i dont think thats good enough and want to sue a computer game company for using my likeness which improved my fans experience when playing such games as nfl made by ea, Having millions of dollars and getting into places for free isnt just as good as it used to be

Holy moly shit toad get off your enormously high horse and give us little guys some happiness

Gotta love the nfl players who make millions of dollars and then sue for maybe 20,000$. If they spent there money better then they wouldn’t even bother doing something like this.

Yeah…those darn retired athletes who were cheated out of money owed them by collusion between a video-game company and their union! Don’t they know they’re hurting the fans! Why, if EA had to pay the retired players fair compensation, MADDEN 2010 might cost a whole $65!



The Worm Ouroboros


by Ted Grant

Let’s face it, it was bound to happen eventually:

Hey Ted Grant I actually agree with every single and one of those comments (:

Gays,lezzies,trans and bis should just shut the hell up… I am SICK and tired of their parades and displays and flauntings… 95 % of the people on the planet are heterosexual(including myself) and even if it wasn’t well guess what?

(Intimate,causal, familiar and friendly)Relationships between the sexes has been going on for hundreds of years(from Germany to Italy and from Egypt to India and much much more) and if we weren’t even together gays,lezzies,trans and bis wouldn’t even be here in the first place… gay people are nice but they are getting annoying… you are a minority… deal with it honey

Deal it with style fabulous



Fox better appologize to deadpool


by Ted Grant

So, we all know about the work-print of Wolverine being leaked by now. But what did those stalwart and upright folks who regularly read Ain’t It Cool News think of the leak and the film?

if you want to help the Hollywood industry lay offs, you’ve got to point the finger at the over indulgent pay checks at the top, not piracy…the way bottom.

I tell you man, whenever there’s an Econ crisis, the little man and the little’er man get it point blank while all the fat cats keep what they always had and, in fact, usually end up with more.

Sorry, busting a little early 20th century soap box in Washington square style.

Solidarity people, Solidarity.

Maybe if we throw tea bags at the heads of the major studios, movie theatre ticket prices will go down?

this movie sucks!

Cogent and reasoned film criticism from “geek molester” there, folks.

Now we have a reason to blame for our movie’s shitty under-performance. (‘Cause, God knows, no one’s gonna let us blame Hugh Jackman’s jazz-hands.)

Gay-baiting? At Ain’t-It-Cool-News? I am shocked!

but don’t worry, communism/fascism will save us just ask your Lord Obama

I…what?

This movie will suck, Almost as much as X-men 3, and now when it doesn’t get the numbers ($$) they want, they will blame torrents and petition Senators to kill more of the freedoms of privacy that we enjoy on the internet. I’m not saying that piracy is even remotely OK. But there are many benefits to things like newsgroups, file sharing, ect. that we will dearly miss when Hollywood corporate money talks Washington into taking it away. That is why the Wolverine leak is bad. I know filmmakers and musicians that put their art on torrents themselves (mdotstrange, Giuseppe Andrews, ect) because they want to reach people and can’t get they’re movies distributed because of the way Hollywood bullies the distribution process. I’m not happy at all that this film was leaked and I will refrain from watching a workprint, but I saw that lame ass trailer and I’m tried of watching butchered stories that I’ve known by heart for over a decade. Also, I’ve grown out of enjoying paying to sit in a cramped theater, overhearing conversations through movies, shifting around to let drunks go take a piss, and smelling your farts. I’ll watch this when it hits video, what can this film possibly enlighten me about Wolverine? I’ve read those comics since I was like 6 years old, and the movie will obviously be a let down. So far this year my favorite film has been Coraline in 3D. It was like watching a living diorama. Henry Selick is a visionary, while Gavin Hood (the director of Wolverine) directed Kickboxer 5 and an episode of Stargate SG1.

“It was like watching a living diorama.” That feels like an important insight into the nerd mindset right there, to be honest.

In a restaurant…you eat dinner before you pay. The unspoken rule is this…if you get served crappy food, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay, provided you complained from the first few bites, at the very least you’ll get a new plate.

But the way Hollywood sets this up…you pay before you take the first bite…hell, you pay based upon 30 seconds of a 2 hour movie and the pompous ramblings of what are usually some bought and paid for “critics”, then 20 minutes into what turns out to be shit…they typically won’t refund your $ if you walk out.

Oh…you can demand your money back…but it isn’t often they will give it too you…Nope….you pay up front..and when the movie sucks you don’t have much recourse.

The Box office should be at the exit…if you leave before the half way point because it sucks ass..no charge.

Why this rant here? because the way I see it Hollywood owes me at least one pirated movie per year…Fuck, they owe me three for Cloverfield alone…one to pay me back for the money I wasted watching it…1 more awarded for damages for the 80 mintes I’ll never get back, and one more for pain and suffering.

if you posted this: “there are these pesky little things called talkbacks” and this : “Then I floated the idea of banning anyone who expressed an opinion based on the workprint,” What kind of nazi horse-shit is that? Without the talkbacks, this site doesn’t exist. Many of your talkbackers are profoundly more entertaining and intelligent than yourself or anyone else employed by AICN. Do you realize how much you completely suck as a (so called) journalist right now? You can’t retract this shit. But you should apologize. And like I said Before, this movie will suck. The leak will give mediocre filmmakers a scapegoat for lousy returns in the third week. Piracy can’t be good for any industry, but good product sells itself (The Dark Knight). Also what pirate do you know that doesn’t also have a huge collection of legitimate dvds, games, and music? The pirate’s appetite is insatiable, they can’t collect enough.

Truly, AICN Talk-Backers are the real heroes of the internet…

Fox better appologize to deadpooland all the fans that almost paid hard earned money to get fucked. Imagine a rape victim getting a bill, thats how i would have felt. Now i know its not “done” yet so maybe the final will be better. it would have been a better movie had they not crammed deadpool in it killing him in the process. THIS IS SPIDERMAN 3 ALL OVER AGAIN.

Ah, yes, I was wondering when we would start to see inappropriate “rape” metaphors regarding Deadpool and this film.

Wolverine versus the Hand and maybe toss in a Silver Samurai cameo. make it a story about Yakuza, and the warrior’s code, and his love interest with Yuriko as Lady Deathstrike, and maybe toss in a Mojo cameo when she gets he big claws.

Yes, because nerd-bait like that is certainly the way to get the 99.998% of the population that didn’t read X-Men comics in the 90s into theaters.

poor ryan reynolds he channelled wade wilson when he was allowed to. I think ill just send him my 8 bucks instead. he earned it. And it looks like when jackman said he really cared about the fans he was refering to his fans and not the comics fans. Please oh please let the finished product be an improvement. Wolverine and Sabertooth had a tender moment together WTF. Why not just make them fuck because that would be just as beleivable. Its akin to having Batman and Joker shake hands and say “ill always be there for you bro”.

Remember when the Watchmen lawsuit was in full swing, remember BOYCOTT ROTHMAN AND FOX MOVIES, remember DON’T GO SEE WOLVERINE, FUCK FOX? Well, boys and girls, now you CAN fuck with Fox and Rothman. Fuck them if they lose money. If the current econom ic crisis should be teching us anything it’s that MONEY IS NOTHING BUT A METHOD OF ENSLAVEMENT. A penny is worth nothing these days, and a hundred times nothing is still nothing, so what’s a dollar worth? When are we going to wake up and realize that without money we could still live, work, create, and be kind to one another and grow as a culture, just like Harry fantasized about in his Marley and Me essay. We can achieve the Star Trek ideal IF WE JUST GOT RID OF FUCKING MONEY!

Uh…huh.

I’m downloading this piece of shit the minute I get home Then open up my computer, shit inside of it, and wait for the FBI to come bursting through my door, so when they crack open my computer and smell the freshly diarrhea-sprayed hard drive, they’ll instantly know which movie I illegally downloaded.

If I paid to see this fucking turd of a movie, and it fucking sucks fuckin’ass balls, then I AM THE ONE who was fucking robbed. So I’ll download anything I fucking want.

I have been coming to this site for years. I have been a socially constructed labialised fan boy ever since my parents fell into the marketing scheme of the late 90s known as the return of Star Wars. Back then, my parents would buy me all those Kenner action figures with what money they could muster up, ever since I was hooked on the movie marketing machine. .. Oh how the internet really picked up in anticipation for the Star Wars prequel known as the Phantom Menace. It was a real innocent time, before the dark side consumed all, so to speak. I truth I am not sure how I found Aint It Cool News. But once I did I would come here almost every day and read what material they could dig up. Us fans wanted something so bad, we could taste it, and we the consumers needed to know what are dreams would be like. And as we eventually found out, our dreams never even materialized. Time went by, most of the population of this site had to go to college, break up with girlfriends, watch their parents grow older. The same people who ran the site had to do the same. As the internet has changed everything it now must be the same. There is no room for sharing, trading, or getting anything for free in the simulated world in which we now live. The internet it abstract, it is lucid, but like everything else in your feeble lives it is now officially owned. How ironic it truly is that this occurred on April fools day. While the Billionaires are fighting Pirate Bay in world court, Hulu is advertising on your TV set. Free programming for all, brought to you by NBC, ABC, FOX, and the Federal C C. I am not sure. I know Wolverine is only one shameless attempt and making money, much like Marvel itself. It’s a system of deceit, assimilation, and socialization. And while most suffer in this country because of credit card bills, medical bills, and starvation the corporations (S) morally suffocate us with their hypocrisy of dare I say, a juvenile plethora of bullshit. Were not children anymore, don’t let them talk to you like children. This site is over. It has officially been consumed by everything you hate. We have made them rich, fat, and allowed their terrible uneducated babble filter the very cyberspace ways that were free from such a physical tyranny. Much like face book, My Space, and Amazon ( most likely goggle) Aint It super Cool high five News is a marketing contraption for the brainwashing elite. Its over here… Move on if you are a fan… The people who run this site should be ashamed of themselves. Thank you for the years, there are many good people on these boards, much like there is throughout America. But this is a day when a new site should be started by fans who hold free speech as well their personal freedom the foremost priority in their short lives. First that letter from the home schooled writer of the Watchmen movie ( how did that blue tiger get formed by the way?) and now this “obey the man talk”. Its about time, put these morally condemning hypocritical assholes out of business. Do it for America. America fuck ya! Sincerely A middle class fan… …



they are stealing from the American public


by Ted Grant

It was fairly significant entertainment industry news when a work-print of the upcoming Wolverine film was leaked onto internet torrent sites. The long-term fallout of the leak is still unknown, but for FOX News journalist Roger Friedman, one thing is very clear: reviewing a bootleg copy of a film months before its scheduled release is a one-way ticket to unemployment.

Pretty straight-forward scenario, right? Well, not according to Screen Rant reader “c”, who finds fault with those un-American jerks at…Fox?

well I think this should open up a can of worms for hollywood and monster companies like Fox…

1) they are stealing from the American public. They go to foreign soil(most films are now made in Australia, New Zealand, Vancouver,BC). But they come to USA and charge ungodly box office prices in which we as americans have to pay tax on… why shouldn’t they have to pay import tax on movies and other things an ungodly tax to them and to the actors who work for them…

2) give them a tax break if they film 100% of the movie in local town USA, etc…

If they would support america as americans then maybe they would have more supports/sympathy for matters like these. but for me, i think just like the mp3 is to the music industry, avi is to foriegn hollywood… I lost respect for my favorite actor Nicolas Cage for his making the movie KNowing in land down under portraying NYC… f…ing sux…

note: this is a public attack… heheh not personal…

If Fox and other Studios don’t want to make movies here, move abroad… lose their American status… and see how well the future their box office hits are…

so I support this man… and think fox is stupid not to own up instead hide and fire…

down with fox!

Uh…huh.



you guys are all a bunch of over-emotional queerbait


by Ted Grant

Oh, American Idol. You give us so much. Well, mostly what you give us is the notion that being really good at karaoke is all you need to land a recording contract, but you also give us crazy fans like no other reality show can even dream of doing.

And when Entertainment Weekly looked at the possibility that the next Idol might be a man of ambiguous sexuality, oh, how your fans delievered:

Why does everything have to be labeled as straight or gay? That is the biggest problem. So many things have “I’m gay” written all over everything, but there aren’t labels stating “I’m straight”. God bless American Idol for keeping neutral ground.

I would stop watching it with my kids.I am just a mother with worries of this issue and dont think my kids need more exposure then they already get in the schools and now even on a family show. I think he should just keep it to himself and keep his personal life off TV..

THE ANUS IS AN EXIT, NOT AN ENTRANCE!

All class, these people.

What is wrong with people? Do straight people run around bragging they are straight? Who cares? Leave it in the bedroom just like heterosexuals do.

Yeah! I mean, it’s not like we have entire tv shows dedicated to the idea of straight people hooking up or getting married!

Wait? We do? Oh.

Why is it so damned important to even mention one’s sexual orientation on this or any other show? It seems that gays and lesbians must suffer from some sort of compulsion psychosis if they find it necessary to always reveal their sexual orientation in public venues.
Heterosexuals do not, so why gays?

They must be trying to shove their proclivities into other peoples’ faces. “My song tonight is ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, and I am Gay!” (Translation: If you do not vote for me you are a bigot.)
Jeeez!

If you define a family as a mother, a father, and one or more kids (as do most humans), as opposed to whomever wants to move in together and have sex, then OF COURSE homosexuality is anti-family. Don’t get me wrong, if two guys or girls want to get together and make like bunnies, more power to them. However, lets not make the mistake of calling them a family.

No, we are NOT all equal. No, it DOESN’T take village, and no, two homosexuals do NOT a family make.

The problem is that some gays are not willing to behave as heterosexuals with their love life, but many gays flaunt it, having pics taken of publicly tongue kissing, dressing as nuns while performing sexual acts in their parades. I would object to heterosexuals behaving in this manner and I am not a far right as one of the comments suggested. If someone is gay, so what. Behave with your lover as others do. It is not necessary to perform public sexual oriented acts as Adam did in the pics. Actually, he may not be gay, but a deviate, and I consider that a threat to any culture. What is next – showing off their toilet habits???

That’s right, coming out as gay is exactly the same as defecating in public.

Marshal Kirk & Hunter Madsen wrote the psychological Homosexual Agenda manifesto titled “Overhauling Straight America”, available from Amazon books.

Both homosexual authors were experts in mass public mind control & psychological programming.

Part of their psychological deception script that admittedly borrows from Communist Chinese mind control tactics was a process they called “jamming & conversion”. This first required desensitization by overwhelming the public with a tireless blitzkrieg of the more sanitized versions of homosexualiuty delivered in the abstract, then siliencing opposition using averse conditioning ala calling everyone a “homophobe”, “discriminator” “bible thumper”, “right wing whacko”, “Nazi”, “hate mongerer”, you know the scripted epithets.

Articles like the Times, of whose board members are comprised of more homosexuals than heterosexuals are merely part of that desensitization grand psychological operations manifesto from Kirk & Madsen.

I think we’ve just witnessed the apotheosis of anti-gay conspiracy theories.

I’m so sick of all the gay people trying to cram their lifestyles down our throats by making us think that there are so many of you that it’s normal! I liked Lambert until my wife found all of those new pictures of him…now we’re both revolted. You know why gay marriage won’t pass anywhere that voters have a choice??? It’s because (not so much the lesbians) but the idea of what it takes for two men to engage in sex makes most of the NORMAL people in the world want to vomit…forcefully! Women are always better off because we don’t think that is so disgusting, it’s even kind of hot sometimes…unless they’re really bullish, but even then it’s not as revolting as two dudes. Of course my wife is as disgusted by lesbos as much as I am by guys, so maybe she should follow up here with her own comments. I know that a bunch of you twinkle-toes out there will think I’m a bigot because I don’t care what you think…I’m the normal breeding one.

There’s that “cramming it down our throats” bit again.  People, if you have to cram, you’re doing it wrong!

you guys are all a bunch of over-emotional queerbait. I’d love to see idol show the backstory of how much lambert likes to dress like a chick and take it in the cornhole, and see how fast America votes him off then. At least I wont have to look at that lame 90′s emo hairdouche anymore. Nobody wants their son sitting there watching this show thinking, “hmm, the person i’m supposed to be idolizing likes screwing other boys, so I’ll go to school tomorrow and kiss a dude”. That’s why this ‘family friendly’ show doesn’t publicize it. They’d lose millions of viewers/ratings. (delete this post now! please, dont let these people hear another side of the arguement. they might not be able to handle it. omg)

Good people should have children if possible. Straight people who can’t conceive should be repaired, if possible…if not then agree to adopt a child into a normal family before Pelosi can abort it. “Octomom” should be shunned and ridiculed too. People who choose not to have children are just being selfish as long as they can afford to provide for the ensuing kidlets both emotionally and financially. To deny a base instinct that exists across all forms of life is not normal. That’s why any gay lifestyle justification vote can’t even pass a simple majority vote in any jurisdiction.

Homosexuality brings nothing positive to society. What it does bring is suicide, depression, disease, identity crises, confusion and a whole lot of unnecessary conflict.

Homosexual relationships are different from heterosexual ones for obvious reasons. Homosexuals should not try to claim that their relationships are the same as heterosexual ones. Nor should homosexuals try to rob the heterosexual community of distinctly heterosexual concepts such as marriage and family.

Homosexuals can do nothing but imitate the heterosexual model, because the heterosexual model has existed from the beginning (a society based on homosexuality can’t survive).

Instead of imitating heterosexuals and perverting heterosexuals’ most treasured institutions, homosexuals should invent their own institutions. But they should do so somewhere where the rest of us won’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions.

Or else they should substitute their harmful behavior with behavior helpful to society.

I would stop watching immediately! The line has to be drawn somewhere. There is no difference between homosexuality and bestiality. I will not have my children in an environment where they are brought up to think homosexuality is normal any more than I would tell them it is ok to marry their uncle when they reach the age of 12. I am agnostic btw. Homosexuality is a sickness like depression or bipolar disorder and should be treated as such.



Nobody called them ricers or chinks


by Ted Grant

Sometimes you come across a comment on a web-site that tells you everything you could possibly want to know about a person.

Seriously, is anyone else getting tired of EVERYTHING being racist? Why is it that we can’t poke fun at stereotypes? Nobody called them ricers or chinks or japs or zipper-heads or anything, seriously, can we give it a rest?

As far as I’m concerned, unless you can prove actual intent in terms of someone being racist, then just let it slide, huh? Take it from a white guy whose race is almost constantly under attack, sometimes you just gotta let it slide, and sometimes, well… sometimes the joke is ACTUALLY funny!

Man, those white people sure do have it rough, don’t they?



I’m writing down the names of all the creeps that let us down this year to pass on to the next generation since they’ll just change the history books for them.


by Tom Thumb

So in a thoughtful and measured interview on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

But even before the interview aired, the wingnuts were crying treason.

Charlotte Observer columnist Mike DeVine, posting as (heh) “gamecock,” leads off with the charmingly titled “Colin Powell betrays America when not following orders”:

[This column assumes that Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama this morning on Meet the Press. That he hasn't already endorsed John McCain justifies his denunciation in any event.]

In the comments thread, BatMasterson agrees, and could perhaps suggest a good moisturizer for the general as well:

Powell is just like bill richardson
he is a fair weathered friend

An interesting phenomenon is that still-bitter supporters of Hillary Clinton are none too pleased, either, as witness gerard “Barracuda” Nedich in the comments at right-wing screed factory blog No Quarter:

Shame on you Colin Powell

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

snosandy is personally disappointed in Powell, who is apparently a close personal friend of the family:

He’s not the Colin Powell I thought I knew.

No Way, No How NoBama and his tinfoil hat know the score, man:

Time for the 3rd party candidates to back McCain for the good of the country. I’m writing down the names of all the creeps that let us down this year to pass on to the next generation since they’ll just change the history books for them.

It’s always refreshing when a white commenter such as Sue recognizes racial oppression when she sees it:

Colin Powell is a racist. There I said it. The only reason he’s endorsing Obama is because he’s black.

Much more, if that’s your thing. I’m going for some Pepto.



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