Good morning Crasstalk. Are you ready for another fun day? No? All right, get another cup of coffee and get it together. This ought to blow out the cobwebs.
Have a very metal day, my friends.
The Grand Inquisitor
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Hi gang. Hope you have had a great day and are ready for a wonderful evening. Since we were talking about bad TV today I am going to share some of my favorite 70s cheese.
Have a great night.
Last weekend we here at Crasstalk waged a mighty battle to find the worst that modern music has to offer. Unfortunately, we also discovered that many of us are big fans of these horrible songs, even if we will only admit it on the internet. I will not name the person who likes the Little River Band, but it was really that bad. So, after some discussion, it was decided that Crasstalk needed a regular column to celebrate bad taste. So I bring you Guilty Pleasures, a series for you to confess the darkest secrets of your cultural soul. This week we will discuss the very worst in television. There is plenty of bad TV to choose from, but don’t be bashful. Show us the absolute worst stuff you watch when you have the house to yourself. I’ll show mine first, just to make it fair.
A special thanks to LoremIpsumDolor, Mean_Ol_Liberal, and Daisy_Sage for coming up with this idea.
This is Jericho. Yes, I know it is terrible, but The Grand Inquisitor pretty much likes any show that starts with a nuclear war in the first episode.
On sort of a similar note, I am the only person in the entire country who liked this show.
Back off, nerds. I’m not gonna argue about it.
All right, I have bared my soul. Now it’s your turn.
Hello Crasstalk. Hope you are having a great week so far and are ready for another fun day here. Here’s some disco to get you started.
Rip off the roof and stay in bed. Sounds like good advice.
Good evening. Hope you all had a good day back at work. I’m feeling more like this:
Nothing like chasing the dollar. I think I need a drink. Have a great night.
Nothing gets a wingnut angrier than the idea that someone, somewhere might threaten the Murican Constitution. Apparently the country (and in fact the whole world) is full of people who have nothing better to do than sit around scheming about how they are going to take away the rights of Real Americans who live in Real America.
A particularly menacing bogeyman in the wingnut mind is The United Nations. Formed after WWII to prevent the kinds of free for all human slaughter we had during the war, the UN has always been a source of deep right wing suspicion. It’s also always been a great source for fund raising campaigns for wingnut groups who promise to save you from the Blue Helmet Menace.
The latest focus of bat shit insanity is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention is so controversial that it has been ratified by every UN member except the US and Somalia. It is also supported by total assholes like Oxfam, UNICEF, and the Rhode Island State Legislature. Wingnuts claim that the Convention will rob parents of their rights and allow their kids to become Satanist abortion-addicts who can take them to court when they can’t borrow the car. In reality the Convention prohibits the use of children as soldiers, prostitutes, and porn stars. The only real problem for the US is that it prohibits the execution of minors, and I guess it is really important for us to be able to snuff out 14 year olds for some reason.
Fortunately for America parentalrights.org has stepped forward to keep the UN from dispatching troops to steal our kids and sending them to the EU for reeducation. These patriots have a You Tube account, and they are going to protect you from an organization that nobody listens to and that lacks any enforcement powers. They are also trying to introduce a constitutional amendment preventing enforcement of the treaty, but only Jim DeMint (lulz) seems interested. So what if the UN is trying to create a legal frame work that would punish those who force kids into the battlefield or the brothel, foreigners make us uncomfortable. I can’t imagine why every one else in the world thinks we are such a bunch of jerks. Here’s a little paranoia to get your red, white, and blue blood boiling.
Welcome back Crasstalk. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and are ready for an exciting week around here. I am pleased to announce the winners of this weekend’s epic Light Rock Wars. The competition was bloody and hard fought, but two winners emerged.
From the Saturday and Sunday Thread, NurseWretched played this masterful choice:
Excruciating, simply excruciating. However, the winner from the first day and the
overwhelming winner over all goes to bbqcornnuts who made us all suffer through this:
Congrats to both of these ladies, and to all of you who spent the weekend searching
for Michael Bolton clips on You Tube.
Have a great day.
Hello Crasstalk. Hope you didn’t get in too much trouble last night (I did), and are having a great Sunday. Here are some monkeys because monkeys are always funny.
Have a wonderful day.
Well hello gang. Hope you have had a wonderful day and are ready for a relaxing and possibly intoxicated evening. Tonight I have a very special (and by that I mean weird) movie for you. This is 1973’s Invasion of the Bee Girls. This involves a mad scientist and women who are genetically altered to kill my men by oversexing them to death. Hot! This is why the 1970s were the greatest decade in American history. Enjoy.
Have a wonderful night.
As most of you know, we usually have a post every Friday night where we all overshare pictures around a central theme. That is, we did. Until this week when we forgot all about it. Sorry about that. Things have been a little hectic around here. So in the spirit of better late than never we are presenting our first Photo Saturday.
It’s all pretty simple. Here are the rules, and here are the Dogs of War Photo Tips.
To put a picture into a comment you will need to host the image somewhere. Personally, Imgur has worked well for me, but you can get them from anywhere. A warning that photos hosted on Facebook should probably be saved elsewhere. Facebook’s new image viewer makes it very hard to get to the actual photo. Images you have on another site need to be the actual image file and not the page that contains them. The files in in .jpg, .png, .gif or something like that.
In the comment box tell us a little something about the picture and then include a link as follows.
<img src=”http://somewebsite.com/yourimage.jpg” />
If you don’t include any text with your image then it will be put in the approval queue and a mod will have to approve it.
This week’s theme was suggested by Bens, who pretty much always has good ideas. For this week pick your favorite piece of music art. It can be an album cover, a poster, or a t-shirt. It can be your favorite record or band, or can have some sentimental value. Load the picture and give us a little explanation of why you like it. Here are two of my favorite albums from high school and they both have the kind of punk rock art work that I loved.
I was cooler than all of you in high school. Anyway, share yours in the comments. Again, sorry for the oversight.