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Reveal that it’s the most embarrassing thing you’ve ever witnessed.
When you think about how your Congressperson’s office is decorated, if you think about it at all, don’t you kind of think there would be a lot of brass and flag centering, perhaps a few busts of the American Eagle or Ronald Reagan? Perhaps a candy dish with the Constitution emblazoned on it, or a letter opener made of steel and fired from George Washington’s very own musket metal? How about Downton Abbey? Do you think there should be inspiration from Downton Abbey? And by inspiration we mean down to the color of the walls and a chandelier? Well, Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock has done exactly that, but he doesn’t want you to know about it. Continue reading
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Welcome to Alternative Views. In keeping with my semi-resolution to watch scripted content only if the story was about women, LBGT persons and/or persons of color, I began with this little critically-savaged gem.
How savaged was it? Rex Reed called this “a hapless load of bunk” whose creators could “only be described as delusional.” Since “they think they have made an actual movie, when nothing in it qualifies.” Reed sounds bitchier than usual, but that tone was actually matched by several other critics.
Don’t believe them. This film is FUN as hell. Continue reading
Tuesday is the least celebrated day of the week. Here’s a picture of the space shuttle Endeavor getting it on with a 747. Continue reading
When I was growing up in New York, my dad, the earliest riser in the house, would drive to the deli to buy kaiser rolls, and the Sunday editions of the New York Times and the Daily News every week. If we were lucky, he would be in a good mood and buy us sugar coated jelly rolls and cook up a pound of bacon, as well. Continue reading
Well it’s Monday, we’re all screwed. Continue reading
The 2016 presidential race has claimed it’s first casualty (if you don’t count Paul Ryan, which, of course, I’m not). Willard Jackassticus Lannister Romney, Lord of the Robo-men and professional collector of electoral defeats, erstwhile Lord Protector of the Olympics and governor of a state he will not name, has decided not to compete for Nixon Crown of Double Nomination and seek the 2016 GOP nomination.
On Friday, Romney emerged from the Hall of Audiences in Castle Romney, his mountain fastness hewn from the very living rock high in the Utah Alps. Surrounded by House Romney retainers, with a light snow dusting their aluminum battle armor, Romney addressed a small surprised crowd of freshman journalism majors from Utah Alps Community College who were there filming a documentary no one would watch for a class they all bitterly regretted taking. He mounted the rostrum where the father of his organic components, George Romney, had once announced that he would challenge thrice-damned dark mage Richard Nixon for the 1968 GOP nomination. “My friends!” he shouted, though truthfully, no one there was his friend. “I shall not be your president!” he cried, as though everyone had not already known this for several years. Continue reading
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I discovered the Food Drunk food truck during one of the food truck rallies in New Orleans a couple years ago. Their menu features all the food you want when you’re about to head home from a night at the bar: duck fat fries, a bacon burger, mac and cheese and a few other favorites. During Mardi Gras they feature something that sounds too good to be true: the king cake burger. Continue reading