Archive for June, 2008

Mouse Cleaning

Monday, June 30th, 2008

No video? Get the DivX Web Player for Windows or Mac Welcome back kids! It’s time for the first Tom & Jerry cartoon in my Banned Cartoons series! Tom & Jerry have a ton of shorts where large parts of them are either cut, edited, or even re-dubbed. For instance, any blackface or Native American [...]

Twitter

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Has anyone jumped on the Twitter train. I thought it was lame and stupid, but now I think it’s fun and stupid. It’s kind of like Diet Blogging. Check it out. I’m over the anonymity thing so I don’t care. It’s not like someone is going to steal my identity or anything (I hope I [...]

This Blog Supports..

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Portugal and Netherlands

City Of God

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

City of God is a Brazilian movie directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Braulio Mantovani. Based on a true story, this movie was an adaptation from a novel by Paulo Lins with the same title. The main characters were “Rocket,” played by Alexandre Rodrigues, “Li’l Ze” was played by Leandro Firmino, “Benny” by Phellipe [...]

Emta Hataaraf

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

[ Javascript required to view QuickTime movie, please turn it on and refresh this page ] I found this on YouTube. It’s a great song sung by someone who is not known by a huge number of people, although a few of her songs are very familiar to us. Asmahan was Fareed Al Atrash’s sister, [...]

In the American West

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Richard Avedon was an American photographer who began his career in the 1940s. He is well known for being a successful photographer who worked for high fashion magazines such as Vogue, Life, and Harper’s Bazaar. He was also very interested in portraiture and took many portraits of celebrities in the movie and music industries. He [...]

Danish Embassy Car-Bombed

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri recently called for attacks on Danish targets in response to the publication of caricatures in Danish newspapers depicting the Prophet Muhammad. [Newsvine - AP] Oh my God. Are we still dealing with this issue? WTF. Seriously, have these people run out of [...]