I suppose Rudy is now a St. Patrick’s Day movie because its about the Irish and now playing on AMC. In any event, this scene which just flashed across my screen never fails to give me goosebumps.
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From the category archives:
Pop Culture
’nuff said.
Have a good one!
PS- does anyone know this song?
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Danica McKellar will always be “Winnie Cooper” from the Wonder Years to me; there’s really no getting around that fact. She is about my age and was cute as hell on that show – the crush was immediate and total. I wanted to be Kevin Arnold both here and here and, well, here too. Not all the [...]
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I’m watching Angela’s Ashes on DVD right now and just saw the scene that makes me laugh every time. It’s the scene where the kids laugh at Frankie for having second-hand shoes. Outraged, the teacher scolds the children and reminds them that you don’t see Jesus “hangin’ on the cross sportin’ shoes!”
Well, I find it [...]
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The new Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer came out this weekend. I’ve been looking forward to this film since the book is one of my favorites and so far from what I’ve seen, they won’t take a hatchet to the plot like they did for the Order of the Phoenix film. This movie was [...]
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“Who watches the Watchmen?” (I love that line)
Well, if YOU haven’t, YOU should! Based on Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986 graphic novel, the 2009 movie adaptation of the award-winning comic should definitely be on your list of movies to see this Spring!
BASICALLY SPOILER-FREE
Set in an alternate 1985 with the world on the brink of nuclear [...]
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Obama needs his teleprompter. He just needs it. That’s been obvious to his critics for a long time. However, the Politico ran a story today about the President’s ridiculous overuse of the teleprompter, but they didn’t have to. All of his critics know that Obama’s eloquence dies the minute you turn the Obamaprompter off! Remember [...]
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In principle, this illustrates a fundamental problem I have with Libs: don’t cut programs you knew you couldn’t have sustained in the first place, but find new things to tax: like pot! Yet another excuse for legislative stoners in San Francisco to get their issue in the news, while finding new ways to punish the act [...]
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The idea for a “Chicago Tea Party” is growing. Since CNBC’s Rick Santelli’s rant on Thursday, this website has popped up and news about other tax protests (not revolts just yet) are proliferating everywhere except in MSM coverage– they don’t seem to care or notice.
Question, though, if this is to morph into ”Tea Party USA” as some have urged: [...]
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Staying home on Friday night isn’t always a bad thing. At least not when you happen to stumble upon “Revenge of the Nerds” (undoubtedly with the best parts edited out but oh well) while flipping through the channels, which is exactly what I just did. Now you have too. Without further ado, here’s the flashback [...]
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Here’s one from the Funny Because It’s So Politically Incorrect And So True Department. The following, the Qur’an Challenge, is the first Steven Crowder video I saw tonight. Undiplomatic does not even begin to describe the clip, but it is hilarious and there is a lot of truth in there.
His other videos are just as [...]
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A Connecticut woman was brutally attacked yesterday in Stamford by an angry chimp. Here’s the story:
I wonder if the people in Spain will get Amnesty International to file human rights violations against the cop who shot the chimp? Sounds silly, but we’ll see– read the link.
Chimps are very intelligent creatures who can learn quickly and have [...]
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National Review Online has created a list of the Top 25 Best Conservative Movies, along with a second list of 25 as honorable mentions. The movies in both lists are as diverse as can be, ranging from patriotic war flicks such as We Are Soldiers, Heartbreak Ridge, and The Patriot, to the completely politically [...]
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With the stimulus debacle ready to become law and damn us all to a budget nightmare, I thought a little Friday humor is in order. So here goes: Which of the following choices best describes the following clip:
A. a clear sign of the apocalypse, as some believe the Christ has indeed returned.
B. an indication that stimulus money [...]
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I watched the Chosen One try to reassert his manhood in front of already mind-numbed media groupies on TV for 62 minutes last night. How do I know it was 62 minutes? He started scolding us at 8pm and I stopped squeezing the stress ball at 9:02pm — two minutes into the latest episode of 24! That’s when my [...]
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On the lighter side of the whole stimulus debate, I ran across SNL’s cold opener from last night over at Sister Toldjah. It is rather amusing, poking fun at both Republicans and Democrats, but mostly at Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. Kristen Wiig does a great Pelosi, although Fred Armisen does a better Obama [...]
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I found two Pop Culture/Anything Else stories of interest today:
#1. The switch from Broadcast TV to Digital TV has been officially postponed until June 12 by Congress today on a 264-158 vote. The Dems are playing to their non-cable constituencies, while Republicans believed that those who haven’t fixed their TVs by now probably won’t be ready by June either. [...]
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Long have there been calls to make Super Bowl Monday a holiday since absenteeism and productivity resulting from the Super Bowl “flu” can be costly: last year 4.4 million late-ins and an estimated 1.5 million extra absences were phoned in. Some have also estimated that $16 million per minute lost during the week preceding the Super Bowl on people running [...]
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In 1983, the US Congress and President Reagan made the observed birthday of Martin Luther King Jr a federal holiday. Twenty-six years later, and forty-one years after Dr. King’s assassination, we stand poised to inaugurate America’s first biracial President.
Contemplating that, I ran into this CNN article which shows that nearly 2/3 of America’s black population believe [...]
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Of course Abraham Lincoln would be very proud that 144 years after his death, a biracial man is to be inaugurated as our 44th President. Cool. We get it — Obama has a permanent place in history just by showing up this Tuesday.
But just because Obama’s a tall and lanky orator doesn’t automatically mean he’s Lincoln. The comparisons [...]
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A friend tipped me off to this video from Annie C’s recent appearance on The View:
Nice move by Ann. She continues to expand her exposure (and market) beyond just the Conservatives who love everything she’s all about… think about the show’s audience: who’s home at 11am to watch The View in the first place? People I typically tend [...]
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Jack Bauer is facing heat in the latest season of 24, which airs its first two hours tonight on Fox. Here’s the official trailer:
There is a new Administration, there haven’t been major attacks in the US for years and those who had to make tough decisions and once used “advanced interrogation techniques,” like Jack Bauer, [...]
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Hollywood has long been seen as one of the hotbeds of liberalism. From the Communist Party trends of the 1950s, to the war protestations of Susan Sarandon and the like, to the constant nonsensical musings of the Hollywood elite, Hollywood has been seen as exclusively liberal with a few exceptions (it is easy to forget [...]
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Commercials I Hate is one of my favorite websites because I’ve always been a fan of bad commercials. Although high quality ads can be fun, there’s always something entertaining about commercials that fall into the “so bad it’s funny” category. For the most part, this Loud N’ Clear ad is one of those ads. That [...]
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Out with the old, in with the new!
Happy New Year from AOR!
In case you missed the Ball drop in Times Square, here’s some vid:
WARNING: lots of snogging after midnight, as well as some stagecraft from BJ and the Broad (Bloomberg’s daughter ought to watch where she’s standing!).
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I’m kind of glad to see this year go. While fun was had, disappointments and external events put a particular funk on this year as I look back on it.
The biggest story of the year happened on my birthday when America chose to embrace our new status as an Obama Nation. We deserve what we [...]
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Here’s how crazy things are getting in Washington these days:
Happy Boxing Day, by the way!
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