General Waverley...Sir!

'Tis the season, and it's getting to be time to watch the most entertaining holiday movie ever made-- White Christmas. In my family this flick is required viewing during the holidays, and sometimes even in the summer. It's the perfect feel-good movie.

I don't have it on dvd, or even VHS, but I was able to download it yesterday, along with the commentary by Rosemary Clooney, who plays Betty Haynes in the movie. The commentary isn't overly fantastic, since she mostly seems to talk about clothes and hair, but there are some interesting bits in there as well.

On an interesting note, she mentions Dean Jagger in the commentary, and I was curious about this man who plays General Waverley. I always liked him in the movie, and thought he played the part perfectly. He was also in another of my favorite movies, Bad Day At Black Rock.

When I checked out his bio I found out that when he was younger, he played Brigham Young in the movie Brigham Young(1940), and I found this little tidbit.

Jagger was very taken by the character of Brigham Young, reacting warmly when his performance was praised by then President of the LDS Church, Heber J. Grant. This led to a careful study of the Mormon faith for Jagger, who was ultimately baptized a member of the faith in 1972. Subsequently, he willed his personal papers and movie memorabilia to the Harold B. Lee library at Brigham Young University.

So now I can't help but like the guy.

They just don't make Hollywood types like they used to, do they?

You Must Use, The Force

Check out this, the coolest video on Youtube, ever!
Click on the left. Top video.
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My Flag

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - H. L. Mencken

I can feel the cutlass in my hand.

Today the idiots of America voted for what they wanted, and now they deserve to get it good and hard.

Good news is, we don't have McCain as the new president. The turncoat bastard didn't deserve a shot at the presidency to begin with. I really didn't want to vote for him, but I did anyway against my better judgment. It didn't even matter.

But now I make my solemn vow; I Will Never Vote For The Maverick John McCain Again! Ever! I don't care what the circumstances are. Not a bit.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm done with the Republican Party as well, the party of sissified wimps. The party of Compromise, Even If It Destroys Your Principles. The other side of the collective Boot On Your Neck Party that comprises both sides of the isle in Washington. I'm done with their politics. I don't care how many Obamas get elected, I'll never vote Republican again.

I haven't left the party, the party left me. So I'm going to vote with my ideals from now on. I'm voting Libertarian. They're the only party that embodies the views I care about. I'm done with competing brands of socialism. I'm done with supporting a big government that controls every aspect of it's subjects' lives. I'm done voting for the lesser of two evils, because the lesser of two evils is still evil. I'm voting with my feet.

I'm unsubscribing from the system. I'm joining the brethren of the Ghost Nation for good.

I'm out!

Libertatia or Bust!

For Those in the Basin

Is it true that there is not a decent place to eat up in Vernal?

Just curious.

Seems that if it is true, that there might be a market for someone that is willing to open an eatery that makes quality food.

Just thinkin' out loud.

Good Bleeping Gravy!!! I Can't Believe I Missed That!

When I was living up in Salt Lake, I spent a good portion of my time downtown, delivering packaging goods to various companies who needed them.

Spending so much time in the area, I got to know a few good places to eat that had decent parking for a big truck, and I thought I knew all the great eateries around there. Except for Mexican food joints. Utah does not know Mexican at all. Every place that sells it has such watered down, tasteless salsa, mundane flavors, and generally weak food that I despaired ever finding a good place to eat. Seriously, half the reason I moved back to AZ was just so I could get decent Mexican again.

Then last night, I was watching an episode of Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives. Guy Fieri was showcasing what looked to be the only good Mexican food joint in Utah, I swear. The segment was on a restaurant called the Red Iguana. The food looked out-of-this-world awesome. My mouth watered. I wanted some in the worst way.

This awesome-looking restaurant is in Salt Lake! Freaking Salt Lake! I used to drive past it every day! I never noticed it, not once. And do you know what the insult-to-injury part is? I used to eat at a crappy Mexican food joint called Beto's that sits not a hundred yards away! One block down and on the other side of the street was a place that created heaven, while I sat eating crap food made by bored illegals who didn't care!

AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

So here's the mission. All you Salt Lake people are to drive down to 736 W North Temple and try it out, for me. Go! Go now! You people know you need some good Mexican food.

Here's their website.

http://www.rediguana.com/home.html

Go get some. You know you wanna.

Gran Torino

The movie is Gran Torino, a quasi-action drama starring the ever-huggable Clint Eastwood.

As much as ol' Clint has made a lot of conservatives angry in recent years (he's kind of a libertarian-Republican, like me), the idea of him in a movie portraying a crusty, irritable, benignly racist old vet who becomes a vigilante in order to protect his neighbors appeals to me greatly. For some reason, I can completely see Grandpa being this king of guy.

Hopefully when I become an old man, I'll be that kind of guy as well.

I think this movie is going to be good. Street gangs, cute little asian chicks, tobacco-chewing Chinese grandmas, and M-1 Garand-toting septuagenarians with the attitude that faith works best, when you put it in a rifle barrel. I can get behind that.

With Hollywood getting progressively more psychotically liberal and sissified, I get more and more disenchanted with those people by the year. Figures that it would be Clint Eastwood to put some gonads back into Hollywood, at least for one movie.

See the trailer here.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/10/24/clint-eastwoods-gran-torino-trailer-get-off-my-lawn/

The Great Tally

So I reported a while back the library was going to be charging me 50+ dollars for overdue library books.

Boy, I miss those days.

I can't for the life of me find three of the books that were overdue. No idea where they are. That means I get to pay for them in full. Great. One was an expensive rare Joe Lansdale western-horror, too, and I didn't even get to read it. I hope I find it, it's going to cost me enough.

I just logged in to my library account to see what the damage was, and it almost made me weep.

Grand total-- $121.93

I'm screwed. Oh so screwed.

That is all.