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Matthew 3:7-10

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Stupid Fact of the Week
There was only one civilian casualty during the three-day Battle of Gettysburg
26 May, 2006
The Dubya Has Landed
posted by Rockel @ 7:19 PM   0 comments
25 May, 2006
Redirect
Spanglish.
posted by Rockel @ 3:56 PM   2 comments
24 May, 2006
This Post is for Ryan Michelle "Daego" Nazionale
Oooooh... look who rocked the house on the season finale of...
AMERICAN IDOL!


Eat it, bitch! ha.

ps - is this the daego? or the aforementioned tiny, quasi-man after whom he patterns himself?
posted by Rockel @ 6:53 PM   2 comments
Poor, poor Dubya.
Will the Iraqis never stop undermining him?

The insubordination has now reached the top, as the country's new Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, had the audacity to lay out an exit strategy for the American troops.

Do the math, people:
Who wanted an exit strategy? Liberals.
Who do the Liberals want to win the war on terror? The terrorists.
The terrorist are what? Bad.
Bad is what? Not good.

This man and his exit strategy pose a serious safety risk to America and all it's allies. Support the President. Support the war on terror. Support America. Support Freedom.

Overthrow this madman.
posted by Rockel @ 5:41 PM   0 comments
Iran
The Voice of Justice.

Good stuff.
posted by Rockel @ 2:28 PM   0 comments
More News
Pork-nography for sale.
Spud bombs.
"in rabbits" - doh.
The Big Easy.
Maybe we can catch him this time.
Uh-Oh.
This'll piss off some liberals.
Hillary on the Sanctity of Life.
These guys talk tough... but they wear robes.
posted by Rockel @ 2:16 PM   0 comments
23 May, 2006
Other News Stories
He had me at Hello... and lost me at Nazi Germany.
Drudge = The truth.
Gore reaches out... isn't that sweet.
posted by Rockel @ 7:13 PM   1 comments
News Story Of The Day
Bauer goes down in plane crash.
posted by Rockel @ 7:06 PM   0 comments
Could it be?
My new car?
Maybe. We'll just hafta see.V-Dub, baby!This much I do know... If I do end up with this beautiful piece of German engineering, it shall be referred to as...
"DUBYA"
posted by Rockel @ 5:32 PM   5 comments
22 May, 2006
Compared to _______, "The Davinci Code" was _________.
the book; truthful.
"Freddy Got Fingered"; Oscar-worthy.
Dubya; witty. (zing!)
a root canal; euphoric.


It really wasn't all that bad.
The direction was a bit hit or miss... more miss than hit...
Some of the camera work was intensely sick... some seemed completely uninspired, almost to the point of amateurish...
Acting ranged from great (Ian), to good (Audrey, Paul, Jean-Yves), to so-so (Tom, Alfred, Jean)...
Lighting was awesome at times... forced at others...
Sets were pretty sweet... Costumes were pretty simple, but appropriate...


Do I recommend it? Hmmm....
Am I glad I saw it? Yeah.
Will I buy it? No.
But I will tell you this... the $8.50 for the ticket was a small price to pay to see this trailer on the BIG screen. Let me tell you peeps, I do not cry in movies... and the rockel was gettin' a little misty from a trailer... intense... don't worry, I held it together, for the good of the universe... God only knows what could have happened.

So go see the trailer... and if you feel like it, stick around for the 2.5-hour film that follows it. After all, you're going to want to see the first one before the next two come out.
posted by Rockel @ 4:36 PM   7 comments
21 May, 2006
Corruption?
In Louisiana?
Whatever.
posted by Rockel @ 8:41 PM   0 comments
I can now say...
...that I have seen it.
posted by Rockel @ 8:25 PM   1 comments
20 May, 2006
"If you can't do elections...
...you might as well do erections," [source]

"This film was not pornographic," [source]
posted by Rockel @ 7:02 PM   2 comments
19 May, 2006
'Tis The Season

I hope you've all got your brightly colored rain jackets handy.
posted by Rockel @ 8:35 PM   0 comments
Oh, Man
Is it time to mow the lawn again?!

Fine, I'll do it.
posted by Rockel @ 8:25 PM   1 comments
The Details
It came out of nowhere. Or, at the very least, the midwest, which, I suppose, is about as close to nowhere as most people will go in this life.

A massive thunderstorm. Huge bolts of lightning. Obviously God knew "The Da Vinci Code" was being released.

I arrived at the theatre at 7:15pm to a massive crowd of eager patrons who either couldn't read or cared very little about the horrible reviews the Code had received earlier in the week. Or, I suppose, they may have just been Godless morons. I really don't know.

My friend was running late. She had the tickets. Or, rather, the voucher good for two tickets, provided the people handing out the vouchers didn't overbook the special event by, oh only about 100 tickets, which, of course, they did.

So we decided we may as well see something else since she had just driven from the Downtown/Inner City section of Charlotte (not to be confused with the Uptown/Center City section).

The time was now 7:40pm. The options:
1 - Walk in to "Scary Movie 4" twenty minutes late.
2 - MI:3, minus the trailers and the first 5 minutes.
3 - hang out for about a half hour and then go see "Friends With Money."

We chose Number 1.

I laughed till I cried. I laughed till I wet myself. I laughed till I laughed.

It was awesome.

So, my apologies, peeps. No Da Vinci Code for me. But if you need a quick fix of film controversy check this out.
posted by Rockel @ 2:50 PM   2 comments
18 May, 2006
The Da Rockel Code
So, a friend called me up yesterday and alerted me to the fact that she had won, via a raffle at work, two tickets to the sneak preview of "The Da Vinci Code," tonight, and asked me if I would like to attend with her.

Let's see, I said. Movie. Free. Sneak Preview. Yes.

What followed, I am quite surprised to say, was, hands down, one of the most enjoyable movie going experiences I have had in recent memory.

Details to follow.
posted by Rockel @ 7:41 PM   1 comments
17 May, 2006
More on Bush
"Speak awfully and carry a big fish."

Mission Accomplished
posted by Rockel @ 4:14 PM   4 comments
"I thought it was almost as bad as the book."
It came as no surprise to anyone that the run-away hit of this year's Festival de Cannes was the long-anticipated, "The DaVinci Code."

Ever since the announcement of its production, everyone from film critics to politicians to normal people to the pope have predicted/feared its inevitable success.

However, I don't think anyone could have anticipated the reception it received at the famous French Film Fest.

Not only did it make movie history, being hailed by critics as actually better than its leather-bound origins, but it reduced the normally raucous Cannes crowd of critics to a hushed, mesmerized mass, breathlessly (and applause-lessly) watching the credits roll by in the most profound sense of enlightenment and awe.
posted by Rockel @ 2:50 AM   2 comments
16 May, 2006
New Videos
Crash

Fear Factor

The Wrong Guy
posted by Rockel @ 3:32 PM   2 comments
14 May, 2006
Doug McIntyre

"There’s nothing harder in public life than admitting you’re wrong. By the way, admitting you’re wrong can be even tougher in private life. If you don’t believe me, just ask Bill Clinton or Charlie Sheen. But when you go out on the limb in public, it’s out there where everyone can see it, or in my case, hear it.


So, I’m saying today, I was wrong to have voted for George W. Bush. In historic terms, I believe George W. Bush is the worst two-term President in the history of the country. Worse than Grant. I also believe a case can be made that he’s the worst President, period."

(cont.)



Immigration update: The word on the street is "temporary."
posted by Rockel @ 7:02 PM   0 comments
Oh... My... God...
The title of the article:
"2 Charged With Rape of Newborn"

Very disturbing... then you read the first line of the article...

and it gets worse.
posted by Rockel @ 5:49 PM   3 comments
13 May, 2006
All You Need Is...
Cirque de Soleil... check.
The music of the Beatles... check.
Tickets... $69-$150
posted by Rockel @ 6:29 AM   1 comments
09 May, 2006
A Penny For Your Thoughts
{there was supposed to be a picture of a penny here, but blogger is too busy to deal with me - and I, it - right now... use your imagination}

And a shameless plug...

{picture of an edison plug, not necessarily shameless...}

...for -={CHUCK}=-, winner and all-time champ of Mint Trivia.

Congrats, Chuck.

Here's the story.
Does it make sense [sorry] to anyone else?
posted by Rockel @ 4:18 PM   3 comments
08 May, 2006
The Answer Is...
1.4¢

Anybody know the question?
posted by Rockel @ 7:08 PM   4 comments
06 May, 2006
Updatus Politikus
Iraq
Gay
Ohio
III
posted by Rockel @ 9:25 AM   3 comments
Sex Pistols
Ok... it's been a few posts... but here are The Sex Pistols following up Vaclav Havel... brownie points to whomever can tell me what comes after The Sex Pistols...

"God save politicians, God save our friends the pigs,
God save Idi Amin, and God save Ronald Biggs.
God save all us sinners, God save your blackest sheep,
God save the good samaritan, and God save the worthless creep."
posted by Rockel @ 9:13 AM   0 comments
Things To Do With Blood
#194 - Paint.
posted by Rockel @ 9:11 AM   0 comments
"It's is not pleasant."
"'Verging on painful irritating and disturbing.'" [sic]

Yes. I am speaking, of course, about PSAS.

"As doctors become more aware, more women are being diagnosed."
posted by Rockel @ 9:07 AM   0 comments
Multiple Choice
Which of these is 14 pounds?
a) Fish
b) Cat
c) Puppy
d) Preemie Baby
posted by Rockel @ 9:01 AM   0 comments
03 May, 2006
Too Much Work
This seems like a great, time-saving, work-reducing invention...

however, I'm going to wait until they develop the version that senses when you leave the shower...

pushing a button is just...

too much work.
posted by Rockel @ 4:54 PM   0 comments
LIFE!
Feel free to comment, if you so choose. Not that this guy needs any more press, but I may decide to defend him... we'll see.
posted by Rockel @ 4:52 PM   2 comments
01 May, 2006
Three Months...
...since I had one of these:...so I bought myself one of these:...if I can go another 3 months, I'm going here:...for some of this:
...with these people:
posted by Rockel @ 4:53 PM   2 comments
Vaclav Havel
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.”

"The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it."

"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said."
posted by Rockel @ 4:26 PM   2 comments
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ON THE NICKEL
by Tom Waits

("I'd like to do a new song here. This is eh, it's about downtown Los Angeles on 5th Street. And eh all the winos affectionately refer to it as The Nickel. So this is kind of a hobo's lullaby.")

sticks and stones will break my bones,
but i always will be true, and when
your mama is dead and gone,
i'll sing this lullabye just for you,
and what becomes of all the little boys,
who never comb their hair,
well they're lined up all around the block,
on the nickel over there.

so you better bring a bucket,
there is a hole in the pail,
and if you don't get my letter,
then you'll know that i'm in jail,
and what becomes of all the little boys,
who never say their prayers,
well they're sleepin' like a baby,
on the nickel over there.

and if you chew tobacco, and wish upon a star,
well you'll find out where the scarecrows sit,
just like punchlines between the cars,
and i know a place where a royal flush,
can never beat a pair, and even thomas jefferson,
is on the nickel over there.

so ring around the rosie, you're sleepin' in the rain,
and you're always late for supper,
and man you let me down again,
i thought i heard a mockingbird, roosevelt knows where,
you can skip the light, with grady tuck,
on the nickel over there.

so what becomes of all the little boys,
who run away from home,
well the world just keeps gettin' bigger,
once you get out on your own,
so here's to all the little boys,
the sandman takes you where,
you'll be sleepin' with a pillowman,
on the nickel over there.

so let's climb up through that button hole,
and we'll fall right up the stairs,
and i'll show you where the short dogs grow,
on the nickel over there.
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"We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe,
by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are,
but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it."
 -- Madeleine L'Engle, "Walking on Water"