tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post492302822984130405..comments2023-08-11T08:06:28.810-07:00Comments on Slobber And Spittle (Archive): Not Plane Nor Bird, Nor Even Frog ...Cujo359http://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-3863917445812158312007-03-17T01:08:00.000-07:002007-03-17T01:08:00.000-07:00Shoephone, whatever that story it is, it may be lo...Shoephone, whatever that story it is, it may be lost to time. I can't find it on the Internet. As for Tennessee Tuxedo, I'll have to get back to you.<BR/><BR/>g-natural - Yes, I'd seen some of the remarks various right wing jerks made about Sean Penn after Katrina. Stuff like this from LGF:<BR/>[quote]<BR/>When Sean Penn’s life is made into a film, do you think they’ll dramatize this ridiculous episode? (Hat tip: LGF readers.)<BR/>[/quote]<BR/>You'll have to google that phrase yourself. I'm not going to link to those clowns when they write something like that. Better yet, anyone who wants to remember can Google a set of keywords like "Sean Penn Spicoli New Orleans" and see for yourselves. They're pitiful people.Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-79449425911578534722007-03-14T15:22:00.000-07:002007-03-14T15:22:00.000-07:00First off: happy (belated) birthday! Second: with...First off: happy (belated) birthday! Second: with this column, you’re speaking to something that I’ve often noticed in popular culture and the MSM…the unceasing tendency to attack people trying to help, if their personal politics are overtly left-leaning. <BR/><BR/>We saw a lot of this during the Katrina disaster. Folks like Al Gore and Sean Penn—stunned as the rest of us were by what they saw on TV—dropped everything and flew there to pitch in in any way that they could, yet their actions were sneered at as those of “limousine liberals” seeking career-enhancing photo-ops. (Oh right…wading in tropical heat through stinking muck and walking past the corpses of American citizens stacked like cordwood in the streets: yeah, that’s just the kind of photo-op <I>I’d</I> seek out.) Not to mention Anderson Cooper being dismissed as another ‘fag’ for having the weak-kneed inability to contain his emotions in the face of such an overwhelming, heartbreaking calamity. <BR/><BR/>Yet I didn’t see such paragons of virtue as Sean Hannity or Ralph Reed racing to get <I>their</I> wingtips dirty assisting in New Orleans, although I do remember Dubya joking and playing the guitar at the time—guess he’s not good-enough a fiddle player. “What Would Jesus Do”? Wellll, I remember hearing something about healing the sick, aiding the downtrodden, and not stopping to first inquire of their race or socio-economic level, either. But you’d never get these mean-spirited punks to acknowledge it; the Bible is only useful to them when they can beat someone else over the head with it. <BR/><BR/>--G-Natural<BR/><BR/>PS: I too have fond memories of <I>Underdog</I>. I remember avidly watching him go up against the likes of Simon Bar-Sinister and Riff Raff, foiling attempts to steal the ‘Hopeless Diamond’ and whatnot. <BR/><BR/>Underdog may have been as dedicated and selfless a cartoon superhero as one could imagine, but he wasn’t no fool neither: after a customer delivered the classic “Thanks Shoeshine Boy…you’re humble and lovable.”--to which he dutifully responded, “Bless you sir”--I seem to recall that Shoeshine Boy would always test the proffered coin by biting it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-24295424726642418302007-03-14T02:54:00.000-07:002007-03-14T02:54:00.000-07:00Cujo -- your birthday?? But you're ageless. Like U...Cujo -- your birthday?? But you're <I>ageless</I>. Like Underdog (whom I loved.) Happy belated to you. <BR/><BR/>The theater director Dan Sullivan once told me a funny story about a conversation he had with Wally Cox on the subject of... proctologists. I kid you not. I wish I could remember the details now, but it was soemthing on the order of Wally having great admiration for his proctologist. Only Sullivan could make it funny, complete with his imitation of Cox. But never mind.<BR/><BR/>Underdog rules.<BR/><BR/>When will you be posting about Tennessee Tuxedo?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-20562914477022816792007-03-14T01:38:00.000-07:002007-03-14T01:38:00.000-07:00I won't ask your age, but I was just about to "gro...I won't ask your age, but I was just about to "grow out" of Under Dog, when he came a long.<BR/><BR/>Wally Cox, now there's a name I haven't seen in awhile. That's another thing, great character actors. I miss Strother Martin, next time you watch a movie with him in it, notice he steals every scene. No matter who's in the shot, you're watching him.<BR/>Col. Stonehill in True Grit.COLORADO BOBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16924573528754642186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-48995203982745394772007-03-13T23:23:00.000-07:002007-03-13T23:23:00.000-07:00Thanks, Taylor. It was a good birthday, as it happ...Thanks, Taylor. It was a good birthday, as it happens.<BR/><BR/>I think what inspired this essay was the coincidence of receiving this DVD and hearing a friend, who is a lawyer, talking about how juries have changed in the last few years. He said it used to be that you could appeal to their sense of fair play and compassion, but nowadays it's better to explain how the defendants broke the rules. He said that he encounters far too many potential jurors who just want to be able to call up Rush or one of the other right wing blowhards and brag about how they kept some crybaby from getting an award.<BR/><BR/>Rules are important, and I don't think that folks are entitled to big settlements just because their back surgery didn't go as planned, but the attitude that compassion doesn't count for anything, just the rules, really bothers me. It bothers me even more that lack of compassion, generosity, or any other positive human trait, is seen as a virtue by these people.<BR/><BR/>I suppose we're really not much more than chimps with less hair and more language skills, but somehow I still think we should be doing better.<BR/><BR/>And it might help a little if their kids would unload <I>America's Army</I> once in a while and watch an <I>Underdog</I> or <I>Superman</I> DVD instead ;).Cujo359https://www.blogger.com/profile/10385213658828021737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885549900454136918.post-9215468519254740732007-03-13T22:58:00.000-07:002007-03-13T22:58:00.000-07:00First, happy birthday, late, that is.Secondly, you...First, happy birthday, late, that is.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, you've made a very interesting point. Look at all the violent video games today. The Army is even setting up recruitment tables at paint gun places. Comics were so much different, but I, too, remember them teaching me things as well.<BR/><BR/>Lionizing Rove, or when Fox "News" props up Ann Coulter, all of it is obscene. Then there's Kenny boy, all of these people, with Bill O'Rielly and Rush thrown in too, really do play to the lowest part of humanity. <BR/><BR/>Some things, like <EM>Underdog</EM>, simply can't be replaced.Taylor Marshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06463311673049028352noreply@blogger.com