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Alice in Wonderland
Hopefully the 1999 TV movie version will see a sales boost from the popularity of Burton's do-over - hard to beat a cast like Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lloyd, Martin Short, Peter Ustinov, George Wendt, Gene Wilder, and Whoopie Goldberg as the Cheshire Cast!
— March 17, 2010 9:51 p.m.
Alice in Wonderland
"...you can drift back into stuporville." Most of the time, that's all I want from a movie! To me, Duncan's admonishment is more recommendation than deterrent ---
— March 16, 2010 2:31 p.m.
Faucet-Pee Correlation, Ducks in a Row
Some of my best friends are ducks. Seriously. I carry cracked corn everywhere where I go, because I never know when I might meet another duck friend... Anyways, any group of more than a few ducks tends to march all in a row. Wherever they're going, whatever they're doing, they like to do it lined up. Not just paternal ducks being followed by impressionable little duck downers - a group of grownup ducks will march in parade formation too, more often than not. A sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8iglHB9g0
Unless you throw food down, in which case it's every duck for itself, willy nilly everywhere - they just go duckin' nuts, until the food is gone, and then they'll likely restart the soft parade and waddle off ----
— March 15, 2010 1:04 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
I'm tired of babysitting. I already responded to your nonsense "charges" several times and several ways in this thread, and (tho it's funny how you keep embarrassing yourself), the point of diminishing returns has been reached. I'll not waste another word. Fade out to THIS little ditty, far more apropos than the previous one -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbStWgKw-A
— March 15, 2010 12:17 p.m.
Recession-Proof Rock
RE #10, on behalf of all the hard working Reader staffers, yer welcome!
— March 14, 2010 11:27 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EWcaS7II
— March 14, 2010 11:17 p.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
Cancel the baby shower --- Toldja not to worry, CF, had my tubes ties ages ago ---- "Hermaphrodite"??? Jeez, my picture turns up in one 30 year-old newspaper dressed as Frank-n-furter at the Rocky Horror Show, and years later people are still confused......
— March 14, 2010 10:17 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
=sigh= CB deserves far better spokesmanship - with "supporters" like this, who needs detractors? And on that note, "end of story" fadeout to the lemongroovy theme song -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EWcaS7II
— March 14, 2010 11:28 a.m.
Burning of Bridges
BTW, I do like CB. The only current problem I have with the paper (aside from staffers' occasional laughable attempts to claim superiority via comment threads) is the mean spirited content perpetrated by a few newer columnists. This sort of F-U approach first got my notice with name-calling and baiting insults hurled at local performers in the name of “demo reviews.” As I’ve stated elsewhere, that kind of "writing" approximates a schoolyard bully's tendency to reward any peer's attempt at philosophical or intellectual endeavors with a punch in the fukken head. Yeah, the Reader (having been around since the early ‘70s), is the dinosaur. And CB is currently such a strong publication (hats off to Dave Maass for recent quality upgrades) that, in many other cities, it would probably have risen to be the top local weekly. Unfortunately for CB, and for their fan (or staffer?) Lemongroovy, as in Jurassic Park/Lost World, the dinosaur in San Diego is still alive and kicking ----
— March 13, 2010 1:24 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
Haha, of all the battles to pick - The Reader has chronicled the Jumping Turtle story as it happened more with more ink than almost any other local music story! Well over a dozen full articles, chock full of quotes from cops, city officials, neighbors, patrons, promoters, etc. Has Lemongroovy even SEEN the Reader?! Sheesh! A random sampling: Where kids and booze mix (quoting police):
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2007/jan/11/wh…
San Marcos hates the JT (quoting city officials):
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2007/may/17/pr…
All ages allowed?
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2005/feb/03/my…
Pay scale debate, metal/all age debate:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/aug/06/bl…
Concert injuries:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2006/jun/29/hi…
Promoters battle:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/oct/21/bl…
Suing San Marcos:
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/nov/11/bl…
It's tedious to go on - anybody can search JT on Reader search bar -- of all the silly beachheads to attempt raising a CityBeat flag upon! We've covered the Turtle so much, and so thoroughly, as it happened, that editors and contribs keep putting a cap on how often we'll revisit additional coverage! So of course my most recent JT article didn't go back over and repeat all we've already reported on the bar ---- This really is too easy --- can't somebody come over repping for CB armed with at least one clue?
— March 13, 2010 1:13 p.m.
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Alice in Wonderland
Hopefully the 1999 TV movie version will see a sales boost from the popularity of Burton's do-over - hard to beat a cast like Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lloyd, Martin Short, Peter Ustinov, George Wendt, Gene Wilder, and Whoopie Goldberg as the Cheshire Cast!— March 17, 2010 9:51 p.m.
Alice in Wonderland
"...you can drift back into stuporville." Most of the time, that's all I want from a movie! To me, Duncan's admonishment is more recommendation than deterrent ---— March 16, 2010 2:31 p.m.
Faucet-Pee Correlation, Ducks in a Row
Some of my best friends are ducks. Seriously. I carry cracked corn everywhere where I go, because I never know when I might meet another duck friend... Anyways, any group of more than a few ducks tends to march all in a row. Wherever they're going, whatever they're doing, they like to do it lined up. Not just paternal ducks being followed by impressionable little duck downers - a group of grownup ducks will march in parade formation too, more often than not. A sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__8iglHB9g0 Unless you throw food down, in which case it's every duck for itself, willy nilly everywhere - they just go duckin' nuts, until the food is gone, and then they'll likely restart the soft parade and waddle off ----— March 15, 2010 1:04 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
I'm tired of babysitting. I already responded to your nonsense "charges" several times and several ways in this thread, and (tho it's funny how you keep embarrassing yourself), the point of diminishing returns has been reached. I'll not waste another word. Fade out to THIS little ditty, far more apropos than the previous one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbStWgKw-A— March 15, 2010 12:17 p.m.
Recession-Proof Rock
RE #10, on behalf of all the hard working Reader staffers, yer welcome!— March 14, 2010 11:27 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EWcaS7II— March 14, 2010 11:17 p.m.
i guess i just wish...../Pistol Pete
Cancel the baby shower --- Toldja not to worry, CF, had my tubes ties ages ago ---- "Hermaphrodite"??? Jeez, my picture turns up in one 30 year-old newspaper dressed as Frank-n-furter at the Rocky Horror Show, and years later people are still confused......— March 14, 2010 10:17 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
=sigh= CB deserves far better spokesmanship - with "supporters" like this, who needs detractors? And on that note, "end of story" fadeout to the lemongroovy theme song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ9EWcaS7II— March 14, 2010 11:28 a.m.
Burning of Bridges
BTW, I do like CB. The only current problem I have with the paper (aside from staffers' occasional laughable attempts to claim superiority via comment threads) is the mean spirited content perpetrated by a few newer columnists. This sort of F-U approach first got my notice with name-calling and baiting insults hurled at local performers in the name of “demo reviews.” As I’ve stated elsewhere, that kind of "writing" approximates a schoolyard bully's tendency to reward any peer's attempt at philosophical or intellectual endeavors with a punch in the fukken head. Yeah, the Reader (having been around since the early ‘70s), is the dinosaur. And CB is currently such a strong publication (hats off to Dave Maass for recent quality upgrades) that, in many other cities, it would probably have risen to be the top local weekly. Unfortunately for CB, and for their fan (or staffer?) Lemongroovy, as in Jurassic Park/Lost World, the dinosaur in San Diego is still alive and kicking ----— March 13, 2010 1:24 p.m.
Burning of Bridges
Haha, of all the battles to pick - The Reader has chronicled the Jumping Turtle story as it happened more with more ink than almost any other local music story! Well over a dozen full articles, chock full of quotes from cops, city officials, neighbors, patrons, promoters, etc. Has Lemongroovy even SEEN the Reader?! Sheesh! A random sampling: Where kids and booze mix (quoting police): http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2007/jan/11/wh… San Marcos hates the JT (quoting city officials): http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2007/may/17/pr… All ages allowed? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2005/feb/03/my… Pay scale debate, metal/all age debate: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/aug/06/bl… Concert injuries: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2006/jun/29/hi… Promoters battle: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/oct/21/bl… Suing San Marcos: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/nov/11/bl… It's tedious to go on - anybody can search JT on Reader search bar -- of all the silly beachheads to attempt raising a CityBeat flag upon! We've covered the Turtle so much, and so thoroughly, as it happened, that editors and contribs keep putting a cap on how often we'll revisit additional coverage! So of course my most recent JT article didn't go back over and repeat all we've already reported on the bar ---- This really is too easy --- can't somebody come over repping for CB armed with at least one clue?— March 13, 2010 1:13 p.m.