Tee Hee

I have some links to share.

First up is Mark Wahlberg. He's pissed because Saturday Night Live did a decent parody of his acting. Andy Samburg has always made me laugh, ever since the infamous Lazy Sunday, so I found it mildly entertaining. The impression isn't bad, and after suffering through Wahlberg's latest craptastic adventure, The Happening, I'm entirely fine with poking some fun at him.

I'm honestly not sure whether The Happening was poorly written, filmed, or acted. There are moments where it might make you laugh a little, which isn't neccessarily out of place in a disaster film. But something was lost in translation here.

Out the window is Shyamalan's signature tension building. Instead, we're thrown right into the "action," which is never terribly interesting, nor exciting. Some of it is even kind of funny and it shouldn't be, and when it wants badly to be taken seriously, say by taking out a character we met only a few minutes before, there is no emotional impact. How are you supposed care about these people when nothing interesting happens to them? Sure, there are people dying, and it's this terrible event, and everyone is scared, and the best friend of course splits off from the group and ends up screwed. This is nothing we haven't seen before, done better by a dozen other films. I'm starting to think M. Night struck gold with the Sixth Sense.

And there's no twist. Some people will die, some won't, but there's no twist. The plants are killing people. If there is one lesson it could impart, it is the following: when the wind blows, if you're hanging out with too many evil polluting humans, you will die a horrible death related to whatever object nearby can cause a sufficiently grotesque amount of gore.

And I'm not sorry if I spoiled it for you. Even if you were thinking about seeing it, you should just forget it. Save the money for something useful, like an ashtray, or a rocket launcher.

Let us shift gears to Sarah Palin. I do so enjoy hearing about her these days.

CNN spent a lot of time covering this story earlier. This guy who used to be a Bush Strategist says that McCain knows he fucked up bad by picking her. Says McCain knew he "put the country at risk" by picking Palin as VP.

Alright, so he's a Bush strategist. He could be wrong, right?

I mean, it's not like she inspires people to yell "Kill him!" in regard to Barrack Obama at her rallies. Oh wait.

She's got to be the one we've been waiting for. Finally, a woman who knows what it's like to be a regular old, joe six pack, racist, ignorant American. It'll be refreshing to have someone with so much experience in abusing power for personal purposes.

Have you voted yet? You should vote, dude.