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A breakdown of the 137 people who signed the petition to free Roman Polanski in "a case of morals."

Trait

Number

Percentage

Male

122

89

Non-US born

 118*

86

Filmmaker**

106

77

People I’ve never effing heard of

116

85

* One undetermined.
** Either director or producer.

Of the 37 15 women who signed the petition, none were born in the United States. Most of the foreign-born signers are French, which makes you wonder how one country can support so many movie directors.

Among the 18 Americans who signed:

Woody Allen (cue spit-take)
Wes Anderson
Jonathan Demme
Buck Henry (who played the pedophilic babysitter, "Uncle Roy," on "SNL" during the 1970s)
John Landis (who was charged with involuntary manslaughter for the deaths of Vic Morrow and 2 children on the set of the Twilight Zone)
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Martin Scorcese

The real heartbreakers are Demme, Lynch, and Scorcese.

AoNW returns, if only intermittently.

Fun 4 hours: My Rap Name

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His next act as governor will be to run around naked with a tiara on his head.*

* And, in fact, my sister the lawyer would advise him to do so.

Image (right) from impressionsareeverything.com.

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Where are all the real pictures of Rahm Emanuel as a ballet dancer? Did he have them removed from the web?

Image of a "cross between a hemorrhoid and a toothache" from http://www.house.gov/emanuel/.

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Here's to the US government for bailing out AIG to the tune of $85 billion and the continued freefall of the US stock market.

According to my brother-in-law (God rest), a reinsurance lawyer (as exciting as it sounds), AIG is one of the most corrupt companies out there; they make Halliburton look like a bunch of baby Shilohs.

Image of label from Pure Evil Chardonnay, an excellent and (most important) inexpensive Aussie wine. It even has a screw top.

In the spirit of icanhascheezburger.com: LOLpalin.

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BMX_racing.jpgThanks to insomnia and NBC's late-night/early-morning coverage of the Beijing Olympics, BMX racing now has at least one more fan.

真牛!

Photo of BMX race crash: Carl de Souza/Getty Images.

Taking a break from identifying the women they love, the editors at Esquire have decided that the magazine's September cover will feature an animated, black-and-white electronic imageevoking the moving pictures in Harry Potter's newspaper, The Daily Prophet. But some say the distinctive cover, made possible by E-ink,* is a misguided gimmick.

* Which is used in Amazon's Kindle.

By now everyone has seen MAD Magazine's on-target political-movie posters for McCain and Obama. This is merely a note to enjoy the fine printeg, "A Post Traumatic Stress Production," etc, etc.

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