Have You Met Tony?

My only regret is that I had to post this link at the start of my day instead of the end of the eyelid-dragging madness. And yes, I’m turning 4 this year.

Posted on July 25th, 2008 under Movies, Work. Comments: None

In tribute to the passing of Harvey Korman earlier today, I sat down to re-watch (for the millionth time) “Blazing Saddles”. Subsequently, a Googling led me to this document, which uses popular movies as part of English as a second language classes. Some pretty amusing stuff there, especially if you try to read it from [...]

Posted on May 29th, 2008 under Movies. Comments: None

After a long night at work thanks to elections, and watching a guy who jumped into the mayoral race with a “someone’s gotta run, why not me?” attitude get voted in as Mayor of Indianapolis, I was beyond thrilled to find this on YouTube: I know I haven’t posted much of late, but I hope [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2007 under Humor, Movies. Comments: 2

Sure, I could mention a football game that got over an hour or so ago, but I’m still busy choking on a Rose Bowl sandwich. I will say this, however… celebrate now, Gator fans. But if anything along the lines of “I love it here, we’ve got a great thing going” comes from Urban Meyer’s [...]

Posted on January 9th, 2007 under Movies, Sports. Comments: 2

Not that 85% of all Deadspin comment threads aren’t totally worth reading, but I have a feeling this one will be special. I was just thinking of this last night, as USA ran Blazing Saddles at 1am, virtually unedited (as far as my sleepy ears could tell, I mean, they left in the old lady [...]

Posted on November 5th, 2006 under Movies. Comments: 3

Who at AMC has the balls to show “History of the World Part I”, complete with ads plugging their airing of “Vacation” this Saturday, and then follow it up with “Slap Shot 2″? Next week, “Blazing Saddles” followed by “Caddyshack 2″?? Or maybe “Fletch” with a “Major League: Back to the Minors” encore? Blech. Regardless, [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2006 under Movies. Comments: None