Coming SOON - My NEW Blog Design!
Saturday, February 25, 2006
My NEW Blog Design
My blog will soon have a new look... the dots thing is boring me.
The theme is a Hot and Sexy Medusa!
Or... I might just call it:
The New Medusa Complex - Overstressed and Underfu*ked!
Stay Tuned....
Da Ali G Show.. a Brief Overview!
Friday, February 24, 2006
Da Ali G Show is the name for two related satirical TV programs starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G.
He’s played three bumbling journalists — Ali G (an MC), Borat (a Kazakhstani reporter) and Bruno (a gay Austrian fashion reporter) — who interviewed unsuspecting people (sometimes very high-ranking officials) and made them look foolish.
Ali G is the main character of Da Ali G Show. He interviews unsuspecting guests, often telling them he is a British talk show host and wants to discuss the media and politics. Other times he tells his guests that he is teaching civics to British teens. Regardless of his method of procuring the interview, the outcome is often the same—he sits down with his guests, and then asks a string of loaded questions devised to goad them into replying with something equally ridiculous.
Borat Sagdiyev is another character featured frequently. He comes from Kasakhstan, and travels around the United Kingdom and United States interviewing people and engaging in their activities. Borat often makes his guests feel uncomfortable by introducing them to "Kazakh" customs, or by making misogynistic and anti-Semitic comments based on his unfamiliar culture.
The hair and mustache are real, and it takes Sacha six weeks to grow them; some women find Borat to be attractive, and ask for dates after filming. Borat's suit has also never been washed, which may cause him to smell "foreign" to those he encounters, adding to the apparent authenticity of his character.
Bruno - Bruno's apparent homosexuality is often the main focus of his interviews. He questions religious ministers and other hetersexual men about their feelings on the matter, and often provokes them by suggesting that they themselves are homosexual. For one show, Bruno filmed a segment with college wrestlers and had them perform a number of acts for the camera, including teaching him how to wrestle and flashing their lower backsides for the camera. At the end of the segment, Bruno instructed one of the boys to say "hello" to "Austria Gay TV." Upon learning the filming was for a gay television show, the wrestler, previously enthusiastic, became disgusted and hostile, shoving the microphone away and punching the camera man. The obvious purpose of the deception which is achieved through not fully informing his "victims," is to showcase the ignorance which is argued to underlie homophobic attitudes. The clip can also be seen to typify the often excruciatingly uncomfortable-to-watch style Baron Cohen is best known for.
Bruno also interviews fellow fashion aficionados and exposes their extreme views of how unfashionable people should be treated. He once asked an interviewee if these people should "stay in the ghetto" or be "put on trains, send them to a camp and say 'bye-bye'," a clear reference to Nazi atrocities such as Auschwitz, to which the fashionista interviewee agrees, saying: "I would love to say bye bye to most of them!"
He’s played three bumbling journalists — Ali G (an MC), Borat (a Kazakhstani reporter) and Bruno (a gay Austrian fashion reporter) — who interviewed unsuspecting people (sometimes very high-ranking officials) and made them look foolish.
Ali G is the main character of Da Ali G Show. He interviews unsuspecting guests, often telling them he is a British talk show host and wants to discuss the media and politics. Other times he tells his guests that he is teaching civics to British teens. Regardless of his method of procuring the interview, the outcome is often the same—he sits down with his guests, and then asks a string of loaded questions devised to goad them into replying with something equally ridiculous.
Borat Sagdiyev is another character featured frequently. He comes from Kasakhstan, and travels around the United Kingdom and United States interviewing people and engaging in their activities. Borat often makes his guests feel uncomfortable by introducing them to "Kazakh" customs, or by making misogynistic and anti-Semitic comments based on his unfamiliar culture.The hair and mustache are real, and it takes Sacha six weeks to grow them; some women find Borat to be attractive, and ask for dates after filming. Borat's suit has also never been washed, which may cause him to smell "foreign" to those he encounters, adding to the apparent authenticity of his character.
Bruno - Bruno's apparent homosexuality is often the main focus of his interviews. He questions religious ministers and other hetersexual men about their feelings on the matter, and often provokes them by suggesting that they themselves are homosexual. For one show, Bruno filmed a segment with college wrestlers and had them perform a number of acts for the camera, including teaching him how to wrestle and flashing their lower backsides for the camera. At the end of the segment, Bruno instructed one of the boys to say "hello" to "Austria Gay TV." Upon learning the filming was for a gay television show, the wrestler, previously enthusiastic, became disgusted and hostile, shoving the microphone away and punching the camera man. The obvious purpose of the deception which is achieved through not fully informing his "victims," is to showcase the ignorance which is argued to underlie homophobic attitudes. The clip can also be seen to typify the often excruciatingly uncomfortable-to-watch style Baron Cohen is best known for.Bruno also interviews fellow fashion aficionados and exposes their extreme views of how unfashionable people should be treated. He once asked an interviewee if these people should "stay in the ghetto" or be "put on trains, send them to a camp and say 'bye-bye'," a clear reference to Nazi atrocities such as Auschwitz, to which the fashionista interviewee agrees, saying: "I would love to say bye bye to most of them!"
I’m not crazy... am I??
Sunday, February 19, 2006
I think it applies to most people… no, we’re not crazy just not quite altogether at times...LOL!
You will never get to know the real me. Bits and pieces, sure. Hell, you may even know some really interesting bits and pieces. But I promise you, you’ll never get the 360-degree look (at least not by this blog). I doubt that even I know me fully and completely. Who has time to present all 360 degrees anyway? It’s hard enough presenting just the 25. Whenever I do try to explain or open-up… it just comes out all wrong and messed-up.
I am not surprised if I get kicked when I am down. You only have to take my shoe and beat me with it. Maybe the dirt on my face and the bruises on my head are easier to cope with than the alternative.
You will never get to know the real me. Bits and pieces, sure. Hell, you may even know some really interesting bits and pieces. But I promise you, you’ll never get the 360-degree look (at least not by this blog). I doubt that even I know me fully and completely. Who has time to present all 360 degrees anyway? It’s hard enough presenting just the 25. Whenever I do try to explain or open-up… it just comes out all wrong and messed-up.
I am not surprised if I get kicked when I am down. You only have to take my shoe and beat me with it. Maybe the dirt on my face and the bruises on my head are easier to cope with than the alternative.
The History of Valentine's Day
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Courtesy of The History Channel:
"While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial -- which probably occurred around 270 A.D -- others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.
The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D."
HMMMM... being gently slapped with a goats hide - now that's Love... makes me horny just thinking about it!!
"While some believe that Valentine's Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine's death or burial -- which probably occurred around 270 A.D -- others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine's feast day in the middle of February in an effort to 'christianize' celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival. In ancient Rome, February was the official beginning of spring and was considered a time for purification. Houses were ritually cleansed by sweeping them out and then sprinkling salt and a type of wheat called spelt throughout their interiors. Lupercalia, which began at the ides of February, February 15, was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at the sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would then sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification.
The boys then sliced the goat's hide into strips, dipped them in the sacrificial blood and took to the streets, gently slapping both women and fields of crops with the goathide strips. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed being touched with the hides because it was believed the strips would make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city's bachelors would then each choose a name out of the urn and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day around 498 A.D."
HMMMM... being gently slapped with a goats hide - now that's Love... makes me horny just thinking about it!!