The Many Rants of Larry Russwurm- Pickup Cars
- What if Average Height Keeps Increasing?
- Alternative to Affirmative Action?
- Making Sense Out of Cell Replenishment
- Has Liz II Been Cheated Out of an Era?
- Boy is My Face Red
- Liz: ‘No Fascinators at My Diamond Jubilee’
- New Improved Birth Order Theory
- The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
- The Ultimate in Anti Intellectuals – Cats
Category Archives: Stage and Screen
The Ligh-yer Based Professions and the Unending Copyright Wars
On SOPA/PIPA protest day (there has been at least one call to name it Netizens Day), the supreme court of the USA decided that since they had cover, they could rule that the public domain could be taken from the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged are liar lawyers disproportionately common?, boom years for lawyer based professions, copyright lawyering, Dennis the Dentist and Lawrence the Lawyer are disproportionately common, judging, lawyer based professions, liar based professions, MPAA, Netizens Day, PIPA, politicking, public domain, pursuing copyright maximalisation, RIAA, SOPA, SOPA/PIPA protest day, the supreme court of the US
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Pseudo Accents
Perhaps a one word title for this could have been “Dialects” because that word includes the social group identity and not necessarily the regionalism of the word “accent”. Still the word is still not right for all the groups we … Continue reading
Is it Moral to Name Your Child for the Sake of a Comedy Bit
A: Mo or Les, which is the better name? B: Which? A: The supernatural has nothing to do with it. Mo or Les which is the better name? B: Who? What? A: This isn’t some Abbot and Costello sketch. Mo … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Social Science, Stage and Screen
Tagged Abbot and Costello, comedy bit, Mo or Les, Morris Lester, naming children
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The Scourge of the Nineties
Some say the scourge of the nineties was Kim Jong Il or maybe ethnic cleansing, either Rwandan or Bosnian. I have a different thing to nominate and this will hit home to anyone who lived in the developed world in … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Science, Stage and Screen
Tagged Bosnian genocide, car alarms, Kim Jong Il, Rwandan genocide, the nineties
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To Colourize or to Decolourize
I know a number of cinemaphiles. So when colourizing first came about for black and white films, I heard some of the debate. The name that kept on coming up to not colourize was Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho. For some … Continue reading
Muses and the Epic Battle Between Good and Evil
Smart people are inspired by life. Clever people are inspired by other people’s lives (or biographies). Mildly sly people are inspired by novels. Average people are inspired by movies. Mildly ditzy people are inspired by hour long TV shows. Insufferable … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged Axis, good and evil, inspiration, Malcolm in the Middle ad, muses, the Cold War, the Soviet Union, World War II
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Empire of Shit, Sh*t, $#*!,$h*!
By now, even I have heard about Shit My Dad Says. This small empire was founded by son, Justin, putting out a Twitter feed with the strange, uncensored things his father said. That Twitter feed is still going and can … Continue reading
Some See Ranges, I See Rings
It was with shock, a few years back, that I found out that anarchists are considered to exist on the far left of the political spectrum. You see, I just presumed that extreme right wingers were the anarchists, with their … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, History, Language, Mathematics, Music, Politics, Science, Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged Anarchy, Art, fine arts, knowledge spectrum, left and right in politics, political spectrum, primary colours, rings, Science, spectrum
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James Moore gets Cartoond
Heritage minister, James Moore, is depicted above. You may ask, “Why did he get Cartoond?” Well mainly because he chooses not to listen to Canadians. On Twitter, he blocked my sister, Laurie, since he decided any critique by her would … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Humour, Music, Politics, Stage and Screen, Writing
Tagged Canada, copyright, Harold Albrecht, Heritage Minister, James Moore, Laurie Russwurm, Russell McOrmond, Twitter
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