HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL ! !

So here we are again. Many are waiting to stuff things into dead birds, {though it might be a felony in some places}, watch the parade, eat, watch games on TV, eat some more, fall asleep on the couch, wakeup & eat some more again, watch replays of games you missed while passed out, and then go shopping.

For those of you that have as dismal life as I do. Here are a couple flash games to play while waiting for the bird to fry.

<{:- EASY TURKEY SHOOT -:}> - - I wish I could say this was mine.

And for those more adventurous & needing a better challenge:

<{:- HARDER TURKEY SHOOT -:}> - - This actually takes some skill

Happy Gobbilin' & don't freeze while waiting for the stores to open @ 5 a.m.

Blessed Be. Dr. Strangelove

Movie Reviews of 2005 #24 - The Ice Harvest

Having Been given the choice of six movies that open here today "Wed. 11/23/05", of
Rent, In The Mix, Pride & Prejudice, Yours Mine & Ours, Just Friends, & The Ice Harvest, I ended up watching The Ice Harvest.

I have been involved in 2.5 productions of the musical, don't care to sit through 2 hours of {c}rap music, P&P just plain looked {and is} boring as hell, YM&O is purely rehashed Disney shit, and Just Friends just plain did not look funny. So I did not argue with the choice.

It is an interesting, odd, and dark comedy about a 'not so good goodfella', Charlie {played by John Cusack}, that ripped off his mobster thug type boss Bill Guerrard, {Randy Quaid}, that tries to control everything he can, {but not as despicable as Wild Bill}, for over $2.000.000 on christmas eve. Due to an ice storm, he and his partner in crime Vic, {Billy Bob Thornton}, decide to part ways for the night & head out the next morning. The body of the story focuses on the odd happenings that go on throughout the night.

Overall Ice Harvest was fairly interesting. Knowing Harold Ramis' past works we all were expecting some twisted humour & odd setups for the characters. However the only thing that really stuck in my mind and others was Charlie's sidekick buddy Pete played by Oliver Platt. He had some of the best screen stealing lines & actions in the whole movie as a totally piss-drunk dumb-ass that we all at one time have met, {or some have been}, that you cannot help but love the guy.

Despite many flaws that those of us that have actually lived through ice storms, and even more evident to those of us that ice/winter storms are a matter of life, such as:

• There wasn't any ice glaze on any of the cars or what I like calling 4 wheeled ice cubes
• You could not see anybodies breath
• Cars going faster than 12 MPH will not turn on black ice
• And many other things that anyone that has lived in the real midwest during the winter months know & live with, and absolutely hate.

We all had a good time during the movie.

If you have problems picking up on stupid one liners, odd things happening that don't pay off until later on, or don't enjoy following a dark comedy because you have to think.

This movie will not be for you. Just wait until it comes out on DVD with a booklet on how to understand, & closed captioning with commentary.

Otherwise, I think this might be one of those movies that you will goto see, then buy it & it manages to stay in the frequently played stack.

Blessed Be, Dr. S.

P.S. There are pancakes in heaven, and a lot of other stuff too.

WHY WOMEN CUM, er COME IN, er TO SOUTH DAKOTA!

Look out women, we men here in South Dakota will lick you silly! This is a semi-serious survey done by the gays & dolls @ Men's Fitness & Shape magazines.
<{[ CLICK HERE ]}>
"Dakota's gals report receiving more oral sex than women in any other state. Maybe that's because Mount Rushmore guys have the greatest concern of all the men we surveyed over whether their partners reach orgasm or whether they truly feel satisfied at the end of a sexual encounter."

This explains why the women here have such big smiles?

Blessed Be, and pass the Carmex, Dr. Strangelove

Hairy pothead & forgetting his ticket

I was going to post this last night, {well for me, last night, for others it would be Friday morning}.

The expected onslaught of freaks for the midnight showing caused us to have people standing door for the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie. We had shows starting @ 12:01, 12:10, 12:20, & 12:30. People, {I use that term generously}, started showing up around 4pm, and were rather nice & easy to deal with compared to the Star Wars early shows.

I got called to make sure I was going to come in, and if "you were not planning on working on anything tonight...", so that I could stand door for the four shows.

I said what the heck, it gives me a chance to work without the threat of bodily harm, and I get to dress up! Little did I know. . . .

So, I showed up in full dress jacket, tie & slacks. Several of my co-workers did not recognize me since I did not have my standard baseball cap or denim shirt & jeans. I then found out that I had to stand door for the 1st showing.

Now Keep in mind here that THIS is the show that is the one everyone else wants to sneak into, sneak others into, and boast that they were the "first ones" to see the movie.

{little do they know, all four of the prints were watched almost 24 hours earlier by those of us that work at the theatre}.

So I say PPffffffffTTTT!!!! And I would taunt them again little wipers of other peoples bottoms!

ANYWAY: We opened the theatre for the 1st show right after the credits ended for the prior showing of Jarhead @ around 9:40 to seat "people" for the 12:01 showing of Harry Potter. BIG ASSED RUSH TO CLAIM SEATS. And each & every one of them were asked to see the ticket they had, and told to "KEEP THIS TICKET WITH YOU IN CASE YOU LEAVE THE THEATRE, YOU WILL NEED IT TO GET BACK IN".

How soon they forget. But when you have to sit in a theatre for 2.5 hours, most are going to want to pee, grab more food, or in the case of some highschool kids sneak out for
"A SMOKE".

After two hours they all got antsy & running in & out. Each & every time being asked "do you have your ticket so you can get back in?". And most of them went back in to grab their ticket, or someone else's, {wink wink wink, we do not give a smelly rats ass if it is YOUR ticket}.

So, back to the title of this post.

A group of eight semi-college aged people stumbled up to the door with their tickets at about 11:50. On the benefit of the doubt they all smoked Marlboro Lights, & they all got "that special blend that smells like something not tobacco....". Yeah Right.

So one of the group came running out of the theatre during the run of the trailers to get more popcorn. {mind you it has been about ten minutes, large bag of 'corn, and he is not sharing with his buddies}. As well as he is a tall white guy with dreadlocks & Burkinstocks looking like someone who dumpster dives @ the goodwill.

He comes back with a full bag of 'corn to go in & I asked him for his ticket.

"Dude, I don't have it dude, whoh it must be in my coat inside with my friends"

After repeating what I told him & the rest of his stonehenged group of psudohippie wannabees when they 1st got there that he cannot get back in without a ticket. {I was busy with other patrons when he left, how the hell do I know he did not have a ticket for the 12:20 show next door?}

I followed him in to the theatre to where {go figure} all of his buddies were in the front row slouched down to the point of almost sliding off the chairs freaking out about how big the picture is. I turned on my maglight while he went through all twelve of his coat pockets to make sure he was in the correct show.

Got the right ticket. I don't mind stoners. I don't mind people dressing up as freaks from a book/movie series.

I do however mind freaky stoners at a childrens show.

Dr. S.

the only way I know how to put it

This was the highlight of Wednesday's performance & loadout of Cats @ the Washington Pavilion once everyone on the crew had read the newspaper. It also led to an interesting discussion @ Willys later on.

Indecent exposure charges pending

USELESS FACTS, Part two

Here is another stupid thing place to check out

DID YOU KNOW...? USELESS FACTS

Somethiing to settle your mind, or bar bet

From Acadamy Awards to Zorb ball roll, this is the place to go.

The longest list of the longest stuff at the longest domain name

Why blow up the best view in Sioux Falls?

I just got done watching the vtr of last nights CBS shows. {Without a Trace was really good & reminded me of a mix of Taxi Driver & Crossing Guard}

I then saw the shots that one of the KELO shooters {the guy/gal with the camera}, did from the top of the Zip Feed mill did the other day & edited into a montage.

WOW!!!! I forgot how impressive the view is from up there. I would inject photos to this as I type, but I am now realizing the BIGGEST reason I was/am so opposed to that area being torn down to build {then} an "events center", and {now} "fruu fruu, pretty nice shiny object, it will benefit all of the people", complex that only will benefit "the people" that own, or are leveraging out others that own the land around the area.
.
READ:
..... 'You may own it now, but we will condemn your properties, and if you do not sell to us, we will go after your personal/business image until we can buy it out through eminent domain, and you will end up penniless, bitch!'.....

POINT A - The events center, Ok, it ties into the Phillips to the falls bullshit.

1. Yeah, lets put a venue that will supposedly draw many thousands of people to the downtown area to pump up the business and draw attention to the downtown area.
1. The only problem is that 98% of said businesses CLOSE AT 5:15pm {ok we got people to the area, they can still window shop}
2. The whole area stinks of either the stockyards, stock rendering, or the place they make hot dogs & other meat products
   
2. We will be replacing the current arena in central S.F. as a venue for major national acts by having a larger venue, thus larger capacity=larger attendance.
1. Does anyone remember the 'Block 11' project? If you don't, it was an offer to build a major multi-use complex in the downtown area. Short sighted dipshits caused it to not happen here. You know what did happen? It became the Rushmore Centre out in Rapid. And for the last twenty+ years Sioux Falls has been bypassed by each & every "major" act in favor of Rapid, and lately Sewer City. {P.S. Think of the Washington Pavilion as a twenty something on 'roids. That is what we could have had by now, and Sioux Falls would be a serious tour stop both band & performing arts}.
2. Ain't gunna happen. Sioux Falls used to be blacklisted by promoters. And it may not be now, many bad memories still float down through the ranks of tour promoters and production managers.
   
3. "LETS PUT A MAJOR ATTRACTION WHERE NO ONE CAN GET TO"
1. Anyone that has lived here, and even more, anyone that has lived on the east side above 10th can tell you north of the crosstown viaduct, if there is a train, you may as well shut you car off & wait until the 3rd train passes. THE CLOSEST MAJOR ACCESS TO THERE IS A MILE AWAY!
2. Cher, {her supposedly her last tour, but formaldahyde can work wonders}, last time through here had over 20 bus & truck vehicles. It pack the whole ass end of the current arena complex. Where the hell would they park them if they were downtown?
   

OK I went off on my rant. I will continue back to the original thought . . . .


We have a great thing between 6th & 8th streets on the river that you can see a ton of things more than you can as a ground dweller.

Duluth, MN turned an old bin/building like the Zip Feed building into a great tourist attraction by gutting the inside, creating many floor levels with small shops, and a great view of everything the city had to offer inside the building as far as local product & such.

But they did not destroy the things around that building. And that is what makes downtown Duluth so great. They instilled the visitor with the history of what that city was, is, and will be.

I would advise anyone that has ever been to Duluth, or even Lincoln, NE, if you somehow come through Sioux Falls, SD. Please.

Stop in at the "commerce centre" @ 8th & Phillips, walk into the chamber of commerce office & tell them how they are:

...butt fucking, ass licking, goat buggering, rat humping, pus pissing, lactating lloyd licking, "let's ignore the eastside", inbreed, disowned redneck, male{or female} gay transexualite multisexual, bigamistic, polytheastic, dirty leaderhosen wearing, dunham diving, greedy, asexual, bukakke swallowing, prepubescent, anal ripping fist fucking {no I didn't forget the comma}, cherry popping, bitch slapping, Dietrich blowing, Anita bryant, DV-DA, choadaboy, goat fucking, bestial bitch, carpet munching, mutant, "oh wait, the eastsiders have money! lets destroy them & make even more money!! Mah whoo wah ha ha", bitches in heat, large nippled, saggie breasted, corn holing, twinkie creaming, star wars wookie, sperm burping techno slut.

Then turn around & walk out the door. . . . . . They will think you are a freak


If you get two or more people to do this with you, they will think you are all transients from under the bridge next door.

If you get several dozen people to do this, they will suspect a revolt from the several shelters that are being forced out.

If you get a bunch of people with walkers, they will know the senior citizens from across the street & down the block are pissed. And they have great sniper positions, and the WHOLE BUILDING covered. {beware of the red dots}

But . . . If we all get together & do this at the same time.


They probably will send us down the hall to sit on the group W bench.

Then again, we can all go in & state the fact that we cannot lose such an icon as the Zip Feed Mill Building that would cost millions to replace the view from the top.

And on that note, it is getting close to thanksgiving. Anyone else want to goto Alice's?

Blessed Be, & enjoy the view while we still have it

Dr. Strangelove

p.s. For those that have taken offence to the language used in this post. I am not sorry that I did this, I just wanted to make sure it gets as many hits as possible by using many of the most frequently searched words & terms, I.E. smutty stuff.

But I am, & will ever be partial of "Sperm Burping Techno Slut". I heard it over ten years ago & it still makes me giggle & smile. And sometimes blow beer & milk through my nose.

Dr. S.

A Long Time Ago, In a Grocery, Far Far Away . . . . .

A good friend of mine, Andy, was checking his email, and got one from his brother, Aaron, whom is in the Air Force, that he said I needed to see.

Aaron currently is not fighting much of anything right now, but he is still there just in case something happens to anger the those on the dark side of "THE FARM...".

And maybe those Nebraska 'husker fans.

Enjoy, & click the link below. It is probably the best Star Wars spoof I have seen yet.

Join the Organic Rebellion

Dr. Strangelove

Movie Reviews of 2005 #23 - Chicken Little

This will just be a quickie, easy to take & no mess.

When I showed up to the theatre last night I was given a choice of movies, I wasn't really given a choice. I ended up watching Chicken Little.

Despite what several of the no life nit-picks @ IMDB say. It is a fun movie. Be it not the greatest to come from Pixar & the big mouse, it is still a fun movie. "egg-citing chick flick" so to speak,

{sorry}.

Overall despite some minor "WTF's", we all enjoyed it, & at times I had tears roll from my eyes from laughing so hard. I won't go into the story because almost everyone knows the story already, and if you don't, get out of the basement & go upstairs & have your mom read it to you.

But you will enjoy it better if you went to see it in the theatre, {just not in #5, someone FUBAR'd the speaker system in there & we don't know when it will be fully straightened out}.

Blessed Be & keep your head covered, Dr. Strangelove