This scares me, it REALLY REALLY SCARES ME!

I just got home & was watching CBS while my VTR rewinds when this story came up.

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Furor Over Targeting Of Liberal Profs

Now, I consider this as a total affront to the whole university learning system.

So I sit in a poly-sci. class & have to listen & study under a prof. that has a total 180 degree opinion of what I believe in. I can make $100 recording & gathering evidence of this instructors skewed view of life as I see it, mien furor posts it on the 'net, and wham bam thank ya' mam, this person is out of a job.

No tenure, no severance, no reference, and no career afterwards.

Just because of some pigheaded bastard did not agree with them.

Am I wrong in opinion that going to college is supposed to be a learning experience? Are not students expected to learn from discovery? And is not discovery one of the things that comes from finding something that you question, challenging it, and then finding out what is truth and/or bullshit after delving into the challenge & reaching opinion. It is called using independent thought.

THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS HOW YOU LEARN.

I scares me that some disgruntled rightwing twat of a loser is offering a bounty for turning in the instructors @ UCLA for "liberal thinking & liberal actions". WTF!!! Did I fall asleep last night & Sen. McCarthy was cross cloned with Hitler?

Most of you out there know if Timothy Leary, the Chicago Seven, or other liberal factions tried this, all hell would break loose & there would be wire taps, swat teams, and a butt load legal problems / jail time just for mentioning something remotely like this.

As a former educator {grad school}, it is appalling that anyone could do this. Then again up until a few weeks ago we all thought that people could not record phone calls without consent.

Actually I am more than scared. I am disappointed, disgusted, torqued off, confused, and severely aghast of how something like this could be allowed to happen.

And this is supposed to be the land of the free, the land of open acceptance, the land of open minds,

The land that shall not oppress.

Blessed be all, and please try to be nice to each other.

Dr. Strangelove

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Go nuts guys!

Dr. Strangelove

Movie Reviews of 2006 #29 - CASANOVA

WOW! What a shockingly good surprise of a movie.

We choose to watch this over another movie that was PG-13, and we definitely made the right choice. From the posters, trailers, and other pre-release media, it was expected to be a semi-chick-flick. We took this movie on for the sheer fact of the R rating even though is is a Buena-Vista {read the "adult" Disney} release. There wasn't any full nude scenes, no foul language, and not even an obligatory blood & gore scene. BUT IT IS STILL A DAMN FUN TIME!

As this is the story of the legend Casanova, this is sex, sex, & more sex. But it is all implied by reference & good cinematography & editing. This is not a chick-flick, but a damn well done film from the writing of the story & screenplay, down to almost every aspect of the finished product.

And it is funny, enjoyable, interesting, and as much as I hate the term, it is "riveting". I hate that term because it is used way too often in promotional materials. But I ran out of soda due to a popcorn induced drymouth, and I did not want to leave and possibly miss another good moment, hense - riveting.

The most impressive thing of Casanova is the writing of the story & how the various interweaving storylines revolved around each other and did not interfere & cause confusion. Had the people responsible for this movie did anything different, things would have become muddled & many in the audience would be whispering between themselves trying to find out what is going on. Instead everything is laid out in a very precise intricate way that the viewer is not distracted from what is on the screen, and thus fully enjoy the full story and comedy that ensues.

I could go on, but in summary this says it best:

"This is a romantic comedy that made me cry.
I was crying because I was laughing so damn hard."
Jon B.

Try not to miss this one.

Blessed Be, Dr. Strangelove

Welcome to the Gnu year.

After dealing with twirps, twips, and people nagging at me for the last few weeks "merry, happy, etc. {insert holiday here}", had left me with the want to snipe random cars from the top of my building.

I finally know & enjoy what a new year means. This was not intentional, but I am glad that I had the chance to enjoy the holiday season.

As I sit here at my favorite pub during our xmas party, I feel happy. Not from the beer. But from the people around me. Yes some of them are people that would not say 'BOO' to me any other day. But we all are hanging out, shareing food & drink, and plain out having fun togather.

I wish everyone could be this way every day to each other and not have an end of the year thing.

All I know right now is we are all living in peace, here, now, and in the moment.
Maybe some others in the world should take the hint.

Blessed Be, and "please be kind / rewind"
Dr. S.

Movie Reviews of 2005 #28 - Wolf Creek

We were supposed to watch this movie Thursday night as it was supposed to come in along with other films that are opening this weekend. Minor flaw with that plan was that Technicolor somehow only gave the delivery company 2/5's of the reels of the movie. For me I think it is hard to miss a giant blaze orange steel box that weighs over 50 lbs., but that's just me.

So we got the second half of the movie last night, got ourselves pumped up to see a good blood & gore, hack 'em up, scary horror movie.

And ended up watching some fucking college kids vacation movie. After waiting & wanting to see a good terror movie, we discovered the "terror" must have been a typo for the word "terrible". Yes, there is blood & gore & stuff. BUT IT IS OVER AN HOUR/TEN INTO THE MOVIE!!!!
Hell, it took almost 15min. to get to the damn opening titles. It got to the point of boredom for all of us that when the violence actually started we so lulled by boredom, the gore did not register a single bit. To quote one of the comments on IMDB "...so achingly dull and borderline pointless that when it comes time for McLean [the director] to rev up his engine and start the mayhem, interest in any of this has evaporated."

The movie got over, the lights came up, and we all could not figure out how this movie ever got made & released to such accolades by the critics.

This is another case of W.T.F. are these assholes in hollywood thinking? This is not "THE MOST TERRIFYING MOVIE OF THE YEAR". Hell, it is nothing more than a very cheap, {read the whole thing looks like a sophomore filmschool project}, Aussie knock-off of Texas Chainsaw meets Blair Witch.

This is one of the most disappointing pseudo-horror bullshit films that have come out. The only saving grace is that they did not have the silly assed shot of the alarm clock stopping at 3:02 AM to forewarn danger is at hand like all of the other "horror" movies in the last year. This movie would not even qualify as one of those crappy Showtime exclusive special features.
Do not bother going to see this in the theatre, avoid the temptation to rent or buy the DVD {which I predict will come out sometime in Feb.}, instead see a really scary movie like Brokeback Mountain.

Blessed Be, & Merry Yule!
Dr. S

Movie Reviews of 2005 #27 - KING KONG aka Benny & the Jets

I would have done this earlier but, we did not get out until 4:15, I had to pick up my tools from tearing out & repairing both a toilet & a urinal, {the glamour of working in the theatre industry ya' know}, and my internet is being nauti.

King Kong is great! When the closing credits rolled it did not seem that we had been sitting & watching for over three hours. It is impressive from the start, and doesn't let you away from the what is happening until the end.

As many of you know this is a remake of a classic movie. For the rest of you that still may have water behind your ears, or do not realize that black & white movies were actually done that way not for "artistic reasons", but there was no other way to shoot the damn things, yes life was not in colour for a very, very, long time.
But all the same, with a new age, there is new vision.

And this vision for a remake of a classic movie is spot on. This is one of the extremely few remakes that holds up to the original, but makes it better justifying itself. And overall, one of two movies that I have seen in the last two years that lives up to the pre-release hype. NO, I am not getting soft & backing off on what I think in my reviews. Just stay away from Syriana, and see King Kong, hell, stay FAR away from Syriana, and watch paint dry for that matter. But I digress . . .
Following the story of King Kong, this movie is impressive with the flawless integration of modern technology to update the story, but still keep it in the 1930's New York setting. Many films drop all the money in FX & CGI in fantastical stuff that is the foreground as to keep your eyes on the screen. In the case of King Kong, there is a buttload of care taken to cover what is in the background, & then you have the impressive "blow you away" stuff on top of it.
There are very few things bad about this movie. And I know that it will be received very well by all that see it. And watching the trailers that we had before the movie, the first week of May will also be kick ass.

So go see it in the theatre, enjoy it in the theatre, and you will not regret it. Because once you see it on VHS or DVD,
you will wish you had seen it in a theatre.

Blessed Be, & enjoy the show

Dr. S.

OHH, I almost forgot. The reference to Benny & the Jets in the subject line:

Many popular movies have "code names" on the shipping packs. This is to prevent people from shagging off with a print, copying it, and making bootlegs. Or in some cases holding it for ransom. So the production companies send out the boxes with these oddball names on the cans.
DISCLAIMER: The code name for King Kong is not 'Benny & the Jets', I did not want to use the real one so not to be blamed for print thefts.

The actual code name is a totally "how the fu({ they come up with that?" thing that none of us can figure out the origin. But Benny & the Jets makes more sense.

May you all have a Merry Yule!

Movie Reviews of 2005 #26 - Syriana

Since we did not pay to see this movie we cannot ask for our money back.
BUT CAN WE GET TWO HOURS BACK FROM THE PEOPLE THAT MADE THIS PIECE OF SHIT!?!

Obviously there was a turkey left on the counter since Thanksgiving, because this one could feed a large extended family if it wasn't so rotten & smelly.
Many people "in the know" are singing praises & kudos about this film. I honestly think they all got paid off by the producers. Either that or someone laced the water supply with crack & LSD. IT IS BAD, REALLY BAD, REALLY BORING & BAD, and that is the best/kindest words uttered by anyone that came out of the screening this morning. Actually the kindest thing was "ZZZzzzz, uhmm, Oh it's over?" after we had to wake her up.

It is convoluted, confusing, disjointed, nothing what-so-ever tying the sub plots together until the last 10 minutes, AND DULLER THAN DIRT. Oh and did I mention that we all that it was bad? I thought George Clooney & Matt Damon had better taste in what shows to choose, but obviously not. Then again they may been on the crack & LSD water too.

The people responsible:

Produced by
Sarah Bradshaw	....	associate producer
George Clooney	....	executive producer
Ben Cosgrove	....	executive producer
Jennifer Fox	....	producer
Georgia Kacandes	....	producer
Elizabeth Kirkscey	....	associate producer
Shannon Lail	....	associate producer
Michael Nozik	....	producer
Jeff Skoll	....	executive producer
Steven Soderbergh	....	executive producer

These people should be taken out and bitch-slapped for misleading people into thinking that they are going to drop good money to see an action/political thriller. Matter of fact I know there are laws against deception of what you are selling & "bait & switch" scams.
Point blank, if you want to see this movie as an "action thriller". Save your money and just watch the commercial or trailer, because ALL of the action & thrills from the movie are there.

Syriana is the worst movie I have seen in a long time, {if not ever}, and everyone else at the screening felt the same. It was even more boring & crappy than Constant Gardener. At least that movie had great visual settings & locations. This movie on the otherhand was dull & drab looking at every location {and there were many}, that they shot at. Several of us noticed that someone must have gathered a shit-tonne of frequent flyer miles, maybe they can send those miles out to refund the two hours of my life lost to watching this & attempting to stay awake.

Do I even need to go into my rating scale on this one? I don't think so.

Blessed Be, & stay away from this flick
Dr. Strangelove

The Day The Music Died, 25 years later

In July of 1980 I had the honor of going to the 1980 Democratic convention as a page for the South Dakota delegation. My father was there also as a delegate. It was fun for me as I had a higher security clearance than the delegates, and I also was doing live reports back to a radio station that I worked at {am1520}, here in Sioux Falls.

I got my 15 minutes of fame when I tied several strings to a balloon & sent it up to the upper deck to get Amy Carters autograph & all three networks zoomed in on the secret service grabbing the balloon as a "disturbance near the Carter family...". I found out later I had several agents behind me on the floor of Madison Square ready to take me down. As the agent above me grabbed the note & read it, he leaned over & gave me the "ok sign" {it actually was to the agents behind me that I was not a threat}. He then passed the note down to Amy, she signed it & threw it back down, and then kept the balloon. Dammit, it was my balloon & I wanted to keep it! After turning around & realizing the guys in suits with guns I thought better to
let it be.
Which, in in odd segue, gets me back to why I am writing this post about John Lennon & his death.

During our stay in NYC, there were many gatherings, most that I could not goto due to my age. But there was one for both the North & South Dakota Delegations that was held not only at the Dakota Apartments, but next door to John & Yoko Ono.

As our group got off of the subway & made it across the street to the building, we all were in awe of its beauty. As we got closer & went into the entryway to get admitted I turned to my dad & said "You know for someplace that has this much money, this would be a great place to get mugged or something", while pointing at the empty little doormans vestibule.

Little did I know.

Fast forward five months to Dec. 8th 1980. I was typing a paper on my dads computer in the basement & listening to the radio when I heard the news of John Lennon being shot. I was stunned. Then thirty minutes later they announced that he had died. And the place he was killed at was in the entryway of the Dakota Apartments, exactly where I stood in July telling my dad about how someone could get jumped there.

A cold shiver went through my whole body & I could not do anything but stare at the wall for I don't know how long. I finally got back to my senses, printed my report, talked to my parents for a while, & went to bed.
The next morning I went to the radio station to do the talkshow that we had before school & found the drapes pulled on the big window facing Main Ave. Normally this is wide open so that people can look in on the FM studio & wave at the dj's, give them crap, request songs, etc. I went in to the AM side & saw the morning DJ for the FM station just sobbing.

Ginger is one of, if not the biggest Beatles fan I have ever met & probably ever will. And she is not a someone of fragile persona & at times could make sailors & marines blush. But she sat in the other studio totally broken.

I found out from the others that several people kept calling in with dedications like "hit me with your best shot" and other gun toting kind of songs & artists, and Ginger finally lost it. As I was affected by the situation in a totally different & creepy way, I thought it better that I did not try to say anything to her. A half hour into our show we saw in the other studio Ginger leave & our Gen. Mgr. took over the rest of her shift.

Twenty five years later, and it does not seem that long ago, I still think about the whole thing, me standing in that exact spot, and to a point, knowing something bad would happen.

I just didn't think it would end an era of one of the most influential musical groups, and songwriting teams in the genesis of what was rock & roll.

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John Winston Lennon
Oct. 9, 1940 - Dec. 8, 1980

Blessed Be John
And may you rest well
knowing that you have influenced many people,
and will for the rest of time.

Jon B

Movie Reviews of 2005 #25 - The Chronicles of Narnia

OK. I will start this off by stating that the self-righteous assholes out there that are raising a big stink about this movie, need to go & get a life that consists of more than playing RPG's on the internet in the parent's basement/attic, and finding hidden messages in the want ads.

THIS IS AN ALL OUT GREAT MOVIE! When the Disney opening logo came up & there was a dark screen I fell back in my seat thinking, "Oh crap, nine reels {2h:15m+} of smarmy touchy tripe from the rat-gods!". It is slow to get up & going & a very darkly imaged film at the start, and if you are not familiar with the story, or like me, have not read it in over thirty-two years, you will not know what the hell is going on. But as the film goes on, the exposition is not being stuffed down your throat and develops very nicely. And soon you find yourself in the story & following along with the characters as the story progresses.

ALSO, from the start you will notice the CGI & special effects are absolutely FREAKIN' FANTASTIC! {That is once you realize when it is being used}. The detailing is the best I have seen in a movie in years. And that includes the last star wars, Sin City, & other "super-hyper effect" movies. When a group walks through snow, they all left separate foot tracks, when the lion Aslan speaks to the others across a candle-lit table the flames move with his breath. Plain & simple, Harry Potter & the troll movies about hoarding rings can drop to the ground & kiss this movie's ass in production beauty & stunning effects.

When I left the theatre I knew I had seen a good movie. The more I have been thinking about it, I really like it. And it is something that the whole family will enjoy without any concern of offense, but less concern of going into a diabetic seizure from the standard Disney sugar coating that they normally force feed to us theatre goers as of the last few years.

Personally I think the movie is great, but I also think it could have been better if it had not been produced by the minions of Mike Eisner & co.

Go see this movie.

Blessed Be, Dr. Strangelove

Not a bad price for an Xbox, but for the box. . . priceless

In the excitement of the 360 fever I thought this is a good lesson.

A fool and his money are soon parted

And people wonder why I don't deal with Ebay-diots.

merry new year
Dr. S.

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.
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"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