Thursday, June 14, 2007
That Sucks
- Ghostrider sucked. I mean, that comes as very little surprise to anyone, but, boy, did it suck. And what happened to Nicolas Cage? I used to like that guy…
- Era Vulgaris from Queens of the Stone Age sucked. There are a few good songs, but it’s hardly an engaging album. Their first three albums were brilliant, but Lullabies to Paralyze and the new album are huge disappointments.
- The 2012 Summer Olympics logo sucks. Without the sort of tacked on Olympic rings, you would have no idea that it was representing the event, and other than the just as tacked on “london”, you wouldn’t know that it had anything to do with the city. It looks mashed together, poorly considered, and hardly worth the money spent. Confrontational, yes, and definitely aggressive, but lacking anything resembling grace or beauty. The thing is ugly.
Some supporters are right: it will reproduce well in printing, it is simple, it is certainly not boring. I like all of those things. That doesn’t save it from being ugly. - It definitely sucks that you haven’t yet RSVP’d for the Blogger Bash. What the hell is wrong with you?
- Mike Nifong sucks. But you knew that already.
- The fact that Stan Lee is developing a Paris Hilton-based animated series for MTV sucks. Stan? What the hell are you thinking?
- The concept that a few mean words cut deeper than any knife not only sucks, but it isn’t even true. I’ve been on the receiving end of harsh words and various sharp and pointy objects, and, let me tell you, the pointy bits are the ones to look out for. If you ever have the option of either stabbing me with a sharp, pointy object or saying mean things to me, I’m hoping you’ll choose the latter.
Advice: grow some skin and get over the mean stuff.
When things are said that hurt you, here’s what you do: first, understand whether there is legitimacy to the complaint, second, if it is legitimate, let the critique change your behavior and, if it is not legitimate, ignore the idiots. Life is simpler when you can be honest about these things. - Apparently the new energy bill sucks. Which, maybe I should have been paying more attention.
- Anyone who claims to be able to predict with any accuracy, the point of the world’s peak production of oil sucks. And is taking you for a sucker. Why? 1- Because no one knows how much oil is in the ground. 2- Because oil extraction technology improves, which means some of our measured, recoverable reserves increase not because of new finds but because of new methods of extraction. 3- Because higher oil costs mean development of other, more difficult resources (like oil sands) that often aren’t factored into peak oil projections. That isn’t to say that we shouldn’t diversify our energy sources for a number of other reasons, but that the people who project doom and gloom usually have an agenda to push. You know what I say to that? Beware of the penguins.
- Knocked Up does not suck. You should go see it. Unless you have issues with pot smoking potty mouths and one quick moment of entirely ‘tuitous nudity.
Kindly linked by the Non-Sucky Kate.
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The meaning of life is gratuitous nudity.
Indeed, OPEC isn’t any happier about the price of oil right now than consumers are (though for different reasons). Since U.S. oil reserves these days are, compared to Middle Eastern crude, more expensive to recover or are of lower quality and thus more expensive to turn into usable products, the price of oil these days is encouraging more development of U.S. reserves, which is cutting into OPEC market share.
OPEC has known of this consequence since their big
temper tantrumoil embargo in the ‘70s, which is why they haven’t done it so much since then.Indeed.
And that goes for both of you.
RSVPs suck. Only losers tell you that they are going to be there. The cools kids just show up.
thanks, Jerry, you are like only the millionth person this month to tell me that I’m not cool.
I get it.
Let’s just go ahead and add one to that count…
RSVPs suck. Only losers tell you that they are going to be there. The cools kids just show up.
Which is why we’re telling people who RSVP where the real party is… so no cool people will be there.
Uh, wait… David we might need to rethink this.
I hate it when we’re stupid.
I love the new QOTSA. Granted, it took me about five listens before I really got into it, but I think - while it’s no Rated R - there are some quality songs on the album. Then again, I loved Lullabies.
Using the Antiques Roadshow measure of quality, the 2012 Olympics logo is perhaps the best logo ever designed. They paid $800,000 for it, after all! Plus, we all know that quality is inversely proportional to the number of people that like something, and everyone hates that logo, so it must be nearly perfect.
Oh, and there’s the seizures to consider, too. If it weren’t brilliant, it wouldn’t make such a strong impression.
Besides, it’s not like you’re being paid to do graphic design. Well, you’re not being paid $800,000 for a single logo, anyway (not that we’re elitist scum, interested only in the price of things, never the value), so your opinion doesn’t count.
If you could see why that logo is brilliant, maybe you’d be making $800,000 for a logo, exhibiting at the Tate, and seeing lots of other things, too.
Like Harvey.
Michele, I still listen to LTP occasionally, but not nearly as often as the first three albums. There are a few songs on the new album that I like (Suture Up My Future has a great vibe), but just not as much as in the earlier stuff.
Doug, have I ever told you how much I love Harvey? Jimmy Stewart is one of my all-time favorite actors and that movie is about as close to perfect as a comedy of that era can get. My ex-wife introduced me to that one; one of the good things that she did for me.
Doug, you’ve just summed up the EU bureaucrat style perfectly.