Blog Profile / ATLmalcontent
| URL : | http://atlmalcontent.wordpress.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | United States / Atlanta | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3451 | |
| Posts / Week: | 13.1 | |
| Archived Since: | April 27, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Saying a lot without saying a word
Even though I’m a writer, I love scenes that communicate volumes without any dialogue. First, a more recent example, followed by the gold standard — my favorite big screen denouement. Of course, it helps to have Bill Murray and Joseph Cotten. Filed under: Film Tagged: Rushmore, The Third Man
Sha Na Na was really, really gay
The most annoying aspect of the 1970s? Fifties nostalgia. Filed under: 1950s Tagged: Sha Na Na
You had me at ‘Glee is a puddle of HIV’
Novelist Bret Easton Ellis has stirred the hornet’s nest with an editorial bashing organizations like GLAAD as “the gatekeepers of politically correct gayness.” The Out rant, titled “In the Reign of the Gay Magical Elves,” was prompted in part by the media response to the recent coming out of basketball player Jason Collins, whom Ellis writes is […]
Happy Mother’s Day from Mr. T
Mr. T Tagged: Mother's Day, Mr. T
Because it’s Friday
70s, Clip du jour Tagged: 70s, Gong Show, nostalgia
Follow me to TUMBLR
I’ve changed hosts — you can now find me at atlmalcontent.tumblr.com Filed under: ATLmalcontent
No more excuses
Atlanta has some of the worst surface streets in the nation (along with its unsynchronized traffic lights), creating an urban clusterfuck with few peers. If city leaders are ever going [...]
Contesting myths
The funny fat guy stereotype is being challenged by SNL’s resident fat guy, Bobby Moynihan, who is neither a talented mimic or funny. He’s so lame he can’t win a [...]
My take on Wes Anderson films
(This observation should’ve been already made, so I take no credit, or admit to no plagiarism.) Quirkiness in a bubble isn’t quirky. It’s conventional. Filed under: Film Tagged: [...]
Won’t someone please think about the helpless little brats?
Atlanta City Councilwoman Joyce Sheperd, who is co-sponsoring a ban on smoking in public parks, said she was swayed to push the legislation after noticing “widespread smoking” during the Jazz [...]
Loser Tea Party congressman refuses to apologize for being a douchebag
So Paul Broun is not the most contemptible man in Congress. Meet Joe Walsh. Filed under: Congress, douchebags, tea partiers Tagged: douchebags, Joe Walsh, tea partiers
The best and worst of songs about America
The best: (loose interpretation here) The worst: (had to get a Phil Collins/Genesis song in here) Filed under: Music Tagged: songs about America
A colorblind review of Tyler Perry’s ‘garbage’
Fresh Loaf notes how some white critics are reluctant to criticize Tyler Perry. That’s weak. Crap is crap, as an old professor of mine at USC notes: TP makes an [...]
Another disrespectful Tea Party pussy
Illinois Republican Rep. Joe Walsh came under Democratic fire Tuesday over remarks that appeared to question whether challenger Tammy Duckworth, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot who lost her legs in [...]
@BlackLarryKing notes the passing of Andy ‘Griffin’
Condolences to @kathygriffin on the death of her father Andy. I wonder whereKathy and her brother Ron Howard got the red hair from? — Black Larry King (@BlackLarryKing) [...]
Missing Bob Dole
Nice article in GQ on 88-year-old Bob Dole, one of my favorites. I appreciated his biting humor — at a reunion of former presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon, Dole dubbed [...]
A coming out worth noting
Usually the celebrities who emerge from the closet do so to jump start a flagging career. On Monday, a person of some substance came out and didn’t require a magazine [...]
Onward Christian robots
The Republican Party of Texas seeks a ban on critical thinking. You can’t make this stuff up. We oppose the … Continue reading »
See ya at Strawberry Shortcake-con
Adults, regardless of gender, who attend a convention dedicated to “My Little Pony” are indeed creepy. SECAUCUS, N.J. — Dale … Continue reading »
Hey idiot, they’ve been following you for six years
I think it’s safe to assume Katie Holmes isn’t a very smart gal. Katie Holmes believes Scientology now views her as … Continue reading »