Wednesday, February 29, 2012

2.29.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Mitt Romney's supporters


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Name: various
Age: various
Occupation: various
Last Seen: Michigan and Arizona
Bee-otched For: voting for a dumbass
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Congratulations, Michigan and Arizona! You have chosen a man whose real name is "Willard" to take on President Obama in November.

Yep! You could have voted for the Jebus freak whose name basically means anal lube, the wife-cheater or Ron Paul, but you chose the mega-millionaire who promises to abolish better healthcare for millions of Americans and throw us back into Bush's fake war over oil. I know, NONE of the Republican choices will beat Obama, but IMO, Willard's one of the worst.

Ya know, I find it weird that people in Michigan would want to vote for Willy. After all, didn't he tell people that he had hoped that Detroit would go bankrupt? Willard, Willard, WILLARD! SHAME ON YOU for blasting the town you were born in! I know, Daddy once ran a sub-par car company that eventually went belly-up and its spare parts became Chrysler's, but that's no way to talk about the people in your ex-home state.

So, when you're president, will you end up chastising GM for being saved by Obama, causing it to falter once again, causing Toyota to once again have an edge over the American auto market? I hope not. Under Bush, Detroit - and the whole state of Michigan for that matter - ended up in the crapper because of bad decisions made by everybody. GM really fucked up when they made over a million Hummers in a year and only sold 300,000. Now, thanks to "Government Motors", they're making Volts that yes, cost as much as a Cadillac, but have high gas mileage and reduce our dependency on oil.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they haven't done anything to keep gas prices low, but you know, there's still a ton of big, gas guzzling trucks and SUVs on the road. That, plus the Chinese needing their Buicks and the problems with Iran equal to us having $4 per gallon gas and it's not even Summer yet.

But ya know, Democrats CAN vote in primaries, too. Yeah, there's the Ron Paul crowd, although many know that he's nothing more than a wolf in sheep's clothing. But as Michael Moore put it on Twitter, I could have voted today, but I don't have Republican in my blood.

Folks, it ain't over, we still have Super Tuesday to blow through and it's still anybody's game. What many are hoping is that one can beat Obama, but it's not gonna happen. With a 50% approval rating and new jobs being created left and right, he should breeze through November easily. People need to get their heads out of Fox News Channel and AM talk radio and face the facts. America's coming back, and it's not because of the Republicans.

It's because of a Yes We Can attitude.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

2.28.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Republican voters


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Names: various
Ages: various
Occupations: various
Last Seen: Arizona and Michigan
Bee-otched For: deciding who will Obama beat in the 2012 election
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Today's the day, folks!

Yep! If you're a diehard Repuke here in Michigan or in Arizona, you're going to make a tough decision. I know, you hate President Obama, so you must decide who will beat him in the general election in November.

Decisions, decisions. You can choose from the gay-hating Jesus freak who quotes pill-poppin' Rush Limbaugh on everything, the rich dude who could become the richest president in history who lies about Obamacare and forces dogs to sit on top of moving cars, the fat dude who cheated on two cancer-stricken wives or Ron Paul.

And yes, I know, I know, Paul will NOT be our next prezzie. He might act moderate, but he ain't. Quit drinking the Kool-Aid.

Sorry, guys, but Obama's gonna be a two-termer. Sucks to be you. Americans are still sick and depressed over the calamity that Bush brought to our nation for eight long-assed years. Under Obama, Americans are getting back to work an finding new and better jobs. Under Bush, Michigan's economy nosedived, but thanks to Obama, the state's coming back because of the bailout of GM and automotive suppliers getting back to being busy again.

I know, Obama's not perfect. Neither was FDR or JFK or even Clinton. Yes, there was Solyndra and other companies that have gone belly up - especially in the green energy field - but that's life. Also, gas prices have gone way up, but that's because of the situations in Iran and people in China buying up Buicks like no tomorrow. But what are the Republicans crying? DRILL, BABY DRILL! Sorry, but that's never gonna happen. More pipelines in the ground will not solve our gas pains. What will is doing things like carpooling, keeping our cars tuned up and driving shorter distances.

Thing is, Obama can't fix this country himself. You have to do your part, too. And if you vote Republican, all it will do is make Dubya smile.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

2.27.12 Bee-otch of the Day: movie studios that made silents







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Names: various
Ages: over 80
Occupations: film studios
Last Seen: Hollywood, CA
Bee-otched For: destroying the past
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Last weekend at the 84th Academy Awards, silence was golden.

The Artist was the big winner during this weekend's Oscars, winning five awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The film was a fictional, yet somewhat true telling about a popular silent film star of the 1920's whose career nosedived when talkies came around in 1929. I personally saw the movie on Saturday and it was one of the best films I've seen all year.

The movie didn't do bad for a film that has never been in the top 10 movie charts, at least here in America. But, it's proof that people still want to see a film with artistic intentions over 3D effects and digital sound. Without a doubt, The Artist's victory is a tremendous slap in the face to the Hollywood studios for more reasons than one.

(Bear in mind, The Artist was distributed by The Weinstein Company, who also distributed last year's big Oscar triumph, The King's Speech.)

So, what was another part of The Artist's big slap in the face to Hollywood? Well, it's because the major studios in Tinseltown did something decades ago that have forever angered and saddened critics and movie buffs alike: intentionally destroying their silent movies.

From the time motion pictures began in the 1890s to 1927, all movies had no sound and no vocal dialogue. There was no real way to present movies with sound. Actors had to mime and mug at the screen to get their point across with the aid of title cards taking time out of the action. However, in 1927, Warner Bros. purchased a small company called Vitaphone and made a movie with the device they created called The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson. Audiences were crazy over watching moving images talk and sing for the very first time, and the movie was a massive box office triumph. Soon, rival studios had to make talkies of their own, and one studio, Fox, even came out with their own sound system called the Movietone which used sound on film over Warner and Vitaphone's sound on disc process. Fox's system proved to be the best method and became the standard at all other Hollywood studios.

In 1929, the studios all announced that they would all go all-talking and silents would end up a thing of the past. While they were cranking out new hits left and right, their silent classics ended up sitting in their vaults to disintegrate into a sea of nitrate rot. The studios saw no value in keeping their films, so they did everything from throw them into bonfires to recycling them to create new films for their silver content to even throwing them into the Pacific.

Of course, back in the olden days, the only way one could watch a movie was at the local movie house. However, when TV, cable, video and even the internet starting showing signs of life, the studios knew that if any movie had to be saved, it was all of them. But when the decision was made, it was too late. As of right now, it's believed that only 20% of all silent movies ever made still exist, and roughly half of all movies made before 1950 - the final year nitrate film was made - are gone for good.

The sad thing is that many of the studios we all know and love today - Paramount, Universal, Warners, Disney, Columbia, MGM and Fox - were all around during the silent era and they all have lost films. As a matter of fact, Paramount made some 1,200 silents and only 250 of those have survived. Even the first-ever Best Picture Oscar winner, 1927's Wings was lost for many years until a print was found in France in the 1960's. In the 1950's, Paramount sold most of their film library to MCA (now part of NBCUniversal), but kept their silents because neither found any value in them. However, in the late 1950's, somebody at Paramount made a duplicate negative ofWings - which was starting to rapidly deteriorate - and recently, the company even restored that negative using advanced computer technology for a DVD and Blu-Ray release.

The studios' neglect of their past translated to pure stupidity. In 1937, a massive vault fire at Fox's storage facility in New Jersey wiped out their entire library, including almost all of Theda Bara's movies. Sadly, Bara is almost forgotten by many people because she was a contract player at Fox and made all of her movies there. Only 120 films made by Fox survive prior to their 1935 merger with 20th Century Pictures.

However, it was another vault fire, this time at MGM in 1967 that wiped out most of their silents and even some of their early talkies - among them the only lost Three Stooges short Hello, Pop! from 1933 - that basically told Hollywood that it's time to save the past. Over the years, MGM and their predecessors have saved virtually everything, including short subjects that didn't seem to have a lot of modern appeal. The total cost of saving these films has totaled over $40 million, and the work is still going on as technology progresses.

Sadly, what's gone is gone, although there's still hope. Back in the olden days, a film would start playing in the bigger cities, and then move to the smaller towns and finally to overseas where prints of these movies would stay in their vaults. Thankfully, many of these lost films have been rediscovered over the years, including Wings and another long-lost Paramount classic, 1922's Beyond the Rocks starring Rudolph "The Sheik" Valentino and another silent starlet, Gloria Swanson. (You can watch how that film was restored here. No offense, but the woman narrating the piece sounds like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). A successful search in a New Zealand archive found many long-lost flicks, including the 1927 John Ford-directed Upstream.

Thankfully, I'm happy that the studios in Hollywood have done their best to fix the wrongs of their ancestors, but the damage is done. Will we ever see a complete copy of 1927's The Way of All Flesh, whose Oscar-winning performance from Emil Jannings is the only Oscar-winning film to be lost? How about Lon Chaney's London After Midnight (1927) or The Miracle Man (1919)? The only answer is to check your attic. Who knows? You might even find 1914's Her Friend The Bandit, the only lost Charlie Chapin movie.

Just don't open the canisters with a match,


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

2.23.12 Bee-otch of the Day: single ladies



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Name: various
Age: various - mostly under 30
Occupation: single ladies
Last Seen: everywhere
Bee-otched For: making the world's worst decisions
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Just a few short years ago, Chris Brown was the most-hated man on the planet.

At the Grammy Awards, he beat up his then-girlfriend, fellow pop star Rihanna. In the end, the judge gave Brown probation and ordered him to stay away from her.

But now, it looks like the two are a couple again. On Twitter this past week, Brown wished her a happy birthday and a song with the two's voices together appeared on the web. Many feel that the match made in hell is making a big comeback despite the torture Rihanna got from Chris.

Rihanna's probable reuniting with Brown does have many asking why, but then again, the two are young and have a lot to learn. True, Brown grew up with an abusive stepfather who constantly beat up his mother, that's no excuse to beat up any woman.

Sometimes, I can only wonder why women act like this. There's millions of good guys like me out there, and yet, they choose to be with an abusive pile of horseshit. I think what's tragic is that in my lifetime, I've only dated two women, and they both ended up being total bitches to me. One avoided me like the plague and another was an ugly, fat trailer trash ho that did nothing but use me financially.

You see, I'm trying. I've did the bar scene, and I was a face in the crowd. I've even started using the web to get dates, and that's not working, either. I've only met one girl that I've met online, and she was not only a total pig, but she proved to me that she just wasn't all that intelligent. Yeah, there's church, but as somebody who can't stand organized religion, it ain't gonna happen.

But'cha know? I'm not alone. I have an uncle that's the same way, too. He's lived all across the country and claims that here in Michigan, women just flat-out don't care, period. They don't want to meet you, they just want to chat and hang out with their circle of friends. My uncle said that a man like me should get dates anywhere but here in Michigan. But since I'm 31, I'd like to move on. I want to meet the love of my life, get married and have kids. But it ain't gonna happen when women would rather date some unemployed loser over somebody like me.

Look, I might live in a crappy apartment, but at least I don't live off mommy and daddy's tit. I work, but when I need extra money, I find ways to get it. Yes, I'm no rich dork, but at least I do have enough to live on and budget myself. My job sucks, but at least I'm not unemployed. I don't have a six pack, but I don't have more chins than a Chinese phone book, either.

Nobody's perfect, folks. When I date a woman, I won't expect her to be a 10, either. Hell, Bo Derek's a frickin' Republican ferchissakes! I plan for my future. If I can get a woman that I really, really like, I'll do my damndest to treat her like a queen. No Chris Brown bullshit. Christ, I'd treat her like a Teddy Bear and snuggle next to her at all times. I don't have ANY friends in real life, so she would be priority one for me.

But, no. Women love bad boys. They like to get their ass kicked just because of only God knows what. Just ask Claire Sinclair, the Playboy Playmate who was dating Hugh Hefner's son, Marston. In an interview, Sinclair talked about Marston beating her up. She claimed that Marston was off his meds and while the two were talking about absolutely nothing, he attacked her out of nowhere. Now, I do wonder, if Marston WASN'T a Hefner if Claire would even date the guy. Who knows? After all, he's got the keys to daddy's empire.

Look, I'm in no hurry to get married. Hell, it's OK to have kids in your 40's and later. TV talker Steve Wilkos didn't become a dad until he was 39. David Letterman waited until he was 56. Christ, the late great Tony Randall was 75 when he became a dad for the first time. It's never too late to have kids. I think that love takes time, and that in order to have a decent relationship, BOTH need to have a good sense of maturity. Both my parents met in a bar at the dawn of the disco era in their early 20's, and neither seemed to mature the right way. They divorced when I was just 12 and in many cases, I was the one paying for their mistakes.

Like I said, I'm in no hurry to get married, and I shouldn't be. I would love to have a relationship with a woman, but in these times, it may never happen. If I'm in my 40's and a woman my age comes to me with her kids, begging me for a relationship, it'll never happen. I'm not going to be somebody else's babydaddy. Don't bitch at me with your problems. If you want a friendship from me, grow up first.

But otherwise, I'll be right here waiting.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

2.22.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Republicans


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Name: The Republican Party
Age: 158
Occupation: right-winged schmucks
Last Seen: Washington, DC
Bee-otched For: not having a chance in Michigan (or anywhere else), period
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Dear Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd, it's neither Duck Season or Wabbit Season.

It's Election Season, sadly.

Less than a week from now, the Repukes will have their election here in Michigan to determine who will be the Republican nominee for president, and as usual, the mud's sure slinging while the average voter could care less, judging by Rick Santorum's ad where he portrays Willard "Mitt" Romney as a Rambo-like character shooting mud at paper images of Romney.

Or is that, shall I say, POO? Or even worse, SANTORUM? (For those who don't know already, Santorum is the self lubricant that's made during anal sex.)

Of the four candidates running, I mostly see ads for Willy and Ricky. I have not seen one ad for Newt Gingich or even (gasp) Ron Paul (he's still in the race? I'll be dipped). It's a given that Willard will win Michigan, especially since he's a Detroiter, plus his father once led the long-failed American Motors. He and Santorum are neck-and-neck poll-wise nationwide, but Willard will have that Michigan edge.

But guess what? BOTH CANDIDATES ADS DO NOTHING TO ATTRACT MIDDLE CLASS VOTERS! DUH! The only ad I care about is Santorum's 'Mitt shooting poo' ad, but otherwise, Santorum tends to attract both right-wing and Christian voters by quoting the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh in his ads. Plus, he mentions that he's pro-life in his ads. Willard, OTOH, talks about reducing government spending, and the first thing he'd get rid of is Obamacare.

*COUGH*ROMNEYCARE*COUGH*ROMNEYCARE*COUGH*

But there's something that neither Willard, nor Rick, nor Newt or especially Ron Paul will ever have: and that's the 2012 presidency. Right now, President Obama's approval rating is at 50% and Americans are back to work. Hell, I had my first job interview in years a few weeks ago! Under the Bush administration, everybody was lucky to even have a job. Today, many Americans who felt the wrath of Bush politics are happy to find new jobs under Obama. Plus, GM - a company that damn near died because of Bush - is the most-profitable car company on Earth again. The only problem with GM now is that their Buicks are huge sellers in China - a country where at one time, owning a car was a luxury - and it's jacking up gas prices. But, that's one sad price we all must pay. Even worse, as much as Obama was trying to help alternative energy companies like Solyndra, even that backfired. True, Obama's far from perfect, but then again, is there a president who ever was?

Personally, I'd rather have a president in the White House crooning the blues and Al Green over a dumbass like Bush playing guitar with some redneck Country music star while New Orleans drowns. Our country can no longer afford the wrath of the Republican party sending jobs overseas while Americans drown in deep debt flipping burgers while having to drive 50 miles one way to the McDonald's that hired them while gas prices are near $4 per gallon. Let's steer clear of the hype and look forward.

In the end, the Repukes will face the wrath of Obama's santorum (not like he does that, AFAWK). 

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

2.21.12 Bee-otch of the Day: Lorne Michaels


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Name: Lorne David Lipowitz
Age: 67
Occupation: creator/executive producer Saturday Night Live
Last Seen: New York City
Bee-otched For: giving Lindsay Lohan a second chance
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Yes, even Lorne Michaels can smile....  Barely.

Maybe it's because he's giving his show a shot of Linsanity, but not the good basketball playing kind.

But last weekend, he gave me and other viewers of SNL a heart attack when it was announced that the next new episode of his beloved show's host would be none other than Lindsay Lohan, her first time hosting the show in five years. Her career had been taking a turn for the worse during this time thanks to her mounting legal problems, but claiming that the worst is behind her, she personally decided to ask Lorne herself if she could host the program. Without any aide of an agent, Lorne felt some weird sympathy for her and kindly accepted.

Lindsay will host the host on March 3rd - the day after original cast member Laraine Newman's 60th birthday - and the musical guest will be Jack White. This Saturday's show is a repeat from November.

Of course, Lorne's no stranger to making bad hosting decisions, especially musically. Remember a long-forgotten pop star known as Ashlee Simpson? Um, yeah. She damn near killed the show's reputation when she lip synched her performance on the show many years ago. She blamed her band, but nope, she had to have a backing track. Of course, Lorne was nice enough to have her back on the show to sing for real this time, but it was too little too late.

Recently, some even bashed Lorne musically again with the decision to have virtually unknown pop star Lana Del Rey on the show. Many critics attacked her style of singing as flat and dull, but Lorne won that battle since her latest album is selling pretty well.

Undoubtedly, LiLo's SNL appearance will get good numbers because she's turned into a car accident. Even though it's not nice to look at it, you just can't resist looking anyway. Hell, I still wonder how her twat-less Playboyissue sold. Oh, well, there's hotter women out there on more-revealing FREE porn sites anyway. But anywhom, it won't shock me if this will be her final SNL appearance, because she needs to do her lines.

And I'm not talking about lines on a script, either.

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Monday, February 20, 2012

Former WKLT jock Finster to head mornings at Bob 104.5


FINSTER GETS BOBBED
Former KLT morning man to be new morning man for 104.5 Bob FM

Only a few months after getting fired as 1/2 of WKLT 97.5/98.9's morning show in Traverse City, Finster is getting back on his feet.

It's been reported that Omelette's ex-partner is going to be the new morning man at Variety Hits WZTC 104.5 Bob FM in March. The 1,250-watt station doesn't have the signal other northern Michigan stations have, and it doesn't stream online (and its "website" is their Facebook page), but it sounds like owners MacDonald-Garber - who also owns 106 KHQ, Lite 96 and a few others - have picked up an opportunity to capitalize on KLT's loss.

KLT reportedly canned Omelette just days after Christmas 2011 for unknown reasons. However, given KLT's history of firing morning jocks, budgetary reasons were probable. Many critics of KLT and Omelette's show claim that without Finster, Omelette is just flat-out boring. Without a doubt, the war between Omelette and Finster will only be interesting. 

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IN OTHER NORTHERN MICHIGAN RADIO NEWS: WTCM-AM GETS WALL STREET NIGHTS: WTCM 580 is now airing The Daily Wrap from The Wall Street Journal 9p-12m on a three-hour delay. The show replaces Lou Dobbs' radio program, which he personally canceled. Also, the station has cut ties with ABC News Radio and is now airing news updates from Fox News Radio. WTCM also airs WSJ's morning report 5-7 a.m., giving the Rupert Murdoch-owned news rag five hours of air time daily.