WELL, MAYBE THE JOKER AIN'T TO BLAME AFTERALL...

It looks like Batman might have created that "Bat Signal of Destruction" in the earlier poster riding his damn Bat-Bike down the side of the building!!!



Poor Joker, he's like my lil' brother who got blamed for everything I did.

RADIOHEAD ON CONAN

Can't believe I missed this...absolutely beautiful performance and they totally called Bush a "twat" on national TV!

ME AND BATMAN SITTING IN A TREE...

I'm loving everything about the direction this film is taking. They could have "softened" the tone with Heath's passing, but they're going full steam ahead and it's going to be a brilliant tribute to the passion which he gave to this project!

DON'T FOGET ABOUT BARACK OBAMA ON TONIGHT'S DAILY SHOW!

...if you can stay up and watch it. If not, there's always youtube or Comedy Central.

IS KARL ROVE MAKING ADVERTISEMENTS FOR HILLARY NOW?!

Just when I thought she couldn't stoop any lower, this ad starts playing in PA today:



Osama bin Laden stock footage?! Really?! Why not just toss the twin towers crumbling and an eagle with a tear in its eye why you're at it?!

UPDATED!

Obama responds with his own ad:

WELL, THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG...

...for John McCain to resort to fear-mongering campaign tactics such as this recent email:



WOW. Hamas endorsed Obama?! I hadn't read that anywhere?! Maybe that's because I don't visit World Net Daily on a regular basis?! But where else would you find this EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW at?! (so...it's not okay that the terrorist organization Hamas endorsed Obama, but it is okay that you guys have their phone number and can set up exclusive interviews?!)

But seriously, go visit World Net Daily!

Where else are you going to find the news that no one else DARES (or is stupid enough) to cover, such as:

DEAL OF THE DAY
Stunning Darwin-led-to-Hitler video $4.95 today!
New DVD documentary, normally $25, will change your view of evolution forever

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
District bans 'John 3:16,' promotes demonic leer
Court filing seeks elimination of penalties for Christian art

ELECTION 2008
Did Obama shoot Hillary the bird?
'He'll no doubt deny it later, but that mischievous smile seems to confirm plenty'

John McCain should be ashamed of himself for using this kind of bullshit politics as a way to increase donations.

DON'T FORGET...

...there's a Democratic debate on TV tonight...and you don't even need cable to watch it!

8:00 -- 10:00 pm ET/PT
ABC TONIGHT!!!

EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO TO HELL...

Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm not fond of organized religion. I look at spirituality as something that doesn't require the need of other people gathered together and a part of a "team." Because it doesn't take very many bad apples to make the rest of the bunch look ridiculous. Case in point, I'm all for animal rights, but I'll never join PETA because those fuckers are nuts.

But you know who makes PETA look like the Salvation Army? This guy:



When he was the old Pope's right-hand-man, he's the one who tried to sweep all the sex scandals under the rug. Why prosecute and arrest these pedophile Bishops and Priests when you can simply move them from one clergy to another?!

I bring this up because I just read this news article about ten minutes ago...

Pope: 'Ashamed' of clergy abuse scandal

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE - Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday he was "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church and will work to make sure pedophiles don't become priests.

Benedict was answering questions submitted in advance by reporters aboard a special Alitalia airliner as he was flying from Rome to Washington to begin his first papal pilgrimage to the United States.

"It is a great suffering for the Church in the United States and for the church in general and for me personally that this could happen," Benedict said. "It is difficult for me to understand how it was possible that priests betray in this way their mission ... to these children."

"I am deeply ashamed and we will do what is possible so this cannot happen again in the future," the pope said.

CANNOT HAPPEN AGAIN?! It's already happened you zombie looking bastard!!! THOUSANDS OF TIMES!!!



Even though I saw it over a year (if not two) ago, the documentary Deliver Us From Evil still haunts me. It focused on one single priest, Oliver O'Grady, and the HUNDREDS of children he abused. This was one specific case, and the Catholic Church, (under the instruction of men like Pope Benedict) moved him repeatedly from parish to parish even after O'Grady ADMITTED that he had molested children!

One of the saddest scenes in the film is the Father of one of the abused retelling the story of talking to his daughter about why she kept quiet for so long, (it's estimated that 80% of the victims never come forward) and as he's fighting back the tears, he explains, "She told me, 'Daddy you said you'd kill anyone who ever hurt me, and I didn't want you to go to jail.'"

Think about that while we get inundated with coverage of this Pope's first visit to America. He's not a messenger of God. He's nothing more than a power-hungry CEO of an orgaization that would rather pay off victims than deal with the fact that they have pedophiles amongst them...preying on children as we speak.

UP

I mentioned it in an earlier post, but this description, (which I suppose contains spoilers, but it sounds like a lot of this is simply the set-up for what will happen in the bulk of the movie) just gave me goosebumps.

Pixar is incredible and this sounds like their best work yet!

LOST GETS ONE MORE EPISODE, YAY!!!

It's finally been confirmed.



Confirmation has come, first from Eonline's Kristin Dos Santos, and now also from TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, on the news Ausiello had earlier this week that ABC was considering adding an extra hour to Lost this season, bringing its Season 4 total to fourteen hours. Of course fans will remember that the original plan was for a sixteen episode season, which got dropped to thirteen episodes thanks to the writers' strike.

Ausiello says Lost executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse really pushed for that extra hour, feeling it was necessary to complete the story they intended for the season. Ausiello quotes Cuse, who says, "We are very excited and grateful to [ABC president] Steve McPherson for working out the scheduling difficulties to allow us to make the second part of our finale two hours. Damon and I were working on the script and we just couldn't get it all done in one hour without shortchanging the story. Now the finale will have all the sweep and emotional completeness we wanted it to have — along with, of course, answering who's in the coffin."

THIS MAKES ME FEEL ALL GIDDY INSIDE...

...I'm seven years old and still love cartoons, and...

#1 Because it's Pixar and they're easily the best animation studio when it comes to actual storytelling, emotion and not talking down to their audience.

#2 Because they give us some insight of what they're working on for the next few years. (aside from Cars 2, I'm really excited to see these! Ed Asner is a God!)

#3 Because starting with their next release, all of their films are going to be in 3-D!!

PLANET COMICON PHOTOS!

If you're wanting to know all about my awesome weekend at Planet Comicon and were hoping I was going to do a ginormous blog about it...you're out of luck. If, on the other hand, you were hoping that I'd post a bunch of random photos and leave two sentence comments underneath them, then consider your wish granted!

FUCKING FINALLY.

The Office is back with all new episodes staring tonight!!!

CHRISTIANS CAN'T HANDLE THE "WACKY"

It's stories like this that just make you shake your head and wonder, "Why can't we all just relax?!" An elementary school in southern Wisconsin decided to have a "Wacky Week" and on Friday, the students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex...

That's when the fun began:

A local resident informed the Voice of Christian Youth America on Friday. The Milwaukee-based radio network responded by interrupting its morning programming for a special broadcast that aired on nine radio stations throughout Wisconsin. The broadcast criticized the dress-up day and accused the district of promoting alternative lifestyles.

"We believe it's the wrong message to send to elementary students," said Jim Schneider, the network's program director. "Our station is one that promotes traditional family values. It concerns us when a school district strikes at the heart and core of the Biblical values. To promote this to elementary-school students is a great error."

Schneider co-hosts "Crosstalk," a nationally syndicated call-in Christian radio show.

After the program aired, both the school and Reedsburg School District office were flooded with calls complaining about the event.

They seriously interrupted their programing on NINE radio stations to make a big deal about this. But I love this quote from the district administrator:

"The promotion of transgenderism - that was not our purpose," Benson told the Baraboo News Republic. "Our purpose was to have a Wacky Week, mixing in a bit of silliness with our reading, writing and arithmetic."



My response would have been, "Hey, if God didn't want us to cross-dress, why did he force Jesus to have long hair and wear a dress?!"

QUICK CHANGE OF PLANS (PANELS)

Turns out that R2D2 himself, Kenny Baker isn't quite up to the task of doing a panel. (yeah, I went there, shut it) So that means Hector, Daniel and myself will now be speaking from the awesome prime-time slot of 1:00-1:50 on Saturday at the Planet Comicon!

All you Comic Stripjoint groupies, please adjust your schedules accordingly.

FUN WAY TO SPEND APRIL FOOL'S DAY...

Too bad I'm stuck here at work.

CLOWN TRAVEL AGENCY
(click on the paper coming out of the envelope)

Once everyone finds the bowling balls, we'll get ourselves a new Dark Knight trailer.

(UPDATE)

We're starting to get some photos of what was waiting for these lucky souls inside those lockers at the bowling alleys.