The Monkey

Rip Torn was so drunk he unwittingly trained a dolphin to kill the President of the United States.

Film Drunk has been covering the developing story of Rip Torn, who was found by police wandering in a bank (which he'd broken into) drunk & incoherent, with a gun. It turns out alcoholism is hilarious.

Big deal, it’s not like he was driving.  He was just breaking into a bank with his gun and happened to have a few drinks first.  He even took his shoes off.  Jeez, I thought this was America.

Read more on Film Drunk - Awesome Rip Torn Update: He Thought The Bank Was His House



Form Paris With Love

Often John Travolta sucks, sometimes he doesn't. Will this suck or will it kick arse? Trailer isn't giving much away, I mean he's dressed like a bitch, but at least he isn't screaming at the camera, or 8 foot tall with dreadlocks and a tiny head.

(By the way, entering 0 -0 – 0 does the trick getting past the age restriction thing, it's limited as there's some violence and f-bombs in the trailer.)



Hot Tub Time Machine

The best movie you haven't seen yet.



I only wish our council was so forward-thinking.

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See that? Real issues. Problems that face ordinary citizens every single day. Not rubbish like we suffer through with our local body politicians, arguing about Party Central for the RWC, or why they've been systematically dismantling and hiding all of our public art for the last few years.



Glorious.

Swimming on Rangitoto. I definitely have not* haphazardly edited this photo to hide the true dimensions of my summer holidays belly.

* By which I mean I most certainly have.



Rangitoto crater.

The view down into the crater, lush, verdant. Quite spectacular really, I found myself just gazing down into it. Usually I'm a glancer, so clearly something special going on there.



Rangitoto crater.

The last time I was up Rangitoto must have been in around 1987 or so, my memory of it is that it was very sandy. (Also that it was surprisingly small, which is certainly not true, so who knows what disparate locations I'm conflating.)



Cat trap.

The last of the feral cats is being eradicated from Rangitoto, but surely they can't really be using gin traps?



Greatest something ever.

Subject: eat wisdom

Unshaken by the winds, untouched by rain or snow, crowned with a cloudless radiance,–yet upon man come vanity, sorrow, and strife; like the leaves of the forest he flourisheth, and then passeth away to the "weak heads of the dead."

Spam, glorious spam.



A modest proposal.

Allow me to suggest a new way of giving up smoking: smoke all you like, but only if you do this trick for each smoke. Every time you fail, no smoke.

(Or you could just not smoke.)



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