Some Memes You May Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- A little Black Friday humor.

- Don't tell me Lloyd Bridges isn't Sean Penn's dad (just kidding but you can't deny the resemblance).

- A little Thanksgiving humor (from the past)

- Funny Thanksgiving story from Gabe Kaplan (also from the archives)

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- This CNN segment brought to you by KY Jelly

- You learn something new every day (or at least you should)

- Environmentalist website Grist comes out in favor of nuclear power

- Heh heh - you just knew moron Sean Penn wouldn't be able to shut his pie hole. Same guy who supported Chavez in Venezuela (which has since turned into a shithole country). And who can forget about Penn's staged humanitarianism during Katrina? 

- Why saunas are really good for you

- Wait I though Canada welcomed everyone with open arms? Maybe all these immigrants can stay with Sean Penn?

- Heh heh

Sean Penn vs Clancy Brown

Sean Penn first burst on the national consciousness as the stoner prototype Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High but it was his next movie - Bad Boys - that got me thinking.

Today Sean Penn's Bad Boys is generally forgotten. If you ask most people if they've seen the movie Bad Boys they will think you are talking about the Michael Bay movie starting Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. In the 1983 Sean Penn movie - Penn plays a "crime kid" sent to reform school where one of his tormentors is played by Clancy Brown. What got me thinking this morning is that an argument can be made that Clancy Brown has had the better acting career than the better known Penn.

Has Sean Penn had an iconic role in a classic Sci-Fi film? Well Clancy Brown played The Kurgan in the classic Highlander. 

Has Sean Penn ever been a beloved cartoon character? Well Clancy Brown is Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob SquarePants. Plus in the cartoon series The Batman Clancy played villains Mr. Freeze, Lex Luther and Bane! Talk about acting range!

Sean Penn is mostly known for playing bad guys such as his Jimmy Markum from Mystic River but has any of his bad guys been as menacing as Clancy Brown's Captain Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption? I don't think so!

I've got to give the acting championship to Clancy Brown in this match-up. Maybe if the overrated Sean Penn can come full circle and play Mr. Hand in a remake of Fast Times at Ridgemont High then I'd reconsider.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

With Peyton Manning's recent spree of interceptions - are his ever-present commercials becoming more or less annoying? Some people consider Peyton Manning the best QB of his generation but Tom Brady's legacy will be 3 Super Bowl wins (and counting) and being married to Super model Gisele. Manning's legacy will be just one Super Bowl and a slew of cheesey commercials (Cut that meat! Cut that meat!). I think I'd prefer Brady's legacy... Police Academy 6: City Under Siege did more than three times the box office as Sean Penn's Valerie Plame dud Fair Game ($11,567,217 to $3,724,546) and that was in 1989 dollars. Yet Hollywood still puts out political crap that matches their fantasy beliefs but that nobody wants to see... Just a reminder - the Count on Seasame Street is not a real vampire since he's out during the day all the time. The Count is basically a poser. A Twighlight wannabe.... If you combined Ryan Kalish's AB vs RHP with Mike Cameron's AB (past 2-yrs) vs LHP - you'd average .333 BA and 28 HR (over 550 AB). This is why I don't think the Red Sox will sign an outfielder. Probably looking at a left field by committee platoon in 2011... The Mesopotamian god of the moon was called Sin which is appropriate since most sins are committed at night... Cthulhu doesn't play dice with the universe. (Is that how the quote goes?)... Oklahoma's official state vegetable is the watermelon. Isn't a watermelon a fruit?... Andre the Giant drank 7,000 calories worth of booze every day. Figure doesn’t include food. Just booze. I will do my best to match that watching the Patriots tonight... South Carolina's only victory over Auburn was a 16-14 win in Birmingham on Dec. 2, 1933...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations (and some Linky Links).

$100 says Fair Game the Valerie Plame movie starring Sean Penn does less box office business than Police Academy 6: City Under Siege... If the White House was smart they would have just issued a picture of Obama drinking a beer and eating a BLT. Now more people than ever will think President Obama really is a secret Muslim... Why did Zima fail to become America's most popular adult beverage? I'll never figure that one out... They both have the same birthday but I wonder who is taller? Donnie Wahlberg or Dustin Pedroia?

- Possibly The Best Review Of Wendy's, Or Anything, Ever

- Six greatest fictional beers

- Crazy golf shot on a lake

- If Star Wars took place at the turn of last century. Cool