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Waxman-Markey will rape your dog, kill your fish, and raise gasoline prices 74%. Good news: Only one of these is true.

So, I just saw a clip for a new Vampire flick. according to the info I have the film takes place in the year 2019, after a plague has transformed most of the human race into vampires. In this über-stylized futuristic world of tomorrow vampires are the dominate race and run everything, while humans are on the verge of extinction. However, faced with imminent starvation, a vampire (Ethan Hawk) turns to a human (Willem Dafoe) and his band of the last remaining humans for help. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. The film is called Daybreakers and is written and directed by Peter and Michael Spierig. The film stars Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill.

you can watch the trailer here (I suggest you do, as it is wicked-cool, sexy fun—unfortunately there is no embedding function).

While I’m admittedly more Werewülf than Vampyre, this looks like a film that I’m going to want to catch.

Or you could watch the trailer here (just got the code—thanks Walt)

The Perfessor

I love my mom, but very often, talking to her is like hitting my head against a wall, becasues it feels so good when I stop.

Micheal Jackson survivors include three children and one nose.

I've voted Democrat since 1978 and I'll NEVER vote for or support anyone who votes in favor of #Waxman-Markey or #capandtrade.

I'll see that Jon Stewart take on "Hiking The Appalachian Trail" and raise you with Craig Ferguson's take on how the jilted politician's wives should be handed out a T-shirt when their husband gets elected, reading "I'm With Stupid". That way they have something to wear when they find out so they'll have something appropriate to wear to the mea culpa press conference.

If you get past the Argentinian food jokes, the rest is pretty good:

YouTube link

Stay for the last punchline.

So, you think that you are having a bad day, well imagine that you were being publicly jilted on Twitter — in front of your client's 19,305 followers. what could be worse than that?

Perhaps, having it reported on Legal Blog Watch:

Ga.-based celebrity attorney Randall Kessler, who was representing Tameka Foster-Raymond in a divorce proceeding initiated by her soon-to-be ex, R&B singer Usher. As reported at this source, just days after Kessler publicly praised his client as a faithful wife and loving mother, Raymond, who goes by @TamekaRaymond on Twitter, was tweeting her buddy, celebrity lawyer @StarJonesEsq in search of a new lawyer. Foster-Raymond's tweet, which was posted publicly, read: "My lawyer = horrible. Need the name/number of a good one in Atlanta."

Apparently Foster-Raymond claims never intended for her tweet to be read by thousands of her followers. Still, she did post a follow-up apology on her page (not sure what that comment could have been other than “Whoops, it never occurred to me that people were actually reading what I said.” Which is sort of like the Governor of South Carolina going on national television and saying “Hey, it never occurred to me that anyone in my family or state would notice (or, you know, care) if I disappeared for a week over Father’s Day Weekend to bang my mistress in another country.”

Meanwhile, there is still no comment from Kessler who has now gained no small amount of celebrity status in his own right — as the first (or at least among the very first) lawyer ditched on Twitter.

Man do I love this country!

The Perfessor

Good news boys and girls, it appears that your boss probably won’t discover that you are screwing around on company time updating your FaceBook page and blogging what an A-Hole your boss is because he’s apparently doing what he is getting paid to do.

Worried about bumping into your boss on a social media service, then having to explain some indiscrete comment you made in cyberspace? If you work for the world’s biggest companies, you can relax: Your CEO isn’t spending time on the social Web.

A survey of Fortune 100 CEOs finds that almost none of them are using Twitter, Facebook, and even LinkedIn. Reuters:

Go figure...

You can read the rest of that report here.

The Perfessor

So, by now we’ve all heard about South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’ ah, “walkabout” but as usual, no one covered it better than Jon Stewart’s news team over at The Daily Show:

That was the initial report, when the Governor was just “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” (which has already entered the lexicon as the new euphemism for having an affair), so this following report from the trail itself was wet-your-pants funny.

The following day, when we discovered what actually happened, Jon and his crew gave us this.

I’m certain that there is more hilarity to come, and well, you have to wonder at these very public figures who do these extraordinarily stupid things, and then fully expect to get away with it. The sad part is that we’ve elected these morons, and will continue to do so.

I’d fear for the future, if I wasn’t having so much fun enjoying the shear stupidity of it all.

The Perfessor

If you thought Harry Potter was a weak idea done poorly, you haven't seen anything yet.

HARRY POTTER: THE MUSICAL is from a group out of the University of Michigan. They've put this together as mostly spoof (God, I hope this is a spoof!) and several slices of it are on YouTube. Not only is this unauthorized, it's criminally bad.

UPDATE: Upon further review, this production is absolutely hilarious in sections and mashes up all seven books in such a funny fashion I think now that I'd pay ten bucks to see this performed live. The bits with Voldemort and his character are so ... well, if you want to see it before this gets yanked from YouTube, watch the entire series soon. There's no way this would be allowed by Warner Brothers, the controlling interest in where HP gets broadcast. (although J.K. Rowling most likely would start any procedure to Cease and Desist) This whole production is one large piece of forbidden fruit, precious only to those who really care about Harry Potter.

UPDATE2: Joe Walker plays a very conflicted Voldemort, and needs to be the next version of The Joker in the movies.

With that said, here's the first ep,
Music by Darren Criss & AJ Holmes
Script by Matt Lang, Nick Lang & Brian Holden:

Get ready for a musical adventure as Harry Potter and his pals go back to Hogwarts for another year of learning shenanigans! Only this year their wizarding world gets turned on its head when the Dark Lord, Voldemort, comes back from the dead to take his revenge on The Boy Who Lived. Filled with magical fun and original songs by Darren Criss and AJ Holmes, this is a Potter-spectacular that no fan should miss. So take a ride on Voldemort's flying machine and get ready to back to Hogwarts!

YouTube link to this first episode
YouTube link to the entire production

I notice when I attended the late night releases for the last two Harry Potter books that many of the kids were teens when they first started reading the books, and now these kids are all of college age. Thus the abnormally strong following amongst college age kids who would normally never be caught dead reading about an eleven year old boy. If you do screw up the courage to watch more than twenty seconds of this video, note the audience laughter because... there IS an audience! There's a great love and lust for many things about Hogwarts and that includes the really bad stuff.

I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light...

From the email exchange between Gov. Sanford and his Argentinian lover, named Maria.
[from The State]
[via TalkingPointsMemo]

There's more text, but it's kind of icky to read any of these, and a bit weird to wonder how these emails became available, and so quickly.
I suspect Gov. Sanford's wife probably had something to do with this personal stuff being released so quickly.
No confirmation of that as yet.

Here's a picture of a woman who I am quite sure was definitely somewhere in the United States during the Father's Day weekend

State Rep. from South Carolina, Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley [website] is a wife, a mother of two children, and a State Representative in the South Carolina government from the Republican Party.

At this moment, there is every indication that Ms. Haley is a fine and upstanding Republican.
Ms. Haley apparently has never been to Argentina.

UFO wants to land at amusement park

Via [Forgetomori] comes a video that's really spooky. It's a smoke vortex hovering over the King's Island amusement park

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There is a possible explanation, but it's a boring one, so I'll let this one hit your eyeballs and let it be.

I don’t know about where you live, but apparently around here there is something of a tradition of a Sr. Prank that is pulled off by the graduating seniors of local high schools. For whatever reason these graduating 17 & 18-year-olds feel it necessary to “prank” the school where they spent the past four years. For whatever reason, they also feel that this “prank” should be destructive of school property.

Over the past few years, graduating seniors have done things like spray paint graffiti on the school, glue doors shut, break things, do hole-shots on the football fields. You know, good ol' frat-boy-in-waiting stuff. Only thing is, that the administrators of the schools never find it as amusing as do the kids, and well, the kids are always caught, suspended, expelled, arrested, and the like.

Not certain why the following classes never quite figure out that the “prank” is never as funny to adults as it is to the kids, and never understand that any destructive behavior on their part will result ion some sort of serious retribution against them, but they never do (apparently education in this country truly sux.).

Anyway, I bring this all up as my son attends a brand new school, that is just two years old. As I mentioned, he is also a senior, and well, his class decided to pull a senior prank as well. Only they were (apparently) way smarter than most of the other graduating seniors. These kids wrapped the pillars that were out in front of the school in Saran Wrap and spray painted the Saran Wrap. However, prior to painting the Wrap, they tested it off site, then when they were spraying the Wrap, they put a piece of wood under it, so if the paint dripped, it would wind up on the wood, not the sidewalk.

Then they also wrapped up a couple of cars in the lot.

So you had not only a true prank, but one that left behind no permanent footprint.

Ya just gotta love these kids.

The Perfessor

P.S. Oh yeah, just for the record, I have no idea who those kids are in the pictures. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

You know your cable TV show is soon to be canceled when a copy of the latest episode isn't on the torrents within two days of its broadcast