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  • Daily Briefs: The heart, brains and sexy bare midriff of Kansas City media

    Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 09:17:38 AM

    By CHRIS PACKHAM

    From the Comments:

    (the) Trevor says: Hey, asshole, when I sent my question and $5 to the Paypal site, a freaking government SUV showed up and two dudes in black suits whisked me away for “sending money to terrorists”. So, I expect a free answer to these two:

    How do you file for habeas corpus when you are stuck in Gitmo with nothing but Internet access to the Koran on a “non flushable” computer?

    Why did Internet Koran writers include a link to The Plog?

    In much the same way that the Postal Service has little-known and infrequently exercised legal control of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Kansas City park board has legal power over all the boulevards in Kansas City. According to this article, they leveraged their boulevard-controlling powers yesterday to force the Cordish company to answer some pretty difficult questions about their prejudicial policy of denying Power & Light District access to black men who don't want to dress like Computer Generated Orville Redenbacher.

    The Baltimore, Maryland-based black-men-access-denying Cordish Company wants to advertise the Shark Bar redenbacher.jpgand 810 WHB-AM Sports Radio with two illuminated signs facing the Sprint Center, but first they'll have to satisfy the capricious whims of the Parks Board members, who I picture dressing like Ranger Smith and being seriously careful about lit matches, by answering questions about the Power & Light District dress code policy. Anyway, it's great to see the Park Board exercising its powers in the service of racial justice, unlike the fucking Postal Service, which has shirked its responsibility of reigning in the executive branch of the US government for the last eight years.

    After the jump, guess which demographic is rising faster than the Latino population! Here's a hint: Buy Lane Bryant stock. Plus: REALLY bad news for the nerds. Click here, or click on naked Lyle Waggoner, who would rather wear nothing at all than dress up like Computer Generated Orville Redenbacher. Although, to make the image safe for work, I've censored the dirty part with the head of Computer Generated Orville Redenbacher:

    lylewaggoner.jpg

    Your "after" picture is worse than your "before" picture: The tater-tot-eating state of Kansas is the 23rd-fattest state in the Union, with 62.3 percent of the adult population either obese or overweight. Missouri is ranked 13th-plus-sized, with 63.3 percent of the adult population subsisting on Hot Pockets and 2-liter bottles of Hee Haw soda from Sam's Club.CRP0060.jpgWe're unlucky enough to live in a state with humid summers, because judging by what I see whenever I drive through midtown, it's physically impossible for big, fat men to walk down the street on a nasty high-ozone day without exposing the maximum possible surface area of their skin by taking their shirts off. On the other hand, we're actually lucky that the pericare industry has introduced a lot of amazing (and affordable!) technologies in the last few decades, like this wheeled commode, as seen in your bathroom.

    As a hilarious coda that makes me believe somebody in the web department at KCTV Channel 5 enjoys having a laugh at the expense of overweight people, this was actually in the sidebar accompanying the story:

    fatty%20coda.jpg

    Who will watch the Watchmen movie? HAHA, not you, nerds: The unnecessary film adaptation of Watchmen, Alan Moore's unfun comic book for eggheads — now in a mostly-finished post-production state and scheduled for release on March 6th — is confronting a legal challenge by Fox, which claims it still has copyright interests in the property. Hilariously, Fox is actually seeking an injunction that would bar Warner Brothers from distributing the film. I love the idea that the executives who greenlit the production didn't actually bother with any due diligence involving a property that has shuffled between studios since the fucking 1980s.

    Sorry about your nerd movie, nerds. If it helps, you can clutch your albuterol inhalers while paging through the comic and imagining all of the scenes shot in slow-motion by director Zach Snyder, who also directed the slow-motion 300, based on Frank Miller's widely-unread graphic novel. I really love the idea of Harry Knowles, unhappy and frustrated, fondling his McFarlane Toys statuette of Rorshach and consoling himself with Duncan Hines vanilla frosting straight from the can. What has two thumbs and laughs when Harry Knowles cries? THIS GUY!!!! Although, in real life, I think there's about a zero percent chance that there won't be some giant cash settlement and an on-schedule release. It's going to be three painful hours of slavish reproductions of Dave Gibbons' artwork shot in slow-motion.

    Join the Daily Briefs Facebook page. It will make you a tiny bit less lonely on the internet, unlike jaleelwhite.com, the official website of "actor and writer" Jaleel White, who may offer to speak at your next event, but who absolutely does not care about you the way Daily Briefs cares about you.

    Category: Daily Briefs

    19 Comments:

    gus says:

    you're just encouraging him!!

    Jenlyn says:

    How dare you be such a pompous jerk about the Watchmen movie. Not only nerds want to see it. I was in line at the supermarket the other day and overheard an elderly lady expressing her fond opinion of it to the cashier. You aren't even considering the size and diversity of the audience that it will bring, so instead of criticizing something that you will pay nine dollars for anyway, shut up and let the world enjoy one of the most-hyped up movie of the year.

    Jenlyn says:

    How dare you be such a pompous jerk about the Watchmen movie. Not only nerds want to see it. I was in line at the supermarket the other day and overheard an elderly lady expressing her fond opinion of it to the cashier. You aren't even considering the size and diversity of the audience that it will bring, so instead of criticizing something that you will pay nine dollars for anyway, shut up and let the world enjoy one of the most-hyped up movies of the year.

    Jenlyn says:

    How dare you be such a pompous jerk about the Watchmen movie. Not only nerds want to see it. I was in line at the supermarket the other day and overheard an elderly lady expressing her fond opinion of it to the cashier. You aren't even considering the size and diversity of the audience that it will bring, so instead of criticizing something that you will pay nine dollars for anyway, shut up and let the world enjoy one of the most-hyped up movies of the year.

    FLR says:

    Can somebody explain todays Daily Briefs to me? I dont usually feel stupid here but theres a first time for everything.

    (the) Trevor says:

    Of course! I see the Socratic method at work here. You are saying that I am the baggy clothes wearing thug, who is stuck “outside my old stompin’ grounds” in Gitmo wanting to get back into the newly replenished, lovely preying grounds reserved, at present, for The Cordish Company. To gain reentry into what is now a preying ground stuffed full of money laden low hanging fruit and hos needin’ a slappin’, I should seek an entity who has jurisdiction over 12” penetrations to combat on my behalf, rather than through the channels established to better handle such conflicts.

    Alas, wise Daily Brief Guy, didn’t something similar happen when Native Americans used similarly ineffective methods to fight the new establishment? Didn’t they also get rounded up by the new establishment and resettled? Is Gitmo my casino? Is “non flushable” Koran computer my fire water?

    The Plog Internet Koran link seems to be a more clear answer. I now realize that The Pitch must have had Internet rights to the Koran and settled the matter in a much more effective means than Fox vs. Warner by allowing others to write it, but only if a link were included to The Plog.

    ontheotherhand says:

    Well now Chris, aren't you the pompous, angry little man. Do I see anything here except vitriol? Sadly, no.

    Chris Packham says:

    You don't? Then maybe you're not looking closely enough at naked Lyle Waggoner.

    thatguy says:

    That picture of Waggoner is pretty freck'n sweet. Even with ol'redenbacher covering up the happy zone.

    Tim says:

    What do you mean by "The unnecessary film adaptation of Watchmen"

    You are a di#k. Get off the web

    wumble says:

    Attention, nerds:

    EVEN ALAN FUCKING MOORE DOESN'T WANT AN ADAPTATION OF WATCHMEN.

    Thank you.

    Alan says:

    hey wumble,

    EVEN DAVE FUCKING GIBBONS DOES WANT AN ADAPTATION OF WATCHMEN.


    douchenozzle.

    The Guy Who Directed 300 says:

    Moore's work redefined the possibilities of the medium he works in. With my ability to shovel flesh by the pound and make things really loud, I'm just the bloke to capture Moore's complex themes and narrative structures and totally reinvent the cinema.

    Dave Fucking Gibbons says:

    Poor gibbons!

    (the) Trevor as Faysal Alkhaiwani says:

    Packham, you post pic of naked Lyle Waggoner and modern day Rocky Horror Picture Show bust out in Plogland. Now you understand the definition of slippery slope?!?!?!?!

    Please, exterminate comic-cinema freaks, get rid of stink, and mop up mess!

    wumble says:

    watching Watchmen < arguing with nerds about Watchmen < arguing with Trevor < watching "Two and a Half Men" < reading "Watchmen" < reading Daily Briefs each and every day on the Pitch.

    So, there.

    wumble says:

    I had a fantasticly good comment, there, but somehow Pitch ate it. Must have something to do with all the greater/lesser than signs I used in it. I even complimented Mr. Briefs and made fun of nerds.

    Oh, well. The Pitch giveth and the Pitch taketh away.

    Chris Packham says:

    Trevor, I think you fundamentally misunderstand Faysal's job. He's the supervisor, not the editor. He makes sure everyone's in their cubes at 9 a.m., he checks the sidework, he does the inventory and payroll, and he writes you up if you're late or absent more than three times per month.

    Chris Packham says:

    Wumble: Comment restored. You have to use html entities, since the "<" symbol is used in tags.

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