Quick Review: Arthur

I watched “Arthur” as a kid, right around the time it made its way to HBO. I wasn’t yet allowed to go watching grown-folks movies at the theater, so I settled for sneaking them from our stolen cable, at least until my dad went all Sherlock Holmes and figured out I was watching “The Blue Lagoon” with the sound off. My bad for not realizing that Sears-branded electronics get pretty warm when you run them a while. Double demerits for not abandoning the mission when it became clear nothing remotely interesting was going to happen on the shores of …

Quote of the Moment

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”

-Frederick Douglass

And That's When We Lost Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen goes on the Alex Jones radio show, tells us all how perfect and awesome his life is while simultaneously burning the entire edifice down. At this point he’s basically a shaman. He’s so epically high that we’ve lost him to the spirit world. A crass and self-absorbed portion of the spirit world to be sure, but there can be no doubt that Mr. Sheen is now living beyond our pale imaginings. He has become Colonel Kurtz.

Now that he’s lost his gig and rendered himself largely unemployable, he’ll have more time for that walkabout. Best wishes on that …

Louis C.K. and the Art of the Swerve

So Donald Rumsfeld is on a book tour. For some reason he sets up a phoner with Opie and Anthony, and they have Louis CK as a guest. Louis, with his characteristically low-key delivery, takes control of the interview and steers it into uncharted territory; he asks the former Secretary of Defense if he is indeed an extraterrestial lizard person, like the ones described by crazymeister David Icke. I love Louis CK, and he is in rare form here, sharp, funny and disconcertingly fearless. Rummy acquits himself adroitly, and dodges nearly all of CK’s questions, despite being backed into quite …