Good evening. I am pleased to report to you all that rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. I am here and sitting up and while I’m not exactly ready to run any marathons, I’ve come a long way in the last few days on Naproxen and long, hot soaks in the tub with Ye Olde Epsomme Salts.
My head has been completely out of the media stream. I’ve basically been lying on my back watching “Dr. Who” and I got to thinking about what constitutes a truly great villain. I think it was Litbrit who said of Karl Rove that the man is one fluffy white kitty away from being a Bond villain. He’s alright, I guess.
Me, I’d like to think that if I was ever going to take the super-diabolical arch villain route, I’d be a little like Glory from Season Five of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You kind of have to love a character who says things like, “You guys are the worst minions EVER!” and who takes time out from trying to kill someone to say, “Ooh, those are really nice shoes.”
She’s vain, completely self-centered, sadistic, rude, surrounded by sycophants, and craaaaazy. And because she does not in fact work for the Bush administration (that we know of), she’s hugely entertaining.
I’m also rather fond of Severus Snape, Eartha Kitt’s Catwoman, and Maleficent from Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty”.
How about you guys? I mean, aside from everybody’s favorite poster-villain, Dave Brock. Any Lex Luther fans out there?
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Ummm..TSF???
Hi TRex!
TRex!
My favorite Super dinosaur – TRex!!!
TRex..sorry..how is the back doing?
TRex!!!!!!!!!!!!
Evening, gang. How is everyone?
Cruella DeVil, as played by Glenn! Close!
Hope you are better — you were missed.
Steve-AR @ 5
Grumble.
Alright, I guess. It’s improving V E R Y S L O W L Y.
so glad to see you semi-upright, Mr. TRex!
Nice to have you back.
The Snarkmeister returneth!
The Sheriff of Nottingham, from the Kevin Costner Robin Hood movie….”because it hurts more!”
My fave villain is one who really wasn’t a villain at all, just a seriously p*ss’d off dude: Prince Namor, The Submariner.
Suzanne @ 12
Evening, Suzanne! Good to see you, too.
I understand there was some unpleasantness while I was away.
TRex @ 10
I know what you mean..mine has been slowly improving for 35 years.
Don’t forget about her.
But dang, it is good to see you return, o scaly one!
Shadowstalker @ 14
“Christmas is CANCELED!!”
Christopher Walken in damn near anything.
TRex @ 16
Let’s just say I don’t think even the mighty twacking tail could have helped that train wreck.
Loo Hoo. @ 18
Well, yeah, but Maleficent could turn into a dragon.
U.S. State Department enforces postings to Iraq
She’s vain, completely self-centered, sadistic, rude, surrounded by sycophants, and craaaaazy.
Not only that, but she says…
“Ooh, those are really nice shoes.”
No one living (?) comes close to Deadeye Cheney. ‘Cept his wife.
Favorite villain…Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. Don’t let him read poetry at you.
TRex! No mass extinctions here.
Suzanne @ 22
I kinda knew we were in trouble when CHS basically said fuck-it I’m outta here..see you guys in the AM>
neokneme @ 24
Imelda Marcos? ;-)
Condi?
Oilfieldguy @ 30
Bingo!
Sounds like a party I’m glad I missed.
DrDick @ 27
Speaking of that..did you read the latest UN Global Warming Report? Sounds like we are at the beginning of the sixth mass extinction. May be something better will evolve to take our place.
New Dr Who or classic Dr Who?
neokneme @ 31
Aah, believe me Imelda fills the bill too! Just ask a Filipino!
The Wicked Witch of the West used to scare the daylights out of me when I was a little kid.
Heard Philip Zimbardo (who has always reminded me, in appearance, anyway, of The Master in the old Doctor Who series) talk about his book The Lucifer Effect on Wednesday afternoon. I recorded the lecture, but my schedule is so busy, I don’t know when I’ll have a chance to transcribe any of it.
This article is rather long, but quite good, and covers some of what Dr. Z talked about in his lecture.
neokneme @ 24
LOL! You nailed it!
I guess my favorite super villain would be the Borg from Star Trek (and I am not even much of a trekkie). They sort of remind me of Republicans.
Lovely to see you sitting up and partaking of the waters, TRex.
I’m confused about the super villain thing…am I supposed to pick one that is the most super-duper evil, or one that I wish I had the moxie to be if the time was right?
For super-duper evil, I’d have to vote for the ice queen with whom I used to work. Jeebus, you could freeze anything on her. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody in the flesh who was the actual embodiment of evil until this person — the kind of person who made sport of wreaking havoc in other people’s lives with malignant relish one might only find in a highly caricatured cartoon character. Her name uttered allowed was enough to silence a room save for hasty gasps.
DrDick @ 39
Except that the Borg value science.
smapdi @ 34
New, actually. I heart Christopher Eccleson.
David Tennant is good as well, but something about The First New Doctor makes me go all funny in the pants.
Imelda would certainly qualify, I agree…
Alternatively…
EvilDrPuma @ 41
Yeah. Republicans are sort of a low rent Borg.
TRex @ 42
Can’t say he does anything for my pants, but I really do love the original Dr Who. Never could get on board with any of the later versions.
TRex @ 20
“You, 10:30. You, 10:45. And bring a friend.”
And of course, both he and Snape were brought to life on screen by (drum roll, please) Alan Rickman. (Waves to Alan, if he’s reading this.)
Okay, so do you guys want to hear The Whole Story of What Happened to My Back now?
Poison ivy, poison ivy
Well late at night when you’re sleeping
Poison ivy comes a creeping all around
TRex @ 42
Too bad he wouldnt do another season.
hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi hello hello hello hello hi HOWDY!!!!!!
Not particularly super, but Hedley Lamarr has always a personal favorite as well. Reminds me of a certain psuedo-Texan.
TRex @ 47
Yes! What’s his name?
TRex @ 47
Um, how do I phrase this…is the explanation work-safe?
;-)
SnarKassandra @ 50
Seems that hello key is sticking again. Howdy back at yah, young missy.
**THWACK!!**
His name is Father Time.
TRex @ 47
Is it steamy?
Rayne @ 40
You used to work for Lily Tomlin?!? (youtube)
(to be fair, I think this was more about the director, and not so much her. I hear she’s fairly pleasant to work with)
TRex @ 55
OUCH! I’ll behave! I promise.
TRex!!!
It’s good to have you back.
SnarKassandra @ 50
Hi. Try to be a little more enthusiastic, would ya?
You used to work for Lily Tomlin?!? (youtube)
I found this strangely empowering.
TRex @ 47
Yes, sir!
TRex @ 55
dayum, the tail!
Welcome back TRex, glad u didn’t die!
EvilDrPuma @ 60
Hey y’all!!!! Happy Friday!!!! 6 days until cassie’s birthday!
how’s that?
Yay!.. TRex! Happy to see you back… (so to speak)… heh
best super-villain in my guesstimate is Sauron… yep, he of Mordor fame…
My favorite villain from Buffy is Dru.
And Snape is not a villain at all!
Father Time can be a real SOB, but in any case he is preferable to the alternative.
DrDick @ 51
That would be Governor LePetomane.
TRex- Dr. Strangelove.
YouTube highlight
Dr. Strangelove – “Mein Führer! I can walk!”
SnarKassandra @ 64
More enthusiastic than I’ve been about my birthday in many years, that’s how it is….
SnarKassandra @ 64
Dear God! Can’t the DAMN DUMB DIMS do ANYTHING right?
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004576.php
Apologies for the screaming but you guys ain’t gonna believe this one!
AZ Matt, I am almost 16.
David Addington.
Dan in Canada @ 65
I could have taken him down. Just give me an economy-size bottle of Visine and stand back.
TRex, how is your back?
I did not know you hurt your back. Sorry to hear about that. What happened and do you expect a full and rapid recovery?
The Monarch!
Cassie… Nov 1 or 2?
Mine is the Nov 2…
Valley Girl @ 68
still my favorite move!
katymine @ 78
November 1st. The day everyone has a stomach ache and nobody wants cake. :( :(
It’s Friday night! Quit with the hard questions, TRex!
My favorite villains, like my favorite heros, are always mixed cases. That’s why I’ve always despised Disney – he (they) have always insisted on spelling it out, and the result is boring.
Linda Blair.
But, this little girl isn’t obsessed, so could you please spare a dime?
SnarKassandra @ 72
Good Luck!
And Happy Birthday too!!
bonkers @ 57
Oh bonkers, babe, Lily Tomlin is ME. I’m the one who swears like a sea cook when I’m torqued off.
No, the ice queen was the coldest f*cking bitch I have ever met in my life. She was coolly reserved to your face, right up until she slipped her shiv between your ribs. And then she’d make some sort of mewling noise about the blood you were leaving on her carpet, snap her fingers at the help to get-over-here-this instant-and-wipe-up-this-mess before her little teacup of a Yorkie terrier had to step in it…she’s the kind of person who’d drive me to swear like a sea cook.
Scoop @ 77
I have a sexy new plan to destroy Doctor Venture!
SnarKassandra @ 80
Yes, well, that’s their own fault, isn’t it?
SnarKassandra @ 80
La Dia de los Muertos. Should have plenty of company at the party, just be sure to leave a little cake for them as well.
Dru @ 66
who’s that?
mother-oh-no-late-again?
EvilDrPuma @ 86
more cake for me!
Evil Dr. P: I could have taken him down. Just give me an economy-size bottle of Visine and stand back.
heh… you ride in on an eagle to spritz him and then…?
TRex are you writing a whole novel about your back?????!!!
Waccamaw @ 71
D’Oh! And sent to Darth no less!
Casanova Frankenstein.
But you knew that I’d know that you knew that…Didn’t you?
;>)
I’m fond of some versions of Lex Luthor. I watched most of the first two seasons of Smallville because the best parts of it were the ongoing saga of Lex Luthor, tragic hero.
The original Lex Luthor from the old Superman comic strips is also really interesting, because he’s the very first supervillain. As you read, you can see it dawning on the authors that criminals just aren’t going to be a challenge for someone who can lift buildings, and then Lex Luthor appears.
Waccamaw @ 71
gawddamnitall, we are too effing stoopit to hold office if we can’t get something this simple right.
and to eff it up not once but twice????
there are no words for this kind of stupidity.
Waccamaw @ 71
Doesn’t smell like mistake.
Hmmm.
Speaking of Poison Ivy…
Rhus Toxicodendron
The following are the strongest indications of Rhus Toxicodendron for its use in homeopathy
Great for muscle spasms, too. Do be careful and don’t O.D.
Waccamaw @ 71
And after years of being trampled by Goopers, the whistleblowers will now have them in their corner. Jeez.
Okay, that’s enough for me. I’ll have to come back in the morning and see what TRex has disclosed about the back injury.
Swim safely.
Night Rayne.
Rayne @ 95
That sound you hear is my head repeatedly hitting the wall.
Rayne @ 95
Sure there is.
‘deliberate’
Hope katymine and TRex are recovering nicely!
darkblack @ 93
He was an excellent villain.
So, anyway, you know I went to the island, had a wonderful time. When I went to bed on Monday night, my back sort of ached, but it was a sort of low-intensity thing at the base of the spine where the sciatic nerve ties in.
Tuesday afternoon, I’m getting ready to go to work and I’ve just gotten out of the shower and pulled on some pants. I bent over to get my belt off the floor and BOOM!! My whole back seemed to explode in a white hot fireball of pain.
The strength completely went out of my legs and all the air whooshed out of my lungs.
“Oh, my god,” I gasped. I couldn’t move in any direction without it sending off pinwheeling geysers of pain.
“Oh, my god….” was all I could say or think. I couldn’t lie down or stand up or do anything, and my cell phone was all the way at the other end of the house. Funny, all I could really think right then was, “Oh, fuck. I’m going to be late for work on my first day back.”
I took a whole bunch of deep breaths and managed to haul myself into a semi-upright position and dragged myself object-by-object into the living room, where I grabbed my phone and hit the couch and then passed completely out from the pain.
I’ve never fainted from pain before. That was a completely new experience. When I came to, I thought that I was in my bed and that it was Saturday morning and I didn’t have to go to work. Then, I was all, like, “Why am I in the living room?” and then, “Why am I soaked in sweat and clutching the phone?”
And then all of it (including the pain) came back in a rush and I started gasping. I couldn’t catch my breath. I managed to call my brother and then to call work.
My brother came running. I inched my way into a lying flat position on the couch and just kept gasping like a beached fish, pouring sweat. Then my arms and hands started to tingle and go numb and things started to get black and swirly again.
And then my brother was there. He came through like a champion. When he found me, I was laying there not moving with blue lips and hands. Turns out I was hyperventilating, but at the time, neither one of use knew what was going on. He totally never even blinked, though. He knew I was in trouble and by God, he would have chewed through his own arm to get to me.
Twin brothers are teh kewl.
So, they did a bunch of x-rays. It’s a big, bad muscle spasm. Should take another four to five days to go all the way away. I’m alternating heat and ice. I’m taking my medicines as prescribed.
I am going to have to go lay back down soon, though. This posture is murder on my back.
Is Suzanne still here?
Re: How about you guys?
Well TRex, I’m a lamer when it comes to fiction, though Ian Richardson’s portrayal of Francis Urquart on Masterpiece Theater is a wonderful “compare-and-contrast” to “The Amazing Mrs, Pritchard”, the current Masterpiece Theater anodyne trifle. Now that he’s dead, I’m perfectly happy to suggest just how awful he was. Urquart, not Richardson, who was actually a lot of fun.
***
Compare and contrast to my personal favorite for most reprehensible American villain of the 20th Century, for real. The man is Siggy Freud’s cousin, Edward Bernays. Let us credit him with the destruction of vast glaciers of rock-solid truth in his quest to create sophisticated lies and a multi-billion dollar disinformation industry called “public relations”. Let’s list the crimes of this bastard. During World War I Bernays was hired by the tobacco industry (another villianous story in itself), and helped to addict a generation of American soldiers to cigarettes. Immediately the war ends and Bernays works to insinuate cigarette smoking into the minds of women by conflating smoking with women’s sufferage. And after a long and plush career lying about every consumer product he can think of, he is employed by the State Department in the early 1950s to destabilize the democratic and freely elected Arbenz government in Guatemala after Arbenz offends United Fruit with a sensible plan to provide campesinos with subsistence plots on ground stolen by United Fruit in Marine invasions in the 1910s.
As a purely evil and sinister man who never lifted a gun to kill off millions of people, Bernays is one of the greatest genocidal maniacs of the 20th Century. He’s a true monster, applying his craft for purely greed driven goals, a man with no conscience, no concern for the blood in his wake. He truly was the Evinrude of tyranny.
SnarKassandra @ 106
you rang?
I’ve always liked Zorg from ‘The Fifth Element’
Sorry to hear about your back.
TRex I am glad you are a little better. Brothers are THE BEST!!!! I love my brother and I know he would do that if I got sick. I am so glad you have Patrick.
Aunt Betsy has a machine for her back that gives little shocks and stops the spasms.
Poor Trex; sorry for your suffering. Heckuva way to end a vacation.
TRex @ 105
Are you still smoking?
Not commenting to be judgmental, but it can exacerbate back problems.
Good evening all!
Wonderful to see you back in the swim TRex!
It is a toss-up between Dru and Glory for sheer, psychotic badness; but I’ve always had a thing for Spike.
Just got home from a Halloween party for the kiddos-complete madness!!
Sandman @ 103
I am doing ok for three weeks post-op….. walked my usual 2 mile route yesterday but did not make it the whole way today. No narcotics for 48hrs.
TRex… Had the same thing happen to me years ago…. showered and pulling on my jeans boom… there goes the back. Just take it slow and let it heal
TRex @105
Ouch! Been there, done that. Do what the doctor tells you, get some PT, and do not stress your back for a while. They should give you some exercises to do after it heals up a bit. Do them. Eventually it gets better and someday you will be almost back where you were (though the back will likely never be as strong as it was before).
TRex @ 105
I understand. I did something similar–it always sneaks up on you, doesn’t it?–three days before my dissertation defense. Because I needed for my life to get a little more interesting at that moment, you know?
Dru @ 111
Yup, not good. Worse would have been if had happened during his vacation.
may @ 88
That would be the Grim Reaper dude.
Well, damn TRex, I’m glad you be better soon.
Suzanne @ 108
Hi!!!!
Ray Duray @ 107
Bill Hicks on Marketing.
*waving back to cassie*
EvilDrPuma @ 116
Dayam, that’s taking approach-avoidance to a whole new level.
Ray Duray @ 107
Seriously, who need fictional villains!
DrDick @ 123
Believe me, I avoided nothing. I did do my defense in the voice of Quasimodo to match my posture, however.
DrDick @ 115
I am taking this as a sign from god that my sedentary lifestyle isn’t going to cut it anymore. It’s time to integrate some form of exercise into my daily life.
When I swam every day, I never had these problems.
EvilDrPuma @ 125
Did you get extra credit for that?
Get well soon, Trex.
Valley Girl @ 68
Godwin’s Law, Pshaw…
“Eighteen months or so ago I wrote a post comparing Bush, Cheney and the boys from PNAC to Hitler, to the Nazi hierarchy and to the wonderful folks who gave the world kristallnacht, the terror bombings of Guernica, of London and conducted history’s magnum opus of human carnage, the holocaust, the destruction of two thirds of the Jews in Europe and millions of other ‘undesirables.’”
-snip-
“Would that several million people, Germans perhaps, in 1933, 34 or 35 had been possessed of the poor taste and ‘classlessness,’ had been willing to succumb to the gaucherie of loudly and publicly comparing Adolph Hitler to… well ..what the hell, lets go for it.. Adolph Hitler, I wonder what result might have ensued. Or, back in the USSR, had Russians stood up and said ‘hey this Stalin guy is becoming a real Hitler or maybe even a Stalin,’ how many of the fifty million Russian dead might have been spared, the cold war, arms race avoided, at least greatly reduced.”
-snip-
“It may be ‘classless’ and a violation of Godwin’s law to ‘Compare’ George Walker Bush, the arrogant young scion of eastern establishment wealth and power, grandson of Senators and son of Presidents, cowboy of windshields and owner of chainsaws, to the beer swilling gutter scum of the beer halls of Munich and Berlin but I’m afraid it is unavoidable, it is inescapable, obvious, and it is historically necessary.”
“Terrorism? 9/11? The attack on the World Trade Center was their Reichstag fire, the invasion of Iraq, comparable to the blitzkrieg into eastern Europe. They share the same motives and ideology, the same vision, they exhibit the same compassion, and wield power with the same ruthless disregard for the lives, for the welfare and dignity of common humanity.”
http://agonist.org/bobhiggins/…..comparison
EvilDrPuma @ 125
Ahhh. Going for the sympathy vote. Can be a good strategy in the right circumstances. 8~)
Seriously, high stress times like that are the perfect conditions for throwing your back out – it is all tensed up from the emotional tension.
madmommy @ 127
Turns out I didn’t need it. I just hope my back behaves itself during job talks.
Scoop @ 77
Heh, I was thinking the Phantom Limb. It’s the greatest comic villain ever, and he has the resources of the Guild of Calamitous Intent to draw on.
GordonM @ 121
lmao, yeah, satan spawn!
Investing in the Bubbles of Tomorrow – Today
(My bold.)
Finances on your mind?
TRex @ 126
Talk to Petro. I understand yoga is supposed to be really good for this.
Aunt Betsy is getting an operation on her back to fix it so she won’t have so much pain.
Anyone heard from Loo Hoo? Has she been able to get back to her house yet?
madmommy @ 137
That she has, however, she has a hyperactive dog to contend with right now…
puppethead @ 131
Oh no, someone else who has watched Venture Brothers!
madmommy @ 137
Loo Hoo checked in this afternoon.everything was OK..no damage or looting..fire smell in the house.
puppethead @ 131
Dr. Girlfriend!
ct, it is old coastie that has the hyperactive dog flying around his house
loohoo is home, everything is fine – no damage.
SnarKassandra @ 136
So she decided to go with that. Best wishes to her.
I think it was OldCoastie who had the hyperactive dog, wasn’t it?
Steve-AR @ 140
Hell, it took three weeks to get the smell of smoke out of my place and I was 20 miles from the nearest fire. That’s going to linger around for a while.
madmommy @ 137
yup, was back earlier.
EvilDrPuma @ 143
Ditto.
Suzanne @ 142
Oops! My Bad…
GordonM @ 121
“Say, that’s a good market…The fear market.”
;>)
CTuttle @ 129
Google “Nazi” and “Bush”, “Clinton”, “Left”, “Right”. Nearly 12 million hits.
Bush Nazi 430,000
Clinton Nazi 4,530,000
Left Nazi 1,580,000
Right Nazi 5,130,000
Clearly the right is more inclined to personalize. But as a rhetorical technique, it goes nowhere. Godwin’s law doesn’t say anything about how accurate you are.
Thanks for the news, that’s good to hear. At least the smell will dissipate eventually. Are all the other SoCal pups safe and accounted for?
darkblack @ 149
I liked that one! ;-)
Waccamaw @ 71
That’s hilarious. I’m a Democratic Party Precinct Committee Person. I’m thinking about walking outside and strangling myself. Why trust the Republicans when suicide is so much more certain? How in God’s Name did we end up with the Keystone Kops running the Party of the People?
pokes head around the corner
Hi all…everything good here tonight? I was scairt last night after all the goings-on!
LoudounLib @ 154
Hey LL! It looks safe to come out.
LoudounLib @ 154
Yeah, I looked in for a minute and then decided to talk to my friends instead.
People seem friendly today.
heh — thanks madmommy! ;-)
LoudounLib @ 154
Did it get rowdy after I left last night? I know there were issues in an earlier thread, but they seemed a bit tamer in Late Night.
puppethead @ 132
Ahh, but the Monarch’s hapless henchmen remind me of BushCo, hehe.
EvilDrPuma @ 143
A good friend had bad back problems for many years, injections helped for awhile, finally had surgery and is now playing tennis again.
Dru @ 117
ohh,
death rides a pale horse and his name is Binky.
DrDick @ 158
I wouldn’t say rowdy really, but unsettled.
SnarKassandra @ 156
I think I’m glad not to know what you’re talking about.
GordonM @ 150
Wowser, 4.5 Mil for Clinton Nazi, some serious fuckery there if you ask me…
I appreciate the mention of The Monarch and the Phantom Limb from the Venture Bros. What a great TV show.
I’ll add Baltar from the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, very entertaining character.
But lest we forget, being right around Halloween, the late great Vincent Price, the prince of all actors typecasted as vilains. That voice… That laugh…
Anyway, glad to be here tonight. My DSL has been acting up this week, and I only got online just after 11. ‘Twas out of service most of Tuesday as well. Thanks, Verizon!
Steve-AR @ 160
They really have gotten good at that kind of surgery in recent years. Twenty years ago it was pretty hit or miss, but today seems to help most of the time.
I think Bush is the most evilest overlording villain ever. And Rudy comes in 2nd. They just reek of evil.
LoudounLib @ 162
Probably good that I left when I did. Hope nobody has run off (or at least I hope that the come back again).
LoudounLib @ 166
Not to worry, they were probably just making sure all their info mining software was up to date ;0)
DrDick @ 135
Evenin’ all !
Welcome back TRex, Yoga is very good for healing your back but I wouldn’t venture any suggestions without more information.
Someone mentioned Homeopathy earlier – Rhus Tox – please do not take this without consulting a qualified Homeopath … my Dad was one and there could be several remedies that are better for your condition than Rhus Tox.
You can get my e- mail addy from the mods if you want to send me info. or ask me any questions.
I highly recommend that you get back to swimming as soon as the Doctor clears you to do so !
madmommy @ 170
No doubt! *g*
I have been mostly off the Toobz while away at a conference this week, so let me say (belatedly) that I am glad you are on the mend and back with us, TRex!! Villainy has been afoot in your absence.
LoudounLib @ 166
Yep. I switched over to the cable company and have been a happy camper ever since. Qwest, my telecom, may do right on eavesdropping, but they have mediocre service and the worst customer service in the known universe.
SnarKassandra @ 80
What a blessing to be born on All Saint’s Day. You are very lucky. You can be our Jeanne D’Arc and lead us to the Promised Land. No, not that hell hole on the Eastern End of the Mediterranean… the Promised Land in our Dreams.
DrD, I am really considering switching to cable. Verizon has been mostly reliable, but this week really got me upset and breathing fire, which isn’t normal for me!
LoudounLib @ 172
Pay no attention to the large white van parked on your toobz.
Feel better Trex. You were missed.
damn, where are my manners…it’s all Verizon’s fault.
TRex! So glad you are starting to feel better. It’s just not the same when you’re not here with us!
LoudounLib @ 176
Can’t speak to your cable company’s service, but cable is significantly faster and I have had much better service with no interruptions.
Hmmm, let’s see…
Lex Luthor (”Otisburg? Otisburg?“)
The Mule
Dr. Lizardo
Dr. Octopus
Ghandi
(I add Ghandi as a reminder that “hero” and “villain” are just two names for the same character, the only difference one’s point of view. Like a glass called “half empty” or “half full” – the glass itself is both.)
DrDick @ 169
I’m not sure about Oddmommy or Laurence…
DrDick @ 180
It’s Comcast. My dad swears by it and hasn’t had any issues. I will be doing some research ;-)
SnarKassandra @ 89
Well, alright. If Jeanne D’Arc doesn’t work for you, you’ve got a future as Marie Antoinette.
I don’t like villains.
If I were an evil overlord…
A must read if you haven’t seen this before:
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Ray Duray @ 184
Heh, ‘Let them eat cake!’ ;-)
SnarKassandra @ 185
Good. Just shows you are a nice person.
Greetings, everyone, from the lovely La Quinta Inn Denver Airport, where I am stuck overnight because I missed my connection going home.
Welcome back, TRex. Allow me to be the 186,459th person to say “We missed you.”
Villains? How about Gene Hackman’s submarine commander in “Crimson Tide,” ready to blow up the world for the sake of following orders?
TRex, you should be careful how you sleep so your back is OK.
Michael @ 186
BTW my favorite:
I will never employ any device with a digital countdown. If I find that such a device is absolutely unavoidable, I will set it to activate when the counter reaches 117 and the hero is just putting his plan into operation.
Hey burns! Be sure and take advantage of the lovely continental breakfast at La Quinta.
Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs Utterly, you-are-now-in-the-hands-of-a-psycho terrifying, and funny at the same time.
burnspbesq @ 189
Hey Burns. How’s life other than missed connections? I trust that the homestead remains intact. Were you much affected by the fires in OC?
burnspbesq @ 189
Love that movie! At least you’re half way home, but a night at the La Quinta does not sound like a rockin friday night :0(
Or, for pure delicious evil, how about Brad Wesley?LoudounLib @ 192
I most likely will. This scenario is why I keep a day’s supply of my oral diabetes meds in my briefcase. Even if I run out of insulin, I’ll get home in one piece and shoot up when I get there.
Sorry for being off-topic in previous post…
My favorite villain is the evil guy in “Re-animator” now THAT guy was EVIL!
Darkblack-
I tried leaving a comment at your blog, but for some reason I couldn’t so I’ll say it here Belated Happy Blogiversary! You are a most welcome presence.
CTuttle @ 152
‘Pearls..Couch…salts…’
;>)
SnarKassandra @ 185
What about antiheroes?
LoudounLib @ 183
no peer-to-peer
burnspbesq @ 196
Oh crap! That really sucks. Hope they can get you back in a timely manner tomorrow.
TRex @ 16
Hi, TRex! So glad you’re well enough to lead Late Night tonight! I’m almost afraid to step into the Lake after the last few nights — I attribute it to the full moon. Really. And, I myself had a meltdown at work today, astonishing my co-workers. Full moon, I tell ya.
Anyway, we worried much about you. SErious back pain is no joke, as many of us know. Take it easy, but not too easy (now we know that complete bed rest is NOT good. But listen to the pain.)
madmommy @ 195
Rockin’ Friday nights? I dimly remember those. I’ve been married for 14 1/2 years. A rockin’ Friday night is chauffeuring Man-Cub and his buds to the movies.
burnspbesq @ 189
How’s the weather in Denver? Hopefully no snow, considering there’s a certain game on tap tomorrow…
burnspbesq @ 203
Hell, I’ve been divorced longer than that and yours actually more exciting than the norm around here.
tw3k, thanks — not exactly sure what that means tho’, can you ’splain for a non-techie? ;-)
Alright, gang, I’ve got you set up with a Late Late Nite post. I’m off to get prone again.
See you Monday!
burnspbesq @ 203
Tell me about it! I spent the evening with 8 first graders and my little guy at a costume party. I dimly remember a time when my friday night didn’t start till after 10.
Dru @ 198
What a nice thing to say…Thank you, Dru.
Well, folks, its book and bedtime for me. Be excellent to each other.
Michael @ 191
you might like The Bastard Operator From Hell.
LoudounLib @ 206
Don’t think it really applies to you LL. Peer to peer is a method for on-line file sharing. Largely illegal.
Took Miss Dog for a walk…. wow sure can smell the smoke…. pretty strong….. all the way to Phoenix..
darkblack @ 209
Yeah, well, I think you totally suck.
You’re fired.
;-P
TRex @ 207
Take care mighty theropod.
g’night TRex, wishing you a restful sleep…take care of yourself.
rest and heal, trex
DrDick @ 180
As of today I switched to cable instead of DSL, just for the satisfaction of kicking AT&T to the curb. I will be switching my phone service too, and I will be telling them why.
So far, cable interwebs are cool.
DrDick @ 212
Ah yes, I *used* to do that ;-)
Night EDP.
TRex @ 214
Up yours, hippie
;>)
burnspbesq @ 203
Heh, I can relate to that! My keiki are at a Halloween dance right now, the peace and quiet is exquisite!
Michael @ 191
Now if George Bush had read the Evil OverLord list before invading Iraq point number 12 might have helped him avoid the whole mess he has gotten us into.
Point Number 12: One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
g’night EDP, sleep well.
Speaking about evil overlords and supervillians, just heard on the radio something in passing about rights groups in France meeting with prosecutors about the prospect of charging Rummy for crimes against humanity under the universal jurisdiction laws there. …no Loire River cruises for Rummy I guess.
LoudounLib @ 206
It’s just decentralized file sharing. Instead of using a central server, like one on the web, you connect to personal computers. the pic explains it all.
darkblack @ 221
My, my, such pleasantries… Nite, Sleepers…
darkblack @ 221
707!
dam DFH SCVP!
db, are you secretly ‘Kevin the Troll’ at SadlyNo? His favorite slur is “hippie”. :)
Blub @ 225
Yeppers, being charged with war crimes…!!!
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._1026.html
well folks, I must be off…working overtime today and then dealing with Verizon after I got home kinda sapped me. Good night and see you all around sometime tomorrow :-)
Felix Moronia @ 229
I used to were one of those. Hippie that is. Have since become re-aquainted with soap and water and the barber.
Time for me to turn in. I’m hoping for snow tomorrow in Denver, but not till after burn’s plane takes off. Goodnight all!
GordonM @ 121
Hallelujiah, Brother Gordon, we have the will to have everyone on this thread join hands now, to join hands join with us at the Full Gospel Choir of the Church of Stop Shopping. For it is God’s Will:
http://www.revbilly.com/
Yay, verily, it is God’s Will that we destroy the Temple of Mammon; and Cross that Red Sea of Debt and Negative Cash Flows into the Black Sea of Positive Cash Flows and Caviar. Chillen, it is time that we baptize ourselves and our brethren in the waters of the Caspian. This truly is Condi’s Lake. Just as Casadei are Condi’s Shoes.
Marketing, snarketing. Just give me that old time religion. It’s good enough for me.
CTuttle @ 230
Couldnt happen to a more deserving slimebag.
*waving to the leaving sleepy pups and therapod*
Night LL. Enjoy your weekend.
DrDick @ 194
We were spared, thanks. Closest it got was about three miles away, late Sunday night.
Had an interesting experience Wednesday night. As some of you know, the company I work for went public at the end of September. On Wednesday there was a cocktail reception on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. That’s a pretty cool place. Talk about a place where the sense of history is palpable.
Night MM.
Waccamaw @ 71
Ironic. Just yesterday……
CTuttle @ 204
Crisp. Perfect weather for soccer. OK for baseball.
db, is it your blogiversary? Congrats, and many happy returns!
Nite, LL and MM!
Good evening dear friends.
So good to see you TRex. Take care of yourself please.
Everyone grab a spoon!
Hi, DrDick! How’s Missoula? Cold yet?
No one has an exclusive on calumny, Felix.
;>)
Thanks, Alicia.
burnspbesq @ 241
I wonder how Dice-K’s gyro-ball performs in the thin air…?
DrDick @ 212
P2P is perfectly legal. It depends on the material you’re sharing, if you have the rights to do so. But it’s as legal as having a video tape recorder.
TexBetsy @ 244
Yummy! How you doing, Betsy? Hear you’re going under the knife to seek a permanent solution to the back problems.
Dropping in rather late, but my favorite villian is probably Dr Nii Jienyi in Saiyuki. Obscure yes, but this man took 10 years to bring his scheme to fruition and the entire thing isn’t done yet. Litrally tunrned the utopia of old china into a nightmare.
Now THAT’s a super villian. He’s not insane, he just wants to you to think he is. Also..HAWT. *drools*
TexBetsy @ 244
Ooh, scrumptious! Howdy, Tex!
DrDick @ 249
Neurosurgeon. Not sure when. Hoping for major improvement.
Alicia @ 245
Highs are in the 50s and supposed to be gorgeous this weekend (I’m going on a hike in the Rattlesnake tomorrow afternoon). Overnight lows are getting down in the 30s and tonight and tomorrow are supposed to go to the low 20s (but back up to the 50s during the day). How’s SoCal treating you? Were you affected at all by the fires?
peanutbutter @ 248
I was referring to the uses not the method (shows what I get for being around college students all the time).
TexBetsy @ 252
My best wishes on that. They really have made huge advances in that kind of thing in the last few years.
tw3k @ 124
My point, exactly. They say that truth is stranger than fiction. That’s not quite right. When it comes to evil, truth is more banal that Steven King. The most sinister men of the 20th Century were meticulous and scrupulous bureaucrats who recorded the crematoria or gulag deaths of millions as they went home to their loving wives and described their day as being rather normal. That is the genius of villainy. It’s just another day at the office.
Kayser Sozay, however it’s spelled. from the Usual Suspects, played by Kevin Spacey
DrDick @ 253
I don’t live anywhere isolated or picturesque enough to get burnt up, but the air is pretty miserable (I know y’all had to deal with it in the summer) and my kids were not allowed outside at school because of the air quality. The moon is a greasy, sickly yellowish-orange, and my vocal students are all having voice trouble.
Going to join the throng. Good night, all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.
Well I think will wander off to bed and let ol’ Lightnin’ serenade me through the preparations. Take care and enjoy the snark.
DrDick @ 235
can you imagine the debate in some future session of Congress when some country somewhere presents valid extradition requests for shrub, rummy, darth and the rest of the cabal after they’ve left office? I can’t wait to listen to McConnell, Wide Stance and HoJo’s comments. Fox will bring back Freedom Fries.
Night RonD.
Wait, pulling on pants causes back problems? I’m going to tell my husband………
Alicia @ 258
Hiya Alicia, fall is almost over and we’re getting lots of rain … not complaining though, it was a dry summer …
Good night to the sleepers.
Ray Duray @ 256
Point well made. Truth still can be stranger than fiction. Perhaps only because it becomes reality rather than remaining fiction. Who would have imagined crematoriums and gulags before the fact? I image they are natural product of nazi culture.
DrDick @ 260
G’ nite Sir !
G’nite, DrD and RonD!
Blub @ 261
Or one of them finds themselves the subject of a rendition.
DrDick @ 249
Spoon at attention!
Well, Petro, at least it’s not snow… I seem to recall snow from late Sept onwards, ‘course I was further north…!
Am off to hang out with mrbrat and watch Bill Moyer’s Journal. Later dears.
Kitties upstairs wanting attention.
CTuttle @ 129
It works for me.
may @ 161
Out of a lot of funny comments here, this just tickles me the most!
CTuttle @ 182
How about:
— Kathleen
— Big Mitch
— AK
Did we lose them somewhere along the line?
wigwam @ 276
Big Mitch and AK chose to leave.
Dr. Doom, then the Sub-Mariner (who’s really a hero-villain, but if he fights the Fantastic Four, he’s gotta be a bad guy, at least some).
My least favorite super-villains are Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Torquemada, Condi Rice, Paul Wolfowitz — oh, Bushy Boy, too: gotta include the royal sock puppet.
GordonM @ 150
Let’s start to get serious, shall we (Google)?
9/11 Truth: 33,000,000
9/11 Conspiracy: 12,800,000
Osama CIA: 2,640,000
Cheney Nazi: 2,190,000
9/11 New World Order: 2,120,000
9/11 Highly Convenient: 1,630,000
9/11 Inside Job: 1,040,000
9/11 Bush Conspiracy: 1,040,000
9/11 Stand Down: 800,000
9/11 False Flag: 566,000
Somethin’s happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear. But here’s a clue for you:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Did the Bush Crime Family create and execute 9/11 as a heinous crime eclipsing the evil mendacity of Eddie Bernays? Does our kulture advance? I’ll give anyone here 100:1 odds that 9/11 was an inside job. Any takers?
Galactus, “Devourer of Worlds.”
‘Nuff said.
I don’t watch sci-fi or other stuff with superheroes and villians. But, I have always believed the absolutely best villain ever in a movie was Mr. Joshua, played by Gary Busey, in Lethal Weapon (the original). A good villiain, whether super powers or not, is one who never tires of being evil and enjoys it to the hilt (but that does not involve overacting and chewing the scenery). All the other lethal weapon movies were very good–certainly better than most sequals–but they never had a villain as good as Mr. Joshua.
TRex, just read about your back. Really sorry! It sounded horrible. I have a twin sister; but, we are 3,000 miles apart for now. However, as someone who suffers from a chronic disease that involves a lot of pain, my recommendation is to take lots of magnesium. Magnesium is a natural muscle relaxant. You need more than the RDA, which is miniscule. The rule of thumb is about 250 mg per every 4 pounds of weight. My second recommendation, which I used the first time I hurt my back, is laughter–even if the laughter makes you hurt some. I had my doctors in awe at my miraculous recovery (although it couldn’t have been as bad as yours–I never passed out from the pain). I took aspirin (which I can take with no stomach problems) and magnesium every 6 hours (except when sleeping) and I watched the Marx Brothers movies, The Three Stooges, old episodes of MASH, and read a book I consider to be one of the funniest books I have ever read. Also, like you I took lots of hot baths with epsom salts, which I think is a form of magnesium. Hope you get well quickly.
Unicron.
Nuff said.