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Overnight Open Thread (7-17-2012)"The Obama Effect": Not a Parody Okay when I first watched this trailer I thought it was just a fairly lame SNL attempt at parody but nooooo...it's for reals - as in people are actually going to the theater tonight and paying money to see it without men with guns or kidnapped children in vans down by the river being involved. Charles Dutton wrote and directed this movie where he plays man in his 50's who has a heart attack and then develops a obsessive man-crush on the presidential candidate, Barack Obama. He dedicates his entire life to Obama's campaign but then realizes - thanks to the guidance of Saint Obama - that he's also neglected his family and friends. Luckily thanks again to the 'Obama Effect' he gets his life back on the right path just as Obama sweeps to glorious victory in the 2008 election. Yep there's 83 more minutes of maudlin agit-prop where this came from. Even Twilight-loving Mrs. Justin Bieber-signature-practicing middle-school fan girls would find this movie just a bit heavy handed. And before you watch the trailer below be sure and read King Shamus' epic take-down of it here. Oh and the black Republican character is supposed to be an over-the-top caricature but I'm betting that a movie about him would have been a lot more entertaining, interesting and profitable as well. According to this movie Democrats quit their jobs, have uncontrollable man-crushes on their presidential candidates and annoy their neighbors. In the meantime, Republicans get to be rich and have a lot of sex. Was the script written by Ralph Nader? Conclusion: What is the point of "The Obama Effect"? Seriously, what story is this flick supposed to tell? I think everybody knows Obama won the 2008 election. We needed a feature length motion picture to fill us in on that? Of course as a convicted felon Charles Dutton couldn't actually vote for Obama himself in 2008 so I guess this movie falls under fantasy-prop as well.
Ah Those Thoughtful Columbia, GA Code Enforcement Officers Because if you don't hear them knock at the door, they'll even come inside and wake you up. A woman got the shock of her life when she woke up to find a stranger in her bedroom, yelling at her to wake up because her grass was too long. Erica Masters was asleep when Columbia County Code Compliance Officer Jimmy Vowell entered her Martinez, Georgia, home without permission to serve a violation notice for her overgrown lawn. After knocking on the woman's door a few times, Vowell let himself and made his way into her bedroom, which was captured on surveillance video. Ten Conspiracy Theories for Nerds For the nerd-types who prefer smarter theories and less conspiracy involving <shudder> other human beings. Of course the details don't really matter since this is all just a simulated universe where entities like you and I can imagine simulated universes. Oh and the NSA has had quantum computers since the late 70's. Computers capable of simulating smaller universes. The Simulation Argument. This is legion in popular culture from "The Matrix" and "Inception" and other sci-fi, so we'll just refer you to Nick Bostrom's formulation of it. In theory we could tell the difference if something happened in the manner of The Truman Show where a light labeled "Sirius" falls from the sky. But are there any such events? Heh: "You Got Laid Last Night? That's Nice, But . . .somebody else made that happen. Sport." "If you are healthy, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great doctor somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American medical system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in bikepaths and broccoli. If you've got a healthy body - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. Cyclosporine didn't get invented on its own." Getting Star Trek on the Air Was Impossible From a series of letters between Isaac Asimov and Gene Roddenberry on the difficulties of creating an entertaining sci-fi tv series and trying to be scientifically accurate at the same time. Quoting Ted Sturgeon who made his first script attempt with us (and now seems firmly established as a contributor to good television), getting Star Trek on the air was impossible, putting out a program like this on a TV budget is impossible, reaching the necessary mass audience without alienating the select SF audience is impossible, not succumbing to network pressure to "juvenilize" the show is impossible, keeping it on the air is impossible. We've done all of these things. Perhaps someone else could have done it better, but no one else did. June, 1967 Read the rest to see how Asimov resolved the Kirk/Spock plot quandry. Seven hawt sets walk into a bar. How many ways can they hook up? First World Problems: There's Now Plastic Surgery for Fat Toes Because women don't have enough of a perfection complex in our culture, now comes the latest plastic surgery craze: toe-slimming surgery, for those with toe-bese phalanges. Apparently plastic surgeons are seeing a rise in people requesting toe-shortening and slimming procedures. Surgeon Oliver Zong says the operation was born out of patient requests. Teh Tweet! Tonight's post brought to you by why you're still up: Notice: Posted by permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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