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I thought Paycards was the greatest game show ever. I appear to have been mistaken. Canadian gameshow Mad Dash was a low-budget masterpiece, complete with weird premise, bizarre questions, a dickish host, and cheap prizes. "Hockey or bowling: in which would you use... a BALL?!"

 The only thing stupider and more useless than wearing a backwards baseball cap is wearing a backwards baseball cap during a sex scene. No, you don't look any more butch while ****ing **** with one on.

 The Way West isn't anyone's favorite movie or even favorite Western.  It's too upbeat for those who like downer westerns and vice versa. Robert Mitchum only seems to wake in time to say his lines, but still suffers sleep inertia.  Kirk Douglas seems to be playing not a character, but A Kirk Douglas Character.   And Richard Widmark is, as always, tofu in the mix. "Guys? I ... I'm here, too. Can I look?" But, it's a poor film that has NO memorable lines or scenes, and The Way West got one off that I'll always remember: Innocent teenage boy: "I noticed that [the frontiersman's necklace ]. Mighty handsome possession.  D'ja get it off a dead Indian?" Veteran frontiersman: "Yeah; my wife." Much more powerful and memorable than the way the " Frontiersman with an Indian woman handles a question from an innocent young'un" was done in The Indian Fighter (played by Kirk Douglas in a better performance), it says worlds ...

 

Today, I watched "Howl" . Or, as the opening credits put it, " H O W L ", which I suppose was some kind of attempt to meet a legal requirement to warn viewers how painful it would be. It was, of course, a werewolf film.  When the Werewolf expansion for the Sims 4 came out (I won't call it the "Werewolf pack" because that's confusingly ambiguous) it became my excuse to binge a thousand werewolf films I'd never seen.  So now when I come across an werewolf film unknown to me, I'll give it a try, for completist purposes. I have seen things. Things you don't want to know about. Sometimes they are so bad I will bail on them (and I've watched all of The Werewolf of Washington , a film so bad it made me DEPRESSED, and which should be retroactively legislated out of existence)  But "H O W L" was SO bad I watched the entire thing, because I was riveted by how such a thing could have occurred.  No sane person would have written thi...

 My fiancé, Neigar, is done making our shirts for the ceremony. This one is mine: This one is his: Such a skilled seamster he is!  It makes me proud.

 I think, from a cultural perspective, it's pretty cool that the what is probably still the rockingest salsa number of the last ten years  is by a bunch of old fat people.  Because talent is not confined to the young and thin and that fact is often lost in broader American pop culture.