Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is a 1993movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, directed by Bill Duke, and released by Touchstone Pictures. It is a sequel to the successful 1992 movie Sister Act. Most of the original cast reprise their roles in the sequel, including Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, and Mary Wickes. Like the original, Sister Act 2 contains several musical performances, which are integrated into the main plot. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit is widely considered the greatest movie ever made.
Obviously, the entry is missing “after Roland Emmerich’s 1998 tour de force Godzilla“
Flipping around the dial (not a dial anymore I guess, just an expression, keep reading), I see Nancy Grace on CNN Headline News. Naturally, I’m drawn to the ticker at the bottom, but above it, right beneath Nancy’s head, is a red banner with the words “Breaking Urgent News”
Is it just me or is Nancy Grace getting a little carried away here? Maybe I’m just failing to appreciate the difference between “breaking news” and “breaking urgent news.” I mean, isn’t it logical that if news was both breaking and urgent, CNN’s first call wouldn’t be to Nancy Grace?
I’m just saying, there’s only a limited supply of words out there. Once we’ve worn them all out, it’s darn difficult to come up with new ones. Let’s be careful with the ones we have.
Brenda Kay Zylstra: With the fairer sex especially, this is a prime opportunity to dress in the tradition of Julia Roberts’ character from “Pretty Woman.”
Lee Feder: Happy Halloween, Ms. Slutty Cop and Mr. Pimp. Welcome to the least enjoyable day of the year for me. With ghouls, ghosts and ghastly, slutty nurses, Halloween on campus is … uhm … an experience.
Me: According to Thorgsten V. Christberg, a professor in cultural studies, psycholinguistics and alchemy at probably Harvard or somewhere, “This particular oeuvre of ’slutty’ costumes showcases the desire of an entire generation of young women to HOLY COW DID YOU SEE THE BAZONGAS ON THAT SLUTTY COP?”
Oh and by the way, were you aware that a large number of people wear “slutty”-themed costumes on Halloween?
You know how you all threaten to flee to Canada every time something minor goes wrong in this country, such as the re-election of a President who can’t pronounce “nuclear”?
Turns out Canadians are just as dishonest as Americans, as we learn in this news clip about computer repair scammers:
I especially enjoyed the owner of the company that wanted to charge $2,000. He seems terrified, not angry. Unless he is angry that the guy didn’t try to charge $3,000.
NOTE TO CUBS FANS: I just wanted to point out that your team is so bad, they got swept by a team (the Diamondbacks) so bad, they got swept by a team (the Rockies) so bad, they got swept in the World Series. Playoffs-wise, you really can’t do much worse.
Still, “100 years” will look really good on t-shirts, won’t it? When your grandkids are old, they can wear the “200 years” shirts.
On August 22nd, I made this sketch to depict the public’s growing impatience over our lawmakers’ disputed indecision on the State budget. Ironically, Blagojevich just so happened to sign the budget on the same day that I planned on sending in the cartoon. Obviously, I was a bit late on coming up with this idea, but hopefully you will still get a kick out of it.
Those nutballs at FEMA held a press conference, but instead of inviting real reporters (who does that these days anyway?) and instead had FEMA employees pose as reporters. Fox News better watch out - the government is eliminating the middleman.
The monkeys have attacked and killed an Indian official in their organized battle for civil rights. Slate Magazine helpfully provides a guide to surviving such an attack, though it neglects the most obvious way to get them to stop clawing and biting at you: give them the vote.
The Chicago Tribune just posted this story about two University officials and our student body president Justin Randall who tried to get students to sign up for the newly implemented Emergency Notification System by going old-school and getting their message out via chalk. Unfortunately, they picked a bad day since the rain has probably rendered most of their work unreadable by now.
The good news:
Between noon and 4 p.m. Monday, 203 students, faculty and staff signed up—well above the 50 a day the program had been averaging. That brought the total to 2,680; officials hope to get at least 50 percent of the 60,000-plus community members registered.
This couldn’t have possibly had anything to do with it. Nah.
Here’s an idea, since the piece of mind that would be gained by being on the list isn’t enough to motivate students to sign up, how about a little financial incentive. During the initial registration campaign, the University should come up with a lottery system that would award the winner(s) with a semester’s tuition waiver. The catch is that to win the prize, you have to be registered in the database. A student will receive a one-time only text message via the system with a secret code that you can take to an administrator. If the code and the name match, you’ve won.
So, a few months ago I wrote a rather forgettable column about Amnesty International. It was a fairly last minute thing put together in lieu of a point/counter-point with my dear and fellow columnist, Brenda Kay Zylstra. As some people were apt to point out, the first three sentences ended in rhyme. Well, that’s not all. Here is the column in its original formatting, and minus the typo added by are overworked copy editors. Read the rest of this entry »
