M-I-C... K-E-Y, Allegory

The strange odyssey of Farfur, the loveable gun-totin', Koran quotin', Disney copyright violatin' Hamas television character came to an abrupt end this week when he was beaten to death by an Israeli soldier. And I cannot believe that is not a joke! Hamas affiliated Al-Aqsa TV (picture FoxNews only if it was run by right leaning religious zealots who are completely slanted in their political and social views) aired the final episode of Tomorrow's Pioneers, which featured, unbelievably, an Israeli officer beating the oversized mouse to death after arguing over a piece of land. Shalom!

Farfur's death drew criticism from all over the world, most notably from tv critic Tom Shales, who called his death "derivative, predictable yet hilarious". President Bush had no comment, because, according to a spokesman, he "only watches Warner Brothers cartoons." Israeli Primer Minister Ehud Ohlmert defended Israel by reiterating the government's commitment to only killing nonfictional suicide bombers.

Farfur's death was debated among the show's creators for some time, and before settling on the beating, narrowed it down to 3 other choices for the show's finale

- Stoned to death by zealots after seen on date with Minnie Mouse
- Wacked in gangland style shooting in New Jersey diner
- Becomes mascot of Ramadi Rockthrowers of the Muslim baseball league

Musings

Once again, despite my grand plans and schemes to post regularly, I have failed and I'm back to a pitiful one or so posts a week Even I'm sick and tired of my excuses, so I'm through with them.
Anyway...

- I'm traveling from NY to Boston today on the limo liner, a "luxury" bus that travels from Boston to New York that is supposed to be a replacement for the Amtrak because they have wifi and very comfortable seats. Sadly, it's still a bus so I'm expecting to vomit sometime around the greater Hartford area.

- I was in NYC for 40 hours, and I spent $285.

- This entire week has been peppered by Sopranos talk, so I figured I would chime in about the last episode, because my opinion is clearly valuable and authoritative.

- When Phil's head gets run over by the SUV, what's with the guy who screams "Oh shit!" Why don't his arms move above is elbows? Also, why does no one react until his head gets crushed? Someone gets shot in bright daylight and two babies are stuck inside a car and no one says anything?

I'm still of two minds about what happened. I don't see who could have ordered the hit on Tony; all of Phil's guys seemed somewhat apprehensive about killing him to begin with, and then they had the sitdown in the warehouse. It doesn't add up. Although, we have seen a lot of the series from Tony's perspective, so if he did get hit by the guy in the Members Only Jacket, the fade to black would make sense both in terms of perspective and in terms of show history: Tony and Bobby talking about everything just going black. Although Bobby's death was the exact opposite of quick and uneventful. But if that guy did shoot Tony, wouldn't Carmela and AJ reacted, even a little, beforehand?

- As I have mentioned previously in this space, there was about a year long period of my life where I was in a bit of hard way; I stayed with friends for long stretches while I both worked and looked for work, and now I've been free and clear of that for a while. Anyway, last night at a birthday party, a friend told me how he is staying with relatives while he works in NY for the summer. Another of our friends offered up some space on his couch, but it was refused because that would have been "pulling a Rubin". Great.

American retard

Congratulations, Paris, you are now responsible for the only mugshot to ever turn me on, with the exception of this one:

Paris Hilton began her three week long jail sentence for driving without a license yesterday. Another violent repeat offender off the streets! The streets of California are now safe against people driving with expired driver's licenses.

I really hate that this story is getting news coverage, but Drudge put up some interesting info that really gave me an extra hop in my step today. Evidently, the jail where Paris is headed is full of inmates with staph infections! That's hot.

In other news, we're on the brink of war with Iran and maybe Russia, a US Senator died yesterday, and the VP's former Chief of Staff was sentenced to prison for leaking a covert CIA agent's name.

Take money, take money money money

I haven't talked about this guy in a while, and I suppose he got subsumed by the fact that it seemed one in three Republican congressmen were criminals, but Congressman William Jefferson has been indicted on charges of bribery, rackateering, and obstruction of justice, and improper storage of $80,000 in a freezer. This guy is vile, and will go down in history as the only Democrat to be indicted in this recent purge of criminals in Congress, but also as the only indicted and convicted Congressman that I have ever met. Excellent.

Of course, the Democratic leadership who came to power largely on the back of Jack Abramoff, on the yacht of Duke Cunningham, and on the greasy keyboard of Mark Foley, had taken a strong stand against Jefferson by taking way too long to force him off his committee assignments, an act which 58 members of the House protested (!!!) How in hell can the American public believe either party when they do what they say they're going to do? Oh, right, no one cares. Forgot.