Another from the brazilliant Defamer.
I'm not loving the blond, looks grey in this Youtube vid, and Daniel Craig should shoot the director for allowing that closeup. In the final shot of this French Casino Royale trailer, Bond looks as if he's going to fucking mew. Bond would not mew. Bond would smile knowingly and then shoot me through the heart.
The music, however, once again kicks 99 kinds of ass.
Whodathunk a scholarly paper on Xena: Warrior Princess 
existed? But, knowing that as you now do, is it any surprise it's written by a raving Xeniac?
Author's Note: Watching Xena religiously has helped to keep me relatively sane over the past four years while I have been working towards my Ph.D. in Religion and Personality at Vanderbilt. This paper started life as a term paper on the first season episode TIES THAT BIND (20/120) for a course on Freud and religion in 1996. It was radically condensed and reorganized last Fall (with the help of this fine, on-line publication) in order to be included in a panel on "Women and Religion in Popular Culture" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion on November 21, 1998. Prof. Sheila Briggs did not present her paper on "Xena Crucified: Christology and Post-Colonial Theory" until two days later, so I had the unexpected pleasure of delivering the first Xena research paper at the A.A.R. Since I was writing for Xenite and non-Xenite members of the academy, please forgive those portions that seem to be preaching to the converted, or belaboring the obvious.
Okay, now, to a certain extent I understand the desire to, upon realizing just how many hours you've wasted watching cartoon T&A Sapphic dramady, get something out of it, if only a scholarly paper for Vanderbilt. When I had cancer I'd watch Hercules four times a day, but then the chemo I was on was so strong that, by the time the last episode came on I'd have forgotten I'd seen it at 10 that morning, and enjoyed it all over again in a happy, chemically-induced stupor.
But there's fans and then there's fans. Behold, the horror that is Working Out Your Own Salvation With Xena: Warrior Princess Or, The Renewing of Ego Ideals in Syndication
Introduction (01-05)
A Trojan Horse Opera (06-13)
The Iliad and Theodicy (14-19)
Xena, the Bezerker (20-29)
If You Killed Your Friends and Family, Who Would Bring You Casseroles? (30-31)
Humanizing the Enemy (32-38)
Working Out Your Own Salvation (39-41)
Notes
Bibliography
Biography
There are some few things in this world that remind me of the late Hunter S. Thompson. There are very few things indeed in this world that remind me both of Hunter S. Thompson and Homer's Odyssey. There is only ONE thing in this world that reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson, Homer's Odyssey, and that 300-pound bundle of muscle, fat, tattoos and leather who got on the bus and sat his wide, Harley-ridin' ass down beside my English professor, who happened to be reading The Iliad at the time and expecting the worst from his new seatmate, poked a chubby, dirty finger into my prof's Penguin paperback and chuckled, "Da Iliad! I love dat book! Rumble in Troy! Ah, man, war's all about chicks, eh? Fuckin' chicks, man."
Carroll apologizes to Poseidon with burnt offering, three flocks of cattle, Reggie Bush shaped golden idol
May 1st, 2006
Los Angeles, Calif. – Taking his cue from Homer's Odyssey, University of Southern California head football coach Pete Carroll attempted to appease the legendary anger of Poseidon with an offer of burnt lamb, approximately seventy heads of cattle and an 8 ft. high statue of USC running back Reggie Bush made entirely from gold…
Few critics, however, are willing to predict what will happen even if Poseidon is satisfied.
"I am of the opinion that Carroll will eventually succeed in metaphorically returning home and triumphing over adversary," Addison said. "Much like [Alfred Lord] Tennyson's Ulysses, I see in him a man whose passion for life and exploration will never allow him full rest – and though he may now appear to be 'an idle king' he will inevitably seek to 'sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the western stars' by recruiting a class of twenty Scout and Rivals rated five star players. It seems obvious even to these British eyes that [Carroll] is a man determined 'to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'"
"Then again, much like Odysseus, he could opt to shoot everyone who so much as looked at Penelope the wrong way. I would probably expect a mixture of 'one equal temper of heroic hearts' and good old fashioned fairly indiscriminate slaying."
From The Times. Of course, The Times isn't exactly the paper of record for most of the people who care the most about this story, so for the benefit of Snoop fans everywhere (Snooptologists?), we have taken the liberty of running the story through Gizoogle. Behold:
Rap stizzar held gangsta po-po is hizzy in airport fiznight
By Devika BhatSNOOP Dizzle was releazed F-R-to-tha-izzom po-po custody witout charge yesterday afta a fight at Heathrow in W-H-to-tha-izzich seven po-po offica were injured dogg.
The American rappa, whose real nizzle is Calvin Broadus, was arrested wit five shot calla of his entourage fo` violent disorda n affray baller an argument over admission ta a first-class lounge. Afta nearly 24 hours spizzent in a po-po C-to-tha-izzell, he was granted bizzle n driven out of Heathrow po-po station pimpin' sunglasses n draped in a blue blanket.
He is claimed ta have screamed at stizzay n thrown bottles of duty-free whisky cracka his 30-strong entourage was refused entry ta tha British Airways lounge at Terminal 1. Only three wizzle said ta hold first-class tickets. All were subsequently refused entry ta they aircraft n banned F-R-to-tha-izzom travell'n wit BA . Snoop dogg is in this bitch.
Police were called n wizzle escort'n tha group away wizzle anotha disturbance broke out . Chill as I take you on a trip. One of tha brotha suffered a broken hand n otha had cuts n bruises.
Airport staff claimed tizzy a minda thriznew a policizzle across a room as more thiznan 20 poser tried ta restrain tha group. The entourage was reported ta have bizzy squirted wit peppa spray before tha 34-year-old baller was arrested wit fizzy otha men.
Scotland Yard told The Times T-H-to-tha-izzat six US citizens had bizzle taken into custody at a po-po station in West London . Put ya mutha fuckin choppers up if ya feel this.. A spokesman said: “At: 6pm on Wednesday po-po wizzy alerted ta a group of approximately 30 thugz caus'n a disturbance in a business lounge at Terminal 1 of Heathrow airport . Listen to how a motherfucker flow shit. We understand thizzat tha group had been told by an airline that they would not be permitted ta board a flight. Pimp attended n attempted ta direct tha group ta baggage reclaim fo my bling bling. Gangsta of tha group tizzle became abusive n pushed officers.”
An airport employee, who asked not ta be named, said: “There: wizzy all these huge 20-stone men smash'n up display cabinets n throw'n thugz around. I saw Snoop Dizzle on tha ground wit four po-po try'n ta put him in handcuffs. His drug deala were straight trippin' bottles of duty-free at people like a motha fucka. Then tha po-po used peppa spray on them.”
A BA spokesman said afta tha incident: “It: is witin our wanna be gangsta ta ban them fo` life n they certainly wizzle not be straight trippin' wit us in tha nizzle future.”
The fracas wizzill be mizzle tizzy an inconvenience fo` Snoop Dogg, who was in transit F-R-to-tha-izzom Los Angeles n was due ta fly ta Johannizzles fo` a gig last nizzay bitch ass nigga. Concerts is also scheduled fo` Durban n Cape Tizzown bitch ass nigga.
Dizzy DAYS
Grizzew up in Long Beach, Califizzle n became an associate of tha LA Crips gizzy . They call me tha black folks president. He has been convicted of drug deal'n
In 1993 he was tried n acquitted of cracka n found fame thizzay year wit his debut album Doggystyle
Recently he featured in several Hollywood films, trippin' Starsky n Hiznutch , n was invited ta speak at tha Oxford Union
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