Daughter: "Looks like we're totally lost!"
Me: "That's okay long as we don't see a smoke monster!"
Daughter: "Ha!"
After a pause...
Daughter: "It's kind of sad I got that reference."
Me: "Yeah... Yeah, it is."
Daughter shaking her head: "God, I am so your daughter!"
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COMICS: The Top 10 Best — And Worst — Dads In Comics
Found this through Bart_Allen on Twitter. It's from Newsarama.com. - OlderMusicGeek
The Top 10 Best — And Worst — Dads In Comics
June 20th, 2009 Author David Pepose
Wow, is it that time already? Sometimes, you have to give a shout-out to the men who have raised us. But in comics, sometimes having a dad isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For every Luke Cage, we get a Magneto — because villainous fathers have always been a time-honored trope in the comics community. So with that in mind, we at Blog@ decided to take a look and create a light-hearted, sometimes tongue-in-cheek (and obviously subjective) look at the top ten best and worst dads in comics!
The Top 10 Best Dads in Comics: With parental fatalities often being the impetus for superheroics, it’s tough to find a good dad in comics. But the good dads are often the best, even if they’re no longer with us. Let’s take some time to tip your hats to these great men in sequential art.
10. Ted Knight: Ted shows that it’s never too late to connect with your kids. Somewhat estranged from his son Jack until his son David is killed, Ted soon establishes a bond with his son through advice and adrenaline. While Jack first was all about himself, now he’s a hero, partially because of circumstance, but mainly because of the interaction he has with his dad.
9. Mr. Fantastic: While Reed Richards is a bit of an absent-minded, albeit good-hearted, space case, it’s clear how much he loves his kids. It’s one of the reasons he’s pushed himself as hard as he can go, to support his children, and while he can sometimes be a little distant, when push comes to shove, you know Franklin and Valeria come first to this super-stretchable polymath.
8. Wally West: When he had to make a work-related trip, he took his kids along for the ride. This might be a glib way of looking at Infinite Crisis, but that’s pretty much what happened — during his battle with Superboy-Prime, Wally was being sucked into another dimension. But he brought Jae, Iris, as well as his wife Linda along with, and raised his kids — despite their superspeed aging — in that parallel world. He has since fought the Speed Force itself — taking a hit on his own limitless speed — to save his children from its shackles. This guy? A great dad.
7. Luke Cage: A superstrong fella with steel-like skin, it’s a tribute to Brian Michael Bendis how soft this one-time Hero for Hire can be around his baby girl. Luke, despite having a rough-and-tumble existence with the Avengers, has done everything he can to protect his wife and child — even selling his soul to Norman Osborn to rescue her from the Skrulls. When the enemies in question are shapeshifters, it’s tough to give Cage some flak — the man seems so dedicated to his family first and foremost that he deserves a spot on the Top 10.
6. Blue Beetle’s father, Alberto Reyes: Ah, one half of my favorite parenting couple in comics. Alberto Reyes has served his country and helped his community, despite being an unsung hero in the sleepy town of El Paso, Texas. Yet when his son Jaime returned from a year’s absence — with a suit of alien armor, no less — Alberto was the one who embraced him as his son, even if the rest of the family was a bit freaked out. Alway a man to turn to and a shoulder to cry on, Alberto Reyes is the reason why Jaime Reyes is a hero.
5. Cable: On the run from time-traveling mutant Bishop, Cable has protected the Mutant Messiah — a baby he named Hope — by any means necessary. A very cool dynamic that has revitalized the character, because now he has something to fight for. If mutantkind survives, know that it rests not on Cyclop’s Machiavellian plans, but on the parenting chops of Nathan Christopher Summers.
4. Pat Dugan, aka Stripesy: If you can’t beat ‘em, ground ‘em. And if you can’t ground ‘em? Make sure they have protection. In Pat Dugan’s case, that protection is a 7-foot-tall armored robot known as S.T.R.I.P.E.S., as he pursued his stepdaughter Courtney when she assumed to mantle of the Star-Spangled Kid. Never quite comfortable with her superheroics, Dugan did the responsible thing, and watched her back, until she could receive some dedicated training from the JSA.
3. Uncle Ben: “With great power, there must also come great responsibility.” Uncle Ben’s words have rung through Spider-Man’s psyche for years and years, as his unseen ghost continues to haunt comics to this day. He toiled ceaselessly to provide a life for his nephew, even bequeathing him his first microscope. I doubt Uncle Ben would approve of Peter squandering his life for the sake of Spider-Man, but his love and honesty made one of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe.
2. Jor-El: When the odds seemed hopeless, Jor-El chose life. Creating a spaceship for his infant son Kal-El, Jor-El knew that the plan had a million-to-one shot of working — but work it did. Jor-El seemed to think of everything, even implanting a crystal that would create Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Despite being turned down by the Science Council, Jor-El did preserve Krypton, until his son would save the Bottle City of Kandor from the ruthless Brainiac.
1. Jonathan Kent: The greatest dad in the history of comics — Pa Kent. When Superman had a problem, Jonathan was the one he went to. This was the person who made the “super” second only to the “man.” Teaching his son to use his powers for good instead of evil, Jonathan Kent’s parenting will stand the test of time, as his kind, gentle son Clark is Earth’s greatest hero.
The Top 10 Worst Dads in Comics: This was a bit of an easier list, only because villainous dads are sort of a trope when it comes to comics. But there are some heroic stragglers on the paternity queue, so let’s take a look at the demented and the dead-beat!
10. Batman — Y’know, it’d be cool if Bruce Wayne simply adopted kids on a Bradgelina level. But he takes them off the streets and allows them to accompany him on caped vigilantism. This has already messed up his kids pretty completely — Dick Grayson can’t hold down a steady job, Jason Todd had his head bashed in with a crowbar (but he got better), and he gave Tim Drake enough of an allowance to build his own twisted cloning facility in his basement after his best friend died. Bruce Wayne may give his kids everything, but even he can’t teach life skills. (Disclaimer: Devin Grayson and the Black Cat’s versions of Batman would put him on the Great Dad list. But that isn’t the status quo. Curse you, canon!!)
9. Green Arrow — Kind of a jerk when it comes to kids. He ditched his ward, Speedy, and then when the teen started living up to his name with a heroin addiction, GA starts slapping him around. He doesn’t even stick around to help him quit — that was all Black Canary. But the kicker — the kicker — is that he was there when his son Connor was born, and still walked out on him, then pretending he was so surprised when his starry-eyed kid had followed in the family tradition.
8. Cyclops — Cyclops has more issues than Action Comics. (Comics zing!) After he couldn’t get with Jean Grey (not without a shovel in the dead of night, anyway), Scott Summers went for the next best thing: her clone, Madelyne Pryor. But when the Real Deal came back from the dead, Scott left Madelyne — and his newborn baby Christopher — to, um, “check up on Jean and make sure everything was okay.” By joining X-Factor and not telling his wife where he was going. He ended up making up for it in the future by raising young Cable into a freedom fighter, but has since waffled around whether or not he trusts his son’s judgment by sending X-Force after him, just to make sure he’s doing his job right. Between this and his tendency to cheat on his significant other (moving on from redheads to blondes with Emma Frost), Scott Summers’ mutant power is being an optic-blast-powered homewrecker.
7. Magneto — He unwittingly drafted his twin children — as well as many other young impressionable mutants — into his war with humankind, abusing and manipulating their trust at every turn. When push came to shove, he’s put his cause before his kids (even shooting Quicksilver in the knees in the Ultimate Universe). While he did step in to prevent the Avengers from taking down the Scarlet Witch, it’s too little, too late, as his vendetta against the human race would eventually twist and soil the actions of all his children — Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Polaris.
6. Omni-Man — At first he was a good guy, until his secret life came back to haunt him. Nolan Grayson was a bestselling author as well as the hero Omni-Man — but when his son Mark, aka Invincible, finally comes of age, Nolan decides to let the other shoe drop: he’s an advance scout for the Viltrumite Invasion. He proceeds to beat the tar out of Invincible before leaving out of guilt, only to then pursue an affair with a bug-like creature on another planet. Oh, and the kid he has with the bug lady? His first wife Debbie is taking care of him. Omni-Man, you are one deadbeat dad.
5. Doctor Doom (and Apocalypse… and Ra’s Al Ghul) — At first, Doom’s relationship with Kristoff Vernard was benign, adopting him after his mother was killed by robots. (This is a common occurrence in Latveria.) But soon the parenting went bad, as Doom programmed his robots to brainwash young Kristoff if anything were to happen to him. Doc, when they say “live through your children,” it’s not meant literally! (Special mention goes to the ancient mutant Apocalypse, who had a similar stratagem for Stryfe in the 1990s series The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, as well as Ra’s Al Ghul, who planned to do the same to his grandson Damian Wayne in The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul.)
4. Darkseid — It’s kind of sad when the embodiment of all evil in the DCU only makes #4 on this list, but there you go. Treating his son Orion like political coin, Darkseid trades one of his kids to avert a war. To make matters worse, Darkseid continually belittles his other kid Kalibak, who just can’t measure up to the distant ideal that is Orion. And while some lucky kids get baseball games and movies from their dads, Darkseid just gave Orion the Anti-Life Equation. And did I mention he turned half the DCU into mindless zombies, as well as incinerated Batman?
3. Deathstroke — He’s kind of like the soccer dad gone wrong, juicing up his kids with mind-bending steroids to twist them into sidekick support roles. Deathstroke was so obsessed with winning that he even put a piece of Kryptonite into his daughter’s vacant eye socket! Dude, that’s messed up! Chalk up this mercenary’s drive to prevail at any cost, and you got yourself on the Worst Dads list.
2. Norman Osborn — Norman, Norman, Norman… he’s cold to his son to the point of driving him to costumed villainy. (Check out his thoughts on Mary Jane in the first Spider-Man film.) He puts hits out on Iron Man, Thor, Deadpool, and seems to have a mad-on for anything whose name rhymed with “Smider-Man.” He’s got the Marvel Universe by the short hairs and will cackle his way through his secret underground Cabal. Oh, and he decided to throw Gwen Stacy off a bridge when he got her pregnant and she wouldn’t give up the kids. This guy? One bad dad.
1. The Comedian — When your dad tried to rape your mom, that’s the sign of a pretty sick dude. Yet the Comedian was the embodiment of the American Dream in Watchmen, and we were all the more disgusted for it. The fact that he didn’t unequivocably shut down Laurie’s flirting with him — why yes, that would be his own daughter — at the word “GO” also bumps him up the list considerably, as well as the fact that he shot a woman in Vietnam who was pregnant with his kid. Yep, the Comedian pretty much hits every mark for being Worst Dad Ever.
This entry was posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 10:00 pm and is filed under DC Comics, Image, Marvel, News & Views. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
The Top 10 Best — And Worst — Dads In Comics
June 20th, 2009 Author David Pepose
Wow, is it that time already? Sometimes, you have to give a shout-out to the men who have raised us. But in comics, sometimes having a dad isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For every Luke Cage, we get a Magneto — because villainous fathers have always been a time-honored trope in the comics community. So with that in mind, we at Blog@ decided to take a look and create a light-hearted, sometimes tongue-in-cheek (and obviously subjective) look at the top ten best and worst dads in comics!
The Top 10 Best Dads in Comics: With parental fatalities often being the impetus for superheroics, it’s tough to find a good dad in comics. But the good dads are often the best, even if they’re no longer with us. Let’s take some time to tip your hats to these great men in sequential art.
10. Ted Knight: Ted shows that it’s never too late to connect with your kids. Somewhat estranged from his son Jack until his son David is killed, Ted soon establishes a bond with his son through advice and adrenaline. While Jack first was all about himself, now he’s a hero, partially because of circumstance, but mainly because of the interaction he has with his dad.9. Mr. Fantastic: While Reed Richards is a bit of an absent-minded, albeit good-hearted, space case, it’s clear how much he loves his kids. It’s one of the reasons he’s pushed himself as hard as he can go, to support his children, and while he can sometimes be a little distant, when push comes to shove, you know Franklin and Valeria come first to this super-stretchable polymath.8. Wally West: When he had to make a work-related trip, he took his kids along for the ride. This might be a glib way of looking at Infinite Crisis, but that’s pretty much what happened — during his battle with Superboy-Prime, Wally was being sucked into another dimension. But he brought Jae, Iris, as well as his wife Linda along with, and raised his kids — despite their superspeed aging — in that parallel world. He has since fought the Speed Force itself — taking a hit on his own limitless speed — to save his children from its shackles. This guy? A great dad.7. Luke Cage: A superstrong fella with steel-like skin, it’s a tribute to Brian Michael Bendis how soft this one-time Hero for Hire can be around his baby girl. Luke, despite having a rough-and-tumble existence with the Avengers, has done everything he can to protect his wife and child — even selling his soul to Norman Osborn to rescue her from the Skrulls. When the enemies in question are shapeshifters, it’s tough to give Cage some flak — the man seems so dedicated to his family first and foremost that he deserves a spot on the Top 10.6. Blue Beetle’s father, Alberto Reyes: Ah, one half of my favorite parenting couple in comics. Alberto Reyes has served his country and helped his community, despite being an unsung hero in the sleepy town of El Paso, Texas. Yet when his son Jaime returned from a year’s absence — with a suit of alien armor, no less — Alberto was the one who embraced him as his son, even if the rest of the family was a bit freaked out. Alway a man to turn to and a shoulder to cry on, Alberto Reyes is the reason why Jaime Reyes is a hero.5. Cable: On the run from time-traveling mutant Bishop, Cable has protected the Mutant Messiah — a baby he named Hope — by any means necessary. A very cool dynamic that has revitalized the character, because now he has something to fight for. If mutantkind survives, know that it rests not on Cyclop’s Machiavellian plans, but on the parenting chops of Nathan Christopher Summers.4. Pat Dugan, aka Stripesy: If you can’t beat ‘em, ground ‘em. And if you can’t ground ‘em? Make sure they have protection. In Pat Dugan’s case, that protection is a 7-foot-tall armored robot known as S.T.R.I.P.E.S., as he pursued his stepdaughter Courtney when she assumed to mantle of the Star-Spangled Kid. Never quite comfortable with her superheroics, Dugan did the responsible thing, and watched her back, until she could receive some dedicated training from the JSA.3. Uncle Ben: “With great power, there must also come great responsibility.” Uncle Ben’s words have rung through Spider-Man’s psyche for years and years, as his unseen ghost continues to haunt comics to this day. He toiled ceaselessly to provide a life for his nephew, even bequeathing him his first microscope. I doubt Uncle Ben would approve of Peter squandering his life for the sake of Spider-Man, but his love and honesty made one of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe.2. Jor-El: When the odds seemed hopeless, Jor-El chose life. Creating a spaceship for his infant son Kal-El, Jor-El knew that the plan had a million-to-one shot of working — but work it did. Jor-El seemed to think of everything, even implanting a crystal that would create Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Despite being turned down by the Science Council, Jor-El did preserve Krypton, until his son would save the Bottle City of Kandor from the ruthless Brainiac.1. Jonathan Kent: The greatest dad in the history of comics — Pa Kent. When Superman had a problem, Jonathan was the one he went to. This was the person who made the “super” second only to the “man.” Teaching his son to use his powers for good instead of evil, Jonathan Kent’s parenting will stand the test of time, as his kind, gentle son Clark is Earth’s greatest hero.The Top 10 Worst Dads in Comics: This was a bit of an easier list, only because villainous dads are sort of a trope when it comes to comics. But there are some heroic stragglers on the paternity queue, so let’s take a look at the demented and the dead-beat!
10. Batman — Y’know, it’d be cool if Bruce Wayne simply adopted kids on a Bradgelina level. But he takes them off the streets and allows them to accompany him on caped vigilantism. This has already messed up his kids pretty completely — Dick Grayson can’t hold down a steady job, Jason Todd had his head bashed in with a crowbar (but he got better), and he gave Tim Drake enough of an allowance to build his own twisted cloning facility in his basement after his best friend died. Bruce Wayne may give his kids everything, but even he can’t teach life skills. (Disclaimer: Devin Grayson and the Black Cat’s versions of Batman would put him on the Great Dad list. But that isn’t the status quo. Curse you, canon!!)9. Green Arrow — Kind of a jerk when it comes to kids. He ditched his ward, Speedy, and then when the teen started living up to his name with a heroin addiction, GA starts slapping him around. He doesn’t even stick around to help him quit — that was all Black Canary. But the kicker — the kicker — is that he was there when his son Connor was born, and still walked out on him, then pretending he was so surprised when his starry-eyed kid had followed in the family tradition.8. Cyclops — Cyclops has more issues than Action Comics. (Comics zing!) After he couldn’t get with Jean Grey (not without a shovel in the dead of night, anyway), Scott Summers went for the next best thing: her clone, Madelyne Pryor. But when the Real Deal came back from the dead, Scott left Madelyne — and his newborn baby Christopher — to, um, “check up on Jean and make sure everything was okay.” By joining X-Factor and not telling his wife where he was going. He ended up making up for it in the future by raising young Cable into a freedom fighter, but has since waffled around whether or not he trusts his son’s judgment by sending X-Force after him, just to make sure he’s doing his job right. Between this and his tendency to cheat on his significant other (moving on from redheads to blondes with Emma Frost), Scott Summers’ mutant power is being an optic-blast-powered homewrecker.7. Magneto — He unwittingly drafted his twin children — as well as many other young impressionable mutants — into his war with humankind, abusing and manipulating their trust at every turn. When push came to shove, he’s put his cause before his kids (even shooting Quicksilver in the knees in the Ultimate Universe). While he did step in to prevent the Avengers from taking down the Scarlet Witch, it’s too little, too late, as his vendetta against the human race would eventually twist and soil the actions of all his children — Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Polaris.6. Omni-Man — At first he was a good guy, until his secret life came back to haunt him. Nolan Grayson was a bestselling author as well as the hero Omni-Man — but when his son Mark, aka Invincible, finally comes of age, Nolan decides to let the other shoe drop: he’s an advance scout for the Viltrumite Invasion. He proceeds to beat the tar out of Invincible before leaving out of guilt, only to then pursue an affair with a bug-like creature on another planet. Oh, and the kid he has with the bug lady? His first wife Debbie is taking care of him. Omni-Man, you are one deadbeat dad.5. Doctor Doom (and Apocalypse… and Ra’s Al Ghul) — At first, Doom’s relationship with Kristoff Vernard was benign, adopting him after his mother was killed by robots. (This is a common occurrence in Latveria.) But soon the parenting went bad, as Doom programmed his robots to brainwash young Kristoff if anything were to happen to him. Doc, when they say “live through your children,” it’s not meant literally! (Special mention goes to the ancient mutant Apocalypse, who had a similar stratagem for Stryfe in the 1990s series The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, as well as Ra’s Al Ghul, who planned to do the same to his grandson Damian Wayne in The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul.)4. Darkseid — It’s kind of sad when the embodiment of all evil in the DCU only makes #4 on this list, but there you go. Treating his son Orion like political coin, Darkseid trades one of his kids to avert a war. To make matters worse, Darkseid continually belittles his other kid Kalibak, who just can’t measure up to the distant ideal that is Orion. And while some lucky kids get baseball games and movies from their dads, Darkseid just gave Orion the Anti-Life Equation. And did I mention he turned half the DCU into mindless zombies, as well as incinerated Batman?3. Deathstroke — He’s kind of like the soccer dad gone wrong, juicing up his kids with mind-bending steroids to twist them into sidekick support roles. Deathstroke was so obsessed with winning that he even put a piece of Kryptonite into his daughter’s vacant eye socket! Dude, that’s messed up! Chalk up this mercenary’s drive to prevail at any cost, and you got yourself on the Worst Dads list.2. Norman Osborn — Norman, Norman, Norman… he’s cold to his son to the point of driving him to costumed villainy. (Check out his thoughts on Mary Jane in the first Spider-Man film.) He puts hits out on Iron Man, Thor, Deadpool, and seems to have a mad-on for anything whose name rhymed with “Smider-Man.” He’s got the Marvel Universe by the short hairs and will cackle his way through his secret underground Cabal. Oh, and he decided to throw Gwen Stacy off a bridge when he got her pregnant and she wouldn’t give up the kids. This guy? One bad dad.1. The Comedian — When your dad tried to rape your mom, that’s the sign of a pretty sick dude. Yet the Comedian was the embodiment of the American Dream in Watchmen, and we were all the more disgusted for it. The fact that he didn’t unequivocably shut down Laurie’s flirting with him — why yes, that would be his own daughter — at the word “GO” also bumps him up the list considerably, as well as the fact that he shot a woman in Vietnam who was pregnant with his kid. Yep, the Comedian pretty much hits every mark for being Worst Dad Ever.This entry was posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 10:00 pm and is filed under DC Comics, Image, Marvel, News & Views. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Thursday, July 03, 2008
MUSIC: Wasteland Of The Free
I guess some won't find this the most appropriate song to play on Independence Day, but what Iris said back in 1996 is still unfortunately very true 12 years later. And if we love our country, we ought to do something about making this song less true. - OlderMusicGeek
Living in the wasteland of the free...
We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look like Jesus to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
and if you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
to some third-world country 'cross the sea
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free
We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
that sounds like crap to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
who cannot pass a sixth-grade written test
but if you ask them, they can tell you
the name of every crotch on MTV
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
Some guy refuses to fight, and we call THAT the sin
but he's standing up for what he believes in
and that seems pretty damned American to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free
While we sit gloating in our greatness
justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Here's a video that's been done recently to the song...
wastelandofthefree.com, a website inspired by the song
Iris Dement's home page
Living in the wasteland of the free...
We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines
and their speech is growing increasingly unkind
They say they are Christ's disciples
but they don't look like Jesus to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We got politicians running races on corporate cash
Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass
You may call me old-fashioned
but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay
but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage
and if you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job
to some third-world country 'cross the sea
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free
We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars
So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors
and we call ourselves the advanced civilization
that sounds like crap to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
who cannot pass a sixth-grade written test
but if you ask them, they can tell you
the name of every crotch on MTV
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win
Some guy refuses to fight, and we call THAT the sin
but he's standing up for what he believes in
and that seems pretty damned American to me
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
where the poor have now become the enemy
Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones
Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy
Living in the wasteland of the free
While we sit gloating in our greatness
justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Living in the wasteland of the free
Here's a video that's been done recently to the song...
wastelandofthefree.com, a website inspired by the song
Iris Dement's home page
Sunday, March 09, 2008
MOVIES/VIDEOS: Star Wars According to a 3 Year Old
I don't even remember how I found this. I was surfing through the net. But I loved it and am sharing it with you. It's from YouTube. - OlderMusicGeek
About This Video
To those who have sent positive comments, thank you very much. You've made us appreciate what we have even more than we already do. To those of you who've said you've changed your mind about having children, well, have at it. :)
She has never seen Pokemon so I don't think she's making a reference to the ball on that show. I think she just means pokey ball as in "a ball that is pokey."
Some comments from YouTube. You actually probably don't want to read all the comments on YouTube, because they have a big, long fight in there about whether the 3 year old was reading from cue cards or being coached what to say. All I can say is those people OBVIOUSLY never had any kids! - OlderMusicGeek
The site of the original video
The A.V. Club site with the video and the comments
The site of the parody video - with comments from people who OBVIOUSLY never had a sense of humor!
The site of the video with clips
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Added: February 22, 2008
02/26/08 Update: Wow. What was expected to be a short movie that would circulate within a small circle of friends has turned into something much more very quickly. I'm thrilled that so many people have enjoyed this video but also somewhat mortified that I added this without my daughter's knowledge or consent. Maybe someday she will find some humor in it.To those who have sent positive comments, thank you very much. You've made us appreciate what we have even more than we already do. To those of you who've said you've changed your mind about having children, well, have at it. :)
She has never seen Pokemon so I don't think she's making a reference to the ball on that show. I think she just means pokey ball as in "a ball that is pokey."
Some comments from YouTube. You actually probably don't want to read all the comments on YouTube, because they have a big, long fight in there about whether the 3 year old was reading from cue cards or being coached what to say. All I can say is those people OBVIOUSLY never had any kids! - OlderMusicGeek
superlardbucket (1 week ago)
copy of Star Wars episode VI: $50:00
Worth of Star Wars as a movie franchise: $1.2 billion
A little girl saying "Don't talk back to Darth Vader 'cause he'll get ya...": Priceless...
Here's some far more interesting comments to this video from the A.V. Club website. - OlderMusicGeek
I got no snark on this
by bee man caught in sting
My evil, evil black heart just melted.
12:38 PM Mon February 25, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by Fred Garvin
Next week she will break down Hamlet.
12:35 PM Tues February 26, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by Plastic Mag
I don't get the appeal... her analysis lacked depth, historical insight, and comparative gravity. A more detailed look into the socio-mythic implications of the "shiny guy" motif may have instituted said heart-melting, but as is, a resounding naught.
And she stole my crayon.
2:34 PM Tues February 26, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by Shih Tzu
I like how earnestly and solemnly she explains that it blowed up Princess Leia's planet.
3:45 PM Tues February 26, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by shiny guy
Plastic Mag, you would make a great kindergarden teacher.
LOL!
10:43 AM Wed February 27, 2008-
by rigozzi
I love the bit where a notepad appears and she seems to be reading her notes on star wars.
12:41 PM Mon February 25, 2008-
by ---wipe Johnson
"Obi Kenobi's teaching Luke how to learn how to do his little light-up sword."
Kid's these days are so condescending towards the Force.
1:06 PM Mon February 25, 2008
The force
by infallible
I know! It's like they think it's some hokey religion.
1:32 PM Mon February 25, 2008
RE:-
by Some kid these days
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
1:39 PM Mon February 25, 2008
RE:-
by SouthofHeaven
And it's not like their sad devotion to that ancient religion has helped them conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given them clairvoyance enough to find the rebels' hidden fort-aaaacck-AAAACCCKKK!!!
2:06 PM Mon February 25, 2008
---- Yo Couch, N----.
by Global Warming1
The little girl didn't even get hit in the crotch or fall out of a car or anything. What a sucky video.
1:26 PM Mon February 25, 2008good job
by alright
This is way more entertaining than any of the prequels.
4:15 PM Mon February 25, 2008
encore!
by leia
maybe she could make sense of the three prequels. Now THAT would be an achievement!
11:28 PM Mon February 25, 2008
Here's a couple of videos related to the video up above. - OlderMusicGeek
Worth of Star Wars as a movie franchise: $1.2 billion
A little girl saying "Don't talk back to Darth Vader 'cause he'll get ya...": Priceless...
dgm4ever (1 week ago)
"Don't talk back to Darth Vader!" -- 3 years old and she already knows more than 90% of the high ranking Imperial Officers. Here's some far more interesting comments to this video from the A.V. Club website. - OlderMusicGeek
I got no snark on this
by bee man caught in sting
My evil, evil black heart just melted.
12:38 PM Mon February 25, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by Fred Garvin
Next week she will break down Hamlet.
12:35 PM Tues February 26, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by Plastic Mag
I don't get the appeal... her analysis lacked depth, historical insight, and comparative gravity. A more detailed look into the socio-mythic implications of the "shiny guy" motif may have instituted said heart-melting, but as is, a resounding naught.
And she stole my crayon.
2:34 PM Tues February 26, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by Shih Tzu
I like how earnestly and solemnly she explains that it blowed up Princess Leia's planet.
3:45 PM Tues February 26, 2008
RE: I got no snark on this
by shiny guy
Plastic Mag, you would make a great kindergarden teacher.
LOL!
10:43 AM Wed February 27, 2008-
by rigozzi
I love the bit where a notepad appears and she seems to be reading her notes on star wars.
12:41 PM Mon February 25, 2008-
by ---wipe Johnson
"Obi Kenobi's teaching Luke how to learn how to do his little light-up sword."
Kid's these days are so condescending towards the Force.
1:06 PM Mon February 25, 2008
The force
by infallible
I know! It's like they think it's some hokey religion.
1:32 PM Mon February 25, 2008
RE:-
by Some kid these days
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
1:39 PM Mon February 25, 2008
RE:-
by SouthofHeaven
And it's not like their sad devotion to that ancient religion has helped them conjure up the stolen data tapes, or given them clairvoyance enough to find the rebels' hidden fort-aaaacck-AAAACCCKKK!!!
2:06 PM Mon February 25, 2008
---- Yo Couch, N----.
by Global Warming1
The little girl didn't even get hit in the crotch or fall out of a car or anything. What a sucky video.
1:26 PM Mon February 25, 2008good job
by alright
This is way more entertaining than any of the prequels.
4:15 PM Mon February 25, 2008
encore!
by leia
maybe she could make sense of the three prequels. Now THAT would be an achievement!
11:28 PM Mon February 25, 2008
Here's a couple of videos related to the video up above. - OlderMusicGeek
The site of the original video
The A.V. Club site with the video and the comments
The site of the parody video - with comments from people who OBVIOUSLY never had a sense of humor!
The site of the video with clips
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