back to good

It’s been a crazy week around here with the Sharp transition and everything, so I’ve been a little lax on the blog. But I came up with some links that are just plain good for the soul. As always, if you have a cool link you wanna sent to me, email it is msadowski@sharpmag.com.

But first, some shameless Sharp promotion: In honor of our re-launch as a free-standing alternative weekly, we’re throwing a party. We’ll be at Madd Anthony’s in Blakeslee on Friday night from 9 p.m. to midnight and beyond with giveaways, drink specials, and the Coors Lite Girls. Good times are had by all during Sharp parties — this won’t be any different. F.O.F. is playing.

Link time:

I know I’m one of the few people enraptured by the whole Wesley Snipes tax evasion thing, but he’s going to be sentenced today. And if there are two people I want coming to my aid, it’s these guys. Umm, that’s sarcasm, you know that, right? Movie stars should hang out with normal people to insure a known pothead would never try and come to their rescue.

How does David O. Russell keep getting work? I loved Spanking the Monkey, I loved Three Kings. But I Heart Huckabees was average at best, so when a total low-life starts making crappy movies, why does any studio want to bother with him? After George Clooney fought with him on Three Kings and the infamous Lily Tomlin crazy rage on the set of Huckabees, now the very respected James Caan quit Russell’s latest movie after a fight. What does he have to do to get blacklisted, kill Sumner Redstone’s first-born child?

Yes! I was just thinking I needed a new reason to hate Shia LaBeouf. Perfect timing. If I find out he was canoodling with Megan Fox on the Transformers set, that’s when I start shooting.

More Megan Fox: I haven’t updated my own list lately, but she’d be pretty close.

Every morning I wake up and pray there is some kind of news making Terrell Ownes look like a douche. Every now and then, those prayers get answered. Enjoy.

I was just saying the other day how we truly need something like this and went so far as to say, “It’s about damn time.” Perhaps I should also mention I was drunk and being held hostage by third-world terrorists who demanded I say it at gunpoint, but still. I did just say it the other day.

I think all the friendly animal jokes went out the window with the whole Sigfriend and Roy thing a few years back. But when are people going to learn that all big animals want to do IS EAT US?!?!?!

I’m still iffy on Iron Man. But if you want to be first in line, you have a to get there earlier than you may have thought.

I went to this a couple years ago, and really found it more of a hassle than a cool thing. The theaters are really far apart and unwalkable, you waste hours waiting in lines for the movies you want to see if you don’t have pre-paid tickets — it just seemed ill-conceived. I don’t know if it’s changed at all since then (I think I went in 2002), but I probably wouldn’t go back unless I knew there were changes. So far, I’ve only heard more of the same complaints. My buddy’s girlfriend is going this year to do some reviews for a Web site, so I’ll ask her when she gets back.