Edgy MD

That would be a long-assed list. The one directoral effort not listed here: Curly Sue (1991).

I've got to bring particular disregard down on Ferris for every film/tv show that plays Yell-o's "Oh, Yeah..." when the protagonist spots a hot chick or a cool car. Enough.

Released in 1991, this movie mashes up John Hughes' favorite 1980s themes as a writer/director (romance and pride leading a loneliheart to challenge the high school caste system) and his favorite 1990s themes as a producer (tranquil Midwestia being defended by a loveable naif against threats from oiley outsiders). It's built around what should be a can't-miss premise --- a Walter Mitty-type fantasy-dreaming nebbish trapped overnight in a department store with a beautiful woman. And it misses big. It misses like a multi-year Vince Coleman contract. I don't usually give my qualitative assessment of a film in the first post of a film thread, but there it is. Tell me I'm wrong. I rented this a few weeks ago, curious as to how such a thing could miss, and I painfully suspect that news of my renting filtered back to Hughes and caused his heart attack. What goes on is what happens when a guy like Hughes becomes a brand and he just goes from set piece to contrivance to set piece to contrivance in the name of advancing his brand, but doesn't really have any idea what he's doing. The protagonist (Frank Whaley) is the skinny fast-talking bullshitter that would have been played by Anthony Michael Hall had AMH not bulked up and started playing bullies. And he's more or less fine. He and his would-be rich bitch paramour (Jennifer Connolly) are 21, but still stuck in town living out the traumas of their youth --- his hard-working family that doesn't truck with dreamers, her brutal father that doesn't accept that his money can't buy away the alienation that the rich and beautiful and motherless girl is heir to. I don't know. I'm giving this way too much thought. It sucked. The "department store" is actually a new midwestern discount chain at the time called Target, and you get to see a lot of shit that they don't sell anymore, looking like a cross between Woolworth's and K-Mart. That's got an unintentional appeal, I guess. Time capsule appeal. The oily bohunks are played with slackjawed annoyingness by Dermot Mulroney and his brother Kieran. In fact, when our love-destined couple first meet the thugs, they accidentally knock them cold, and then seemingly inexplicably run away rather than tying them up or taking their guns or calling the police. But the purpose becomes clear, as their hiding becomes opportunities to put them together in sexually provocative positions. Jennifer Connolly is just continually degraded over-and-over throughout this whole thing. The film has sort of become legendary in that sense. Even those who've never seen it (and they are many) understand from the subtext of poster and the video box to be saying, "This film is a delivery system for Jennifer Connolly's bosomliness." So, anyhow, like I said, curiosity of the "How can this miss?" sort led me to rent, and now I know. But not before I had the mortifying experience of poking around the video racks in search of it and hearing Ms. Edgy approach Smelly Crusty Video Clerk-Guy to inquire after it, and to draw the response, "Oh sure, I remember that film. That one really featured Jennifer Connolly's assets." Yuck, Smelly Crusty Video Clerk-Guy! Get away from my wife! Down what cursed alley of depravity has my curiosity led me?! Maybe John Hughes has to answer iin the hereafter for making this one, and maybe I have to answer for renting it. But here's something, and it speaks to Some Kind of Wonderful also --- what's with naming films after songs that don't appear in the film? And really don't even share the themes of the film. Seriously, what's up with that? it's some misleading shit.

Bueller is stringing together set pieces. Anytime plot contrivances are somehow laid upon each other to place our hero(s) unprepared before a demanding audience and he or she or they manage to sing/dance/strut the runway well enough to win their wild approval of said skeptical audience, you take large steps toward losing me. Sorry, Ferris. All these are deeply flawed, but 16 Candles rings truest. Always has, for me.

D rocks distressed jeans, and has a cousin (or brother) of color. Are those the backup lights on with that truck? Are they posing while it's in gear?

All of Kingsport is hitting.

Josh Thole, graduate of the Teufel School.

Thank you. Can you make it a poll, though?

Damien took his truck muddin'.

Damien Magnifico is being damien 13 minutes ago

Damien's facebook posting suggests he's really keeping a level head these days. Damien Magnifico shook Brad penny, David Ortiz, Dustin pedroia, n Taylor teagarden 's hand 2nite... 7 hours ago � Comment � LikeUnlike Jacob Price no way bro that must have been awsome 7 hours ago Damien Magnifico ur a douchebag lol 7 hours ago

OK, we're friended up but he hasn't consented yet to an interview. Damien's current Facebook thought of whimsy suggests he's from the Bouton school by way of MFS62: "A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." But his previous comments project the flower of youth. "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever." "Always gonna act like a kid cuz if i act mature people think im dumb so by actin childish i am smarter :p" "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes." And he's not afraid to refer to himself in the third person, or to lol at his own work. when life gets to hecktic, sit down put in a fat pinch n let the good times roll.--- always been a D-MAG saying lol" In the responses to that comment he lets out on July 9 that the Mets haven't made an offer yet. I think they might be monitoring his Facebook page while weighing their options.

He hasn't accepted my friendship yet. Bonding issues.

How indy can it be when it stars two folks from major tv shows?

In another of my endless series of films about events conspiring to send disaffected urbane adults to home again to the modest burg of their childhood and confront their extedended estrangement from their parents. I ended up with this French film in which, um, all that stuff happens. What's different about this one is that the guy drives a grocery van through the French country side.

I think I think I don't think too much.

The balloons were no longer providng enough lift at that point. And the air was thinner there. So some sort of equilibrium had been achieved. I guess that's the general conceit we're asked to buy.

Sometimes, leaving a game midway doesn't indicate an injury, but a promotion.

"Adopt a Prospect" is the Low-A forum, where we go if we're hurting and need to get bacck into humour shape.

You know, I adopted Glen Johnson also. No more picking guys that don't sign.

He doesn't need meatballs. He needs ham. Get it?

seawolf17 wrote: Eff this kid... Be cool. D-Mag... er, Damien was set up there.

Mets Proospect Hub: Can you give us a scouting report on yourself? What pitches do you throw, etc... Damien Magnifico: I throw a fastball and curveball, but I'm hoping to learn better offspeed pitches the right way. I live at 92 to 95 and have touched 97. My offspeed pitch is a spike curveball, I don't really know the velocity on it. Edgy DC: B+ MPH: Does the idea of playing in New York excite you, even if it's not for the Yankees? DM: Yes, I am excitied, my family is from New York. EDC: D+. He had a real opportunity to set the record straight on the Yankees and passed. MPH: A few non-baseball questions, if you don't mind. Favorite: book, movie, band/musical artist? DM: Sandlot (movie), and country music EDC: Incomplete, D (because the movie is highly flawed), and D (because "country" is way to weak and overbroad an answer). MPH: Do you prefer Damien or DJ? DM: Damien out of those 2...how did you find out about DJ?? Most people call me D-mag or D. EDC: D-, with some barfing. Damien gets a GPA of 1.34 for this interview. Back to cool school for you, son.

Probably in extended spring training waiting for the short season leagues to begin.

Pretty big crack in the rocks to be hiding an airship in. From where was the steampunk harvesting the helium to keep that thing afloat?