Just sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Anchorman II: More Anchorman Things
Two more somewhat newish Anchorman II trailer-type video previews. The film, which promises to be the Citizen Kane of films that bear no resemblance to Citizen Kane and can only pale zombie-like in comparison but could hold its own against some of the best comedies made in the past 20 years, opens in December, which is like eight years from now:
Apologies to Those Who Just Got Spammed!
So I was doing some maintenance work on the site this morning but forgot to take it offline first — and so if you suddenly wound up with literally hundreds of old posts in your inbox or RSS feed — ignore, and please accept my apologies.
Here’s the deal: I had intended months ago to make Strange Herring a site dedicated strictly to movie and pop culture stuff and move everything else to another, new blog. To that end, I made “private” a good 1800 posts so that only the pop culture posts remained here.
When it became apparent the kind of work it would take to make the transition to another site, and an offer was made to move Strange Herring to a multifaith site, I decided against it my original plan, and so have slowly been republishing those old posts.
But if I forget to take the site offline, those old posts appear as “new” posts to those who subscribe to the site.
Hence, the hundreds of “new” posts.
Again–my apologies. Needless to say, if you see this site offline sometime later today or tomorrow, you’ll know why.
Redacted Resignation Letter from the Acting IRS Chief
May 15, 2013
The internal message to IRS Employees from Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller
Dear Colleagues,
It is with regret that I will be kicked the hell out of departing from the IRS as my acting job assignment ends day before yesterday in early June. This has been an incredibly joyous difficult time for the IRS given Obamacare and all those new taxes the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore the stolen medical records public trust in the federal government’s nation’s ATM tax agency. I believe the Service will benefit from assassinating key Republicans in the House and shutting down more printing presses having a new Acting Commissioner out of jail and back on the street in place during this annoying challenging period. As I scoop up office supplies wrap up my money and power grab time at the IRS, I will be spitting in the faces of lower-level functionaries focused on an orderly coup transition.
While I recognize that much lying work needs to be done to keep an outraged American public from demanding that the XVI Amendment be repealed restore faith in the IRS, I don’t want anyone to keep their job while i’m losing mine sight of the fact that the IRS is comprised of incredibly incompetent and venal dedicated and hard-working parolees and certified public accountants public servants. During my 25-year IRS sinecure career, I am profoundly pissed proud to have missed out on worked alongside blaming you for my personal corruption you and to be part of a cover-up so massive an institution that it would have made Watergate look like a Clearasil commercial has worked hard to support our meaningless lives confiscating other people’s income the nation. I have strong body odor confidence caused by eating human flesh in the IRS leadership team to continue stealing and lying and cheating the important work of our White House agency.
I want to thank Satan everyone for all of his infernal their support and feigned friendship during my last-choice of career in government perfidy service. And I especially want to thank Barack Obama each and every one of you for showing me that you can always count on Chris Matthews’s your continued relentless ass kissing commitment of the Executive tuckus to the nation’s taxpayers.
Rot in hell you miserable bastards,
Steve
A Strange Question: Who Said It?
Predestination is not anything in the predestined; but only in the person who predestines. . . . As men are ordained to eternal life through the providence of God, it likewise is part of that providence to permit some to fall away from that end; this is called reprobation. Thus, as predestination is a part of providence, in regard to those ordained to eternal salvation, so reprobation is a part of providence in regard to those who turn aside from that end. Hence reprobation implies not only foreknowledge, but also something more, as does providence…. Therefore, as predestination includes the will to confer grace and glory; so also reprobation includes the will to permit a person to fall into sin, and to impose the punishment of damnation on account of that sin.
1. John Calvin
2. St. Augustine
3. Thomas Aquinas
4. Martin Luther
The answer is here.
Il Divo è Morto
If you missed Paolo Sorrentino’s masterful Il Divo, a critical exploration of the the premiership of Giulio Andreotti, who died Monday, age 94, you must make up for this calamitous oversight immediately by hittling Netflix.
Beautifully shot with an energy and humor that will keep your attention rapt and your inner cynic giggling, the film features a brilliant Toni Servillo as Andreotti, who guides us through the elbow macaroni that is the Italian political labyrinth via a droll inner monologue and ghoulish demeanor that renders him a kind of Renfield to his own Dracula.
Enjoy.
Speaking of overlooked Italian films, did you see Vincere, about Mussolini Jr.(yes, junior)? The drop-dead gorgeous Giovanna Mezzogiorno plays Ida Dalser—Il Duce’s probable first wife, who is secluded in an asylum once the shining star of international socialism took a nationalist turn and marched on Rome to the delight of beguiled idolators everywhere.
Here’s the trailer:
