Day: May 14, 2012

The McBournie Minute: Done with vampires?

So, are we over vampire movies yet?

As I’ve stated before, I’m not really a fan of vampire movies, at least in their current incarnation. I just don’t see what the draw is, and then making it more about teens and all of their little dramas makes it all the more unpalatable. This past weekend, Tim Burton’s latest movie Dark Shadows opened in theaters, but promptly had its ass handed to it by The Avengers entering its second weekend.

Johnny Depp, Tim Burton and vampires. How could that possibly go wrong? Continue reading The McBournie Minute: Done with vampires?

His believability might not be that reliable

Shaun Winkler is running for sheriff of Bonner County in Idaho.

Shaun Winkler also readily admits his current ties to the Aryan Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ-Scientist (as opposed to the Church of Jesus Christ-Latter Day Saints and the Church of Jesus Christ-Oligarch).

Winkler believes that his ties will not influence his ability to enforce the law fairly and would not be subject to racial profiling.

“Most people don’t know that we don’t just oppose the Jews and the negroes,” he said. “We also oppose sexual predators and drugs of any kind.”

“But if they happen to also be Jews or negroes, hey, awesome, right guys? It’s like a Venn Diagram.” Winkler may have been heard saying subsequently after.

Zombie plague hits Egypt

“Finnegan’s Wake” by James Joyce is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written. It is also considered by many to the the first account of zombies in Ireland. Well, it looks like the plague has spread to Egypt.

Last week, 28-year-old Hamdi Hafez al-Nubi was waiting tables when he suffered a heart attack and died. His family took his body home and prepared arrangements for his funeral. A doctor was called to the house to declare the man dead, the only problem was that he didn’t stay dead.

The man awakened, we assume, to begin feasting on the flesh of the living, but the so-called media refuses to cover that side of the story.