BAM!

Walmart

Alyse just spent an hour laughing to tears at this blog

Just go, you won't be disappointed.

Eating my childhood

I was a fat little kid. Not obese, but fat.

I just didn't miss any meals.

Recently, I have been eating things that are bringing back memories. Two weeks ago when my mom visited, she brought up a bunch of snacks– fruit snacks, fruit rollups and licorice. Yeah, I've been pooping red.

But seriously, the goodies took me back.

Back to the days of Kirk Fogg and Olmec.

I'm off to get some mondo juice or maybe some

An apology

I am a really bad person. It has been so long since I have hit this thing with some new stuff. I'm sorry people who used to frequent my blog.

It's not as though I haven't been writing. I have been, a lot. Columns, advances, recaps, papers, reading responses, everything, except blogging.

But in the heat of paper-season, I will re-dedicate myself to you former visitors.

I promise.

Oh and in case you care enough, twitter.com/joecannonballs

Booyah, suckas.

Cannon Fodder

Here's this week's column.

I know I haven't had a good story in a while, but the four roommates are road tripping to Oregon this weekend, so I will come back with a ton of material.

So there.

The Informant!

The Informant! was a bizarre narrative, folding and unfolding itself, unravelling all the while with the lies of Matt Damon's character.

The concept of truth and the changes that the audience undergoes in their opinion and image of Damon is insane. The subvocalization/narration is hilarious. The anecdotes are so awkward.

It reminds me of the way Daniel Coffeen started out class in Rhetoric 10– "Everything I say is a lie."

This movie asks the audience to judge the truth when the facts are constantly changing and being exposed as lies.

It really is worth a see. Some very funny parts. And I plan on grabbing the book, which lacks the exclamation point (or so I've heard) because the way the film was structured, it says "read the book, because there's more of these great little anecdotes that we didn't have time for in the movie."

Not so sexy on Tuesday

Longshore Column