Good night Opus. ACK!

Opus the Penguin is gone.

I remember when Berkley Breathed started Bloom County back in the 1980s. It was a breath of fresh air and left-wing perspective in a world taken over by Ronald Reagan's right-wing dementia. From the Iran-Contra affair to the myth of the welfare queens, there was nothing sacred in the Berkley Breathed canon of satirical targets.

For this Puerto Rican girl who could navigate "Anglo" culture with an inquisitive yet critical eye, Bloom County gave me the kind of political commentary I could find nowhere in the MSM exports of Time and Newsweek, needless to say in our island's papers either.

Actually, back in the 1980s, all the Anglo political irreverence I was getting through the mainstream media that reached our island, came in the guise of comedy or cartoons : Bloom County, Doonsbury, Pat Oliphant, Jules Pfeiffer and the stand up comedy of Steve Allen, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Don Rickles, Bill Cosby. My life was never the same after watching Whoopie Goldberg's one woman show on HBO at the end of the 1980s.

Good night Opus. ACK!

Opus the Penguin is gone.

I remember when Berkley Breathed started Bloom County back in the 1980s. It was a breath of fresh air and left-wing perspective in a world taken over by Ronald Reagan's right-wing dementia. From the Iran-Contra affair to the myth of the welfare queens, there was nothing sacred in the Berkley Breathed canon of satirical targets.

For this Puerto Rican girl who could navigate "Anglo" culture with an inquisitive yet critical eye, Bloom County gave me the kind of political commentary I could find nowhere in the MSM exports of Time and Newsweek, needless to say in our island's papers either.

Actually, back in the 1980s, all the Anglo political irreverence I was getting through the mainstream media that reached our island, came in the guise of comedy or cartoons : Bloom County, Doonsbury, Pat Oliphant, Jules Pfeiffer and the stand up comedy of Steve Allen, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Don Rickles, Bill Cosby. My life was never the same after watching Whoopie Goldberg's one woman show on HBO at the end of the 1980s.

Good night Opus. ACK!

Opus the Penguin is gone.

I remember when Berkley Breathed started Bloom County back in the 1980s. It was a breath of fresh air and left-wing perspective in a world taken over by Ronald Reagan's right-wing dementia. From the Iran-Contra affair to the myth of the welfare queens, there was nothing sacred in the Berkley Breathed canon of satirical targets.

For this Puerto Rican girl who could navigate "Anglo" culture with an inquisitive yet critical eye, Bloom County gave me the kind of political commentary I could find nowhere in the MSM exports of Time and Newsweek, needless to say in our island's papers either.

Actually, back in the 1980s, all the Anglo political irreverence I was getting through the mainstream media that reached our island, came in the guise of comedy or cartoons : Bloom County, Doonsbury, Pat Oliphant, Jules Pfeiffer and the stand up comedy of Steve Allen, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Don Rickles, Bill Cosby. My life was never the same after watching Whoopie Goldberg's one woman show on HBO at the end of the 1980s.

It's totally Not Safe For Work Friday in da culturekitchen!

Oh yes bitches, I am Pwning my own blog --it's the only thing to do after two weeks of flu hell and another week of battling the writing pixies.

So here you have yourselves the meme of the day, courtesy of the Muppets.

Oh hell yeah baby, oh hellz yeahs.

ATTENTION OSCARS SHOW PRODUCERS : Shave 5 minutes off the show by giving Daniel Day Lewis the statue at the red carpet

Macro made by moi

Seriously.

WTF!

I haven't seen the movie. Actually, I am going to come clean : I haven't seen any of the movies.

That's right. I haven't given a shit about movies for a long time, especially if they are meant to make me ponderous or outright depressed. I think everything went downhill for me after I watched Pier Paolo Passolini's Salo. I just couldn't do cinema easily after that.

Back to DDL.

It's seems that Mr. Day-Lewis here has been sweeping every single major acting award for the past 2 months. My bb Viggo won a few awards but Daniel is one greedy motherfucker ... or should we say the judges are just plain lazy.

Anyhow, I'm scooting over to the Oscars Watch Party over at Comix Club here in NYC. It's sad, but I haven't been to an Oscars party in years. Worse of all, it's the first time in months I go out for fun as in not related to blogging and/or business.

John McCain dissed by ABBA, RedState

From the I don't know whether to laugh or cry file comes this item: the iconic Swedish band ABBA has rejected John McCain's request to use their opus 'Take a Chance on Me' as his campaign song.

Yes, you're absolutely right, that would be this song right here.

RedState slaps its crew-cut head, sniffs, scratches its crotch and declares

Is there anything less manly than this?

Candyass, he's a freaking war hero. The man was tortured by the Vietnamese. You write a blog. Notice the difference?

And let me tell you one thing about Che Guevara

If you are a woman my age, from América Latina and with izquierdista tendencies there is just no way in hell that you would have said, "Fidel is so sexy".

Nope.

It's just not possible.

With el Ché?

LOOK AT THE MAN!

Who wouldn't have that man lead a full fledge invasion of her beaches and a guerilla movement between her loins!

So Ed Morrissey, just back off my piece of revolutionary man-meat, ¿me oistes!

Ed Morrissey is an idiot

Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters is one of the republicans I have been monitoring for a while since he seems to echo the fear of many republicans : That McCain against Obama would be toast and that nothing would be better for uniting the Republican party against one common enemy than to have Hillary Clinton win the nomination.

So what does the big pussy do? He goes out of his way to create a non-story out of this image :

Image found at Democratic Underground

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Doesn't matter that the fucking office is not a headquarter for the Obama campaign. All it takes is a volunteer to be there for the wingnuts to go crazy.

At least Robert Farley over at Lawyers, Guns and Money puts their idiocy into perspective.

VIDEO : Oprah to those women who call her a traitor : "I am a free woman."

i’m a free woman. and being free means you get to think for yourself, and you get to decide for yourself what to do. so i say i am not a traitor. no, i’m not a traitor. i’m just following my own truth, and that truth has led me to barack obama.

[...]

don't play me small. i am not voting for barack obama because he's black. i am voting for barack obama because he's brilliant.

OH SNAP!

When it comes to smackdowns, Oprah is the queen.

Via Baratunde.

Recapping the weekend in case you missed it

Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver,Oprah Winfrey by LATimes

In a jaw-dropping last-minute endorsement, Maria Schriver endorses Barack Obama : Breaking News: Maria Shriver endorses Barack Obama.

Will.I.Am's endorsement of Barack Obama goes viral : Will.I.Am's remix of Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" speech.

La Opinion, the largest Spanish language newspaper in California (if not continental US) endorses Barack Obama. The tipping point? Immigration : The Democratic choice is Barack Obama y en español, La opción demócrata es Barack Obama.