I responded to the insane Transformers 2 guy

The other day, I received that amazing bit of hate mail about my Transformers 2 review.

Response here.

I Love You, Beth Cooper review

C- because the boys at least try.

Who are these people who find Hayden Panetierre hot? She looks like a Mii.

That guy

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) take their places with junior G8 delegates for a family photo at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009.

(h/t Marc)

Good idea? Bad idea?

"MacGruber," the recurring "Saturday Night Live" skit that parodies "MacGyver," is one step closer to going before cameras as a big-screen movie.

Ryan Phillippe is in negotiations to star in the feature, with Val Kilmer in negotiations to also join the Relativity Media production. Will Forte and Kristen Wiig are reprising their roles from the skits.

[...]

Forte and [director Jorma] Taccone wrote the parodies with John Solomon. The trio wrote the feature script, which takes the story in a completely different direction from the skits yet remains strangely familiar: The legendary, much decorated MacGruber is pulled out of retirement as a monk in Ecuador by a colonel, who needs him once more to fight on behalf of his country. This time the mission involves going up against the evil Cunth, who has a nuclear warhead; the mission is personal because Cunth killed MacGruber's bride.

If Richard Dean Anderson doesn't have a Leonard Nimoy-in-new-Star Trek-size cameo I'm going to protest by calling out of work and watching all my MacGyver DVDs in one sitting.

Good sausages from the prodigal pig

Retro Comedy: The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time

texts from last night my friends Mike and Justin

(410): Yoo 10 pm History channel special on invisibility cloak

(410): Sounds cool figured id share lol amazing what u get from reading the newspaper lol

(443): hahaha costello sent me a text to watch the the history channel tonight at 10 on invisibility cloaks..hahahahaha

(443): i am going to watch it too! NOT! -borat

Blogger hates Facebook because Facebook is all sexier than Blogger

I have a setting that converts all the posts I do here on Trapper Juan into Facebook notes. Plenty of people leave comments on Facebook, but no one ever comments here. (I have something of a theory about this — the logic may be slightly flawed, but my guess is that this is because people visit Facebook, while no one ever, ever visits this blog ever.)

Anyone know of a way to set it so comments from Facebook notes appear back here, on the OG posts? Is that even possible? It doesn't seem like it would be but figured I'd put it out there.

Why I don't like being CCed

A few days ago, I received an e-mail blast from a local photographer. I'd never met this dude before, but I guess I was on his contact list because I work at CP. The purpose of the message was to announce that he was heading abroad, and he wanted to let people know that he'd be posting travel shots on his blog.

Since I didn't know the guy, I disregarded it.

Yesterday, I got this reply-all:

Dear [x],

Last September I answered an ad you placed on craig's list. You had agreed to take professional quality photos of my family at my house in early October. My children and grandchildren were coming to visit. My daughter and her family were coming from Alaska and my son and his wife and daughter were coming from Virginia. We spoke many times leading up to the date you were supposed to come to my house. I explained at that time this was the first time in 10 years that our whole family would be together and it would probably be several years before we would all be together again.

At that time you seemed to understand how important it was to me that I get this family picture. You assured me many times you would be there. On the appointed morning you did not show up. I called you and the first time you answered your phone and then hung up. It sounded like I woke you up.You never picked up your phone after that. Luckily, we were able to make an appointment that day to get a professional picture at the local mall, although we would have preferred the backyard pictures we had arranged with you..

I say luckily because my granddaughter died suddenly on Dec. 1, 2008. The date of our picture was the last time I saw her. Please keep in mind when you make a commitment to someone it is important to keep it, as it has consequences reaching more people than you can imagine. Although I do wish you have a good time in [y], please remove me from your e-mail list.

I'm not sure if this person meant to send this e-mail to the 700-some-odd recipients of the photographer's initial blast, but I can say, with absolute certainty, that I now think that this photographer, whom I have never met, is a total asshole. Thanks, CCing!

Hey, TMZ. Never thought I'd say this, but tasteful and understated headline work there. Seriously.

Billy Mays Funeral -- Death of a Salesman

Ronco

I was delighted last month when I spotted this pic of Ron Artest hugging some random children at Ihawan, a Filipino barbecue joint in Woodside, Queens. (Crappy shot, but click to enlarge.)

More recently, I decided to start following Mr. Artest on Twitter. This was one of the best decisions I've made in a minute:

I asked my dude Doron, with whom I discuss many NBA-related issues, if he thought Ron the Laker was a good idea. "His presence will embolden Kobe to be a dick," Doron said, "and they will pretend to be friends even though Kobe thinks Ron is a certified lunatic."

He's absolutely right and I cannot wait. Don't be surprised if Trapper Juan morphs into Trapper Ron sooner rather than later.

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