Full Lid

As my favorite fictional Press Secretary use to say at the end of the day “ That’s a full lid!” which meant that unless something huge happened there was no more news for the day. So I decided to adopt the same things here at The Window. The things I find interesting that don’t need a full blog entry.

Happy Birthday to Hair Diva Diana Ross!

Also a happy birthday to one of my favorite pop culture aliens, Leonard Nimoy who played Mr. Spock on Star Trek.

I read today that there is a Nutty Professor III in the works. What the hell?

Dragon Ball Evolution The movie based on the long running Anime has had it’s opening pushed back from April 8^th to April 10^th (Personally they can push it back to never for me…it looks too much like Jump and Push)

Fear dot Net has a 37 minute series called “Stream” starring Whoopi Goldberg. It’s no so much scary as interesting and a little freaky, but I enjoyed it.

And that ladies and gentlemen is a Full Lid ……

Now I know who Pat Buchanan reminds me of....

I just figured out who Pat Buchanan is, he is the Archie Bunker of political news. “All in the Family” was a unique show that can never be repeated because that time is long gone, but what made the show so great was the honest the head of the Bunker household. Archie Bunker was a everyday blue collar guy that grew up and lived in Queens.

Archie had no problem but honest and extremely non politically correct about how he felt and would often go off on a rant no matter who was there.

As I watched Pat Buchanan today on hardball today I realized as he went on his rant about how the bloody drug war in Mexico was going to lead to US having as many Mexicans living in the here as there. Things that , even if they thought it, no other news politico would say Pat Buchanan readily and easily blurts out. He is politics 1959 living in a 2009 world.

And sometimes he is a meathead…..

Zombie Media and Chuck Todd

I guess it is not just me. Here is a link to a story in The Nation magazine about Zombie media including a mention of my new red headed step child!

Today's Favorite Photo

Chuck Todd The real red headed step child

Is Chuck Todd getting on anyone else’s nerves?


I have to say that since the folks at MSNBC took Chuck Todd from behind the digital map and made him Sr. White House correspondent the bloom has fallen off that particular rose. I am the last person to say I dislike someone for doing their job, but unlike Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, or hell even Bill O’Riley of on farce news Todd is not being paid to be cynical and snarky, he is being paid to report from the white house and to get us the information we need.


His question at President Obama’s press conference Tuesday night was laughable. “Will you be asking American’s to make sacrifices?” Ummm hello Chuck, you’re a reporter, how can the current state of the economy and the suffering of Americans have escaped you unless you have your head firmly wedged up your ass? Even when the President gave examples of how people were sacrificing days at work so co workers would not get laid off you still didn’t seem to get it.


Today the President held the first ever “On line” town hall meeting. One more attempt he is using to make the White house seem more open and give us the people, who don’t have your press credentials, a voice. You however come on ten minutes after it ends and you refer to it not only as some stunt, but you are self centered enough to believe the administration is doing this to get past the press.


I hope when MSNBC picks his replacement they give they check to see if the next Sr. White house correspondent has his finger on the pulse and not up his nose. (It can’t be up his ass, which is where his head is!)

Twilight's Wolf Pack is culturally correct!

Earlier this month I posted a blog about getting actual Iranians to play a Persian character in the upcoming “Prince of Persia” movie. Well today Sci-Fi Wire released news that the upcoming sequel to “Twilight” the teenage vampire love story “New Moon” has added a group of Native Americans to the cast.

Hollywood has a long history of placing white actors in roles as other minorities which kind of require us the audience to buy into the fantasy. As a black man who thinks there is an entire stable of black actors that are highly underused and underrated I have never understood this practice.

In the movie the new cast members Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman along with Taylor Lautner from the first movie play the wolf pack, part of the tribe of Native Americans that lives in Forks, Washington. While the werewolf aspect of the story is only hinted at in the first story, it takes center stage in the second with the wolf pack siding with humans against a group of evil vampires.

I applaud Summit Entertainment for their choice and I for me personally this might be a deciding factor in me actually going to see the movie and not just reading about it online.