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Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
There is more and more talk every year about all the terrible things we are doing in this country to remove Christmas from the public mind. But at least we don't shoot at Santa Claus when he flies overhead. Drug traffickers in a Rio slum opened fire on a...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
With the holiday season upon us, we wanted to thank everyone who helped make the inaugural year of the Movie Geeks Club a success. That includes everyone who has attended throughout the year and all of the staff at the Capital City Bar and Grill. It's ama...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Micah and I are back in the studio tonight. We have a couple of fun things lined up tonight, and we're going to screen and discuss a couple of "untraditional" Christmas shorts to help our viewers get into the Christmas spirit. As a bit of a teaser, I'll ...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
You can now register for your spot at The Lebowski Experience. The Lebowski Experience will take place Saturday, January 19, 2008 at Strike 'N Spare West. Event check in begins at 2 PM. The cost for registration is $18.69, which gets you in for the film...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Did you know that a group of rhinoceri is called a crash That seems like the perfect name to me. I mean, what else could you call them.
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Here's a little teaser from our next show, wherein Micah gets nailed with SPAM from the Beyond. Be sure to stay tuned through the final 10 seconds so you can see our brand new animated bump, which also features some smooth new music. Leave a comment and...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Last night I was at the gym, climbing the stair mill to heaven when I glanced up from my book to read the headlines on the television sets. Several of the sets were tuned to ESPN, and they were, of course, talking about Michael Vick's incarceration. The...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Here's a song (and video) from Sufjan Stevens' 2006 Christmas album. It consists of several EPs of Christmas songs that Sufjan and friends recorded over the last 5 years. It has a ton of classic Christmas tunes retooled by Sufjan, and some originals as ...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
After a few relaxing days in Galena, I'm back in my office chair clicking away on the keyboard and researching topics that 3rd graders might be interested in. We had a nice little getaway. It snowed roughly 4-5 inches in Galena while we were there, whic...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
John has handed me the keys to the blog for a few days. Actually, I always have the keys but he is a much better driver. That's a metaphor. I love metaphors and I love cliches. More specifically, I love movie and television cliches. There is a great ...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
We've all heard the stories of schools being faced with decisions like which right-brain activity can be cut or which type of pad can the football team afford to go without next season. In my line of work, we get to see even more closely how lack of fund...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Apparently, Conan O'Brien's staff at Late Night is well-known for being fiercely loyal, and now Conan is showing his loyalty as well.from WashingtonPost.com:TV talk-show host Conan O'Brien is digging into his own pocket to pay the salaries of about 75 pro...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
If you're looking for your daily Voltaire quick fix, then you've come to the right place. I urge you to take a few minutes and read this totally sweet story by one of the 18th Century's heaviest hitting satirical polemicists. I'm not kidding. It's real...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Last night's vote was unanimous. Our January Movie Geeks Club selection will be The Corndog Man.Here's a synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes:Ace Barker is a successful boat salesman in a South Carolina fishing town; he is also a foul-mouthed racist with a past...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Movie Geeks Club will not meet in December. We'll pick back up in the new year with a renewed vigor for watching movies and sipping beer. Here are the movie selections for the January screening. Be sure to vote tonight. If you're not going to make it t...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
This past weekend, I was at a Craft Show in Rock Island. While there, I saw an elderly woman shake and wobble softly up to a display of paintings and photography. She stood there a minute, musing quietly over the images in front of her. She seemed peac...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
I saw this story about 400 harmonicas being donated to the troops in Iraq, and after my initial heartwarming wore off, it made me wonder, Are people actually going to be uplifted by this gesture I mean, come on, they're HARMONICAS! Did I miss something...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
Capital City Bar and Grill Tuesday, November 277:30 pm - Bottle RocketThe November MGC film is Bottle Rocket starring Owen and Luke Wilson. It is directed by contemporary filmaker Wes Anderson. It is the first major film work for Anderson and also the fir...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
When I was a little boy, I would see my grandpa, when he was feeling under the weather, reach for the top of cabinet he kept in the kitchen and pull down an old bottle of whiskey. He'd pour a glass and drink it down, not for the enjoyment of old whiskey,...
Posted by Just Two Guys 4 years ago.
It is easy to be down on Springfield. Really easy. It's easy to complain about a lack of things to do, a lack of things to taste and see.Springfield lacks a lot of things. It's a smaller city, with a smaller urban sweep. It's naturally not going to ha...
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