Where We've Been

Coistusers!

Changes are, of course, in the constant works here at The BMC... those changes take a ton of time... which sucks but... well, get excited anyway!

As you well know the authors of this website put their money where their mouth was challenging the vile folks of 10lee Inc. to a Battle of the Blogs. This regarded the match between the evil doing Seattle Seahawks and the courageous Chicago Bears. As the rules clearly stated a full apology was to be stated by the makers of 10lee Inc. upon the inevitable victory of the Bears. Thus far we are still waiting for the apology to come.

This website is well known for recognizing and promoting the written works of heroes. Mostly this is, of course, limited to ourselves but on occasion an individual will rise to the occasion (especially ninja's). In this special segment of our Friday's link article we would like to recognize our Ninja of the Month.

Of course we want to believe that all sides are fairly represented and wish to give Pirates their fair time. Finally an individual has created a wikipedia website to detail the ongoing conflict and strife that continues between both Ninja and Pirate in one all conclusive, hard hitting document.

We have always prided ourselves on having the best educated readers on the web. But how is our nation supposed to learn if they do not have the means to do so? But now, dear reader, you can, thanks in no small part to this massive collection designed for you proud autodidacts!

For those of us who have not watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in a while we might have forgotten that LSD is a horrible drug. Detailed on this website are renderings of a man drawn by an artist given doses of the hallucinating drug over the course of eight hours.

This is a very lame link Friday, so to make it completely more awesomer (and really we need have only placed this on the website and then walked away) I give you, perhaps, the greatest clip... of all time.

Brought to you by loyal reader G-Bug... Balddee, you may now soil yourself in pleasure.

Idiocracy

Bad Mother Coitus Rating... 6 of 7

Loud and in your face advertisements are the only means of communication while constant, broad gestures born of light, color and faithless beliefs form in what should be right. Innocence and the inoculation of fearlessness of future are guided, largely, by apathy. Such are the trepidation's of Mike Judge's Idiocracy.

Easy prophesies are ably applied to MTV, Walmart (though the film pulls the punch by choosing Costco) and World Wresting Federation. So are the days of our lives 500 years into the future where the number one show on television is watching a man get his balls crunched and the number one movie is of a butt farting; one of the nicest touches was watching the evolution of the franchise name Fuddruckers to Butt Fuckers. One of the nicest touches is the greater at Costco saying "I love you" as you walk in the door showing the break down of all relevant language.

Mike Judge's second feature film received little studio marketing most notably because the film did not provide what a studio would consider a viably available trailer- the trailer that this website provides is a simple clip from the movie. The movie succeeds at pointing out the faults of our reality and the degenerates that we all are becoming not largely by choice but because it is easy.

This movie will never enjoy the same attention as Office Space as it is not as easily identifiable. Likewise it lacks the cartoon like characters that could be cookie cuttered into a common fools cube life. Instead the movie works on a much deeper level revealing grander truths and making it the superior picture.

New York Chronicles Part 2 : Getting there is half the Fun

Patience is a virtue and Balddee is a receptacle for peace, at least that’s what I told my Anger Management counselor o yeah where was I.. Sitting at the airport for 3 hours waiting to be picked up by some people I did not know and they didn’t answer there phone.
The old level of tolerance was running thin after an additional 30 minutes of no return phone calls I get a buzz and on the phone is some lady laughing

"hey where here" she belts out "Where are you at?"

I told them what door to meet me at and after that said my pleasantries hung the phone up and proceeded outside where I get my first glance of the dynamic duo I was nice, as nice as I could be, heck part of the wait was my own fault so I couldn’t be that sore, I was greeted by Terrance a thin frail type of fellow the best way to describe him …think Icabod Crane from the Disney Cartoon, with a thick Tom Selleck mustache ( And yeah I spelled Ic's name incorrectly but you get the idea so shut it and keep reading ) he came out with a smile dressed in a very Red suit and I mean Red from the coat the pants the Shirt and shoes, think a very anorexic Kool Aid Man.

Sitting in the passenger seat was Kecia Strawberry Blonde smoking Parliaments thru one of those cigarette holders... ah kind of like the one you see maybe Betty Davis using in an old 50s film, I have never been one for small talk but I had to oblige, I decided to learn more about my new roomies Kecia stated she knew Trina for 10years so I had to ask "I didnt see you guys at Trinia’s wedding" I would remember this couple.

Kecia smiled and explained they were at an art exhibit in Sweden and they couldn’t get away huh? I asked more questions trying to figure out why I have never met this couple before turns out Terrance originally is from Brussels but came to the U.S when he was 15 he is a Painter, Sculptor and everything in between which I commend anyone who can make a living at what they love and that was the reason for missing the Wedding made sense Kecia is originally from Tennessee and meet Trina in college and they have been friends since I had more questions but that was cut short .

"We need to make a pit stop" Terrance says with a smirk "Why what’s up"
I replied,
"We have to go to Brooklyn" he says
"Brooklyn now ... really?" I replied keeping my tone in check .

"You will like it." he exclaimed.

Now keep in mind I got into town late and I have been at the Airport for almost 4 hours then there’s the traffic into the City and then from there Kool Aid Man wants to stop off in Brooklyn, which usually I would not mind except Mark’s place is in Manhattan .I let Terrance know that I would much rather just get to Mark’s place and rest up, get rid of my luggage ya know settle in before I party down if that was o.k. .
But they both wouldn’t hear of it so off we were to Brooklyn with me in back helpless to do anything about the current situation.

Don’t get me wrong I grew up in Brooklyn so I was not being a snob but I just wanted to free myself up, but my inner whine fest had to take a back seat cause we arrived in Brooklyn and pulled into an alley where , waiting with a big old jacket was the security guard well he was of sorts anyway he stopped us Kecia rolled down her window and showed a Yellow badge upon seeing that , we were waved in to a parking lot found a spot and parked the car.

It

The most beautiful thing
We can experience
Is the mysterious.
It is the source
Of all true art
And all science.
He to whom this
Emotion is a stranger,
Who can no longer pause
To wonder
To stand rapt in awe,
He is as good as dead:
His eyes are closed.
~Albert Einstein

Where We've Been

Coitusers!

Overly shallow people that want to be deep. Philosophy majors are the sorts of people that fail to think for themselves and so hide themselves behind quotes of others. Either that or perhaps they're all failed History majors. Regardless here is their top 100 books of all time *yawn*

In an attempt to further broaden music the Covers Project has been born. The creators of this website hope to continue to expand the project with more music and thus introduce people to new bands through the songs that they love or else introduce music to the masses through modern renditions.

An interesting take on being black, comedian and in New York. Not unlike Balddee except that this guy is funny.

Anybody that is gangstalked or believes that they are being gangstalked deserves at least a few inches of column on this website. He does tend to go on quite a bit but I enjoy such Hemmingway titles as Gangstalked in the Rain.

Attacks like these are fun! Jerks that take up two parking spots should be punished. Here is the apology note that somebody left the individual after hitting their car.

It is never too early to start thinking about Richtermas. This year the talk was of replacing the t-shirts with patches or... perhaps these lovely key chains. I remain nonplussed. Honestly, I think that we can do better than this.

Finally good citizens of the world have united and recognized the evilness and inherent evil that books possess.

This is the greatest flash game ever made... i hate it.... i love it...

Kitten Cannon

I still believe that Star Trek is one of the finest television programs ever made.

Gangstalk!

Children of Men

Bad Mother Coitus Rating... 5 of 7

According to movies the not to distant future is rarely a warm and cuddly place. Often times it provides us with urban cityscapes that are ravaged by nuclear bombs, gross scenes where humanity has been reduced to a savage's level and all that is left is raw hope reminder to those of us who are in the past that this is our future to prevent.

Children of Men is a movie to go into with high expectations. This is not because it delivers on anything new nor does it necessarily perform better what has come before it. In fact midway through the movie you will find yourself questioning why you are liking the movie. Clive Owen’s Theo seems like a stock type character. Smart guy who had something bad happen to him so he turned into a loser, alcoholic, smoker and is just in need of that dare to be great speech so that he can turn into something special (the Keanu Reeves character). But in Children of Men Clive Owen breathes a pathos into an overly predictable character showing true humanity in a horrible world.

The strengths of this movie is in the story telling, most notably in how it tells a back story. This is done not by bludgeoning the viewer over the head with a synoptic history of how the world came about, instead it tells the story of the fall through subtleties: old newspapers that have been placed on windows to blot out the sun, graffiti on the ruined sides of buildings and relics of music from better and more happy times.

The filming of the movie is also unique. Replaced are the standard framed shots with hand held cameras. Elongated shots where blood remains on the camera travel through abandoned subway cars, up stairs, into derelict buildings. Shrapnel peels off of concrete, RPG’s are fired heedless of who is right and who is wrong into crowds and explosions rock seemingly innocent streets.

This is a movie to go to not because it is a deep movie yet not because it is popcorn fun. On both of those levels it misses. It is a movie to go to because it excellently made, excellently acted and excellently told.

Enjoy!

The Chronicles of New York Prt 1

There is no City like New York, being there during the holidays is magical, the Big Apple works for me in many ways, people mind there business, the nightlife still kicks, even though they are closing Clubs left and right, that’s kind of Sad heck only in the Midwest would I have seen such disregard for those of us who want to live the Night life, those of us who want to boogie... and I'm done.

The hustle of this Urban Jungle soothes my soul and since my Anger Management course, I have really learned to take in things that I usually just would piss on.

I arrived into town about 6:30ish after waiting patiently for my luggage and taking probably the longest piss in the history of man I forgot to turn my phone on, which as we all know is imperative, but I didn't feel like I had to Mark was picking me up I grew up with this guy and he is one of my best friends, Mark above all else is Never late for anything. And I mean anything, so I was confident in him being there actually come to think of it in the 10 plus times I have visited and those times when he picks me up he has never been late, so no need for drama but in life. There’s always a first time for everything.

Five minutes then 10 eventually 20 went by and actually I was fine with waiting cause I was having a beer so I really didn't care, I haven't been this relaxed in a while so I was cool, but I decided to turn the phone on and low and behold 5 missed messages oops.

It was Trina, Marks wife she let me know that they were not going to be in town, she won some raffle at work and they left for Cancun, while I was in the air the good news is I could still stay at there place (nice) but I would be staying with her friends Terrance and Kecia who also got ditched.

I had no idea who these people are or what there like but now I had to get off my hump and find these folks I called the number that Trina left for my new roommates what I realized is that I had been at the Airport for an 3 hours and in that whole time of me landing, getting my luggage, taking the longest piss in the history of man, and having a beer not one call from Terrance or Kecia.

THE BATTLE IS ON!!!

The battle for the Dominance of tomorrow begins today!!

…or at least the apathy of tomorrow. Apathy, I think, is more or less our future (take that Whitney Houston!).

Regardless, in a rather brash sense of nationalism (or cityism) this website is going on record to challenge the evil doers [booooooooooooo] of 10lees Inc. [booooooooooo!] to a simple game of chance over the upcoming sporting match between the Chicago Bears [loud rejoicing & much merry making] and their playoff opponents the Seattle Seahawks [hisssssssss].

Now Coitusers you may know I have gone on record, in the past, against the National Football League. Calling them, and I will have to quote myself here, cheap charlatans and peddlers of promotional tools for overweight Americans. Not something that this website likes to idly stand by and watch our fair nation oppressed with.

I have made a commitment to you, dear readers, to write an article every day for the entire year of 2007, an oath that I do not take lightly. What I’m asking of 10lee’s Inc [BOOOOOOO] is that she will either write a note of apology on her website for ever supporting the Seattle Seahawks OR (and this is much better) cover my shifts here on the website with the interesting aspects of her life for… I don’t know, several days or something… (the details are still being ironed out).

Naturally enough this article will cause a bit of a stir amongst our readers. Already the BMC office is up in arms and the dead zombie of Harmon (he actually did die after his nasty spill from the top of that table, but Balddee2 has since brought him back through some sort of voodoo thing. I chastised both accordingly for being privy to the Devil’s handiwork) is clanging around, angered that this website would go on record as supporting the Bears. But fear not for me friends, Zombies as we all know are afeared of fire and I will use this to keep Harmon at bay.

Much Love

Your friend Muley

Where We've Been: Best 2006

Now that 2006 has finally come and gone it is time for us to take stock of the past year and what we left behind. Not through any of our own opinions, of course, or barely through our own opinions but more through those that others force upon us.

Pictures frequently capture the spirit of the year. Pictures are a difficult medium inflicting more immediate emotions than perhaps rational thought; letting interpretation of the viewer gauge the moment rather than rationality. Still, here are the top pictures of 2006.

There is, in many ways, too much news that exists in the world. Here are the top ten news stories that seemed to have slipped through the cracks.

The human body, when trained and tuned for excellence, has no peer. To run a sub four minute mile, to launch and seperate from the earth and over a bar of an impossible height, to rise above a game and those that have played it before and hold the world in your hand. The top pictures of the year in sports.

Every year we lose more and more opinion cartoonists as our papers lose more and more opinion pages. Papers like the St. Paul Pioneer Press that reduce their Opinion pages to the local section and replace their Opinion with the latest celebrity news should be branded as the local trash that they are. And then they wonder why the printed press fails. Here are the top political cartoons of the past year.

Bad Mother Coitus's Albums of the Year!!!

as dictated by mule

3. The Greatest by Cat Power

2. Show Your Bones by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1. Boys + Girls in America by The Hold Steady

Albums that I wished i would've listened to but have not listened to yet:

Alright Still by Lily Allen

Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor by Lupe Fiasco

And

The Correct Bestest Movies of the Year!!!

4. The Departed

3. Thank You for Smoking

2. A Scanner Darkly

1. Casino Royale

Movies that I wished I would've watched but have not yet viewed:

Little Miss Sunshine

This Film is Not Yet Rated

Death of a President

And one more time. For your reading pleasure. The best website that we read all year. The Legend... of the Blood Ninja...

Thursdays in January cos Joni Mitchell never lies...

In an effort to both increase my own ability to write as well as give you, the readers the necessary portions of me that you deserve I've made a resolution, nay promise, to write on the blog everyday of the week for the entire year.

Thus far I'm one for two--
Thus far I'm one for three

Does this mean that you're going to miss out on all the great articles from Harmon, Balddee and the Doctor? No! Does this mean that you get more of the Muley Mule Mule Mule... Yes! Will this work beyond today? Probably Not!

More or less this ongoing, hard hitting series is not only to document the World of Mule but will also document a new concept that Harm and I will be working on in the upcoming few months. For our loyal readers this provides privy beyond what is being extended to the local media. This is not only a look inside the ongoing creative process but also ongoing access to all of the points of my life that I choose to share! All this available to you... the dear reader...

For instance, an entry might be as consuming as these thematic, re-occurring events:

I: Me reading a book

II: My complete and all incorporating hatred of the Brown Line

III: My official Mule drink of the Day

IV: Procrastination towards writing
a: Top Chef
b: an absolute 'need' to go meet somebody at this one bar that needs to be gone to
c: tv
d: sleep
e: staring blindly at the wall and dreaming of way out

V: Unmitigated belief system in paranoia that I am constantly surrounded by people

VI: My complete and all incorporating hatred of the Brown Line

Yes, dear readers, we are bonded together for the next 12 months... It's going to be quite the voyage; let's try to make the best of it.