Just When I Thought I Was Out....

Wow. Has it really been 3 yrs since my last post? I've decided to get off the fence and back into the game. Feel free to agree or disagree. I wont be taking names. Wont be doing much censoring ( except for personal info, illegal stuff or the dreaded spam).

A Giant has passed

Don Knotts has died. He was 81 years old. Rest in Peace RF. more to come....

Thought of the Day

"Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."

---Winston Churchill


Stay classy, freedom fighters.FURLEY OUT!

Where the Hell Have I Been Lately?

ah who cares. I'm back. So whats new in the wonderful world of movies?
Ive been on a movie viewing streak; Ive seen just about all the new releases (expect Mr & Mrs Smith--I boycott anyone who has slept with Billy Bob Thornton and that Jolie chick sucks too.)

So the run down:

Batman Begins----Great Fun. Almost as good as Spider-Man 2 and X-Men 2. I cant wait for the sequel. Liam Neeson plays the Obi Wan master he should have been in ST: Ep 1.

Herbie: Fully Loaded---The young spawn of Furley love it. My butt was aching( nothing new) but I have seen much worse.

Cinderella Man---good flick, but nothing spectacular. Typical milquetoast from Ron Howard.

The Longest Yard---a word for word remake but an improvement. lots of laughs.

Kingdom of Heaven----ZZZZZZZZZ

Madagascar----when does the next PIXAR flick open? once again, the Furleyettes loved it. I could wait for it to end. Who thought Jada Pinkett was a good voice over choice? Ross Geller? Good lord they are boring.

more later,
Stay classy,FURLEY OUT!

Thanks for brushing against my prick

god I love Deadwood. So profane and so funny. It is the BEST POLITICAL SHOW ON TV.

Stay classy, hoople heads.

Toupee de Furley

Toupee de Furley

I like that Fucking black darjeeling....oh

wow. cannot believe it's been months since my last post. Oh well, lets change that now.

I'll skip the current events stuff. typical "progressives" howling at the moon blather...You've heard it all before..."the new Pope is a Nazi", "Bolton chases women down the hall" and "DeLay is an SOB" blah blah blah. The media sounds more like DEMOCRATUNDERGROUND every day.

So let's focus on the good stuff. The last episode of DEADWOOD was funny as hell; it needed to be after the very dark episode last week(nothing says "dark" like 3 dead whores). I love Al Swearegen. It's as if David Milch has channeled Andy Sipowicz into the Old West. Ian McShane is awesome as well. It is a great show,so check it out you hoople heads.

So ABC finally got what it wanted, MNF on ESPN. But dont count ABC out of the NFL yet; I'm sure they will look at the possible Thurs/Sat package. Im more surprised that NBC is back on board. Guess the Arena Football coverage and track didnt bring viewers like they hoped.

Rudy Martzke retired from his USATODAY TV sports column last week. He will be missed; who will kiss Bob Costas' tiny butt now that Rudy is gone?

Please America, dont vote for Anwar on American Idol. I cant take another week of his vacant stares. How many classic songs can this guy mangle?

Stay classy, FURLEY OUT!

an LOTR nation?

I meant to post this before election, but life interrupted. Now Ive found it again, so here goes. By mid 2004, the political left and their mainstream media cheerleaders were giddy with "FAHRENHEIT 911" fever. They believed that Michael Moore would lead the revolt against President Bush and his 'ilk'. Moore's film, they hoped, would congeal the anger against Bush the same way Cronkite's declaration post Tet turned the tide against the Vietnam War.

Every night, the media (including ET and Extra) scoured the multiplex nation seeking movie reviews. The Box Office receipts were noted with glee. But "911" was hardly a blockbuster in the vein of Spider-Man2 or Shrek 2. Moore's film did not capture the American zeitgeist.

What did capture the mood of America? It was a collection of 3 movies based on the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. The first installment premiered in December 2001. The wounds of 9/11 were fresh. But the moment that best encapuslates the connection between the films and the public comes at the end of "THE TWO TOWERS". Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin) talks of why the hobbits are in this mess. So with apologies to Messrs Tolkien and Jackson:


"IT'S ALL WRONG...BY RIGHTS WE SHOULDN'T EVEN BE HERE. BUT WE ARE. IT'S LIKE IN THE GREAT STORIES, MR. FRODO. THE ONES THAT REALLY MATTERED. FULL OF DARKNESS AND DANGER THEY WERE. AND SOMETIMES YOU DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW THE END. BECAUSE, HOW COULD THE END BE HAPPY? HOW COULD THE WORLD GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS WHEN SO MUCH BAD HAD HAPPENED?

BUT IN THE END, IT'S ONLY A PASSING THING. THIS SHADOW...EVEN DARKNESS MUST PASS...A NEW DAY WILL COME...AND WHEN THE SUN SHINES, IT WILL SHINE OUT THE CLEARER. THOSE ARE THE STORIES THAT STAYED WITH YOU...THAT MEANT SOMETHING. EVEN IF YOU WERE TOO SMALL TO UNDERSTAND WHY. BUT I THINK MR FRODO, I DO UNDERSTAND...I KNOW NOW...THE FOLK IN THOSE STORIES HAD LOTS OF CHANCES OF TURNING BACK ONLY THEY DIDN'T. THEY KEPT GOING. BECAUSE THEY WERE HOLDING ONTO SOMETHING.

FRODO: WHAT ARE WE HOLDING ONTO SAM?

SAM: THAT THERE'S SOME GOOD IN THIS WORLD, MR. FRODO. AND IT'S WORTH FIGHTING FOR.