Cajun Boy

The cutting room floor. If blogs had DVD extras this would be mine. Consider this a shitty supplement to a shitty blog. http://cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com

Jun 29
“A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, “We’ll create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America.” Gates’s comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gates’s answer, the senator told me, was “Let’s just say that I’m here speaking for myself.”

Seymour Hersh has a terrifying piece in the new issue of the New Yorker, one that details the Bush administration’s, aided and abetted by the spineless Democratic “leadership” in Congress, clandestine moves to attack/invade Iran before they leave office in Jan. 2009.

In related news, Iran has begun digging mass graves to house the corpses of thousands of dead enemy soldiers that they believe will accumulate in the conflict.
Posted at 9:06pm

Gay AND European?!

I was just about to lay my weary head down to sleep when it dawned on me that later today the streets of New York will be teeming with gays and Europeans, due to the fact that it’s the day of the gay pride parade AND the day of the Euro Cup. So I felt it fitting to post this song.

(Side note: One of my good friends plays the lead in this show, the one pictured in the poster above, and I remember going to one of the workshops when it was being developed and hearing this song had me laughing so hard it hurt.)
Posted at 4:00am

A couple of weeks ago I posted a series of Youtube videos that showed people popping popcorn with their cell phones. Well, that ain’t shit compared to this!!!
Posted at 12:55am

Jun 28

Rachel Sklar's French Fries

Richard Blakeley and I ate them last night. Voraciously. (Go ahead and let your imagination run wild with that one for a minute or so) Like a couple of empty-bellied polar bears recently woken from a long winter hibernation who happened upon that first salmon of the spring upon venturing into the river, we ate them.

They were delicious. Perhaps the best french fries I’ve ever had.

Poor Rachel walked over to the scene of the carnage just as we were wiping the fry grease from our paws and asked innocently, “where the hell did my French fries go?”

“French fries, what French fries?”

Yeah, we played dumb. Sorry, we were wasted.

So my lovely Rachel Sklar, Richard Blakeley and I owe you a basket of fries. And a milkshake as interest.

Posted at 9:11pm

Trend spotting

I’ve noticed lately that Ayn Rand quotes are beginning to outnumber pet pics on my Tumblr dashboard.

On a related note, Ayn Rand was, by and large, full of shit.

Posted at 8:49pm

Jun 27

I think I'll go shopping for a boat this weekend

For the first time in human history, there is no ice on the North Pole.
Posted at 12:25am

Jun 26
I just figured that it’s about time I joined the cute kitty pic parade on the Internets. I just figured that it’s about time I joined the cute kitty pic parade on the Internets.
Posted at 7:14pm

I think there’s something wrong with my Internet, it keeps spitting out crazy stuff like this. Are you fucking kidding me? This is a joke, right? If it isn’t, then the question begs; which will educational historians view as the absolute end of Baruch’s relevancy…this, or the fact that Hillary used its bunker as the setting for her “I will make no decisions tonight” speech? via alexbalk

I think there’s something wrong with my Internet, it keeps spitting out crazy stuff like this.

Are you fucking kidding me? This is a joke, right? If it isn’t, then the question begs; which will educational historians view as the absolute end of Baruch’s relevancy…this, or the fact that Hillary used its bunker as the setting for her “I will make no decisions tonight” speech?

via alexbalk
Posted at 5:35pm

Dear ElleBelle,

Whenever I’m longing to be kissed, I just watch this Rembrandt commercial, then I close my eyes and grab a pillow. Yeah, it’s not quite the same and frankly, kinda pathetic, but it’s also much less complicated, and I’m not forced to watch Grey’s Anatomy every Sunday night.

Hope this helps,

Cajun Boy
Posted at 5:22pm

Is Lara Logan getting the Olbermann treatment from the Murdoch-ites?

I’m too lazy to Google or LexisNexis this, but I’d almost be willing to bet that Lara Logan recently made some sort of commentary regarding Fox News that was deemed to be an attack by the notoriously vengeful powers that be at News Corp. Logan, who I’ve crushed on for a while by the way (a hot girl in a war zone, kinda like a hot girl driving a Jeep Wrangler, gets me every time!), has been the subject of some pretty unsavory coverage by The NY Post of late. I know that she made some comments on The Daily Show about the poor coverage of the war by the media in general, but I can’t recall a grenade lobbed in the specific direction of Fox.

Then again, The Post could be running this stuff because it’s a juicy story. They do seem to like those sort of things, if memory serves correct.

I blame Justin Rocket Silverman!

Posted at 5:09pm

I can hardly wait to register fucking.douchebag!

The internet grew up today.

Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history…

Currently all web addresses fall under one of some 250 top-level domain names: .country or .territory domains, and generic ones such as .com, .net and .org, .gov, and .edu.

Under the new system, the web’s 1.3 billion users would be able from 2009 to buy an unlimited number of generic addresses based on common words, brands or company names, cities or proper names.

Via simko

Posted at 4:12pm

The roasting of Will Leitch

Is the funniest thing going on the Internet right now.
Posted at 3:15pm

Poor guy

I’m just gonna go ahead and say it…I feel really sorry for Anne Hathaway’s next boyfriend.
Posted at 2:16pm

I got a text message yesterday morning from a good friend from back home telling me that her father, pictured above, had died. His name was Ron Hunter, and he’s believed by many to have been the inspiration for the Ron Burgundy character in Anchorman. Hunter anchored top rated news desks in New Orleans, Miami, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Chicago. The New Orleans Times Picayune’s obit highlighted his “cocksure presence and flamboyant reportorial stunts.” That’s putting it lightly. I wrote more about the semi-legend here.

I got a text message yesterday morning from a good friend from back home telling me that her father, pictured above, had died. His name was Ron Hunter, and he’s believed by many to have been the inspiration for the Ron Burgundy character in Anchorman. Hunter anchored top rated news desks in New Orleans, Miami, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Chicago. The New Orleans Times Picayune’s obit highlighted his “cocksure presence and flamboyant reportorial stunts.” That’s putting it lightly.

I wrote more about the semi-legend here.
Posted at 5:15am

Jun 25
“I came in about four writers into the process. It’s kind of hard to write a “better” scene than the last writer when the rules are that you can only change 30 percent of each scene or completely change 30 percent of the scenes, per Katzenberg screening. So, for instance, in this scene, the panda comes up a flight of stairs carrying a bucket of water, slips on a banana peel, says something to two geese and does an air guitar. The good news? There can be anything in the bucket. Your mission: make the movie better.” (The hilarious) Dan Harmon talks about working on “Kung Fu Panda” (via nickdouglas) (via marklisanti)
Posted at 3:22am