It’s true, we like to have fun, but because of our financial situation and lack of entertainment resources, we have to make our own fun.
Our entertainment is heightened to an unprecedented level when we can play someone for a sucker at the same time. Not only is it a cause for gut-busting hilarity when you’re drunk or high or both, but if you can remember it happening the next day, it offers you a great story to tell for generations to come. Read the rest of this entry »
Whether Maynard (of Puscifer, Perfect Circle, Tool) has been watching Rufus or if great minds think alike, there’s no denying that there’s a connection – at least to Rufus. Of course, Rufus’s video would have corn and not cactuses, dogs and not coyotes and vultures and not pussy crows. And cows. Gotta have cows.
Rufus would trust Larry to call plays any day over Bill Callahan.
(Born Feb. 17, 1963 in Pawnee City) Larry the Cable Guy, through a Southern hillbilly accent, preaches like a tobacco-chewing preacher the Nebraska ethos of hard work to redneck deadbeats around the country. That value is “Git-R-Done.”
Don’t be lazy. Don’t let it sit around until someone else does it. Give two shits about whether it’s done in the first place. Git-R-Done! Read the rest of this entry »
Bruce Springsteen once made the greatest record ever known to man or beast or Missourian. That record was called “Nebraska.”
Rufus ain’t sayin’ it’s the best just because it’s not only got Nebraska in the title, Nebraska IS the title. And that means a lot. Read the rest of this entry »
(Born near Norfolk, Neb., in Corning, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1925) One can debate the quality of television today. People have more choices than ever, but are they good choices or are they simply watered-down time-fillers fueled by the cult of celebrity? What’s not up for debate is the impact Johnny Carson has had on television – late night and prime time – and what passes for entertainment nowadays. Read the rest of this entry »
With all flap lately involving the Catholic church, a crazy priest and the Holocaust, Doubt is going to be a nice change of pace from all that negative publicity, restoring some credibility to the church through the Hollywood machine.
We like country music, a lot, mostly because (1) we’re in the country, (2) we’re supposed to listen to it and (3) there’s not much else to listen to. When my Momma grew up, there were two radio stations that she could tune in on the farm: a country station and a station she wasn’t allowed to listen to. Times have changed, though. Now there are two country stations and three other stations she wouldn’t be allowed to listen to.
The music she wasn’t allowed to tune in to was what we today would call “pop music,” which as we all know is from the Devil. Read the rest of this entry »
Multiple movies about WWII, the Nazi’s or the Holocaust? Hmmm. Must be Oscar season.
Valkyrie tells the story of the one good thing to come out of Germany during WWII: Claus von Stauffenburg (Tom Cruise), a colonel in the German army, and his attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. As a military leader of the resistance movement, von Stauffenburg infiltrated Hitler’s inner circle and made plans for a military coup to take over the government after Hitler’s death.
As we all know, or should know, that assassination attempt failed. But did the movie fail, as well? Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Blart: Mall Cop unfortunately makes us think, something Rufus was completely hoping to avoid with this movie, by asking us a very basic question: Is a movie that makes a lot of money a good movie?
You West Coast coffee addicts might argue “no,” that the movie has no redeeming value, didn’t make you laugh once and had the effect of 50 packs of cigarettes on your life. Rufus would say that’s a typical elitist un-American attitude to have. Read the rest of this entry »
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