Tag: owen

• Star Wars Day: May The Fourth Be With You

  I’m a Trek guy myself, but I just found out about the “Star Wars Day” thing and I think it’s a real hoot.  Star Wars has always been a problem for me–from plot points and set pieces clearly calculated to sell merchandise, to the whiniest hero in the history of movies, I liked the stories…

  JunkChuck

  May 4, 2014

  Commentary, Funny and/or Strange, Photo I Like

  abrams, boba fett, cast, day, owen, photo, reading, satire, star, troops, wars

• War Poems For National Poetry Month: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est

  Panama…then Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afganistan–right or wrong, for causes both just and cynical, we’ve been in an exhausting, nearly constant state of war, however distant and vaguely defined, since I graduated from High School in the 1980’s–and that was just a few deep breaths after the war in Viet Nam/ Cambodia/ Laos that…

  JunkChuck

  April 1, 2014

  Poetry

  1, america, dead, decorum, dulce, england, english, est, et, france, gas, germany, infantry, mustard, one, owen, patriotism, poems, poetry, war, wilfred, world

• Shameless Filet O’Fish/ Life Aquatic Rip-Off

  Has everyone seen the new-ish Filet O’Fish Commercial that rips off one of my all-time favorite movies, Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou?  Bad enough that this wonderfully quirky, subtle piece of off-beat cinematic brilliance is being draped in ugly commercialism, the Golden Arch-Villains employ a snotty, superior, hipsterish ironic tone to the…

  JunkChuck

  March 19, 2014

  Commentary, Funny and/or Strange, video

  anderson, aquatic, belafonte, bill, blanchett, bowie, cousteau, david, filet, filet-o-fish, fish, kate, leopard, life, mcdonalds, murray, owen, revenge, shark, steve, wes, wilson, zissou