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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: fahrenheit 9/11
« on: July 22, 2004, 09:58 PM »
They have a Yahoo group that I will forward the address to you via PM. I'm about to leave the house as I read this, so I'll do it when I come back. I'll try and find out for sure if this is happening or not.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: fahrenheit 9/11
« on: July 21, 2004, 10:36 PM »
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The movie will come even closer Aug. 14, when peace activists plan to show it on a bedsheet in the front yard of a house in Crawford.

That's at the Crawford Peace House purchased by North Texans for Peace, several friends of mine are actively involved with it including my next door neighbor. The house is on the only road you can take to Bush's ranch. The problem is, he always arrives by helicopter and never sees the protests and displays at the Crawford House. I've actually been to it. My neighbor and I went down there right after it was purchased. I will admit, I was a little uneasy with all the secret service agents driving slowly by. Of course, it was new then. Now, the secret service barely pays attention to them. Obviously, this is merely a symbolic gesture. I doubt it will accomplish anything other than "neener neener neener!" (or is it "nanny nanny boo boo"?)

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: fahrenheit 9/11
« on: July 20, 2004, 06:58 PM »

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Daily Comics
« on: July 20, 2004, 12:56 PM »
Zod, you would probably dig The Boondocks.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Daily Comics
« on: July 20, 2004, 12:53 PM »
I used to love the comics page, but they seldom make me laugh any more. Opus is funny. Non Sequiter is funny sometimes. Ballard Street is so wierd most of the time that I laugh at it. Doonesbury is funny every once in a while (I'm not hip to some of the greybeard, parent with grown up kids humor Trudeau has been employing lately). Dilbert is good for a laugh 50% of the time. Boondocks ROCKS. Get Fuzzy can be cool sometimes. I can relate to The Norm. Bizarro is real hit & miss.

Comics I HATE and never read: Peanuts (Schulz is dead, let the strip RIP), Love Is...(I think she's dead, too. What's up with dead strip artists and immortality?), Family Circus (BLECH!), BC (too much preachy crap), Snuffy Smith (???), Garfield (Jim Davis has lost it completely), Curtis (can't relate), Funky Winkerbean (it's like a sitcom that tries to be serious. Cancer doesn't belong in the funny pages), Crankshaft (ditto for Alzheimers), Luann (teenage girl comes of age), any of the soap opera comic strips like Mary Worth, Judge Parker, et al (what is the point of this?!?!), The Wizard of Id ( I've never laughed at it), Hagar the Horrible (ditto), Beatle Bailey (3rd no laugh strip in a row).

I am indifferent to any strips I didn't mention. If I blasted your favorite comic strip, my apologies. This thread is timely for me because I was just complaining to a friend of mine how badly the comics pages suck these days.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NBA Offseason
« on: July 19, 2004, 08:18 PM »
Mcgrady is awesome, but I still don't see the Rockets as improving so much in one year. Yao will be better, and the whole team will improve over last year, but I'm not sure they'll be any higher than 7 or 8.

They are a team to watch in the future, though. Last year was the first in which all 3 Texas teams made the playoffs, I believe.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NBA Offseason
« on: July 19, 2004, 05:26 PM »
Well, please make no mistake, I agree the Spurs are the class of the West now, I just don't think the Mavs are done yet. Don't be surprised if Dampier doesn't wind up in Dallas before the season starts.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Comic Book Rant
« on: July 19, 2004, 01:57 PM »
I just finally checked out The Authority, and I have to admit, I liked it alot. My first taste of The Authority was an odd choice, I'll admit, because I started with "Transfer of Power" which basically finds the original Auhtority being replaced by lesser versions.

It's a great read, though. Mark Millar wrote "Transfer of Power" and Frank Quitely pencilled it. Warren Ellis created it and wrote it for a while.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NFL Offseason '04
« on: July 19, 2004, 01:52 PM »
Quote from: Nataku on July 15, 2004, 02:08 PM
Only two more weeks until training camp.

And only 3 weeks until the Hall of Fame game, the kickoff for the season!

[size=12]Are you ready for some football?!?![/size]

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NBA Offseason
« on: July 19, 2004, 01:50 PM »
Quote from: OCB on July 14, 2004, 04:27 PM
I think the Spurs, Wolves, Kings, Pistons and Rockets should all be contenders.  Still a ways to go though...the Nuggets might actually be pretty dang good if they land Martin and Kobe could still somehow suprise everyone wher he ends up

You don't include the Mavericks in that list? We won 52 games last year. We lost Nash and Jamison, but picked up Devin Harris (who will be a stud replacement for Nash and will eventually be a better all around point guard) and Jerry Stackhouse. We also drafted a big Russian center who is like 7-2 and 300 lbs who can handle the ball. He's an instant upgrade for Shawn Bradley.

I think the West is the Spurs for the taking, but the Mavs will be there come playoff time. We'll advance out of the first round next year, too.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: HELP! with photoshop...
« on: July 19, 2004, 01:41 PM »
If you also have Illustrator, in it you can easily make a dot pattern and use it as a fill in whatever shape you want. Save the Illustrator file as an eps and open it in Photoshop. Use it as a layer over your artwork.

There are filters out that do that effect, though. Try Screenworks, Flaming Pear, DigiEffects. Alot of those filters are freeware and shareware. I found a really cool "Nightvision" filter from a company called Adrenaline that kicks ass!

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: My new love...Chipotle Burritos
« on: July 19, 2004, 01:37 PM »
Chipotle rocks. I had no idea what they were all about until I went. I'm hooked now.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: The Official Bad Movie Thread
« on: July 19, 2004, 01:36 PM »
Quote from: Durge on June 13, 2004, 12:05 AM
"Garfield" is out this week. I think it's a good addition to this thread.

My 6 year old wanted to see it, so we went. Other than Bill Murray (who HAD to be struggling), it was worse than it looks.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: NBA Offseason
« on: June 23, 2004, 04:41 AM »
If the rumors are true, we'll take Shaq this year AND Phil Jackson next year after he's had some time off. The Mavs have never advanced beyond the Western Conference Finals, so we're overjoyed at the possibility of obtaining Shaq and maybe Phil. If we can make the trade and keep 2 of Dirk, Nash or Finley, so much the better.

I'd love to trade Walker, Jamison, Bradly and Abdur-Wahad (whatever his name is). But who would take Bradly..? No one.

It will be interesting. McGrady to the Rockets with Yao is a coup.

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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Official Movie Thread
« on: May 31, 2004, 01:03 PM »
Yesterday, we had a movie marathon day and watched 21 Grams, Seabiscuit and Bubba Hotep.

They were all really good movies.

21 Grams blew me away. Every member of the cast should have won an Oscar. The saddest movie I have ever seen.

Seabiscuit was good, if a little too long.

Bubba Hotep was pretty funny and had some great one-liners.

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