Accidental OV

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Holiday Jams OV style

Holiday music from three OV-ers on this compilation featuring lots of friends!

http://www.likeyouneverleft.com/index.php?title=Holiday_ep

hotpressive

Deserving of a Standing OVation

MK plays guitar with The Weakerthans.
It doesn't get any more awesome.

Check out this cool short mOVie!

Lenny's moving out.

Remember Pretzelknot and 'Spierre's introduction of some new terms to the lexicon? Well I think this makes it even more plausible, ie. "in a bad way"

My dad sent this over

wow

The Great Heat Debate ov '09

On one side - shivering and miserable, wearing wool socks and their favorite sweaters,

LLLLLIZZZYYYY and MMMMMMMMKKKKK!!

Versus - the stern and unstoppable, holding fast in the face of 40 degree nights,

RRRRRRROBERTTTTT and JENNNNNNNNYYYY!

Stay tuned for the next face off: Summer BBQ - dogs vs. burgers

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There's a bun in the oven!

Hey OV, I'm talkin' 'bout YAY!

Two other things:

1. Whoever left a flask in my car, I hope you've got bail money next time. J/K dudes, but it's in my room.

2. For those who enjoy Thorns of Life, here's a fix.

Games OVer Poems

The OV loves a good game. You know that already. And this week, we broke into "school night IS game night" territory with the classic game of Scattegories. In honor of this, I've rolled an "OV" and written a poem:

Overachieving
Oaklanders give
Voice to
"Venus in the moon of Saturn made me late!"

I know, the metaphors and symbolism are heavy. But that's what it's like in the OV.

[Next week, a sonnet.]

I found this children's book over at the Rockridge library today.

NO OV ENERYTHING

In our best get-out-the-vote effort yet, this attractive pub trivia team (plus Lizzy, not pictured here) took first place in a narrow (but satisfying) victory at Cato's. Highlights: O'Jays, Sanjay Gupta, Bassoon, Aspirin. Mary Louise Parker, naked with a snake. Steel.

Pictured: four members of No On Everything about to drink the spoils of victory.

The new E(o)vil Dead, or more post-Ft13 dreck?

If there's one thing that unites the house like a hub of disparate spokes, it's Sam Raimi. From those of us who defined their adolescence by an appreciation for Ash's chainsaw hand replacement, to those who only tuned in once he started autering the second most famous red and blue American icon, there's a quirky place in all 6 of our hearts for Sam. So now he heads back to his roots and all are left to wonder at the outcome. Pretzelknot and Nasty J will be sitting this one out, on principle of "it scary me!" certain 80 hr work week schedules aside. And just as around 50 minutes into Evil Dead 2, we are left with four. Personally, I 'm most nervous that Raimi may have lost that "I'm just kidding - not really - of course I'm kidding," sentiment. We expect him to be silly now, and the pressure could force him to be overly self-conscious in the horror genre. I worry that without that almost pre-teen earnestness, it's gonna either rise into simple B-horror boredom or descend into satirical boredom. Can he tread the line, or should I just allow myself to be exponentially more excited about this movie?

Either way, the OV is taking this week off from the theater.

OV'n for business

I will be done with the final step of a year-long process at 11:30 on Saturday. The OV will be open for pop-ins.

Just puttin' it out there...

Otherwise, Lizzy and I will just go jeans-shopping, a la 2002.

Wo'verine and Edward Cullen: An In-Depth Analysis

**watch out for Twilight and Wolverine spoilers below**

I'm sure I'm not the only person who saw the Wolverine movie last weekend and was struck by his similarities to Edward Cullen, the vampire hottie from Twilight. In case you didn't happen to notice, here are a few.
First of all, they have quite a few physical similarities. Both have hot bods that may or may not have come from hours of weight training. There are no scenes of Wolverine hitting the gym in the movie and we know that Edward was dying of Spanish influenze before he became a vampire and his body became incapable of changing. However, Wolverine definitely has some serious visible muscles and Edward's body is described as having, "perfect musculature no longer merely hinted at behind concealing clothes" when Bella finally gets a glimpse of him with his shirt unbuttoned (Meyer, 256).
Both Wolverine and Edward Cullen are virturally indestructable; the former as a result of adamantium bones and the latter from his vampirey stone-like body makeup. Both use their indestructability to defend women they love. We know that Edward is tortured by the idea of living forever should something happen to Bella (pre-Book 4 of course). Is it fair to project some of that anguish onto Wolverine? I think so. Think about his reaction to Kayla's death. His desire for revenge causes him to completely devalue his own safety. After the adamamantium he is full of rage and one could imagine he might be wishing for death to release him from his pain, but he continues to be an indestructable fighter.

So those are my deep thoughts about Edward Cullen and Wolverine. Please share any other similarities you notice in a comment!

Super Heroic Movies

In the run up to the Wolverine movie, Mista' Christa has been asking fellow dude-bros: what is your pre-screen rating (having not yet seen the movie)? He says his is 3/10 and hopes it can't possibly be any worse. This prompted another Mista' from Peaks to question what such a rating really means. In the scheme of things, we felt it useful to provide subjective schema with which to gauge the Super Hero mega blockbuster. Here are my ratings of the Marvel/DC universe parts I've yet been exposed to, perhaps with explanation to follow in the comments section, should others join the discush:

X-Men 2 - 10
Superman - 10
Superman 2 - 8
X-Men 1 - 7
Spiderman - 6
Spiderman 2 - 5
Watchmen - 5
Iron Man - 4
Hulk (Ang Lee) - 4
Batman - 4
Batman Begins - 4
Batman: The Dark Knight - 4
X-Men 3 - 3
Spiderman 3 - 3
Superman 3 - 2
Superman Returns - 2
Batman Returns - 2
Batman Forever - 1
Batman and Robin - 1
Superman 4 - 0

New Slang overtakes us

Dykstra:  

(die-kstrah) adjective 

Scrappy (in a good way.)  

The snow fox is a dykstra predator.  

Kruk: 

(kruk) adjective 

Scrappy (in a bad way.)  

The kruk killer whale tortured the baby whale before eating only its tongue.

Clusterhug:  

(cluh-ster-hug) noun  

A complicated and bad situation.  As hecka is to hella.  

The ending of that game of Settlers was a total clusterhug.

Mysteriovs Showerer?

At 3:30 in the AMs. What sort of habit is this and can it increase my effectiveness and disposition? Mystery late-night OV shower-taker, show me The Secret.

OVer the hill? Not the OV!

Evidence of an averagely AWESOME Saturday night:

1. Inflatable microphones
2. Kir Royales
3. Easter Candy


All that and more next time YOU pop-in to the OV!

i love seitan

Get ready OV...

The days of overpriced overprocessed veggie sausage are over.

A new dawn of the hottest homemade gourmet seitan sausage you can imagine has, uh, dawned.

Mr. Chovez vs. Mr. Danjyer

Hello outside world! What has been going on in the M.K. corner of the O.V.? I was going to write something about Hugo Chavez because me and Chris have been imitating his hilarious yet right-on-the-money screeds on his Aló Presidente TV show. But I couldn't help being boring about it, so suffice it to say, he's the Left's answer to George W. Bush: a President who's crazy enough to do whatever he wants whenever he wants (but to help the poor instead of the rich).

The O.V. was poppin' with activity this weekend. Home Run Derby, Quasars, pay-by-the-hour hot tubs, and the obligatory Carrie Yoke. Topics for discussion included: Puns, how they work, and where they belong in the world of comedy, and trying to figure out the ways in which we want to do better than our parents. Also apparently the block has come to a decision on our little six-pack co-op: they love us.

I'm trying to find my place on this new blog, and I think I'll test out Provider of Links. Here are my finds for the week:

1. Thanks to Nick for the Wolverine leak.
2. Thanks to Dembowski for this little bit of Chicago's Davinci Code.

Pop-ins are open. Please come by: if there's not something fun going on when you get there, we are adept at creating fun on the spot.