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• "18 federal programs that spent a combined $62.5 billion in 2008 on food and nutrition assistance…" RT: @MZHemingway: http://bit.ly/fljXdN #

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• Boy gets handmade He-Man plush dolls from crafty aunt. #bythepowerofChristmas http://plixi.com/p/65208655 #
• Watching oddball 2009 Richard Kelly train wreck The Box http://imdb.to/eApbwM It's sort of weirdly great in its awkward awfulness. #
• Is it too generous of me to suspect that the numerous silly performances and moments in The Box are intended to be unsettling for effect? #
• Tonally The Box is like part Kubrick, part Phantasm. An almost clinically deliberate ineptitude that is compelling but never credible. #
• And why does Cameron Diaz in The Box look like someone stuffed Kristin Chenowith with cat food and then stretched her out on the rack? #
• I liked Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko; have avoided bomb Southland Tales. The Box, an hour in, makes me want to give SLT a try. Insane? #
• Maybe if David Lynch had tried really hard to make something worse than Dune, he would have come up with Richard Kelly's The Box. #
• Unfortunately just as The Box ramps up its peculiarly stilted & unconvincing weirdness, I have to call it a night. See you soon, The Box! #

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• I'm marginally "pro-life" but am starting to root for TV characters to abort. They never do it, despite obligatory "choice" speechifying. #
• Most TV depicts woman at clinic & changing mind. Some chars had abortions long-ago, but plot pregnancies = babies or (copout!) miscarriages #
• Friends, Sex & the City, Secret Life of Teenager, most movies, etc. Have pointedly pro-choice dialog but only ultimately choose one way. #
• Oh and obviously Juno. It's like pro-choice writers are afraid their conviction that abortion is OK is dramatically unpalatable. #
• Only mainstream screen abortions I can recall are Grease & Fast Times, both over 25 yrs ago. If it's such a no brainer option, go thru w/it. #
• Cameron Crowe's Singles had the worst cop-out miscarriage. Completely ruined that movie. C'mon Hollywood, Abort! #
• Should note Laura Dern's leading role in honest movie abortion discussion, with grim Wild at Heart nightmare and great comedy Citizen Ruth. #
• Hollywood abortion cowardice reminds of weasley movie The Contender, arguing slutty behavior irrelevant in politics – but heroine innocent! #
• Speaking of abortions, all USB ports on desktop PC quit last night, but came back today after 2nd reboot. Is there something I should know? #
• Speaking of abortions, USB ports on desktop PC quit last night, but came back today after 2nd reboot. I may find self pro-aborting this PC. #
• In #Dexter I find the plots w/o Dexter almost uniformly insipid, but love the Dexter parts so much I wish every episode was twice as long. #
• Ack! My DVR caught end of The Abyss before Walking Dead. AMC so badly warped it out of OAR it looks like a bad, nauseating special effect. #
• #WalkingDead just had moment where slow-witted guy took several beats to comprehend raindrops. Darabont = spectacularly overrated #
• Seems Darabont's primary talent is taking deeply cliched material far too seriously. Somber, fun-free tone mistaken for intelligence. #
• Yes, I'm the 1 guy who found #ShawshankRedemption an ordinary uninspired rehash of b-movie prison cliches gussied up in A-list prod values. #
• I don't dislike #WalkingDead but waiting for it to be special. FWIW, no truly remarkable Zombie fare since Shaun/Dawn of the Dead combo. #

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• @culturepulp That Lovable Imp in a Pumpkin http://plixi.com/p/54244044 #
• 6yo daughter's rock band, WolfStar (formerly Johnny Girl & The Firebombs), has changed name (again). Now: Johnny Girl & The Rainbow Dragons. #
• Here's cover art for one of Johnny Girl's new mix CDs released at her birthday party this weekend. http://yfrog.com/3zq2wp #
• Theme for Johnny Girl mix CD#1: Songs about Rock. Playlist (with pullout poster!): http://yfrog.com/n7ra8p #
• Johnny Girl Birthday Mix CD #2 (Classic Rock). BTW, yes, this is her fave music. No KidsSongs here! http://yfrog.com/bcioapx #
• Reading Twitter too fast. Thought that said "Klansman." @FourFourTwo Toronto FC hire Klinsmann as consultant http://tinyurl.com/2wwhbnw in reply to FourFourTwo #
• Govt assistance invariably leads to these conflicts RT @ gpollowitz why is the Fed Govt helping Domino's sell pizza? http://nyti.ms/crOk7Z #
• I'm no Alan Ball fan, but #Towelhead is quite good, & Peter MacDissi is brilliant, as good as any other performance in last 10 yrs #
• I hated American Beauty & could not stomach the pretense of 6 Feet Under, but #Towelhead is less cloying with more nuanced characters #
• With about 30 mins to on #Towelhead I looked up brilliant MacDissi on IMDb and could not believe this was an Alan Ball film. Had no idea. #

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• @culturepulp RT @dorrk: #TheSquare 5/10 decent, well-paced, tense but lacks heart, humor, personality. Generic. Unsympathetic protagonist. #
• Forgot that #GreatestAmericanHero pilot was about Neo-Nazi Cult conspiracy involving CA Gov. and VPOTUS. Heavy. #
• @JuddApatow Fun fact: Pilot ep of Happy Days is Richie lying about sex with teen girl who says gym teacher groped her. #NotThatInnocent in reply to JuddApatow #

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• @FreddyAdu11 PT 1: Fellowship of Ring, Zodiac, Lives of Others, You Can Count on Me,  Knocked Up, United 93, King Kong, Hustle & Flow, Dig! in reply to FreddyAdu11 #
• @FreddyAdu11 PT2: Kill Bill, Memento, Lars & Real Girl, Anchorman, Almost Famous, Dark Knight in reply to FreddyAdu11 #
• @culturepulp Watching movie with kids right now. And who should appear? Why, none other than "that lovable imp in a bottle!" #
• @culturepulp He was mostly just stuck in a fucking bottle. Pretty lovable, though. http://yfrog.com/nde2aj http://youtu.be/aMoWSB825iA in reply to culturepulp #
• @culturepulp He's the Mr. Bojangles of Imps. in reply to culturepulp #

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• @ActuallyNPH Saw Judi Dench in ALNM in London 15 yrs ago. Fantastic musical deserving of several more revivals. Sondheim's wittiest lyrics. #
• Can someone please get Don draper to start drinking & fucking again? Anything to put an end to his godawful pretentious journaling. #madmen #

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• Almost famous! RT @rioferdy5: RT @fredcort: @rioferdy5 mate they posted your #silks shout on the BBC website!»» BBC is Millions worldwide!! #

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• Last night I dreamt I had dinner @RedHourBen 's house w/ @Lileks. @Lileks interviewed me for @ricochet podcast about The Ben Stiller Show. #
• In my dream @RedHourBen was married to Janeane Garofalo, who was surprisingly bourgeois. #
• In dream @Lileks was fascinated by my insight-free recollections of watching @RedHourBen Show on TV (in fairness, I may have been only one). #
• In first 5 mins. Timothy Olyphant outdraws his opponent, shooting him dead. And I'm not watching #Justified Typecasting? #TheCrazies #
• So I'm about half an hour into #TheCrazies http://amzn.to/ IIRC, this is pretty much how Joe Biden expected the swine flu to pan out. #
• I've always thought George Romero was overrated as a director, but some of these recent remakes have been quite good. #TheCrazies #
• Watching Radha Mitchell play pregnant in #TheCrazies reminds me of creepy maternity nightmare #EverythingPutTogether http://amzn.to/a93Wm5 #
• OK, there are way too many last-second-gunshot-by-conveniently-arriving-3rd-party-saves-person-in-immediate-peril scenes in #TheCrazies #
• #TheCrazies is by no means great, but it's a decent well-acted paranoid virus outbreak thriller that doesn't go overboard or get too silly. #
• #TheCrazies has all the cliches and plotholes of run-of-the-mill genre movies, it's just done better than usual. Don't like genre, skip it. #
• WTF? @ifcdotcom aired Woody Allen's Bananas today. IFC HD took a movie shot in 1.85:1 & screened in 1.37:1 and stretched it to 2.35:1 – Why? #
• Here's how @ifcdotcom distorted Bananas this morning. My manual correction looks more like a 2:1. http://yfrog.com/1×6cljx #
• @ifcdotcom should be a little more sensitive to not butchering movies. We used to suffer cropped & panned movies – now fake widescreen! #
• I wonder what @ifcdotcom partner @criterion thinks about channel stretching movies to create bizarre funhouse widescreen effect? #
• Year and a half ago I noted a new DVD major release was cropped to 1.78:1 with the OAR only released on bluray http://bit.ly/deznyR Shameful #
• Sounds boring (and imaginary): RT @willwilkinson A country worth loving would be a country where no one minds much when you say you hate it. #
• I guess I missed it when Hamburgler, his bookie, & stripper GF attacked NY for the glory of tacky commerce @ezraklein http://bit.ly/9YBFTg #
• Nice work by @RedHourBen in #Greenberg http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234654/ Not an easy character to like but he makes it real and relatable #
• Prepping for 20th H.S. Reunion tonight: 100 push-ups, followed by puking & cardiac arrest. Tonight is beginning of my new life as a geezer. #
• .@mrkorb RT TheBusbyWay PHOTO: Guess who…http://bit.ly/amXfuA #
• Ugh. Time for Chicharito to come of age… MT @ManUnited_News Wayne Rooney ruled out of Fulham game with stomach bug: http://bit.ly/akAqcH #

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• We have a car mechanic who makes house calls, is astoundingly inexpensive, and is coming by within half-hour of calling him. #notsharinghim #
• For entire movie I once mistook Kris Kristofferson for Tom Skerrit. Now watching #CrazyHeart & Jeff Bridges is Kristofferson's doppleganger. #
• Am now suspecting that when we get old we all turn into Kris Kristofferson. #
• Movies about alcoholics make want to drink. #CrazyHeart has finished off my bottle of Cutty Sark. #
• Watched Youth in Revolt last night http://amzn.to/bfeunZ Michael Cera great in arch semi-dual role – fun Rushmore-like anarchic teen comedy #
• @joeldavidmoore Is it the one from this Best Bad Movie Ever candidate? http://imdb.to/16wkzS If so, beware. #deathbedthebedthateats in reply to joeldavidmoore #
• Searching @Comcast guide w/6yo daughter to DVR "Dora" special tonight. Search results: 1. Dora; 2. Dorm Room Sex Orgy. Filter would be nice. #
• Chronically annoyed by @hbo @cinemax @watchshowtime @starz_channel etc playing HD movies in wrong aspect ratio. We have big TVs now. #OAR #
• Occasionally minor B-movie like http://bit.ly/9mQi1D will play in 2.35:1 and world doesn't end. @watchshowtime @hbo @cinemax @starz_channel #
• Wish I could turn off @comcast DVR OSD messages. Don't need shows interrupted by alert that another recording has finished #cablegripes #
• @comcast DVRs are woeful in general. Perfect world would allow me to access all cable programming through great HTPC software @SageTV #
• What genius at @comcast devised DVR software that makes me pine for comparatively feature-rich (portable, storable, etc) VHS tapes? #

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• @Natron7 Little did you know, you appear to have been there at the same time as 'weird' @alyankovic Two music legends, same place, same time in reply to Natron7 #
• Hey @culturepulp, TCM is showing all 5 Hope/Crosby Road movies on Sunday Aug. 8 starting at 10:15 am PST http://bit.ly/bu6mJd #
• Watching #Brothers Was Tobey Maguire trying to channel Deer Hunter DeNiro in the scene with the lead pipe? #
• Now getting major Deer-Hunter-wannabe vibes from everything in #Brothers I think DH is overrated but still powerful. Brothers feels forced. #
• #Brothers went from 'forced' to asinine pretty quickly. Cast did fine, but writing was bland, overwrought cliches and ultimately stupid. #
• @culturepulp I got it wrong. Sunday TCM Hope/Crosby Road movie marathon not showing Rio. Lineup: Singapore, Zanzibar, Utopia, Bali, Morocco. in reply to culturepulp #
• @comcast has cool iPhone app that lets you schedule DVR recordings Best feature: intermittently scheduling completely wrong show. Fun stuff. #

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• If PGE doesn't get Milwaukie's power back on soon, there will be plenty of Mad Women staring at blank TV screens tonight. #madmen #
• Power out during most of 6pm #MadMen Season 3 premier broadcast. Comcast DVR massacred 9pm replay intermittently dropping audio. #
• Wish there was tech that breaks tv shows like #MadMen into bits for sharing, allowing complete download of episode in less than 5 mins… #
• Like having a shared TIVO in the web, archiving every show, so if you have tech problems or miss #MadMen for other reason, you have backup. #
• There are a bunch of starving & oppressed people in the world, but my garage door just broke and it's pretty annoying. Who has it worse? #
• Garage door repair can't come until tomorrow. WHAT?! I have to manually open&close my own garage door 2-3 times? THIS IS F&*$ING SATANIC! #
• Is it any coincidence that hot weather makes manual effort to open/close garage door evoke HARD LABOR IN HELL? WTF has happened to America?! #
• Weird to see Cole and RVN on the pitch together. Forgot that. Think of them as different eras. RT @ManUtd24 http://youtu.be/v2MHphmbp1E #
• IT'S A TARP! Admiral Ackbar, NRO style: http://is.gd/dP1FQ #
• @ManUtd24 Easy for @rioferdy5 to confirm he is real: Write "This is my Twitter" on piece of paper and post twitpic of self holding paper. #
• At #ToyStory3 tonight: "It's Toyriffic," she declared, disturbingly channeling Rex Reed. http://tweetphoto.com/35697902 #

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• If he was 20ft tall, why did he climb the tree? @clackamasfire Male that fell out of tree … Approx 20ft fall, he was picking cherries.-SM #
• Man Utd pre-season match vs. Philadelphia on ESPN2 in minutes. Looking for some Fabio/Obertan/Cleverley/Macheda/Welbeck magic today… #
• Movie starring @CrispinGlover and @tomgreenlive http://imdb.to/5pOei9 Would rather see feature-length "behind-the-scenes" than movie itself. #
• My current hometown Milwaukie, OR is home of the Bing Cherry. Suck it, Tigard! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukie,_Oregon #

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• Agh. Retweeted wrong tweet. hold on. #
• That's more like it. #
• @ManUnitedYouth Do you know what's going on with Davide Petrucci this season? Is he injured, or drifting between youth and reserve teams? in reply to ManUnitedYouth #
• First tweet from new #iPhone4. Twitter dragged on my old 2nd gen phone. This is zippy. #
• Fun fact: AT&T stores sold out of all #iPhone4 cases that aren't pink, purple or plaid. Using spare Marware case for 2g phone. Fits ok-ish. #
• Is it weird that I find the bar scene in #Gremlins far too silly, but don't feel that way about the entire rest of the movie? #
• Strange mental connection: watching #Gremlins trapped in burning movie house evoked brilliant finale of #inglouriousbasterds : unsettling #
• Contemplating editing #Gremlins for my kids. Just a few too-intense, gory scenes, but not sure if movie still worth watching without them. #
• OK, Gizmo speeding around in Barbie car also unecessarily ridiculous, but it may be more ridiculous to apply any such standard to #Gremlins #
• I'm sure it goes without saying for any guy from my generation: Phoebe Cates circa 1982-1984 is the perfect girl, even clothed in #Gremlins #
• World cup final highlights, re-enacted with Legos: http://gu.com/p/2tbgt/tw #
• @Natron7 Call me if you want some FaceTime. I have my phone in my pants. in reply to Natron7 #
• Just told my 6yo daughter that her beloved great-great-aunt Kackie passed away. It's her first really conscious encounter with death. Sad. #
• I didn't experience close-to-intermediate family member dying until I was in my 20s. This is 5th(?) to pass for daughter, 1st she knew well. #
• Trying to see if I can sync #googlecalendar, #iphone4 & #thunderbird calendar with admin control from all interfaces. About 2/3 there. #
• Daughter wearing my old college-era t-shirt as makeshift nightgown… http://tweetphoto.com/32917007 #
• New entry on my #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads : "Melissa" from 1983 slasher #SweetSixteen http://imdb.to/cFG9XI #
• Twitter doesn't archive far enough back, but you can find some #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads entries here: http://bit.ly/9772Ux #
• If I ever get around to finishing upgraded website I'll post video/audio of each song in #dreamplaylistofexploitationballads #
• 6yo daughter has "boyfriend" she met in preschool. He has 4yo sister. Report from playdate: my 4yo son just gave her flowers. #truelovewaits #
• @joshuatopolsky http://twitpic.com/25w18r – A little simplistic to assume crabs were being dumped. Possible a crab posted the sign, and that #
• Since I did twitcrit on other 3 #Stepfather flicks, only fair that I include dubious 1992 threequel http://imdb.to/bm2oQV #
• #Stepfather III begins w/ title character getting plastic surgery to look unlike series star Terry O'Quinn, who wanted nothing to do with it #
• Since it was O'Quinn alone who made 1st #Stepfather notable, but failed to redeem crappy Pt2, outlook for Locke-free Pt3 not good #
• Promising high quality lousiness, our psycho #Stepfather is (while dressed as rabbit!) focusing his rejuved mania on single mom w/ gimp son #
• Nice casting of #Stepfather III lead char stand-in who sounds remarkably like O'Quinn. His target played by #3scompany vet Priscilla Barnes #
• Interesting twist: as #Stepfather preys on single mom, he's stalked by her psycho-lite previous boyfriend… #
• As I type, single mon's ex-beau bludgeoned with garden tools. #Stepfather shows him not to do "psycho" half-assed. #
• #Stepfather thought gimpy stepson less likely to prove mortal foe, but gimpy stepson uses nascent Internet to sleuth suspicious stepdad! #
• #Stepfather employs revolutionary physical therapy on paraplegic stepson: berate him until spinal injury revealed as mere sloth! #
• Hey #Stepfather in Pt3, holding manic psycho outbursts in open backyard not as private as previous basement locations. You're slipping. #
• "Drew Carey Show"'s Christa Miller has early supporting role in #Stepfather III as considerably less psycho stepparent #
• I suspect getting caught by priest while courting replacement for disappointing new family may be where #Stepfather begins to unravel in Pt3 #
• Another notable #Stepfather III casting coup: "bra-less wonder" and Desperate Housewives dead narrator Brenda Strong as TV news reporter. #
• #Stepfather used to setup shadow families in distant cities. Double life in same small town may be more than a homicidal maniac can handle. #
• #Stepfather series does raise compelling ?: How shifty & psycho does a man have to act before single mom discounts him as potential husband? #
• Is there no point at which maternal instinct to protect children from maniacs outweighs desperate thirst for remarriage? #Stepfather #
• Potential for sublime horribleness aside #Stepfather III mostly ordinarily bad so far. Doesn't reach ludicrous depths of Pt2. #
• #Stepfather is slipping: Goes to great effort to reclaim evidence from scene only to lazily leave said bloody evidence in coat pocket: Doh! #
• #Stepfather III a testament to miraculous healing powers of mass murder. Crippled children just need better motivation. What spinal injury? #
• #Stepfather III closed door to sequel – unless you know a plastic surgeon who doesn't mind digging through a wood chipper for spare parts… #

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• Great movie title: "Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-In-Law" Looking forward to this Rudy Ray Moore obscurity: http://imdb.to/cuCZCJ #
• Had this movie on the shelves when I worked at Blockbuster in the 90s. Now watching it for first time: http://amzn.to/d3Pl6S #GatorBait #
• #GatorBait is pure #joebobbriggs half-nude bayou gals, atrocious Cajun accents, corrupt redneck lawmen, violent revenge + cute tiny kittens! #
• #GatorBait reveals the anthropological fact that all backwoods swamp girls are impossibly ripe nymphs with smudges of grime on their faces. #
• #GatorBait also reveals that best method of cleansing smudges from said ripe nymph faces is skinny dipping. This is science. #
• Sadly there's a very real chance that #GatorBait could very quickly slip from campy exploitation into something unwatchably cruel. #
• #GatorBait just took cruel turn with gusto, but was thankfully quick about it. Let's just say that impending bayou justice is well-earned. #
• FTR I suspect that any similarities between #GatorBait and Disneyland's Splash Mountain attraction are purely coincidental. #
• One does wonder, however, how many times Walter Hill watched #GatorBait prepping for Southern Comfort. As a how-not-to guide, with tits. #
• That's enough #GatorBait for tonight. Doubt that stopping with 30 mins to go will leave me sleeplessly craving resolution. #
• #NED will probably win, but I loathe Dirk Kuyt. Fingers crossed for #URU 3-1 victory. #worldcup #
• Shouldn't S. Africans resent #NED for starting that whole apartheid thing? How do you say "Stockholm Syndrome" in #vuvuzela ? #worldcup #
• There's a mispelling on Dirk's #NED shirt. That should be "unt" not "uyt" #worldcup #
• Which is greater? GVB's age or the number of yards on that rocket? #NED 1-0. #worldcup #
• #NED should really be able to run riot now. #URU will have to attack. We'll see if they go for it, or play safe like #worldcup so far. #
• Does that mean he'll call off his Youtube copyright cops? RT @engadgetalt: Prince says the internet is 'over' http://bit.ly/cYmzlo #
• My Diego! #URU 1-1 #NED #worldcup #
• Diego Forlan #URU & Sarah Jessica Parker #worldcup #lookalikes #
• That looked offside to me. #NED 2-1 harsh on #URU #worldcup #
• Well that should wrap it up. #URU stunned, #NED 3-1 #worldcup #
• Forlan subbed out for #URU pretty much a white flag. He has been brilliant. #worldcup #
• IMO #URU has been 2nd most enertaining squad at this #worldcup after the evil #deutschbags #
• #URU pull a late one back 2-3 #worldcup Too late, right? #
• #NED win 3-2 but wasn't that a 2nd yellow for Van Bommel in final seconds, with no red? #worldcup #
• Catching up on old #KarateKid http://amzn.to/c4qJzk Pt 1 holds up well, Pt2 weak but inoffensive. WTF Pt 3? Insanely shitty throughout. #
• #KarateKid III had ludicrous over-the-top villain, idiotic plot, astonishingly limp finale. Wanted Martin Kove fest, but Kove barely in it. #
• We need movie starring Martin Kove as Will Ferrell's dad. Teaches him karate to fight old bully @jeremypiven (hint hint, @ghostpanther) #
• I'm going to try and jinx #GER by predicting they will win today's #worldcup semi v. #ESP 4-3. Despite my hatred, #GER + Ozil deserve final. #
• Watching #worldcup as brief power outage blinks off lights … but not cable, tv or any of 3 computers in room #ilovemyupsbatteries #
• ESP 1-0 #GER We could well have a rare final without a previous #worldcup winner in it. #
• Thought #GER might nick early goal creating more open game, but #ESP scored 1st late & #GER have really struggled vs good defence #worldcup #
• #GER is hoping Gomez can dig them out? Sad day for #GER. #worldcup #
• I am LOVING Billy Crudup's great performance in #PrettyBird http://amzn.to/aUfOo5 as douchey salesman spearheading invention of a rocketbelt #
• #PrettyBird is sort of a love letter to annoying pushy schmoozing salesmen who nevertheless play vital role in production of new tech. #
• In #PrettyBird Paul Giamatti also great as gruff scientist on project. Writen & directed by actor Paul Schneider. #
• #PrettyBird released in 2008 & not well-liked on IMDb or Netflix, but I am utterly charmed by it. Does it go horribly wrong in last 30 mins? #
• #PrettyBird takes weird dark turn & ending is too open, but still has refreshing optimism about the possibilities of entreprenuerism. Nice. #
• #FF Just in case #NED win #worldcup on Sunday, you may want to follow @BobbiEden who has novel (and NSFW!) plan to celebrate (on you) … #
• Go #URU ! Want a Forlan hattrick, No Klose #GER ! Injury will blessedly prevent him from becoming all-time top #worldcup scorer today. #yay #
• Can actually enjoy this fun #Ger side as Klose is sidelined. I did cheer for #Ger last #worldcup 3rd pl match because #POR were assholes #
• Although I'd prefer #URU win, rather expect a #Ger romp #worldcup #
• And #Ger is off the mark: 1-0 #worldcup #
• #URU draw level 1-1 Let's keep this match lively! #worldcup #
• Lace up that golden boot! Forlan #URU 2-1 #Ger #worldcup #
• #URU goalie having bad day #Ger 2-2 #worldcup #
• Forlan needs another 1-2 goals. Fear he will get subbed out soon. Doesn't look like he can make through an overtime. #URU #worldcup #
• Drat. #Ger late header 3-2. but #URU love coming from behind… #worldcup #
• #URU with last second free kick to tie – hits the post! Game over #Ger 3-2 #worldcup Forlan will replay that kick over and over in his head #
• Indifferent to #ESP & #NED, but hate few NEDs (Kuyt, Robben, RVP) + remembered I have #ESP jersey around here somewhere. Go #ESP #worldcup #
• Alonso #ESP has douchey rep for getting players sent off, but that #NED foul deserved a red. #worldcup #
• I'm getting the sense that both #ESP and #NED would be embarassed if they scored. Is it out of fashion? Politically incorrect? #worldcup #
• This game needs Torres. #ESP #worldcup #
• This game needs Zidane to headbutt someone. #worldcup #
• Newbies to #worldcup should never watch 1st round of group stage and rarely the final. Those matches usually have life sucked out of them. #
• I am so glad ABC just aired skanky "Bachelor Pad" commercial as I watch #worldcup with 6yo daughter. #
• During this break, someone with #ESP needs to teach Iniesta to use his left foot. #worldcup #
• Jinxing it now, but if Robben #NED becomes a hero tonight it will nauseated me. Rather have Scouse girl Torres vindicated. #worldcup #
• Heitinga sent off for #NED and #ESP with free kick outside box. No goal. #worldcup #
• I hope every #NED fan who fantasizes that orange team still plays with attacking flair is watching this. This is not 1974-2006 #worldcup #
• But if Sneijder wins it, good for him. he is top class. #NED #worldcup #
• #ESP #worldcup 1-0 #
• Don't weep for joy yet #ESP Defend. #worldcup #
• Torres is such a girl's blouse #Esp #worldcup #
• Congrats #ESP for trying so hard to lose so many matches and failing. #worldcup #
• Hooray for Xavi, Iniesta, Ramos, Casillas, Fabregas #ESP who truly deserve honor. I will laugh at Robben #NED sad for Sneijder #worldcup #
• Also congrats to Pique and Puyol #ESP #worldcup #
• LOL at #NED manager derisively taking off runners-up medal immediately after getting it #worldcup #
• Daughter is pleased #ESP won. Villian in current bedtime story is from #NED #worldcup #
• Forlan lost tie-breaker for #worldcup Golden Boot (top scorer/assists) to #Ger Mueller, but won Golden Balls award for shiniest nads. #

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• Those can be hard to find right now. I would try ANY STORE IN HOLLAND @snoopdogg "Need netherlands soccer jersey fo show 2night n Amsterdam" #
• My almost 4yo got an early birthday present tonight: his first issue of Playboy. http://tweetphoto.com/29743413 #
• No need predicting that #NED & #BRA would win today in #worldcup Tuesday's matches more interesting. I call: #JAP 2-1 #PAR & #POR 4-2 #ESP #
• @evilhag This might cure your current mummy obsession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gisz022idSk in reply to evilhag #
• #worldcup QF winner predictions: #BRA #URU #ARG #ESP. #
• Sneijder aside, this is my least fave #NED team in 20 years. #worldcup #
• Awesome #BRA goal. WHAT A PASS! #worldcup #
• There goes the #NED plan of boring us to death. #worldcup #
• Drat #NED fluke 1-1 #worldcup #
• We are now a Robben dive away from another lousy result #NED #BRA #worldcup #
• Ok #BRA start digging. #worldcup #
• Hey #BRA, when I said "Start digging" I meant THE OTHER WAY. #worldcup #
• Robben #NED has found a sympathetic audience in this ref. He should see red if there's any #worldcup justice. #
• Still stunned by that #BRA result. Only themselves to blame. If we end up w/ unlikely #NED #PAR #worldcup final I may shoot myself. #
• I'm calling a #URU #ARG #worldcup final right now. So you can be sure it won't happen. #
• Want follow #worldcup via hot actress? @ElizabethBanks is your venue.#FF RT @ElizabethBanks: Oh dear, Brazil. Oh dear. #BRA #worldcup #
• #URU attacking & coming close few times. #GHA not really in this #worldcup QF right now. So they'll probably win by bad calls + fluke goals. #
• And #GHA should've scored right there. Twice. #worldcup #
• Ouch #URU player down after bad fall. Neck injury? #worldcup ? #
• #URU player comes back on minutes after going comatose. #worldcup #
• If Boateng #GHA had scored w/that bicycle kick, I would've heard #vuvuzelas from S. Af here in Oregon. And #gha score 1-0! #worldcup #
• Last kick of the half! #GHA 1-0 #URU. #URU not same since captain went off with knee injury. #worldcup #
• Forlan breaks the #URU funk 1-1. #worldcup great free kick #
• #URU ratcheting up the diving as they get back in this #worldcup QF #
• Are they ghana do it? #GHA gets last min penalty. #worldcup. #
• CHOKE! #GHA #worldcup #
• And with that missed penalty, #GHA now faces a high pressure penalty shoot-out. Psych! #worldcup. #
• Either #GHA or #URU can beat #NED in semi. That semi lineup is a bit underwhelming. One of #GHA #URU & #NED will be in #worldcup final. Gad. #
• Deja vu! Can Gyan score this time? #GHA #worldcup Yes. Too late, dude. #
• #GHA captain misses his pen. #worldcup Weak shot, dribbles toward keeper. #
• #URU kidding me? Skies it. Pens even. #worldcup #
• Not quite. #GHA fails again. #URU win it with next kick. #worldcup #
• And it's cheeky! #URU through, Africa out of its own #worldcup. #
• Thanks for the party, Africa. Now stick that #vuvuzela somewhere else for 4 years. #worldcup #
• Turns out that #URU handball on the line + red card + penalty in last second of extra time was a great idea! #worldcup #
• My kids love the Milwaukie First Friday treasure hunt. Too bad the treasure maps are always wrong and some destinations are closed. #fail #
• Thrilled my @comcast dvr recognizes #worldcup as a series. But does it really have to record repeats of matches on channels I don't get? #
• Soon we will have generation of senior citizens who listened to AC/DC. With that, the concept of respecting one's elders will be moot. No? #
• Does anyone else ever see the emoticon "<3" and instead of a sideways heart, first think someone's trying to flash virtual balls at you? #
• Lose #GER lose! Yes, I'm expecting disappointment. And there it is. #ger 1-0 #Arg inside 3 mins. Holy crap. #worldcup #
• Wake up #ARG don't you know that #Ger never sleeps? #worldcup #
• No comment. #worldcup #
• RT @dorrk: No comment. #worldcup #
• Messi, now is the time for that hattrick, you miserable impotent dwarf. #ger 3-0 #Arg #worldcup #
• It's going to take a freaking HUGE amount of coke for Maradona to deal with this #ARG performance. We're talking #Scarface huge. #worldcup #
• This #worldcup has taken the shortlist of the world's best players and kicked them all square in the vaginas. #
• Weird: whenever I watch #par play I become drowsy. #ESP have been a #worldcup bore, too. Conspiring to make me support #Ger in semis? Gasp! #
• Can only support #Ger if Klose is out. Last remnant of despised generation. If #par make it to #worldcup semi, however, it will be tempting. #
• Listen #ESP – the lesson here is "stop playing like douches." You've escaped a penalty, now try to win. The #worldcup is unforgiving. #
• Now #ESP get a penalty: 1-0 #worldcup #
• No! Penalty disallowed? #ESP retake & miss! 0-0 #worldcup #
• After that exciting strange 2 mins. With 3 penalties & 1 goal, the score is still 0-0 and back on "snooze." #ESP #par #worldcup #
• #ESP score after hitting post 50 times in 30 seconds. 1-0. Please save us from overtime with #par #worldcup #
• The coolest part about your kids' birthdays is probably the way they get all hyper and cry non-stop for the few days leading up to the party #
• #ESP tried really hard to lose that one but stubborn #par just wouldn't let them #worldcup #

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• Today's #worldcup review: #PAR easy over #SVK, #NZL holds impotent champs #ITA, and Kaka sent off as #BRA beats up #CIV. #
• Tomorrow's #worldcup: #POR 7-0 #PRK (less likely margin now, but Ronaldo will rise), #CHI 0-0 #SUI, #ESP 3-2 #HON #
• @Safeway Milwaukie Oregon King Road Safeway. Check bakery for fresh bread 4:15, 4:45 or 5:15pm – never warm. This Sunday AM: stale donuts! in reply to Safeway #
• My other #worldcup predictions may be shite, but I TOTALLY CALLED that 7-0 #POR win. #
• Last round of group stage #worldcup matches starts Tuesday. By end of week half of all teams will be going home. Shit just got real. #
• 1st up #worldcup Gr. A. #URU and #MEX need only lifeless draw to both reach knockout stage. #FRA needs win + fluke to stay alive. #RSA done. #
• My original #worldcup Gr. A final match predictions: #MEX 1-1 #URU (now 0-0) #FRA 2-0 #RSA, but #RSA may have more pride & #FRA in shambles. #
• Do not recommend anyone watch #worldcup #MEX v. #URU. Neither has incentive to win or lose, just play safe. Fluke win possible, unlikely. #
• Originally picked #worldcup Group A finish #FRA (1) #MEX (2) #URU (3) #RSA (4). now, most likely: #URU (1), #MEX (2), #FRA (3), #RSA (4) #
• #worldcup Gr. B final Tuesday: #ARG B-team should beat #GRE, 2nd place determined by #KOR vs. #NGA. #NGA win would have 3 teams tied for 2nd #
• If 3-way tie for 2nd in #worldcup Group B, #NGA most likely 2nd place, as both #KOR and #GRE would have lost, but if all end 1-0, tie it is. #
• Original predictions for #worldcup group B: #ARG 4-0 #GRE (maybe 2-0 #ARG don't need win) & #KOR 1-0 #NGA Finish: #ARG (1) #KOR (2). #
• Most tense match in Tuesday's #Worldcup should be #KOR vs. #NGA . #GRE still has hope but must attack #ARG, will open up defense for Kun! #
• Will watch #FRA v #RSA in #worldcup hoping #FRA players get in fights w/ teammates Perhaps Zidane will come down and headbutt Malouda. #
• #Fra #worldcup just gets better. #rsa leads 1-0 and now red card for Gourcuff. He Really is the next Zidane! Still hour to go! #
• #rsa 2 – 0 #Fra #worldcup #
• #rsa 2 – 0 #Fra #worldcup Can @Twitter handle it? #
• Wasn't it against #RSA 1st round of #worldcup 1998 that Zidane was red carded for stomping on player's chest? #Fra won that #worldcup, ha! #
• Ooh, #URU just took 1-0 #worldcup lead vs #MEX suddenly that match comes alive. #
• Ooh, #URU just took 1-0 #worldcup lead vs #MEX suddenly that match comes alive. And @Twitter takes a nap. #
• ESPN says if #URU 1-0 #MEX score holds, #RSA needs to beat #FRA 4-0 to take 2nd place in #worldcup group A. Half way there! #
• Just learned that if you give 1yo a chewy granola bar, it can be completely disassembled into individual grains in less than 3 minutes. #
• Torn now over which #worldcup match 2nd half to watch. #MEX will be feeling pressure to score, and the #vuvuzelas will be less oppressive. #
• Boo, #FRA score, suck the life out of #worldcup group A #
• Boo, #FRA score, sucking the life out of #worldcup group A. Surprises far less likely now. #
• #FRA scoring took the wind out of #RSA chances , but any day #FRA ends #worldcup losing, last place in group, deserves a hearty #vuvuzela #
• Big goal for #NGA in #worldcup Group B. Now both #KOR and #GRE need to attack! #
• #KOR tie it up 1-1, but will press for the win to clinch 2nd spot in #worldcup group B. #NGA physical dominance racking up yellow cards. #
• #KOR take 2-1 lead. African teams not only not rising to occasion of 1st #worldcup on continent, but worst showing in over 20 years? #
• Miss. Of. The. Year. #NGA Yakubu. Oh my goodness. #worldcup #
• #NGA Yakubu doesn't miss a penalty kick: 2-2 Group B 2nd place back up for grabs, #GRE #worldcup #
• Oh Shittu, that was almost a #NGA own-goal! #worldcup #
• #ARG 1-0 #GRE #worldcup #
• That #ARG lead makes things in #worldcup Group B much more comfortable for #KOR (as #NGA misses yet another point blank opportunity.) #
• Many casual #worldcup viewers tune in to dull 1st round of group games and write it off. This last stage is when the magic really starts. #
• Match stalls as one of #KOR players stricken with menstrual cramps. #worldcup #
• Today's #worldcup saw #URU win Group A; #MEX take 2nd pl. #RSA go, er, stay home; #FRA completely humiliated. #URU and #MEX make finals. #
• #worldcup Group B, #ARG win as expected & #KOR 2-2 #NGA draw enough to book #KOR 2nd spot in finals, making #NGA cry & meeting predictions #
• #worldcup Gr. C predictions: originally #ENG 1-1 #SLN & #USA 1-2 #ALG but fuck that. #ENG will scrape by 2-1 and #USA will top group(!) 3-1. #
• #worldcup Gr. D predictions: #GHA 2-3 #GER & #SRB 2-0 #AUS – Africa's best hope is #GHA but they miss 2 best players + #GER always survives. #
• "a moral disaster for French football" Ha ha ha! http://bit.ly/blOYhW #worldcup #FRA #
• #Eng playing well now, 1-0 up vs #SVN & controlling game. #worldcup #
• #USA had another wrongly disallowed goal in 1st half; need a win now to reach finals if #Eng win #worldcup #
• #USA #worldcup 1-0 #
• All #worldcup predictions aside, I will be stoked if #GHA can get a good result today and knock #GER out. #USA won group: #miracleshappen #
• @mrkorb That's my girl (although she usually says "Liverpoop.") in reply to mrkorb #
• Wow, #GER has had a multiculti explosion. Last #worldcup they had 1 African & a couple of Poles. This year they look like Rainbow Coalition. #
• I have long-standing aversion to #GER NT, but do occasionally like #GER players: Klinsmann, Schweinsteiger in 2002, this #worldcup : Oezil. #
• Gyan for #GHA really really really wants to score from 40 yds out in this #worldcup but maybe there are better options. #
• #GHA look like they can beat this #GER #worldcup team, but need discipline in making and taking chances. That is #GER trademark. #
• Oezil is elegant and creative for #GER but he isn't much of a finisher in this #worldcup #
• Likely: #GHA will play hearts out, dominate match, come close several times, but ultimately lose to efficient #GER counterattack #worldcup #
• #GER coach Jurgen Loew and Kyle Maclachlan #worldcup #lookalikes #
• Just forget what I said about Oezil's finishing for #GER #worldcup #
• #GHA Ayew Ghana score a goal? Apparently not. #worldcup #puns #
• #SRB need a coach who can teach them about the goal scoring side of soccer. #worldcup #
• Ugh, #SRB collapsing 0-2 vs #Aus #worldcup #Srb is such an inconsistent, goal-averse team. Done picking them as dark horses. #
• Thurs. #worldcup predictions: #SVK 0-0 #ITA, #PAR 4-0 #NZL, #DEN 2-1 #JAP, #CMR 2-3 #NED : #PAR & #ITA top grp F, #NED & #DEN take grp E #
• Burning questions for Thurs. #worldcup: Can #ITA score? Will someone finally cream #NZL? Will #NED put out more effort in meaningless match? #
• With #ITA strikers Rossi & Cassano left home, will we see Quagliarella given a chance to save the #worldcup champs from elimination? #
• #ITA certainly need Pirlo if he's remotely fit enough. The guys out there now are completely devoid of inspiration. #worldcup #
• Who are potential stars #ITA didn't bring to #worldcup? Rossi, Cassano? Giovinco? Who is future of #ITA football? Aquilani? Bleak isn't it? #
• Quagliarella is on for #ITA this is a literal long shot (YouTube for his highlights – 10 or so amazing long range goals) #worldcup #
• Here comes Pirlo for #ITA He peaked as MVP candidate in 2006 #worldcup victory. In old injury afford age can he still conjure some magic? #
• Here comes Pirlo for #ITA He peaked as MVP candidate in 2006 #worldcup victory. In old injury addled age can he still conjure some magic? #
• #ITA coach Lippi was hero after 2006 #worldcup . He should have retired then. #
• Quagliarella the only positive attacker for #ITA right now. #worldcup #
• #ITA now losing 0-2 vs #SVK #worldcup champs going home today? #
• #ITA 1-2 now w 2nd goal ruled offside. Quagliarella has created more chances in few minutes than rest of team in 2.5 #worldcup matches. #
• Really desparate good stuff from #ITA in dying #worldcup minutes but #SVK score: 3-1! All over now for sure. #
• Wow who thought we'd see 4 goals in any of these #worldcup group f matches? #
• Brilliant Quagliarella goal #ITA 2-3 with 2 mins left #worldcup #
• #ITA out. 2-3 final. #worldcup #
• Amazing. #NZL tipped by many incl. me to be one of worst #worldcup teams ever goes home undefeated in 3 matches. Wonderful organization. #
• Goalzilla attacks! #jap 1-0 on brilliant long range rocket free kick #worldcup #
• Japaneasy. 2-0. #JAP score 1st two goals from free kicks this #worldcup Looking bleak for #DEN #
• #DEN are sucking but #JAP look fantastic right now #worldcup #
• #DEN just fielded a player born in the 1990s #worldcup #feelingold #
• Fri's #worldcup results as foretold a week ago: #POR 2-2 #BRA / #PRK 1-2 #CIV / #CHI 1-2 #ESP / #SUI 1-2 #HON (One revision: #SUI 2-0 #HON) #
• What do tomorrow's #worldcup games mean? #BRA and #POR 1&2 from Grp. G. I can't be arsed to figure out Grp. H if 3 teams end up on 6 points. #
• Apparently if #SUI win by 2 goals they qualify. #SUI and #CHI through to finals based on my #worldcup predictions? Or #SUI & #ESP? #
• See here for what happens in #worldcup Group H: http://bit.ly/btkmLh My predictions' result: #ESP 1st & #SUI 2nd. Rather see #CHI than #SUI. #
• #CHI get a red card as they go down 2-0. #ESP Torres with silly dive that fools ref #worldcup #
• Can't feel too sympathetic for #CHI on dubious red. Despite talent they often prefer to foul & cheat, and this is karma #worldcup #
• One my fave moments of #CHI #worldcup cheating: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/roberto-rojas/1989-world-cup-qualifying-incident.html #
• I recall reading about S. Amer. #worldcup team using fake blood to augment diving in 1970s but can't find anything on it. #
• #CHI strike back 1-2. Three great goals in this #worldcup match. #
• More #CHI #worldcup fun: "most stupid appalling disgusting disgraceful
  exhibition in the history of the game" http://bit.ly/b4F6Jl #
• Watching #Avatar for 1st time. If I understand this correctly, I think I just watched a giant smurf rape a dragon. #
• And the dragon appears to have liked it. #Avatar what a noble race, the Navi'i. #
• The way the Navi'i in #Avatar treat animals is totally regressive and demeaning. A lot like the way James Cameron treats his characters. #
• #worldcup 1st round wrapup: thanks to #BRA & #POR for using meaningless match to display vigorous end-to-end attacking advert for football! #
• My 1st round #worldcup predictions correctly picked 3 2nd rd matchups:#ENG v #GER (reversed grp pos), #ARG v #MEX, and #NED v #SVK. #
• My best #worldcup guesses were #ITA out in 1st rd, w #PAR 1st and #SVK 2nd and the score of #POR 7-0 #PRK #
• For #worldcup knockout rnd most of my pre-tourney predictions out the window, but I'll stick with the 3 valid 1s out of loyalty to ignorance #
• Saturday's #worldcup: #URU 3-2 #KOR This one may be high-scoring, with #URU deadly strikers counterattacking fast #KOR team. #
• Saturday's #worldcup: #USA 2-2 #GHA, #USA close to revenge for 2006 injustice, but #GHA ties it late & wins on pens. Hope I'm wrong. #
• Hey, @culturepulp @FatboyRoberts @CortWebber What happened to your podcast feed? I might be too lazy to manually download your Friday shows. #
• Great start to #URU vs #KOR two teams who like to attack quickly. 1-0 #URU in 9 mins #worldcup #
• @FatboyRoberts yeah, my malfunction + couldn't find link on your site. Delete tweet 2 mins after posting & everyone still sees it. Awesome. in reply to FatboyRoberts #
• #URU up 2-1 now, 10 mins to go. Is the rain responsible for all those empty seats? Never seen that at a #worldcup before. #
• Are the #USA ever Ghana score first? Not today. #GHA 1-0. #worldcup #
• Pen for #USA 1-1. #worldcup #
• Woohoo our 1st overtime of 2010 #worldcup #USA 1-1 #GHA Turn the anti-soccer moaning up to 11. (My wife will gladly lead the way.) #
• Why does Opera Mini for iPhone give me "remember passwords?" option and yet always make me login to every website for which I have password? #
• #USA better try to win #worldcup match in the next 30 mins because I have feeling they will totally crumble in penalty shootout. #
• Well. #GHA 2-1 #USA. (I did predict a 2-2 draw before penalties.) #worldcup #
• My wife to #GHA : "How come you couldn't do that 5 minutes earlier, you jackasses?" #worldcup #waitingforgametoend #
• Donovan looks tired. Usually 15 mins after game ends he's exfoliated and moved on to a deep tissue massage & tanning session #USA #worldcup #
• ESPN made interesting choice airing this entire final 15 mins in slow motion. #worldcup #
• New #worldcup rule proposal: any player hurt so bad they have to leave the field must remain off for 10 mins. #
• #Avatar overuses the mournful ululation-laden score to the point of parody, and no director should feel comfortable using it in future. #
• Na'vi ideal of harmony w/nature = mind-raping animals until they become handpuppets, devoid of their own free will? Barbarians. #Avatar #
• Feeling pretty good about today's #worldcup predictions, #URU beat #KOR and #USA sadly did not, as expected, overcome #GHA in close matches #
• Sunday's #worldcup features rare 2nd rd matchups I predicted before tourney started: #ENG vs #GER and #ARG vs #MEX. #ENG wins 3-2, #ARG 3-1. #
• Getting bit annoyed w/self for continuing to predict #worldcup. What fun would #worldcup be if you could predict it? #
• Then again, if I didn't try to predict #worldcup results (and fail at it), how would I know how really, pleasantly unpredictable it is? #
• Ugh #Eng fall to pieces. Down 2-0 to #Ger #worldcup #
• #Eng pull one back. Has #Ger ever thrown away 2 goal lead in #worldcup ? #
• What? Lampard scored a 2nd but disallowed! #Eng #Ger #worldcup #
• Lampard hits bar again for #Eng Never stop the dreaming! #worldcup #
• Memo to all 2010 #worldcup players: Stop shooting from 40 yards. There are almost always better options. You're not even close. #
• Rooney coming to life a little for #Eng More like it. #worldcup #
• It's a kRoute. #Ger 3-1 #Eng #worldcup #
• I hate #Ger FFS Heskey supposed to turn this around for #Eng ? Who'd expect Capello to oversee worst #Eng #worldcup defeat in decades? #
• This abject #Eng display makes me wish Rooney would stomp on someone, just for a sign that anyone out there cares. #worldcup over for #Eng #
• Refereeing mistakes again #ARG 1-0 #MEX #worldcup #
• #MEX need to be careful. They don't tend to handle disappointment very gracefully. They can come back without lashing out. #worldcup #
• #MEX frustrated, aggreived and down 2-0 now. Watch them start committing lots of nasty off-the-ball fouls. #worldcup #
• Other gaffes notwithstanding we shouldn't be surprised when #ARG team involving Maradona scores goal with assist from a blind ref #worldcup #
• Tevez 3-0, not bad for a Man Shitty player #ARG #worldcup #
• BTW wouldn't get carried away about #Ger #worldcup win today. #eng never showed up. Real team should take #Ger apart just as easily. #
• CHICARITO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #mex #WORLDCUP #

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• Which do I prefer: constant weekend-long throttling of pressure washer motor in neighbor's backyard, or #worldcup #vuvuzelas? Vuvuzelas. #
• Which do I prefer: non-stop yelling + whining + chatter of three hyper children from 7am-8pm, or #worldcup #vuvuzelas? Vuvuzelas. #
• Which do I prefer: Paul Simon's #Graceland, or #worldcup #vuvuzelas? Vuvuzelas. #
• Fozzie Bear is African? @gpollowitz RT @lihle_z Anyone thinking of banning the #vuvuzela … Wakawaka, this is Africa, we will fight! #
• @gpollowitz Too late, the soccer board I frequent has a year-old thread about just that. Reg. req'd: http://bit.ly/axhWIS in reply to gpollowitz #
• @gpollowitz Too late, the soccer board I frequent has a 51-page year-old thread about just that. Reg. req'd: http://bit.ly/axhWIS #
• After Sunday's #worldcup prediction blow-out (1 for 3), my useless picks for Monday: #NED 1 – 1 #DEN || #JAP 0 – 2 #CMR || #ITA 0 – 0 #PAR #
• I also predict that, of my #worldcup predictions for Monday, I will be wrong on at least two of them. #
• @LendogPDX Apparently you don't recall when #ITA met #PAR in 1998 #worldcup ? 120 mins of the worst goalless draw you can imagine. I dread. in reply to LendogPDX #
• Hey, #USA, everyone on #ITA sings their national anthem b4 #worldcup match. @bocanegracarlos @OguchiOnyewu5 @JozyAltidore17 @Landon_Donovan #
• Who is this team in blue? Why are they attacking the goal? What happened to #ITA? Is this a science fiction movie or the #worldcup ? #
• Out of character, #ITA playing fast attacking football, setting great example as #worldcup champs. Hope it works & inspires others. #
• Of course it would help if #ITA had a world class goal scorer on the field. Hope Rossi gets a chance this #worldcup #
• Brief signal blackout reinforces my dread about depending on @comcast dvr as primary #worldcup source this year. #
• Prefer @comcast box as backup for homebrew htpc w/ @SageTV , but #comcrap blocks pc tuners from picking up most digital channels. Lame. #
• Bad day for #ITA @worldcup? Attacking style backfires, losing to #par , gk Buffon out at HT injured (?), no one to score goals… #
• Ack! Giuseppe Rossi didn't make final #ITA #worldcup squad? Is that how they plan to defend: No goals? You should've played for #USA Joe! #
• TBF #ITA won 2006 #worldcup without goals from forwards but defenders. Squad this year really weak in comparison. MF DeRossi just tied it. #
• Look out #ITA – one of most disappointing overhyped talents of last decade coming on for #PAR but he's better than your #worldcup strikers #
• Gilardino coming off for #ITA … Who could tell he was out there for 72 min? I miss #ITA #worldcup stars like Baggio & Vieri. #
• Pepe from #ITA looks like bald Eric Bana. #worldcup #
• #ITA v #PAR look like two teams without forwards trying new ways not to score on each other. #worldcup classic. #
• #worldcup predictions awry! Called #ITA – #PAR draw (wrong score), but #JAP over #CMR surprise, & #HOL tried to tie #DEN but #DEN owngoaled. #
• Tomorrow's #worldcup predictions: #SLO 3 – 0 #NZE, #IVO 1 – 3 #POR (assuming Drogba doesn't play & #POR doesn't implode), #BRA 6 – 1 #NKO #
• Tomorrow in #worldcup #PRK and #NZE begin competition for worst team ever to make the finals. WTF is the hash tag for New Zealand? #
• I should say that #PRK is nowhere near as bad as #NZL, but may get hammered worse because of the teams in their #worldcup group. #
• On today's #worldcup evidence, #ITA and #PAR may both struggle to penetrate expectedly viscous #NZL defense, while #PKR faces #POR and #BRA. #
• Amazing! How did they get the shark to cooperate? @reckless I have … picture of a shark eating the new Xbox. http://twitpic.com/1wvcv2 #
• Back from my own soccer game with 5th goal in 5 games, a 5-0 record, huge turf burn on my shin and sprained finger. #worldcup #shmorldshmup #
• Casual #worldcup viewers may want to tune in to #POR v #CIV there could be a fight any moment. Both dirty whiny divers galore. #
• The #worldcup ref for #POR v #CIV is lousy so far, creating good atmosphere for mischief. You think Ronaldo is a douche? Wait for Drogba. #
• In 2006 #worldcup #POR involved in dirtiest match in decades vs. #NED. It was a disgrace on both sides, but oh so fun to watch. #
• Well, after a punchy start all the energy got strangely sucked out of #POR v #CIV #worldcup #
• Well, after a punchy start all the energy got strangely sucked out of #POR v #CIV #worldcup it appears to have put Twitter to sleep. #
• Credit to #NZL for surviving vs #SVK #NZL may lack talent but they were better organized and cohesive. #SVK played with no unity or purpose #
• #BRA #POR #CIV considered "group of death" but #ITA #PAR #NZL #SVK is the #worldcup group most likely to induce coma. "Group of the undead?" #
• I think they may be related to Wenlock and Mandeville http://bit.ly/9T7HCt @culturepulp http://bit.ly/a6eoXH (via @Gawker ) #
• #BRA turning on style early vs #PRK in #worldcup Should work better for them than it did for #ITA yesterday. Robinho in good mood = fun. #
• #PRK has some precocious players. #BRA should well stomp them, but I still fancy the Koreans to nick a goal. #worldcup #
• #BRA doing fine now but like #ITA playing without a deadly striker at focus of #worldcup attack. Fabiano barely noticeable unlike midfield. #
• Norks score! #BRA 2 – 1 #PRK #worldcup And a beauty! #
• After last 2 days, do my #worldcup predictions really matter? No wins for #POR & #SVK, #BRA scrapes by. Why bother with tomorrow's? #
• Tomorrow is another #worldcup day! I brazenly call for high-scoring draw #HON 3 – 3 #CHI followed by #ESP 2 – 0 #SUI, and #RSA 1 – 1 #URU. #
• 1st round of #worldcup matches & my predictive powers limp. No draw for #CHI – #HON and #SUI upsets #ESP, who choked earlier than expected. #
• Today's #worldcup 1st big shocker, choketastic faves #ESP lose 0 – 1 vs #SUI and hosts #RSA deservedly went down to good #URU side 0-2. #
• My first day 0 for 3 in #worldcup predictions. New prediction: Tomorrow can't go any worse! #FRA 2-2 #MEX, #GRE 1-1 #NGA, #ARG 2-0 #KOR #
• Note on #worldcup predictions: I made all the day before the tournament. I would revise some, but funnier to be chronically out of touch. #
• For example I now expect #MEX to lose and #NGA to win tomorrow, but I believe in the purity of wrongness, my #worldcup of shame. #
• Today's #worldcup – predictions irrelevant. Well played by #ARG, #GRE and #MEX. Feel bad for Evra. #FRA worse than my predictions so far. #
• 2nd round of #worldcup group stage games always better than 1st round. But 3rd round #MEX vs. #URU now likely most boring match yet. #
• Tomorrow's unlikely #worldcup predictions: #GER 1-1 #SRB, #SLV 1-2 #USA, #ENG 3-0 #ALG. Actually, will stand by last 2. #GER likely win. #
• Did Charles M. Schultz design the #SLV #worldcup shirts? #
• No sympathy for #Ger they got lucky red card vs #aus Ref vs. #Srb may have saved us from douche Klose becoming alltime #worldcup lead scorer #
• Isn't #SLV where they have that hostel that lets rich Euros torture & kill US students? Get revenge #USA via #worldcup! (Or was that #SVK ?) #
• Ack. Keep using #SLV for Slovenia. Correct #worldcup hash is #SVN Apologies for my xenophobic hashing – they all look alike to me. #
• Wife thinks that my getting up early to watch #worldcup means I also take care of/feed kids while she sleeps in #womendontunderstandsports #
• Bad call on #USA "handball" but Findley deserves yellow for not shooting w multiple chances. #SVN shoots, therefore they score. #worldcup #
• Shades of #USA implosion vs #gha in 2006 #worldcup Bad ref + plus careless mistakes = early exit. #USA can beat #SVN but need to shoot more. #
• #USA ! #worldcup #
• Goal #USA a tie could be enough #worldcup #
• #USA is chronic #worldcup heartbreaker, so optimism is guarded. #
• #USA will never get a break from #worldcup refs, ever. #
• #Eng bravely facing fear of #worldcup failure by letting fear of failure cripple them, resulting in failure which can then be faced head-on. #
• #Eng do poor job getting Rooney involved, but when has had chances today, he's been horrible, dejected, no effort. Not rising to #worldcup #
• #Eng last sub Crouch. Seems a player like Joe Cole more likely to introduce something new to #worldcup chances. #
• WTF Rooney pulling out of challenges for #Eng ? He's afraid of injury or cards. His typical determination absolutely missing from #worldcup #
• Rooney not running w ball either. Conservatively dishing off instead. Pathetic #Eng #worldcup #
• Benadryl is my master. Forgive me if I type like thflkagfffnldvbbmn #
• Better not talk about how today's #worldcup predictions went. IRL #GER fell, #USA was held to a draw by #REF, and #ENG forgot to play #ALG #
• Here's the bizarro skinny for Saturday's #worldcup: #GHA 2-2 #AUS (more like 4-0), #NED 3-1 #JAP (1-1 prolly), #CAM 2-1 #DEN (more like 0-0) #
• RT @TelegraphNews Wayne Rooney's unreliable England team-mates bring out the worst in striker http://bit.ly/azbPNs #
• RT "England team visited orphanage in Cape Town today. 'It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope' said Jamal aged 6." #
• Anelka kicked out of #FRA #worldcup squad for insulting moronic coach http://bit.ly/b2t7ZE #
• Unpredictable #worldcup not so off today: Called #AUS – #GHA draw, not score; #NED win (but no style); but #CAM – #DEN reversed. Heating up! #
• Tomorrow's #worldcup results, as foretold by a fool: #SVK 0-0 #PAR, #ITA 1-0 #NZL, #BRA 2-0 #CIV. Assumes Italy can score. No wagers. #
• This sounds like a healthy #FRA #worldcup team dynamic: "Evra: We must find traitor!" http://bit.ly/97RXwH via @addthis #
• Why so long for the RSS feed to update? Still no new file posted… @engadget Engadget Podcast, live at 5:45PM! 2:55 PM Jun 17th #
• Oh, #ITA #
• #ITA trying very hard to make #Fra #eng #ESP look like #worldcup success stories #
• I loathe former #ITA players Del Piero, Totti, Inzaghi but could #ITA use them now. Where is creativity in #worldcup squad? Who is star? #
• #ITA should be careful trying to get #NZL player sent off. It will be more embarassing for champs to lose #worldcup match vs 10-man #NZL #
• #ITA shouldn't look to proud of drawing level with #NZL in #worldcup Save the celebrations, paisani. #
• Fun to mock #ITA #ENG #ESP #FRA etc. But less favored teams at #worldcup have been almost perfectly organized & disciplined. No margins. #
• I almost scored a goal like that #BRA #worldcup Fabiano's in my game last Monday – flipped it over 3 defenders – but keeper saved the shot. #
• Looks like ref suspected handball on that #BRA #worldcup goal, but gave it anyway? And then joked about it with scorer? Not good. #
• I delight any time #CIV Drogba loses. Go #BRA ! #
• Boo, Drogba, but too late for #CIV #worldcup ? #
• Coincidence that #CIV is involved in two chippiest matches of this #worldcup ? With captain like diving dirty whining Drogba? Nah. #

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• Just taught my daughter to play chess. Turns out a 6yo first-timer is just about the perfect opponent for me. I am the winner! #isuckatchess #
• Following up chess lesson with bedtime story from this book. http://tweetphoto.com/26020758 #
• Prediction time! Always pick Argentina to win it, always wrong. Why deviate? Maybe this year: Argies 2 – 1 Portugal in the final. #WorldCup #
• Tomorrow's scores: S. Africa 1 – 2 Mexico || Uruguay 1 – 1 France || Argentina 4 – 0 Nigeria #WorldCup #
• My #WorldCup prediction shortcomings: not enough 0-0 scores, always expect underdogs to fail before semis, too sentimental about England #
• My #WorldCup surprises: Paraguay and Serbia in the QFs. WTF Paraguay? They have an easy-ish path & Italy chokes on goal diff in Group 5. #
• More #WorldCup funtasy: Hosts S.Africa won't win a game, lucky for a point! New Zealand will do better than N.Korea only because of group! #
• Another #WorldCup blind spot in my predictions: Totally discounting Africa Effect. Expect all African teams to choke. Too many key injuries. #
• Making revision to #WorldCup predictions! Scratch Paraguay from QFs. Give Cameroon benefit of doubt as only African team to survive groups. #
• My new #WorldCup prediction is that Cameroon will beat not tie Denmark in Group for 2nd spot and then beat Paraguay in 2nd round to make QFs #
• It's possible Nigeria could make 2nd stage over S. Korea, but am still expecting major African disappointment, Cameroon excepted. #WorldCup #
• Surprise teams to reach #WorldCup 2nd stage: Slovakia (Italy don't make it), Honduras over Chile, U.S. will lose to Algeria but squeak in. #
• The Rapes of Wrath #missingletterfilms #
• Little Bi Man #missingletterfilms #
• Valley of He Dolls #missingletterfilms #
• The Day Reagan Was Hot #missingletterfilms #
• Shaun of the D.E.A. #missingletterfilms #
• I messed up posting #WorldCup predictions 2 days ago. For today: S.Korea 1 – 0 Greece | Argies 4 – 0 Nigeria | England 1 – 1 U.S.A. #
• Yesterday's #WorldCup, got France v Uruguay result right – a draw – but score wrong. Thought Mexico would nick SAfrica by a goal, but tied. #
• So far today, got #WorldCup results right but scores wrong. Greece worse than expected, Argies played for draw despite winning. #
• Nigeria was awful today #WorldCup, how Arg didn't score more is baffling. They have the talent but look like they expect to coast through. #
• For today's big #WorldCup match I have divided loyalties. My favorite players are English, but I want U.S. to win. Expect however 1-1 draw. #
• Rationalize today's #WorldCup this way: England can lose and still do well later. USA has limited opps for glory. Win today would be cool. #
• This #WorldCup I am trying to avoid any ESPN/ABC pregame, half-time, postgame worthless crapola. Much better analysis on web, #fbtz #
• #WorldCup teams like Arg playing safe to protect slim leads may get shock when groups decided by goal difference. #
• If a #WorldCup team like Nigeria today invites massacre you should take them up on it and run up the score. You may need extra goals later. #
• Before I forget, my #WorldCup predicts for tomorrow: #ALG 0 -1 #SLO || #GER 0 – 1 #AUS (Upset!) || #SRB 2 – 0 #GHA (Ghana miss Essien) #
• Half of the #USA team before their #WorldCup match didn't even try to sing the anthem. Protest? Nerves? Or just bad singers? #
• I'd love to see Rooney top scorer of this #worldcup but #Eng midfield does not know how to link up with him. He's practically shut out. #
• #ENG should make #Rooney the focal point of their #worldcup attack. He didn't touch the ball for 1st 17 minutes in today's game. #
• #USA got a gift today, but they played well. you have to appreciate how much they have improved technically since 1994-1998. #Worldcup #
• @RichLowry Compared to last summer's Confed Cup, ESPNABC has done great job equalizing down the #worldcup #vuvuzelas to a mere annoyance in reply to RichLowry #
• #USA should beat both #SLV & #ALG in next games (though I expect they blow it vs. #ALG). Today's result should get them to 2nd rd #worldcup #
• Eh today's #worldcup predictions not going well. Got the #SLE 1-0 right, but #Srb threw theirs away & #aus don't look like upsetting anyone #
• #Ger always start strong (#deutschbags) & Oezil gives them something extra even if he's fluffing his shots. Wish he played for Turkey. #
• I hate Klose #ger. Hope he doesn't break #worldcup scoring record. Owes it to pathetic 2002 Saudi team who he scored 5 against. #
• #aus should've played this #worldcup defensively from start. Unless #Ger gets cocky they should massacre #aus on counter attack 2nd half. #
• #aus do play nicely & Cahill is great goal scorer, but didn't expect them to be so disorganized defensively #worldcup not how to match #Ger #
• Ugh Cahill #aus gets straight red! He's out of cup. #aus is doomed doomed doomed. #
• Oddly #aus look more like scoring now w/best player sent off, but also look letting in more #ger goals as they push forward #worldcup #
• Still think this crazy #worldcup group where anything can happen, but #srb need dramatic improvement & #gha implosion to make 2nd round. #
• Watched #inglouriousbasterds the other night. Could do with similar revisionist destruction of #ger football team about now #worldcup #
• Would it be too tasteless to refer to this #Ger #worldcup massacre as a holoc#aus ? #
• Dislike multiethnic #ger team. Easier to hate robotically efficient master race. Immigrant flair makes #ger sadly attractive. #worldcup #
• Saving grace of this big #Ger win is now #deutschbags will be hailed as faves making their eventual early #worldcup exit all the more sweet. #

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• Few months ago I twee-viewed 2009 movie #Ninja http://amzn.to/b1VdwB. Tonight: 2009 genre doppleganger #NinjaAssassin http://amzn.to/cyErO9 #
• Suspect from DVD menu #NinjaAssassin won't have same fun campy retro vibe but rather try to sate hardcore ninja who lack sense of irony. #
• OK #NinjaAssassin opens with guy born w heart in wrong side of chest. Maybe this will be fun after all. #
• CGI gore no replacement for the real fake thing. Ninja in #NinjaAssassin too efficient, like Robocop or Death in #FinalDestination series. #
• Note to self: strike "School for Ninjas" off list of potential charter schools for my kids. #NinjaAssassin #
• Wow, 2 consecutive robo-replies. Feeling isolated on Twitter? Post a few notes-to-self about Robocop and you'll feel like nerd prom king. #
• Hm, on 2nd thought maybe I won't publish that long blog post exposing the ancient global ninja conspiracy… #NinjaAssassin #
• CGI makes gore not only too fake but also too easy. Old-school sfx makeup gore had a hands-on craft to it that made it fun #NinjaAssassin #
• In #NinjaAssassin the gore is too abundant, too fake and boring. Otherwise, ninja conspiracy plot takes self too seriously but OK so far. #
• I'm one of those old geezers who prefers my ninjas organic free-range Sho Kosugi style, not hyperkinetic blurry shadows in #NinjaAssassin #
• Bad ninjas in #NinjaAssassin move and whisper like smoke monster in lost, but die too easily like heavy sacks of overripe tomatoes. #
• Really dislike how throwing stars in #NinjaAssassin seem to be propelled in volume with machine gun-like force and velocity. #
• Pretty sure I just saw hero in #NinjaAssassin get sliced in half at waist, keep fighting, and now getting away w/o sense of imminent death. #
• Hey bad ninjas in #NinjaAssassin: whispering creepy things as you encroach on target MAKES YOU SHITTY NINJAS! #
• Did ninja boss who tortured little kid for making floor creak really teach rest of #NinjaAssassin class to whisper for effect before attack? #
• So Europol guy can shoot ninja sword in mid-swing but can't hit ninja running away in straight line? C'mon, #NinjaAssassin . #
• None of weapons in #NinjaAssassin look like cool toys you could play with as kid. This movie kind of makes ninjas suck. Plot is anti-ninja. #
• Soulless action nerds may prefer #NinjaAssassin but for purposes of juvenile 80s ninja movie nostalgia goofy #Ninja hit the right notes. #
• For christ's sake, teleportation b.s. in #NinjaAssassin is worst new ninja tech since one of "American Ninja" movies added lasers to mix. #
• Confused: was secret ninja school in #NinjaAssassin actually nestled in Alps? Lesson: ninjas don't need to be supernatural to be supercool. #
• Yes I realize that Sho Kosugi was in #NinjaAssassin but #Ninja more accurately captured the spirit of what made Kosugi cool in the 1980s. #
• This is why I love the IMDb message boards: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186367/board/thread/153503906 #NinjaAssassin #
• A fan! RT @Keith5Morris: @dorrk, Your a dumb ass, ninja assassin was an incredible action movie. You sound like a huge fag criticizing it. #
• Watching #Peacock http://amzn.to/cV6fPr which stars the always creepy Cillian Murphy in 1950s-ish housewife drag. #
• #Peacock has great cast for movie I've never heard of: Ellen Page, Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine, Bill Pullman. #
• Maybe why #Peacock is obscure: has one of worst most confusing low budget SFX seqs ever. Was that supposed to be a train derailing? #
• Atrocious staging. Setting up pretty intriguing plot however as train wreck in #Peacock brings unwanted attention to small town weirdo. #
• #Peacock should have played in theaters with @CrispinGlover short "The Orkly Kid" as intro http://imdb.to/9UCPPL #
• Bad effect shot aside #Peacock is otherwise fascinating so far, but if townspeople don't start catching on soon it will strain credulity. #
• #Peacock just got a helluva lot weirder. Not so hard to imagine why it didn't get wide release. #
• Been bugging me all through #Peacock but finally realized: Cillian Murphy in drag looks like Emily Blunt: http://imdb.to/bw89s0 #
• Liked #Peacock If you accept Shakespearean conceit that no one sees through disguise, it's a compelling weird drama/thriller w/great acting. #
• #Peacock marketing is little misleading. This is not horror or intense thriller. Pretty low key with quiet ending that doesn't try too hard. #
• The Milwaukie @Safeway bakery never has hot french bread at the same time two days in a row. Why does Safeway hate its customers? #
• Have @redbox coupon but got stuck behind old man. It's like being locked out of Blockbuster while codger slowly checks every title in store. #
• Watching #YesMenFixtheWorld http://amzn.to/c1CPKh The Yes Men are not my political ilk, but they are brilliant & hilarious prankster. #
• I saw a diff Yes Men doc a few years ago. Fittingly for anticapitalists the DVD is $4 at amazon http://amzn.to/bfWeIn #YesMenFixtheWorld #
• The Yes Men caused Dow Chemical stock to lose $2 billion in 23 minutes after BBC TV prank. Amazingly skilled imposters #YesMenFixtheWorld #
• Someone call Will Graham: the Tooth Fairy is on it's way to our house tonight! #manhunter http://tweetphoto.com/25467626 #
• Watching #PreciousBotNPbS http://amzn.to/btmPZi They didn't give a crap about continuity errors? Did Precious eat the script supervisor? #
• She's only been onscreen a few minutes so far but I want to kick Mariah Carey in the face #PreciousBotNPbS #
• This is a moving story but the direction is irritating. Every time it deviates from objective POV it derails into crap. #PreciousBotNPbS #
• #PreciousBotNPbS lost me pushing big emotional scene way too hard. Now I'm numb to all of it. This isn't even "afterschool special" quality. #
• God I hate director Lee Daniels. Ruins every good scene. Hope his next movie is the bomb he deserves. http://imdb.to/9JifCR #PreciousBotNPbS #
• Daniels doesn't trust his story or his actors. 60% great, but 40% was Daniels ruining his – and his actors' – good work. #PreciousBotNPbS #
• 5 days until World Cup starts. Not sure how to indulge Twitter & avoid spoilers nearly every day for 5 weeks. Can't watch all games live. #

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