Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Yup, we seem to be on a roll with post titles the feminists will find odious. But this is The Blog That Nobody Reads, so don’t go holding your breath for one of them to put up one of their own “I hate this thing I found over here now help me hate it” treatises.
What am I saying? Don’t hold your breath waiting for them not to do that; it’s all they do. So it’s like even money.
Anyway, getting back to the subject at hand…
None of the stars of old are on the list. It seems to start sometime in the 1970’s. None of John Wayne’s characters made the cut, and you can forget about Kirk Douglas, Steve McQueen, Yul Brynner. Bronson did get in through the magic of his “Death Wish” movies.
I was glad to see Rambo at #2. Rambo’s the bomb. I had no idea a machine gun works so much better, if you yell while you’re firing it, until I saw Rambo II. In fact, now that I’ve seen that new Transformers movie I realize everything works better if you yell while you’re using it. Think I’ll try that at work today. Neither the mouthy kid nor Optimus Prime made this list, though.
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“Of all time” must have been re-written to “of MY time.” I refuse to chase the link; any list of ostensibly Bad-Ass leading men that excludes The Duke and Steve McQueen ain’t worth my time. Besides that… it would probably just piss me off, seeing as how I believe The Last Good Movie was made sometime back in the ’70s. And get off my lawn.
- bpenni | 07/22/2009 @ 11:39Ditto Buck, big fucking ditto.
- tim | 07/22/2009 @ 11:46You know the trouble with making an equivalent list for the “classic” badasses, is that in that era they tend not to be unique characters. Dirty Harry really isn’t any different from Josey Wales and Frank Bullitt isn’t too different from Captain Virgil Hilts. The actors who were for the most part doomed to die from lung cancer, generally built their careers playing the same character over and over again. And I’m not faulting that, it worked and it worked very, very well.
But it would have a big effect on the list being put together. If Burt Lancaster was your kind of tough guy, then you’d be ranking every single character he ever played, over every single character played by Yul Brynner. You’d have to rank it by the actor or else it would end up being pointless.
- mkfreeberg | 07/22/2009 @ 13:45What a great site that was. I especially loved the “Top ten worst workplace videos.” I laughed until I cried.
“Does it smell like vagina in here to you?” HAHAHAH
- cylarz | 07/23/2009 @ 02:52