Film Review: The Iron Lady
Here’s my first suggestion to anyone who wants to make a political biopic: it’s best to not do it if you’re afraid of politics. If your political figure is the first female Prime Minister in Britain’s history, you might not want to be afraid of gender issues either. My greatest piece of advice, however, would be this: if you want to make a film that avoids controversy, perhaps it shouldn’t be about Margaret Thatcher. Stripped of politics, lacking in history, barely touching on gender or character growth, The Iron Lady is really about an old woman in a nice apartment who suffers from dementia. This was a controversial decision in itself, yes, but the overwhelming message of the film – it’s...
Read MoreBest of 2011: Hugo Chavez is Totally Alive, You Guys
Even though I tried, my prose couldn’t really add to the magnificence of the Hugo Chavez workout video… so I won’t try again. Watch it again through this post.
Read MoreBest of 2011: Samantha Cameron… FASHION ICON
I don’t like to snark on political wives/husbands. Of course I do it, but I don’t like it largely because I don’t think being married to someone important is a job. I’m clearly in the minority though, because bitches keep throwing away perfectly good jobs as lawyers and fancy pen makers in order to wear clothes, sniff flowers, and pretend that the white bread hack they’re married to is some kind of statesmen. This is why, ultimately, I do snark. They’re playing. If you want to pretend like being the Prime Minister’s top vagina means you have some kind of role to play as an ambassador for your country, then it’s gamefuckingon. Samantha Cameron, by most accounts a smart, classy professional...
Read MoreBest of 2011: Governor Arnold’s Love-Child with the Housekeeper
I’ve tried to blog as little as possible about American politics this year. Not because I don’t enjoy them…I do, A LOT; but because that shit gets played to death. I’m also finding more and more that, with even the most ludicrous stories, Americans always find a way to take it way too seriously. They can be funsuckers, those guys. One event that was pure fun was the unveiling of Arnold Swarzenegger’s love child. Ten years ago, Arnold, a loveable lug known for his roles in Pumping Iron and that one movie where Danny Devito knocks him up, bumped parts with a saucy little number named Mildred Patricia Baena. Patty, as she was affectionately known by Arnold’s wife, was working as a housekeeper in the...
Read MoreThe Best of 2011: The Arab Fucking Spring
Oh hello, devoted readers, reluctant friends, confused Google compatriots. It is that time of year again: the time when I take a quick moment to revisit everything that I think highlighted our year together (ohh… and sorry for, ya know, not being here for a lot of it. I was busy? Yes? No… Yes! Super busy and important!) 2011 was a year of big news stories. I’d go through them in a list right now, but I always end up forgetting something massive. Remember that huge fucking Tsunami that wiped out Japan and nearly started a nuclear meltdown? Totally forgot that happened this year. Remember when a man from Norway went to an idyllic summer camp and murdered 69 children to prove how much he hated...
Read MoreThis Man is Still Talking
To those of you who have been suffering from my long absence from the blogisphere (and yes – I do I hate myself for using that word), I’m back. I’ve returned not so much to write something interesting as to silently gaze upon the scorched earth that is our international political community and let a single tear escape from a very stoic eyeball… then I’m going to shrug it off and google photos of politicians with their flies undone. Feel free to just mail me my Pulitzer, I won’t have any time to go out and buy spanx. Besides learning that David Cameron has left-leaning policies in the pants department…. in my internet journeys I came across this article from German magazine DER SPIEGEL (yes, the...
Read MoreAbout the Site
Polonoscopy is a site devoted to political fluff. While I do appreciate that there are important issues out there… with respect… eh… don’t really care. Not here anyway, not now, that is not what Polonoscopy is about. Fluff. It’s all about image and perception in politics. Rather than vote for someone based on a record of public service and commitment to the meaningful issues of the day, wouldn’t you rather vote for someone who’s personality seems similar if only slightly more impressive then your own? Of course, we all would.