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New Filthy Lie Assignment - "No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You To Blend"

[Based on a suggestion from SeanS of Shoot A Liberal]

So they picked Daniel Craig to play James Bond for the movie franchise's next episode, "Casino Royale", which is all well and good, except that he's blond.

Who's next? Carrot Top?

Anyway, I imagine they'll need a good villain to play opposite Blondie, and as with the choice of the new hero, I expect there to some bickering about the pros & cons here, too.

Which is fine, since bickering is fun.

Your Filthy Lie Assignment this week is to answer the question:

Would Evil Glenn make a good James Bond villain? Why or why not?

Post your response at your own blog and leave a link in the comments to this post, leave a trackback, or e-mail the permalink directly to Alliance.filthylies@gmail.com. Entries due by 11pm EDT Friday, January 6th and GEBIV will post the round-up in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

INSTAPUNDO DELENDA EST!

Monday Linky Stuff

Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment:

What children's book will Saddam be writing?

Is due by 9pm EDT Wednesday, January 4th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

Carnival of Comedy #36 will be at The Benedictine Way. Links to your funny bits must be submitted by Midnight Wednesday. Submissions are only taken via Ferdy's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Form.

Carnival of the Recipes #72 is up at Caterwauling.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase #45 is up at Random Yak.

If you know any blogs that are less than 3 months old, please tell them to enter. If you ARE a blog less than 3 months old, tell yourself to enter, but don't do it in public or people will look at you funny.

If you would like to host a future NBCS, see this post for available dates. If you can host one, please drop a line to showcase.carnival@gmail.com - Remember, new bloggers are especially grateful for any attention they get. Hosting this has a good chance of getting you permalinks and life-long readers.

Best of Me Symphony #110 is up at The Owner's Manual. Tom Daschle theme this week. Next week: Tom Hanks

Carnival of the Cats #93 is up at Elms In The Yard. The Carnival of the Cats is a travelling show, and Laurence is currently in search of future hosts. Drop him a line if you're interested - laurence-at-isfullofcrap.com. Full details at the new domain, www.carnivalofthecats.com

Carnival of the Capitalists #118 is up at Chocolate and Gold Coins.

Christian Carnival #102 is coming to Miserere Mei. Entries due by Tuesday at midnight. Submission guidelines are as follows:

To enter, your post should be of a Christian nature, but this does not exclude
ones that are political (or otherwise) in nature from a Christian point of view.

Send submissions to:  ChristianCarnival-at-gmail.com

Please put "Christian Carnival" in the subject line and provide the following:

Title of your Blog
URL of your Blog
Title of your post
URL linking to that post
Short description of the post

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. The page includes a handy "Carnival News" section featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 172 blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic!
If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

James of Outside the Beltway hosts a more-or-less daily linkfest called the Beltway Traffic Jam. Go to the most recent Traffic Jam post in the Traffic Jam category, and send a trackback to get entered in the next edition. If you're ping-impaired, you can use the standalone trackback form, a link to which is conveniently located at the bottom of the Traffic Jam post.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Blogosphere Political Compass Project - Sandor of The Zoo is graphing the political positions of all the bloggers who are willing to take a short quiz and send him the results. Details on how you can get a link out of this can be found at the BPCP home page.

Upgrading to WordPress 2.0

WordPress users have good news and bad news.

The good news: WordPress 2.0 has been released.

The bad news: WordPress 2.0 has been released.

Okay, maybe it's not bad news. Or maybe it's not good news. Regardless, it's been released, and people moving to WordPress will probably be moving to 2.0. So, it's important.

Over at my little blog, I've upgraded from WordPress 1.5 to 2.0. And it was an interesting experience. So, if you're looking to move to WordPress from another platform, you might want to read this. Or others' experiences. You know. To save you a headache or two.

Now, I'm not saying moving to WordPress 2.0 is a headache. But it might be. Since all blogs aren't the same, you might not encounter the same issues that I ... and others ... encountered. But you might.

Anyway, here's some of what I ran into and some things you might want to be on the lookout for.

Wednesday Linky Stuff

Your Filthy Lie Assignment: Would Evil Glenn make a good James Bond villain? Why or why not? is due by 11pm EST Friday, January 6th. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

Christian Carnival #103 is up at Miserere Mei.

Carnival of the Vanities #172 is up at Harshly Mellow.

Bonfire of the Vanities #131 is up at Bird.

The next Carnival of the Capitalists posts due by 2pm Saturday. See here for submission address & guidelines.

Carnival of the Recipes #73 will be at Technogypsy. Entries are due by noon Saturday. Submit to recipe.carnival(at)gmail(dot)com.

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. It also has a "Carnival News" section featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 169 blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic!
If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Blogosphere Political Compass Project - Sandor of The Zoo is graphing the political positions of all the bloggers who are willing to take a short quiz and send him the results. Details on how you can get a link out of this can be found at the BPCP home page.

New Precision Guided Humor Assignment: Hollywood Propaganda

Recent offerings from Hollywood include Syriana - a movie about evil US oil companies causing innocent Muslims to become terrorists - and Munich - a movie about innocent terrorists victimized by bloodthirsty Israelis.

I suspect this may become a trend, so it's time to get on the cutting edge of it.

Your Precision Guided Humor Assignment this week is to answer the question:

What anti-U.S./pro-terrorist movies will be coming out of Hollywood this year?

Post the answer at your own blog and leave a link in the comments to this post, leave a trackback, or e-mail the permalink directly to Alliance.PGH@gmail.com. Entries due by 9pm EST Wednesday, January 11th and GEBIV will post the round-up Wednesday night. Late entries must be accompanied by a lame excuse.

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

Precision Guided Round-Up: Saddam's new book

You know, nothing says "I'm not a vicious killer!" like writing a children's book. It worked for 'Tookie' Williams... well sort of. Hey, at least he had the admiration of Hollywood! And I'm sure his victim's families will get lots of money from the movie rights...

Anyways, the latest brilliant defense ploy of Ramsey Clark, Saddam's lawyer is to have Saddam write a children's book. You know, just in case he ends up on Death Row. Saddam, not Clark. (Although Clark is likely to get a life sentence himself if he's not carefull.)

But even though the book is just in it's infancy, we at The Alliance have some inside information on what the book's going to be.

tommy's got a picture of the book's cover for us.... Gah! It burns!

Harvey, posting at IMAO, has a whole slew of books that Saddam has written.

And I (GEBIV at There's One, Only!) have the synopsis of Saddam's new book - The Evil Kurds and the Magic Mustache.

But no matter what books Saddam comes up with, I don't know if it's going to be able to clean up his image enough. Now, if he can just figure out a way to play the race card...

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

If I missed your entry or there's a typo or broken permalink, please leave a comment, or e-mail us directly at Alliance.PGH@gmail.com

Friday Linky Stuff

Carnival of Comedy #36 is up at The Benedictine Way.

The Best of Me Symphony #111 will be at The Owner's Manual. Entry deadline is midnight Sunday. E-mail to gcruse-at-netscape.com with subject line "Best of Me Symphony".

Pages Turned will be hosting the next Carnival of the Cats (#91). Submit your post containing a picture of a cat or a Reasonable Facsimilie of a Cat (RFOAC) by 5pm Sunday to submissions-at-carnivalofthecats.com See the Carnival of the Cats home page for details.

Bonfire of the Vanities is looking for your WORST post of the week. Send entries to bonfire-at-wizbangblog.com by 6pm Monday

Carnival of the Vanities #173 will be at The Hip and Zen Pen. Submit a link to your best post by 12 noon PST Tuesday to cotvmail-at-gmail.com. Or you can just do the easy thing and use Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Submission Page (see below).

Conservative Cat's All-Purpose Carnival Submission Page - Bookmark this handy form, and you can enter almost any carnival with just a few clicks. It doesn't get much more convenient than this, folks. Additionally, it now features a "Carnival News" section, featuring links to the most recent Carnival posts. Also please note that Ferdy tracks a LOT more Carnivals than just the ones listed at Alliance HQ.

The Blog Carnival Index currently tracks 176 blog carnivals and offers a submission form. If you can't find a carnival at Conservative Cat, look here (and vice versa).

Conservative Cat's Permanent Floating Ping Festival. Just send a ping to http://www.conservativecat.com/Ferdy/.track.cgi/3, and you will show up on the front page. The only rule is you need to have a link to Conservative Cat somewhere on your front page, but most Alliance members should already have that. Just keep it clean and no more than one per day. The 15 most recent pings are displayed in the right sidebar with an excerpt.

Basil of Basil's Blog wants to send you traffic! If you trackback to a post in his "Articles of Interest" category (usually titled either "Breakfast", "Brunch", "Lunch", or "Supper"), the trackback from your post will appear in the "Covered Dish Special" section at the bottom of the post. All he asks is that you give a courtesy link back to the post you're trackbacking. See the link for details.

The New Blog Carnival Showcase - a chance for new bloggers (3 months old or newer) to get some free exposure. It's a great way to get your beginner's talent discovered. See this post for details. For blogs that are too old, you should consider checking out the entries, since grateful new bloggers tend to reciprocate post links with permalinks.

Blogosphere Political Compass Project - Sandor of The Zoo is graphing the political positions of all the bloggers who are willing to take a short quiz and send him the results. Details on how you can get a link out of this can be found at the BPCP home page.

Filthy Round-Up: Evil Glenn the Super Villain

He's Evil.

He blend's puppies.

He's REALLY Evil.

In short, the perfect James Bond villain.

But I think that subconsciously, we all knew that already. The only question was, what kind of Bond villain would Evil Glenn be?

Steve the Pirate has information pointing out the real identity of the notorious Octopuppy. As well as some seriously twisted stuff happening to Bond...

Josh Cohen of Multiple Mentality leaves us this in the comments:

Technically, Glenn Reynolds has already been a Bond villain -- Elliott Carver in "Tomorrow Never Dies". A media mogul tried to create a war so he could get better ratings -- at least, I think that was the plot.

JermCool has a list of reasons why Evil Glenn could never make it as a Bond villain over at Abolition of Stupidity.

SeanS over at Shoot a Liberal has a little snippet about Evil Glenn's role in the next Bond film.

I (GEBIV of There's One, Only!) share my own encounter with a cross between Dr. No and that short German spy from the first Indiana Jones movie. (I don't know about the rest of you, but I made myself laugh on this one, so enjoy!)

And Harvey, still posting at IMAO (I really thought that SarahK would have made Frank J. get rid of him by now...), has the poster for the upcoming film. It's really not as bad as I thought it could have been...

INSTAPUNDO DELENDA EST!

If I missed your entry or there's a typo or broken permalink, please leave a comment, or e-mail us at Alliance.filthylies@gmail.com

A Filthy Lie

Evil Glenn's secret web site (work safe).

[Hat tip: IMAO reader Sam Fuqua]

A Filthy Lie - Evil Glenn as Bond Villain

Since The Babaganoosh is currently having posting issues, I'm posting his Filthy Lie Assignment entry here for your reading pleasure:

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*Summer day in jolly ol' England - James Bond is chasing after two men on foot when they both unexpectedly fall into a murky river. Bond turns his watch into a lifeboat in order to pull the men from the water, where he promptly knocks one of them unconscious and grabs the other one by the collar*

Bond: "Her Majesty's hounds have gone missing."

Director: CUT! No, James - the queen HERSELF has gone missing.

Bond: No, she's right there. *Actress for Queen waves* Her DOGS have gone missing.

Director: Oh, what? Not now - Glenn! That scene where you threaten to put the dogs in blenders comes LATER!"

Reynolds: *drinks smoothie* Threaten? Um... well, this could be difficult to explain.

Bond: That's kind of disgusting. I mean, I DID make all those jokes about Oddjob and such, but seriously, that's wrong, man.

Reynolds: You wouldn't be insulting my culture, would you? Isn't that illegal in Britain?

Bond: I'm sorry! No sir - let's... just continue filming.

*later, during bond/girl scene, the actress' wig comes off*

Bond: A penguin? By Saint George himself what did I get myself into?! What kind of disturbed mastermind uses scantily clad PENGUINS as slaves?

Reynolds: "I don't know, Mister Bond, but he's certainly smarter than the guy who attempts to score with one."

Bond: Reynolds, you are a wretched human being.

Reynolds: I know, Mister Bond.

*later*

Reynolds: Now I have you, Mister *spit* Bond. And unlike every other dupe who has ever captured you, I won't be dumb enough to TELL you my master plan!

Bond: Of course not - but since you're a blogger, you've already POSTED it!

Reynolds: What?! Who told you about this? Was it SPECTRE? The ALLIANCE? LGBTQ-DX? ...Mike Sherman?

Bond: You told me yourself. I figured it out right after the most recent Carnival of Nanotechnology. You knew the whole grey-goo thing couldn't happen, but you talked it up, and scared just about everyone. Then you robbed all the kennels in Great Britain. I'm surprised you don't have rabies.

Reynolds: ...Who says I don't?

Bond: You're a madman, Evil Glenn... you're a MADMAN. Voluntarily giving yourself rabies may be the most absurd thing I have ever heard.

Reynolds: You're the last man who should be lecturing me, Bond. How many veneral diseases have you accumulated over the years - 117?

Director: CUT! Glenn, that is most decidedly NOT in the script!

Reynolds: I know, but I can smell the Valtrex on him from here.

Bond: I CANNOT work with this man.

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Verdict: Evil Glenn would not make a good Bond villain.

To make this worse, there would be multiple rejected titles
1) Moonnuker
2) You Only Post Twice
3) Dr. NaNO.
4) The Man With The Golden Retreiver
5) From Tennessee With Penguin Love
6) A Jew To A Kill (Bond must be played by Laurence Simon)
7) Dance (The Robot) Another Day
8) The Living Daylights - What I Punched Out of Frank J
9) License To Blend
10) Goofy Glenn and the Hee-Haw Brigade
11) ThunderBUSHLIEDPEOPLEDIED!
12) Never Say Nano Again

What would the disaster be called? I don't know. Something tells me the phrase "Pierced Brosnans" would figure in it somehow.