Cheek and Bluster
The waggish socio-political musings of Derek Wood, a Californian actor, writer, aesthete and longtime cheeky monkey.
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Do Yourself a Favor and Shut the Fuck Up - 155 days ago
How is it that I still occasionally think that I’ve seen it all? Specifically, with regard to the reflexive disingenuousness of partisan political idiocy? My hope for the reformation of our national miscourse keeps feeling more and more audacious... Topics: Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, douchebags, History, Iran, Iran election, Khamanei, Mousavi, national miscourse, Operation Ajax, political, Politics, profanity, punditiots, Stephen Hayes, STFU, William Kristol, words

Iran: They’re Killing People - 155 days ago
WARNINGThe following series of three images is not for the squeamish. A young woman, shot by the Basij, dies in the streets of TehranNeedless to say, there’s nothing at all cheeky or blustery about this. So why do I post it? Because here on the... Topics: bloggers, deaths, graphic images, History, Iran, The Web, YouTube

Top 10 Tweets in the “3 Words After Sex” Meme - 180 days ago
#3wordsaftersex appears to be the meme du jour over at Twitter, so here are my top ten (of the amount I was willing to read through) with the tweeter's names in parentheses. Topics: #3wordsaftersex, comedy, Fluff, humor, Lists, memes, sex, snobbery, The Web, twitter

Giant Panoramas: The Owls Are Not What They Seem - 216 days ago
Clicking through Google Earth the other day I stumbled across 360 Cities's layer of panoramic photos. The one of the Bradbury Building (perhaps my favorite historic site in L.A.) was taken by a photographer whose name rang a distant bell... Topics: Addams Family, Carel Struycken, Entertainment, Google, Google Earth, LA, panoramas, panoramic photography, photography, photos, The Web, TNG, Twin Peaks

Get Psyched - The Doctor Is In - 257 days ago
The second season of HBO's brilliant drama series In Treatment is finally almost here. I haven't been this geeked for the next episode of a TV show since The Shield ended.If you didn't act upon my entreaty to watch In Treatment during its... Topics: acting, Alison Pill, Dianne Weist, DVDs, Entertainment, Gabriel Byrne, HBO, Hope Davis, In Treatment, John Mahoney, Melissa George, recommendations, TV, videos



