The Antisocial Socialist

1. Via springheel_jack:


Why does Rambo have an anchor in Afghanistan? Because he is prepared.

HOLY SHIT IT'S A RAMBO COLOURING BOOK. Click on that link and there's MORE. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to download those and colour them in. Hahahaha. The 80s were so strange.*

2. If you have a few hours to kill, check out The Power of Nightmares so we can discuss it. It's pretty good; a parallel history of Islamic terrorism and neoconservatism. I think it's too soft on Nixon and Kissinger (you know your cast is pure evil when Kissinger is the good guy) but it's fascinating stuff.

3. If you are artistically talented, you should participate in Bruce Schneier's TSA logo contest.

4. And if you are a web designer, you might know about this already, but if not, check out Accessify. I ran across it in my attempt to find a resource on accessible web design that's, well, accessible to teenagers. This has tutorials and plain language, which the W3C pages, while great, do not.

* Tagged "rambo iii" because apparently I only have one Rambo tag and it's oddly specific.

If you're just tuning in, Part I, Part II, and Part III.

For a movie with almost no plot, it's generated quite a long review-type thing. Largely because I like explosions and wanted to show you a lot of them. We ended the last installment in a place of despair, John Rambo's Long Dark Night of the Soul, if you will. He failed to rescue Trautman (I made up the bit about them making out), his little boytoy had been shot, he was a walking shish kabob himself, and he and his terrorist allies had just barely managed to escape through the sewer system and into what one can only imagine is a terrible case of sepsis.

Warning: What happens next is quite squick-worthy and should not be viewed by anyone.

( Deep breaths )

The end! I hope your enjoyment of this series of posts was inversely proportionate to how much I enjoyed the film itself!

Still with me? The previous parts are here and here.

Okay, so we've passed the set-up and the introductions. Now it's time for a dead sheep.

( Under here, if you dare )

Up next: The final installment, including one of the grossest things I've seen in a mainstream movie. Yes, worse than the dead sheep.

Part I is here

Previously: The U.S. decided to illegally arm the Taliban mujahadeen, on a covert mission that ended with Col. Trautman being pwned by the Soviets. Rambo and his new sidekick, Mousa the Illegal Arms Dealer, are in Pakistan preparing to rescue him.

( Meet the rest of the gang! )

Tomorrow: Games you can play with a dead goat.

I like to think that I’m an equal-opportunity mocker. I mocked This Revolution (anarchist riot porn propaganda), Red Dawn (American Red Scare propaganda), and Left Behind (apocalyptic Christian propaganda). But I haven’t done a movie that loudly proclaims the virtues of jihad, so here’s a vile piece of pro-Taliban propaganda for your viewing pleasure.

Yep, I watched Rambo III so you don’t have to. I was going to do a screen recap of one of the First Blood movies. But I thought the first one wasn’t actually that bad, and the second one has way too much running through the jungle before someone finally gets shot with an exploding arrow.

Anyway, this one is a lot better because the protagonists in it grew up to become the Taliban a few years later. But this was when they were still on “our” side, fighting the evil Soviets.

( Are you ready? )

Stay tuned for Part II, where we meet the rest of our glorious, God-fearing, pro-democracy heroes.