Quick moment of housecleaning: I didn’t mention this in the last post, but I probably should have: I’m spending so much time on The Departed because it’s loosely inspired by Whitey Bulger. The looseness of that inspiration will be the subject of a forthcoming entry. This entry is going to be a list of problems withContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Eight Terrible Things About The Departed”
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Eponymous Gangster Week Continues with a look at The Departed
The Departed is really two different movies grafted into one. Movie one is a high concept, tightly plotted movie about cops posing as criminals and criminals posing as cops. The other is a movie about gangsters in Boston, loosely based on the Winter Hill gang. The Departed is a remake of a Hong Kong filmContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues with a look at The Departed”
Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Five
Whitey Gets an Object Lesson in Being a Health Nut and a Sociopath Assuming you’re able to look past the fact that a guy was shot in the face to make the gag happen, this is a pretty funny story. According to former Whitey associate Kevin Weeks, Whitey was hunting for a guy in aContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Five”
Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Four
His Brother is the Dean Martin of Massachusetts Politics If Ann Coulter described her nightmare vision of DemocRAT-ruled Tax-achussets, it would likely look exactly like the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfasts put on for years by former Massachusetts State Senate President and brother of Whitey Billy Bulger. I’m a liberal Democrat of Irish extraction andContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Four”
Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Three
He was a Total Acid-Head If you delve into American conspiracy theories at all, you’ll quickly encounter MK-ULTRA. The name alone is bad-ass (it sounds like it could be a Gatchaman-esque anime fighting team). But the facts are even more strange and sinister. MK-ULTRA was a secret CIA research project. Its details are murky, asContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Three”
Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Two
He (Probably) Won the Lottery Without Ever Buying a ticket: Here’s the constant calculation that probably goes through former South Boston working man Michael C. Linskey’s mind: he only gets one part of his lottery winnings, but if had never bought a lottery ticket at Whitey Bulger’s liquor store, he never would have won theContinue reading “Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part Two”
Eponymous Gangster Week Continues: Strange, and Possibly True, Facts About Whitey Bulger: Part One
He May be Gay Or Bisexual (But Probably Isn’t) I’m listing this one first because it’s so tantalizing. As Omar Little has taught us, the only thing more fascinating than a heartless killing machine is a heartless killing machine with a proclivity for the Pet Shop Boys. Unfortunately, the evidence is flimsy. Exhibits follow.
Eponymous Gangster Week Begins: Don’t Call me Bulger…Whitey
It was a good run. From May 2 to June 22, I shared a last name with number one most wanted man in America (alphabetically: the list isn’t weighted by severity of crime, despite how that would make for a fun debate about whether wiretapping was worse than extortion and whatnot).
Pop! Week Continues with Errata: Three Surprise Britney Spears Songs
You remember those old TV commercials where they switch a fancy restaurant’s coffee with folger’s crystals or something and then at the end, the camera crew comes up to the fancy pants patrons and is all “you’ve been drinking shitty coffee this whole time.” Those commercials were awesome. Now they’re gone. Alas. Or maybe they’reContinue reading “Pop! Week Continues with Errata: Three Surprise Britney Spears Songs”
Pop! Week Continues with Britney Spears: The Girl Who Wasn’t There
Remember a couple of years ago when Britney Spears got herself elected the Mayor of Crazytown? One day she was this virginal sex symbol with Republican undertones and an airtight public image, the next she was married to and divorced from a shifty looking back-up dancer, bare-foot, puffy and bald, running through gas stations and,Continue reading “Pop! Week Continues with Britney Spears: The Girl Who Wasn’t There”
Mister Bulger 