Elitist Bastards: Female empowerment through chess versus a gorilla who craves TGI Fridays

Posted on by Ken Hanke and Justin Souther

Elitist Bastards: 7/13/2011

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies podcast, Mountain Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther talk about …

Podcast produced/cohered by Steve Shanafelt. The theme music is “1832” by E. Lee. Art by Jeremy Dylan. The Elitist Bastards podcast is also available on the iTunes store as a free download.

 

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10 thoughts on “Elitist Bastards: Female empowerment through chess versus a gorilla who craves TGI Fridays”

  2. Ken Hanke

    Well, you sent it in — or it got me — after Miami Steve got this up (so to speak). Now I did send it on to him and am hopeful that he will change images once he manages to make it into the paper.

  3. Steve Shanafelt

    Which is Ken’s way of saying that I’m pretty much slacking off, at least when it comes to getting into the office at a reasonable hour.

  4. Justin Souther

    The only way that poster could be better is if it were all pictures of Ken.

  5. Ken Hanke

    I’ve never been called a “tool,” except possibly by fanboys on Rotten Tomatoes, but I almost never read the comments on there. The other two…well, maybe.

  6. Ken Hanke

    Say, anybody understand why all the rotating Google ads on the Xpress site are for Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, Newsmax, and the Tea Party? It offendeth my eyes.

  8. bill smith

    [i]Say, anybody understand why all the rotating Google ads on the Xpress site are for Ron Paul, Michelle Bachman, Newsmax, and the Tea Party?[/i]

    Its based on your own web usage. Been trolling right wing websites, ken? OR are you actually travelah?

  9. Ken Hanke

    Those are hardly my interests — at least in any remotely positive sense.

  10. Ken Hanke

    Its based on your own web usage. Been trolling right wing websites, ken?

    Good Clapton, no.

    OR are you actually travelah?

    Uh…no.

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