Like a number of people reading this, I was challenged semi-recently by foxtrotxray to cram a CD full of as many mp3s as I could of the music I considered to be the Best Music Ever, however I chose to define "best ( Read more... )

Ohhhh, mama, they actually look really cool. The Transformers in the live-action Transformers movie actually look really cool.

This is being reported on Red Ferret as Google's experimental new interface. As they point out, it's not exactly paradigm-breaking, but it has cool new features. I especially like the built-in Wikipedia sidebar on the right, and I'm guessing the feedback section will help improve the search algorithms or something. Plus, you get web page links and ( Read more... )

Someone on another forum posted that what the new X-Men movie needed was "more Gambit."

Now, I have yet to see the new X-Men movie, but I know he's a dirty, dirty liar because nothing ever needs more Gambit ( Read more... )

I recently realized that two of my favorite pop culture icons bear a lot of similarities to each other.

* One is animated who debuted in 1991, and one's a comic book character who debuted in 1994, but both the animated series and the comic series have devoted cult followings and are known for their experimental narrative structures and bizarre ( Read more... )

I have shamelessly stolen this from aziraphale:

Tales of the Plush CthulhuHere is the question it raises for me: At what point, exactly, did Cthulhu references in the context of parody or comedy begin to outnumber ones in actual horror? When did Cthulhu become primarily a geek comedy reference point and only secondarily a sanity-blasting horror from beyond ( Read more... )

Someone in China bought a bootleg DVD of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, dubbed in Chinese and subtitled with the English translations of the Chinese translations of the English originals.


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Aquaman: Why the Hate?

An excerpt:

BUZZ: You also relocated the League to Detroit, Michigan. Why Detroit?

AQUAMAN: Well, one of the members, Hank Heywood, was based out of Detroit at the time and his fath-

BUZZ: Can you support co-founder Green Lantern’s claim that you moved it to Detroit out of personal motives, to be closer to the Great Lakes ( Read more... )

Wow. The Seattle Space Needle is just not nearly as impressive as I thought it was ( Read more... )

I saw Serenity last night. I was wrong. It was really, really good.