I took a much needed mini-vacation this weekend. Half a day on Friday, the weekend, today (Labor Day), and a half day tomorrow. I promised myself that I wouldn't do any work, at least on Friday, and immediately broke that promise. What have I done? I re-watched "The Ember Island Players" and finished the rest of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I ( Read more... )

New Made of Fail! Discussion of the latest Harry Potter movie, why the girl who plays Luna wins at life, and, yep, Twilight speculation.

Have you heard of the "Guile's Theme goes with everything" meme? It's been around for ages in internet time (like six months in real time). Guile's Theme is a particularly ear-wormy tune from a video game ( Read more... )

So. That happened.

( FAQ below the cut )

I thought the original Paranormal Activity was an A- movie. The follow-up is a B+. There is a bit of the formula from the first one plugged into the second-little scares that might be nothing, bigger scares that are probably something, shit gets real-but that's pretty much every scary movie and PA2 does enough effective stuff to be enjoyable*One ( Read more... )

Some genius at Busken Bakery started making glazed chocolate donuts. Not chocolate cake donut with a thin layer of glaze (though those are tasty), but a yeast donut whose top half is covered in chocolate and whose bottom is glazed. Most people look at the bottom half of a donut and don't think anything. This visionary said, "Look at all that ( Read more... )

Fifteen years from now people are going to turn to each other and say, "I get that the technology was a huge leap forward back then, but really, what did people see in Avatar?" Then the 9 foot tall blue alien over-seer will crack her electron whip over the heads of the people and shout in her language, "BACK TO WORK, HUME SCUM!"

Rachel won a ( Read more... )

First, some background music. I knew a metal version of Presto from Vivaldi's Summer concerto (one of his "Four Seasons") had to exist. The original is as close to metal as Baroque or pretty much any of the "classical" forms gets. Dance, water, dance!

Still haven't seen Scott Pilgrim v. The World. I want to, but I've been debating whether to ( Read more... )

Inception was excellent. I would love to see a prequel mini-series in comic form. It is a heist movie, but we only see two heists (MINOR SPOILERS) the failure/test opening and the titular (tee hee) attempt. Apparently Cobb had been scraping by pulling off extractions, let's see one! I'm generally leery of sequels/prequels/extra context stuff, ( Read more... )

Unless you've been under a rock for the past few days or aren't a nerd you've heard that the movie "The Last Airbender" based on the cartoon series Avatar: The Last Airbender isn't very good. Here are some choice quotes from my favorite reviews.

( Ebert and everyone else hate hate hate hate hate this movie under the cut )

ABBA is pretty catchy:

Title: Thank you for the music
Subtitle: Dot dot dot
Friends' page: Lay all your love on me

LOL, flipper dance.

That's about all I have today. Sorry. Enjoy this nice bit of epic fail from the original Deathstalker movie then check out the MST3K'd sequel. Required watching for any MST3Kie or RenFairer in my opinion.

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