David Carradine's dead. He committed suicide in Bangkok.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/david-carradine-dies/

Shit. Came a little out of nowhere. Friggin' bummer. Most of you know him as the guy from Kung Fu or Kill Bill, but he'll always rock the shit out of the original, real Death Race 2000.

http://vbaudoin.files.wordpress.com/2008/12 ( Read more... )

I saw the new Star Trek movie last night, and was really very surprised. I had expected it to be good in a Trek way (you know, like Wrath of Khan or something). It was, in fact, just plain good. Like genuinely good. Like normal human beings can actually enjoy this film because it’s well-written, fast-paced, and truly entertaining. It’s everything ( Read more... )

Haha, awesome:

"QUARTZ HILL, Calif. - Don't mess with a marching band girl, especially one armed with a baton. A 17-year-old high school marching band student beat up two assailants who tried to mug her as she walked to school in this high desert community about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

The girl punched one of ( Read more... )

From the AP:
"WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.
Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long ( Read more... )

Of late, I’ve taken a vague sort of interest in my health. I come from a family with a history of thyroid issues and adult-onset diabetes. Recently, my doctor told me I had clinical hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid), which is essentially a case of hypothyroidism that is so mild that they don’t want to put me on pills for it yet. Also, my bad ( Read more... )

So I’m watching CNN yesterday because, apparently, I hate myself. There’s this story on about how there’s legislation brewing in the House and Senate to end travel restrictions between the US and Cuba. Some reasons for this include the fact that there are few to no restrictions on travel to China and Vietnam. There are a multitude of reasons that a ( Read more... )

http://www.gobstoppermovie.com/

Just go. No questions. If you're somewhere without speakers, then wait and go when you have speakers. You're wasting it otherwise.

So awesome....

Awesome? YES!

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection

And it's only going to be $30 or so.

I only had a Sega Genesis as a kid (most everyone I knew seemed to have a Super Nintendo, or both systems), and have very fond memories of the original Sonic games (remember when Sonic games didn't suck? Holy shit!), both Vectorman games (in fact, the first was one ( Read more... )

Oscar nominations came out yesterday. Of the five Best Picture nominees, I’ve seen one, and I don’t know if it’s really a “Best Picture” sort of picture. In fact, of the remaining four nominees, there’s only one I’m really interested in seeing in a big way: Slumdog Millionaire, which you can read about here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/.

I ( Read more... )

So it turns out Bioshock, the XBox bonanza from a while back, recently came out on the PS3 (be recently I mean like Oct. or some such). I found a new copy mislabelled for about $40 and bought the shit out of it. I'm not too terribly far in yet, but it is just about as awesome as I've been promised.
There is, however, only one problem: when the game ( Read more... )