I'm totally stealing this from a post that blozor did recently, but I feel it's a moral imperative that I pass these vids on knowing that I have fellow Fraggle and Pirate fans on my flist who haven't seen the aforementioned post.

Fraggle Rock goes death metal:

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Captain Chunk Sparow and the Muppets of the Caribbean:

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The following bit of news apparently broke over this past holiday season, but I completely forgot to post about it ( Read more... )

I'm about ready to punch Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in the kidneys. Okay, maybe that's a bit excessive. Though I am annoyed with them, don't get me wrong ( Read more... )

This is the plot summary for the film, Rough Draft, taken from the Adult Film Database. I found it rather humorous. It helps if you imagine you're hearing it being read by one of those guys who does the voice-overs in movie previews.

A writer's work is never done ( Read more... )

A bit of nifty fun via antarcticlust.

Pretty darn accurate. Especially considering it's a cat and you all know how I consider cats to be kindred spirits ( Read more... )

Every so often I come across an article in the press that is written by a journalist that's so poorly informed that almost every statement they make illustrates a measurable ignorance of the topic at hand or is just downright false. The following is one of those articles.

BitTorrent to launch movie, TV downloads
By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer ( Read more... )

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So I've been nosing around IMDb's forums again. Because apparently I like to inflict pain on myself. I was gone for a couple of months and the average IQ of forum contributors appears to have dropped somewhere around 20-30 points. It's amazing -- these people get stupider and stupider at a rate so fast that they threaten to warp space and time. ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't already know, the (in)famous BitTorrent search engine, isoHunt, has been down for the last five days. I almost posted about this last week as it was happening, but I figured that the people geeky enough to be interested would already be aware of the situation by the time they came across said post. However, some very ( Read more... )

Finally, IMDb is getting some competition. As much as I love IMDb, it's become kind of... how do I put it... oh yeah: a mind-numbing abyss populated with rabid fanboys, elitist cinemaphiles, lobotomized celebrity worshipers, Hollywood scumbags and (for some odd reason) a whole boatload of fascist neocon douchenozzles. Oh, and trolls. But that goes ( Read more... )