Archive for February, 2008
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My birthday is quickly approaching so Edit and I have packed things up and gone to Cleveland (hehe we’re driving NOT flying). Not sure how long we are staying, but since she is coming, it will be for awhile. I had planned to make posts when I was there, but since my laptop is now dead that’s not possible. So I guess I’ll just see ya’ll on the flip side!
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There were two political skits on SNL last night. One bashed the media for giving slant coverage on the Obama & Hilary. The other involved an appearance of Mike Huckabee, who after the skit ended he metaphorically overstayed his welcome. So which skit did CNN mention on it’s front page and which they did they avoid completely???
With the new computer that actually has some power, I decided to check out “World of Warcraft.” I wasn’t interested in playing the game (I pretty much loathe MMORPG’s). It was the art design I wanted to see first hand. Also I didn’t want to pay for the game so I did the 10-day free trial and then deleted it after two days. Now that the game is like 3-4 years old the graphics are a tad dated, but the art design is still incredible.
I spent hours traveling around the world and visited all the major cities. I also took over 600 screenshots (including the ones above) and really enjoyed exploring (though running from MOBs due to ARRGO was not fun). I wouldn’t recommend the game to anyone because its an MMORPG but if your any kind of fantasy fan then do some googling or check out the WoW Artbook.
Decided to check out “Second Life” since my new computer can handle it. It was an interesting experience and it’s very hard to describe. On a basic level it’s a standard MMO, but the catch is that all the content is user generated. Everying in the massive world is created by the players and they literally have everything there. If you want to go go-karting then… you can. If you want to play putt putt golf… you can. If you want to go to a strip club… you can.
The catch is that EVERYTHING cost “Linden Dollars,” the form of currency used in the game. What gets fishy is that $L’s can be converted to good old American Dollars. So now instead of playing a game, Second Life is really a place where millions of people are doing their best to get you to give them $L’s so that can turn them into real money.
Stay away from this DVD. This is possibly the worse adaptation I’ve seen of anything… EVER and the problems aren’t how close or unclose it stayed to the source material. The problem is that it physically hurts to watch the movie.
Before we get to other things let me first mention that this is a very gratuitous film. Fanboys will be in cleavage heaven. Now don’t get me wrong, I like boobies, but the cartoon took it too far for something marketed to kids. There’s one scene where a character is introduced and her boobs jiggle and a guy spends a few seconds staring at them. Then the rest of the movie is just filled with breast. I mean in the pic above, that woman with the torn shirt, she just has it torn for no reason. She wasn’t attacked or tripped or anything. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hasbro and Universal have partnered up to produce the following properties into movies: “Monopoly” “Magic the Gathering” “Candy Land” and “Stretch Armstrong.”
I can understand “Magic the Gathering” because its epic and fantasy-based so it will make a decent summer tentpole movie. I get “Candy Land” because the world its set in is very 80’s cartoon-ish and it could work as a retro kid movie. However I have no idea what the heck they are thinking with Monopoly and Stretch Armstrong!
Within the next few weeks “Magic The Gathering” will now be downloadable in the Xbox 360 Arcade. It will be a ported version of the PC card game and supposedly people with established accounts and decks will be able to use them on their Xbox.
Playboy is launching an energy drink and had a recent sponsor party in Massachusetts crashed by the cops. It wasn’t because of drugs or anything nefarious. The police closed down the event because Playboy hired midgets to dress as oompa loompas while bartending and apparently that’s illegal in Massachusetts:
Chapter 272: Section 33. Exhibition of deformities
Section 33. Whoever exhibits for hire an albino person, a minor or mentally ill person who is deformed or a person who has an appearance of deformity produced by artificial means shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
This list isn’t who I think will win. This is who I think SHOULD win. I’ve left out a few categories like documentaries (seriously how did they leave off “King of Kong?”) and music. But I covered all the big ones.
- Best motion picture of the year – “Juno”
- Actor in a leading role – George Clooney in “Michael Clayton”
- Actor in a supporting role -Casey Affleck in “Assassination of Jesse James”
- Actress in a leading role – Ellen Page in “Juno”
- Actress in a supporting role – Cate Blanchett in “I’m Not There”
- Cinematography – “The Diving Bell and Butterfly”
- Costume Design – “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
- Directing -”Michael Clayton”
- Editing – “There Will Be Blood”
- Adapted Screenplay – “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
- Original Screenplay – “Juno”
- Best Picture – “Juno”
The third installment of Pop Candy’s Crash Course in comics was posted this week.
The trailer for the animated version of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” has been posted online. If you want to see a higher quality version then go here and watch it. Man this looks so pretty.
I thought this was pretty cool. Scholastic has put out a teaching guide for how to read comics/graphic novels as wells as how to use them in classrooms and libraries. If you want to read the pdf you can get it here.
Cracked an egg open today and got two yolks. If it hadn’t been something I was going to eat I would have thought “Hell yeah two for the price of one,” but since I was going to eat it all I could think was that it was laid by that three-eyed-“Simpsons”-fish.
Monk is coming back for another season. Although it’s ratings have dropped in the past year it’s still a hit when talking about cable TV. Though personally, I gotta say that the show hasn’t been as funny as it used to be and Monk’s OCD is become annoying as opposed to humorous.
The pics above were leaked onto the web this week. They are clearly early shots, but at least we now have an idea of what the movie will look like.
