And it was in digital 3-D too, which if at all possible is very sincerely the best way to watch this movie.As for what I thought of Avatar......I can't remember the last movie that left me feeling so many shades of conflicted.I'm going to see it again tomorrow night with friend and fellow blogger Steven Glaspie. Between now and then I'm thinking enough of it will "sink in" and maybe I can absorb the story as much as I've already beheld the astonishing...
Monday, December 21, 2009
AGAIN?! Looks like I'll be fighting Comcast now...
So I got back from a delightful day of various and sundry stuff (including finally seeing Avatar, review or something coming soon) and I started catching up on an inordinate amount of stuff that had piled up in my absence.Well, there were two e-mails from YouTube in the e-mail account I use for KWerky Productions. And both of them said that the clip I had posted two years ago of E!'s The Soup had been yanked for "copyright infringement".It's an...
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Dude mounts rocket launchers onto his motorcycle
This guy has apparently watched Megaforce too many times for his own good...As cool as that looks, I can't help but think that a bike-mounted minigun like the one at the end of the Machete faux trailer would be much more useful/intimidati...
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Congrats to my cousin Lauryn for graduating college!
My cousin Lauryn got her college sheepskin today! Always cause for celebration when one of our clan gets a higher education :-)(That, and because the last time I posted her photo and said that all the women in my family are this beautiful, I literally got over a dozen e-mails asking if Lauryn was taken and if not "where does she live please!?" So I'm curious as to what will...
7 historical figures who were absurdly hard to kill
They were seven of the most famous (and notorious) men in history. And not one of them went gently into that good night. As a matter of fact, they all had some of the most hardcore awesome deaths ever recorded. Like Blackbeard (shown at right in his final battle). By the way, here in the Tarheel State there's a longstanding legend that Blackbeard's skull has been gilded...
First snow of the season has finished falling
There was about 5 or 6 inches of the white stuff here at my place in Reidsville, North Carolina. To the very best of my recollection this is the biggest snowfall this early in the season in any recent memory. I mean, hey it's still autumn, at least for another day or so anyway.Meanwhile the computer models are still calling for more snow come later this coming week. Like, around December 24th or so.If that happens, it'll be the third White Christmas...
Friday, December 18, 2009
About 3 inches of snow so far...
...and it's not a fit night to be out and about if you can help it.So I'm stayin' in, cooking pizza and watching some good movies for a snowbound evening.I'm thinking The Shining, Misery, and The Thing ...
The most horrific news story I have read all year
A Campbell County, Virginia woman gave birth and smothered her newborn child to death. But she won't face murder charges because the umbilical cord was not yet cut so legally it's not murder but abortion.Officials say that the loophole in the law keeps them from pursuing charges.God help us.Read the story here at WSLS if you have the heart for ...
Jack Bauer interrogates Santa Claus
I'm not much of a 24 fan, but this is darned funny!Rebel Christmas Card gets the credit for this hilarious mash...
Chuck Baldwin sez: Rage against federal government ain't good enough
Chuck Baldwin - the man who I voted for President in the 2008 election (and not Obama or McCain, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyaaaaaahhh) - has published an EXCELLENT op-ed piece on his website about why the anger of many Americans toward Washington is wildly misplaced. Baldwin recommends instead re-focusing our energies on the states, and reasserting our Tenth Amendment rights.Here's a hearty morsel of Rev. Baldwin's fine essay...You see, the wizards in...
Best man rigs newlywed friend's bed to Twitter during sex
Yeah it's a slow news day apparently.Read the wonderfully lurid technical details about the prank here.And if you are interested in this kind of... stuff... click here to follow the Twitter feed straight from the newlyweds' b...
Dan O'Bannon, writer of ALIEN and TOTAL RECALL and creator of the Death Star plans, has passed away
Dan O'Bannon stands as one of the most influential minds of the modern era of filmmaking. His script for Dark Star helped launch John Carpenter's career. A few years later O'Bannon did animation work on what was then simply titled Star Wars. Remember General Dodonna's PowerPoint presentation on how to hit the Death Star's exhaust port? You can credit Dan O'Bannon for that.But...
Thursday, December 17, 2009
12 inches of snow tomorrow? White Christmas too?!
That's what the meteorologisticians are predicting. Cold air plus a system pumping a lot of moisture up from the Gulf of Mexico. That usually means beaucoups of snow in this part of the country.And we stand a good chance of snow on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as well.The bad news is that it puts a crimp in plans to see Avatar tomorrow. But if worse comes to worst I suppose I can always download it ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Scientists crack entire genome of skin and lung cancer
Researchers working around the globe as part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium have announced that the entire genetic code for skin and lung cancer has been "decrypted".The scientists have discovered more than 30,000 transcription errors in genetic replication that give rise to melanoma (and almost all of these are triggered from too much sunlight).And if you're a smoker, think about this the next time you light up: you typically acquire...
Damn the gods! New CLASH OF THE TITANS trailer unleashes the Kraken on your eyeballs
In general, I loathe remakes of original films. It takes a lot for a revamped movie to impress me.But I am getting pretty darned close to sold on Clash of the Titans, if this new trailer is indication of what we'll see in theaters on March 26th a few months from now...Mash down here for the Clash of the Titans trailer in full beautiful Quickti...
First trailer for IRON MAN 2 flies onto the Intertubes!
You can wait for it to show up on YouTube, or......you can watch it in Quicktime right now!(Go for the Quicktime, it's better.)Gotta wonder if Steve Jobs is looking at this and secretly wanting to make such an entrance at an Apple event :-PIron Man 2 comes out on May 7th, 20...
