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There is some question about whether or not this is real. Having watched numerous propaganda films made behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, my gut tells me that it’s legit. That, and because this video does have that “Dear Leader/all others are inferior” tone which is a hallmark of North Korea’s regime.

It’s allegedly a propaganda video made by the North Korean government depicting life of the downtrodden proles in the United States.  Here in America we drink coffee made from snow (which is said to be in “abundance”), there are few birds because the starving masses living in tents have caught and eaten nearly all of them, dead bodies are piled up all over the place, Potemkin-ish cities disguised to look like those of Eastern Europe, unsuccessful Republican candidates are reduced to scrounging in the garbage, and it’s only because of aid from North Korea that we’re ...

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What if Game of Thrones came out a decade and a half earlier, in 1995?  Back when the style of fantasy television was dictated by shows like Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.  What would it have been like?

Very likely, something like this…




So if Sam Raimi had made Game of Thrones back in the day, who would Kevin Sorbo have played? My guess is Eddard Stark.  Maybe a shaven-headed Bruce Campbell as Varys, or at least Petyr Baelish.

And Lucy Lawless?  No doubt about it: Cersei.

Kudos to YouTube user “hunterlsanders” for such a great piece of work!...

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During the first afternoon of Mysticon in Roanoke this past weekend, following the opening panel with Peter Davison there was a special treat(?) presented by the good folks at Gallifrey Pirate Radio.  This was the last time that all of the then-surviving Doctors were brought together for a story.  Although as you can see the canonicity of this is debatable (okay, pretty much null and void) and you’ll no doubt notice how William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton are resurrected with all the glorious CGI capability that the early Nineties had to offer, it’s still a fun lil’ vignette for Doctor Who fans…

Fourth Doctor: “Mayday! Mayday! This is an urgent message for all the Doctors. It’s vitally important that you listen carefully to me for once. Our whole existence is being threatened by a renegade Time Lord known only as the Rani! She hates me. She even hates children!

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Most of you have seen this already, I’d bet. The only thing I know about Downton Abbey is that it has the inimitable Maggie Smith among the cast and for that alone I’m gonna make time to eventually watch this show.

This series must be a big deal. For one thing my Facebook front page was loaded with all kinds of numbstruck horror over the weekend because of the Downton Abbey season finale. And then there’s the fact that Sesame Street has now spoofed it! Even without knowing the particulars of the source material, I thought this was pretty funny.

So here is “Uptown Downton Abbey”…

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I couldn’t help myself. You might say the “id” within me was irresistible.

You know that photo the White House released of President Obama “skeet-shooting” at Camp David? Yeah: the one the White House also warned us peons against “manipulating” a’la Photoshop.

It was begging to be done though. Here is Barack Obama fighting off the legions of Hell…

“Gun-free zones” are no deterrence to Imps, Cacodemons and Former Human Sergeants.

And in place of Doom-guy’s face I put Dianne Feinstein. Hey, she has to have her gun too, right?...

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Bipolar Bear, whose entire appearance in the animated series The Tick was for a whopping 8 seconds (series premiere The Tick vs. The Idea Men, 1994):

Heh-heh, love it! I’ve thought since the beginning that The Tick was one of the most intelligent, cerebral and funny shows to ever come out of animation. Nothing of the past decade and a half comes even close. The Nineties seriously was the height of the animated series as an art form and The Tick embodies everything that was good and pure about that era.

Speaking of bipolar disorder, I currently have three new pieces for Being Bipolar on the burner… and I can’t figure out which one to run with next. Recent events complicated matters in terms of issue appropriateness, if anyone’s curious. I’m hoping to have a new one up real soon.

And no, I don’t mind laughing about my ...

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It’s been ages since anything Lost-related has appeared on this site. Someday I’ll try to write up an essay that’s been percolating for a year or two: how the answers to everything we’d been looking for really, honestly were revealed or explained by the time of “The End” in 2012. Including how the Island could move (there’s a scientific theory for that!).

Until then, it’s nice to see that Lost still resonates. Enough so that CollegeHumor.com explored the notion: “What if Lost was a computerized role-playing game?” Sorta in the style of Dragon Warrior running on a Super Nintendo…

There may be spoilers if you haven’t watched Lost, so viewer beware. For those who held on to the very end, this is a pretty hilarious video....

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For as long as we’ve been watching Star Wars movies, I can’t recall anyone drawing attention to this one fleeting but horrifying image from Episode VI: Return of the Jedi…

Ewoks. With blaster rifles.

For the good of the galaxy, let us hope the triumphant Rebels never allow them to leave Endor....

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And that’s sayin’ something about this show…

Congratulations producers of The Walking Dead: you finally brought television its most gruesome and disturbing birth scene since Robin’s delivery in V: The Final Battle all the way back in 1984:

Yeah. It was sicker than that even.

“Killer Within” raised the stakes. Dropped jaws. And most of all, broke our hearts.

Due to peculiar circumstances at the moment I’m not catching The Walking Dead until the day after it airs (well I could if I wanted to, but I’m an honorable boyfriend who can only experience this story together with his girlfriend 🙂 and when Facebook and Twitter went berzerk about this episode last night, well… it was a long 20 hours to wait. But that was a hella thing to be patient for. I’m gonna be numb all night after watching that.

Anyone else wanna argue that The Walking Dead...

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