Dr. Horrible DVD Available for Pre-order Yay! Check it out here.  ¶ 7:55 AM 0 Comments

  Caturday LOLcat Blogging I saw this too late for Friday, but too cute to resist:


more animals  ¶ 6:12 AM 0 Comments

  Muppet Holiday Mayhem The star-studded special is set to air on NBC on December 17th.

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  Monty Python Would Like You to Stop Stealing Their Stuff   ¶ 8:53 PM 0 Comments

  Why I Love the Big Bang Theory So I love the Big Bang Theory, which will heretofore referred to as TBBT:

• Last night's episode introduced the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock, which is supposed to result in fewer ties because of greater number of combinations, but which ends in a tie every time, because no one ever picks anything but Spock.
• This line from the same episode: "I am not going to watch the Clone Wars TV series until I've seen the Clone Wars movie. I prefer to let George Lucas disappoint me in the order he intended." (For the record, I watched the movie and all the episodes of the show to date last weekend, and I like it. I am however, known to be a George Lucas apologist, so there you go.)
  
• The extended argument over which Star Trek movie is the worst. (For once, I disagree with Sheldon, although I am willing to rewatch Star Trek: the Motion Picture to consider his theory. I will not, however, ever watch Star Trek V again.
  
• The vanity card at the end of the episode which reads:
  Dear George Lucas,
  May I call you Mr. Lucas? On behalf of the writers of The Big Bang Theory, I would like to thank you for your astounding body of work, which has awakened the child within us and unleashed our dreams. That being said, we hope you don't take offense at our good-natured jest regarding your most recent animated efforts. Yes they were cheap shots, but we can't help but hold you to a higher standard -- a standard of your own making. In closing, we are all looking forward to Indiana Jones 5 - The Curse of the Golden Catheter. Oops, sorry again.
  
  Very truly yours,
  
  The Writers
  
  P.S. To William Shatner, director of Star Trek 5. Go ahead, sue us.

Complete non-sequitor: I watched Cloverfield two hours ago and I'm still a little nauseated. That thing should have come with some sort of warning label...

Labels: movies, tv

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  Holy Crap! Swim, little gentoo!!! Swiiiiiiiim!

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  One sunny day in January... One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.'

The Marine looked at the man and said, 'Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.' The old man said, 'Okay', and walked away.

The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.' The Marine again told the man, 'Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.' The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying 'I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.'

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, 'Sir, this is the third day in row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I've told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don't you understand?'

The old man looked at the Marine and said, 'Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.'

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, 'See you tomorrow, Sir.'

via my cousin Bonnie, via The Other Side of Paris  ¶ 7:07 PM 0 Comments

  Star Trek Movie Trailer



Update:

The official versions, including the lovely HD ones, are here.



Update #2:

There is an excellent discussion of the trailer going on over the Flick Filosopher.

Labels: cool, movies

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  Fireside Chat -21st Century Edition President-Elect Obama brings the fireside chat into the current era:



Can't they find a way not to take the man's Blackberry away? It just seems cruel...  ¶ 12:07 PM 0 Comments

  Friday LOLcat blogging
more animals  ¶ 6:38 PM 0 Comments

  Robot Chicken Star Wars Episode II Premieres Sunday, November 16th. Don't miss it!



Update: Also available online. (That's for you, Jack.)  ¶ 6:20 PM 0 Comments

  New Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer

It's a shame the release date has been pushed to next July, but it looks great.

Mugglenet has many other versions, including several HD formats, here.  ¶ 6:13 PM 1 Comments

  Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know The Telegraph has 50 facts you might not know about Barack Obama. Some of my favorites:
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He has read every Harry Potter book
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date

You can check out the complete list here.  ¶ 9:49 AM 0 Comments

  Simon Pegg's Star Wars Fan Fiction Simon Pegg, of the excellent Spaced and Hot Fuzz, has posted a brief, but hilarious bit of Star Wars fan fiction on his blog.

Here's a sample:
KENOBI
But I stood on the lava banks of Mustafar and watched him die.

SHAAK TI
I still don't understand why you didn't help him. He was your padawan.

KENOBI
I was really tired.

Read the rest here.  ¶ 7:42 AM 4 Comments