August 21st, 2009
0 commentsI mean, I should have known from the trailer what I was in for, and really, I kind of did. But how bad it was going to be didn’t quite sink in until the theater started filling with packs of girls and I noticed that none of them were pretty. I wasn’t just at a girl movie. I was at an ugly girl comfort movie – one for them to go and see with their ugly, chubby friends. It was like a fucking STAR WARS retrospective screening, but without all the light sabers and goatees.
Ulp!
August 21st, 2009
A couple days ago I began a project of sorting through all of my old collection to pick out the stuff that needs to be graded and archived. And while I’m normally happy to defend the honor of comic books, some of what I found horrified me. Evidently, I was pretty big into licensed properties at one point:
Which are both kind of embarrassing. In my defense, I’ll note that I only bought the first issues of these two, possibly because I was six, and blindly following the maxim always buy #1s. Then there’s this:
Go ahead, click on the image to enlarge it and really drink in the horror. But here’s the really embarrassing part–I didn’t just buy Ewoks #1. I have the entire 14-issue run.
I know–or at least I think I know–that I never actually liked the series. Unlike most of the comics from my youth, I have virtually no memory of buying the things, let alone reading them. Which means that I was probably just picking them up out of devotion to Star Wars. Looking back on it I can’t help but feel like I was sort of being hustled by Lucas, even then.
0 commentsWorst Product Placement Ever?
August 21st, 2009
And the unintentional hilarity of this shot is about as black as black comedy gets:
"Oh, SHIT brother. I am HIGH! And I’m an Eagle! How’d that happen?"
August 20th, 2009
Unbelievable levels of awesome.
Started off with this:
Vick: Oh, SHIT! Ming the Merciless! Step off, you creepy shit!
And this:
Vick: Oh, Mr. Quiet Strength Man! How the fuck you doing? You wanna watch Gladiator with me? Fucking Gladiator and weed is DANGEROUS, like me running the ball on 3rd and 34.
By the time you get to “Lance” you’ll be–literally–crying.
0 commentsIs Tesla the Automotive Twitter?
August 19th, 2009
A typically fantastic Tad Friend piece about Tesla contains this quote from G.M.’s Bob Lutz:
0 commentsThe hubris of Tesla is ‘We’re not going to fall into the trap of being like Detroit–we’re going to be the SIlicon Valley guys, nimble and innovative.’ Everyone who tries to reinvent this business believes that auto companies are populated by dummies who don’t understand Moore’s Law. But, unlike a silicon chip, the modern automobile has to be a certain size, and carry a certain number of people, at a certain speed. Over thirty-five hundred parts from around the world have to come together at the right place and the right time to produce sitxy to seventy of these things an hour. These things are called cars. And to make them you need a large engineering staff, a workforce that demands retirement benefits, a tax staff, a fleet of accountants, and an unbelievable amount of reliability testing that Tesla can’t afford to do right now–and we can’t afford not to do. Inevitably, Tesla will discover that the only way to succeed on the scale we have is to be exactly like us.
Also . . .
August 19th, 2009
From KSK.
Favre
August 19th, 2009
The greatest heel-turn in the history of the NFL? I say: Yes.
KSK has the last word: Suck it, Minnesconsin!
0 commentsDispelling Any Rumors
August 19th, 2009
However, I applaud his sensibilities.
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