If you go see Iron Man be sure to stay after the credits.  It’s been confirmed that they added a scene to the national release that they didn’t put into the test screenings.

I’m really excited for Iron Man and not just because it looks amazing, and the cast is inspired, or because it could give the Dark Knight a run for its money, but this the first ( Read more... )

Oh man, some great stuff came out this week.  Just when Matt Fraction is making a very real play for the title as my favorite writer with two great books in one week, Grant Morrison reminds me that I am, in fact, totally gay for Grant Morrison.

Reviews and a frank, uncomfortable look at my sexuality after the jump.

DC Universe 0 - This is basically a ( Read more... )

I miss the sense of discovery.

Do you remember when you were a kid and the world was so big and so unknowable and every day you learned something new?

What atoms are, and how they make up everything.

Fire consumes oxygen.

Photosynthesis.

The Great Wall of China can be seen from space.

Rome conquered most of the known world.

Alexander the Great did it ( Read more... )

It’s the Monday Mad Scientist break down this time dealing with shape-shifting.

A.)    You can change into anything with a similar mass.  Now, similar is open to interpretation, in this case, you could change into Shaquille O’Neal, especially since he’s a person, but not, say, an elephant.  Essentially you could turn into any person on Earth, a dog ( Read more... )

I played the new Iron Man demo available for download on Xbox Live, and the game is a short demo, so some features aren’t in place yet, but it looks like a really fun, if not spectacular game.

It’s a lot of fun to just fly around shooting helicopters with repulsor rays, and firing micro grenades at tanks.  However, the ground game needs a lot of ( Read more... )

I’m getting ready to go to Bloomington where despite not being paid or actually rewarded in any way, I worked harder than I ever have in my life.

It was at writing fart jokes, but still.  I think I should get a job writing for that reason alone.

It’s only fair.

Matt
 

Fuuuck, it’s after midnight, isn’t it?

Christ.

My tolerance has taken a fucking hit, let me tell you.

Okay, Matt, okay, get it together.  Think of something your four readers can talk about in the comments.

Just breathe.

All right, next week Iron Man comes out and we’re officially into the big-budget summer blockbuster season.  Every weekend is an ( Read more... )

Speed Racer looks like a children’s coloring book, done by a 13 year old Japanese girl, which you read while on LSD in a room lit only by strobe lights and soundproofed so all you can hear is techno, probably house.

Having said that, I’ll be seeing it on IMAX.

Matt

All the complicated techniques and expensive equipment will not make you a better cook.  It will make it easier, but there’s nothing a mixer can do that you can’t.  Do I love my mom’s Calphalon gear?  Hell, yes I love working with those pots, and while I learned how to cook in high school, I learned what cooking was working with equipment from ( Read more... )

This isn’t a new argument, but it’s something that has always struck me as funny.  The Bill of Rights grants to us the Freedom of Speech.  Now what exactly is covered and not covered isn’t something I want to get into here.  Hate speech or sentiments considered unpatriotic are all very complicated topics, and I’m just not well-versed in law or ( Read more... )