Well, as I may have mentioned before, I do have a price - and Squeenix has named it. There was only one sure way to guarantee that I would buy any given video game system, immediately, and well, unlikely as it may be, the Sony PSP is the winner.


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So these two movies I like, Curse of the Golden Flower and The Night Banquet (released in the US on DVD by Dragon Dynasty as Legend of the Black Scorpion), are kind of like weird fraternal twin siblings.

Both had producers from Hong Kong (John Chong and William Kong, respectively), directors from the PRC (Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogong), legendary ( Read more... )

.... Eeeeyep.

SUCKER PUNCH!

DIG IT

I -LOVE- crossovers. Done right, anyway. Where the story, plot, and character details of each thing crossing over reinforces the other and create internally consistent but crazy new forms. Just for the record ( Read more... )

For her birthday this past September, one of the things I gave me mam was the Firefly box set, and since she enjoyed it I got her the Serenity collector's edition DVD this past Thanksgiving. So to return the favor, she got me some of the Firefly Official Companions from Titan Books for an early Christmas present. In my thank-you note, I may have ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that despite Obama stacking the National Mediation Board with ex-union thugs, the humble ramp workers of Delta Air Lines have not only voted down union 'representation' by the Union fatcats of the IAM looking to make their living off our sweat and toil, but have ended decades of union parasitism at Northwest! Now unless ( Read more... )

So I'm here in Boston at the New England Comic Con with justintime2k at the Hynes Convention Center, and this morning, the place was a zoo. The first thing I noticed was the lines of Tea Party protestors on the opposite side of the street, which I thought was a little unusual for a comic book convention. The second thing I noticed were the phalanxes of police ( Read more... )

I have not done a meme in years. Sorry about all the bad html and spyware I've just installed in your web browser! I was honestly curious. unclejam was Chuck Palahniuk.


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From the official website of the PLANET BB114 TOURISM DIRECTORATE:

Christina Hendricks, formerly Saffron from Firefly and now Joan Holloway on Mad Men, pitches for the latest interplanetary vacation spot, with some help from that guy from the Shins and a cartoon mouse.

So what is the greatest threat facing the human race in the 21st century? ... Aside from zombies? That's right - clones!

Anticipating this new trend of humorless vat-spawn seeking to usurp the privileged position in life held by the non-genetically-engineered, the fabulous tdj has recently written what will become known as the definitive guide to ( Read more... )