The Simpson's Movie is finally coming out.  The funniest part of the trailer, you ask?  The title card with Moe boasts that the Simpsons are in 2D, and the next shot in the trailer (Homer driving a crane) is done almost entirely in 3D.

And I wonder if I'm a dork.

Friday night I had to park at a meter spot on Belmont, about 15 minutes away from Eva's aparto because there was nothing available anywhere.  Not even on my normal spots up and down the side streets of Southport.  So what happens when I go to my car the next day to feed the meter.  Yeah, I got another ticket, but what else ( Read more... )

Another new Iraq movie, but this time it's about the soldiers after they come back.  Support the war, or support the troops?  You decide.

And yes, I notice that most of my posts are becoming more and more war/political slanted.  Videogames and cartoons are starting to seem a bit more ridiculous in the current climate.

When people tell me that it's unAmerican to support the troops but not the war, I send them articles like this one.  I guess it's fine for the government to support the war but not the troops.  Combine that with the shutting down of VA hospitals and the withholding of agreed to wartime pay, and it sounds like someone else is spending too much time ( Read more... )

I've had a lifelong love affair with Coke products, especially since their root beer (Barq's) owns Pepsi's (Mug-blarggh).  But lately, Coke has even been stepping up their advertising campaigns too.  Whereas Pepsi is all about signing up pop stars and sports heroes to get to buy their sludge, Coke is hiring wickedly awesome designers and motion ( Read more... )

Two new demo's are available for Live-enabled 360 users: Ninety-Nine Nights and Saint's Row.  Both are rife with cliches from their respective countries of origin; both try to trump the game they are deriviatives of.  And they're both pretty good.

I hate GTA: it's ugly, boring and that type of micro-iterative game design normally resigned to sports ( Read more... )

Most of the time I post about movies, videogames, or comic books, which are self-admittedly, the stuff of my daily life.  But there's a something building in my gut lately, and it really hit over the weekend.  I was thinking about how crazy it was that the San Diego Convention Center had to be shut down last weekend, because the fire marshall ( Read more... )

Back from San Diego, whew.  It was a workout: both mentally and physically.  My first flight got cancelled, and I sat through a 7 hour delay.  I was able to charm my way onto a flight to LA, then sneak onto an earlier  puddlejumper flight to San Diego.  The drama.

But it was such a good time.  Anytime you're looking for a creative recharge, head ( Read more... )

So me and almost all of my friends at work are headed out to San Diego for DorkFest 06, otherwise known as THE COMICON!  There's a hella crazy amount of awesome panels this year, including the debut of the HellBoy Animated series.  Cheeks is gonna be up on stage with Mike Mignola and Guillermo Del Toro, who's going to be running a Pan's Labyrinth ( Read more... )

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