Archive for February, 2009
Watchmen News: AK’s Not Happy
Well, this is stupid. My reservations about the Watchmen movie have returned.
No Squid in Watchmen
New York YM readers, would you or other New Yorkers really be upset if they’d kept the end of the graphic novel intact? I’m seriously wondering, as I’ve never lived so near the site of a tragedy like 9/11 (I was [...]
Manga Review: King of Thorn
Hey people, I’m going to be gone until Monday so I’m dumping a review on you before I leave. Enjoy!(?)
King of Thorn is a short (six volume), tight little science fiction/horror manga. It’s a kinetic action piece with a big reveal that’s truly surprising, and if much of it stretches credibility, well, it is a [...]
For Sale: One Chick’s Time
A girl in China decided making her own decisions was too much work. So she asked the Internet to tell her what to do!
…that’s a recipe for disaster.
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But wait! Her requests have included things like taking care of stray cats and feeding homeless people. Obviously 4chan has not discovered her site yet…
If I could find(and [...]
‘Sita Sings the Blues’ – soon free as a bird!
Okay, I finally saw Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues (never you mind how), and I’ll be dammned if it isn’t an amazingly enthralling film. Seriously. I really want to post a 5,000 word review right-fucking-now but I’ll restrain myself. Instead, I’ll just rejoice that the entire film will soon be available online for free [...]
Now That’s What I Call a Ray
A British guy in Thailand hooked a stingray that was roughly 7″ by 7″ and weighed 55 stone- in normal language, that’s 770 pounds!
Monster Ray Pic
Once on Iron Chef the secret ingredient was stingray meat from the ‘wings’…and that shit looked disgusting. It was all gray and greasy. Fortunately, this giant ray was saved from [...]
Nagasaki in your backyard!
From io9…Ground Zero is a website utilizing Google Maps to plot out the effect of various nuclear strikes. Just enter your city or address and start planning your fallout shelter. I was pleased to see that chateau Musashi would probably be okay if a 21kt nuke went off downtown, but I suspect most ICBM’s are [...]
Kotaku liveblogs the Street Fighter movie
Videogame blog Kotaku took a spin with the new Street Fighter movie (not the one with JCVD’s ass, the one with Kristen Kreuk’s ass). I have to admit I’m still having trouble seeing Kristen Kreuk as Chun-Li, but she is teh hotness so it’ll at least be worth checking out on a mildly puerile level.
As [...]
I Have No Clever Title for This Weirdness
OK, let me get this straight.
A man who was ‘in custody’ (I assume this means jail) died after banging into a wall, really hard, because he was playing blindfolded hide-and-go-seek.
Because that’s how prisoners generally amuse themselves.
Then the cops invite Internet users (I assume this means ‘b/tards’) to solve the case using their crazy skills on [...]
Best Buy Cuts Anime Titles in 800 Stores
It seems Best Buy has finally realized that people aren’t buying anime from them because they prefer to download it for free (note: I bought both seasons of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Solid State Society from them, so there!). So the company is cutting its anime titles in about 800 [...]
Variety Asia goes bye-bye
I just hopped over to Variety Asia to see if there was anything worth blogging and to my surprise I was re-directed to the main Variety homepage. At first I thought that I had entered the wrong URL, but now Twitch is saying that Variety Asia editor Patrik Frater and web guy Marcus Lim have [...]
‘Stargate Universe’ is looking kind of Asian, might not suck
I’ll cop to it – I fucking despise Stargate SG-1. Hate it. Hate-hate-hate-hate-hate-hate it. Lame-y, lame-o show.
Buuut….Stargate Universe, the followup to either SG-1 or Farscape Stargate Atlantis (can’t tell which) looks pretty promising. I mean, they got Robert ‘Begbie’ Carlyle to show up, and now I hear-tell Ms. Ming-Na and Filipino-American actor Lou Diamond Phillips [...]
Florida says ‘No’ to Asian ‘fish pedicure’
Floridians looking to lose some dead foot-flesh to a pool of hungry fish will have to do so in the privacy of their own home – the Florida Board of Cosmetology has voted ‘nay’ on allowing the procedure, on the grounds that the water can’t be cleaned between ‘feedings’. The whole thing sounds like a [...]
‘Sita Sings the Blues’ on PBS in March
One of the first things I blogged when we switched over to WordPress was an interview with Sita Sings the Blues director Nina Paley. I still haven’t seen it (no doubt because of the retarded copyright issues that have held the film’s distribution in limbo). However, PBS affiliate WNET in New York plans to broadcast [...]
2girls1cup…and natto
I think the headline speaks for itself. And just by way of clarification (and, perhaps, exoneration) I found this while searching for ‘natto’ on YouTube, not ‘2girls1cup‘. No, really. Oh – forget it.
While keeping natto down is a hard-won skill, doing so whilst watching the infamous 2girls1cup is a feat of titanic fortitude. The only [...]
Things That Want to Eat You: Tigers
I feel sorry for the two loggers who were illegally logging in the Sumatran forest, onlt to be eaten by a tiger. I’m sure they were just trying to provide for their families. But they were still in a forest…at night…known to be frequented by tigers.
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Deforestation is driving the critically endangered kitty into villages, where [...]
