High School Musical. I saw like twenty minutes near the end of it. They shot the songs like music videos instead of scenes in a musical, including some horrible green-screening. Ugh.
Also saw most of My Super Ex Girlfriend, which earned maybe two snorts and a chuckle on the comedy scale. The real point of this movie? Uma Thurman is hot, ya?
This (Cable Surfing Commando) might be an ongoing series, as I continue to explore cable TV (we only had poor people TV when I was a kid). More likely I’ll forget about this idea within the week…
Since rationalism already means rationalism, what do you call a prejudiced attitude toward the rational?
I am not a comic book geek. However, I am given to understand that many people hate Rob Liefeld. These guys were enormous douchebags enough to do something about it.
They gave him a copy of “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.” It says a lot that the guy running the dealer’s room stall chipped in when he figured out what they were going to do with it.
I’ve been watching Brotherhood recently, and I’ve noticed that you can get subbed episodes of it–and some other anime, a chunk of which I think is newish–at both the tubes and Hulu. As in, you can legitimately watch it. For reals. I am happy to see that the companies with the rights to these things are starting to make them above-the-table available outside of Japan. Here’s hoping the trend continues.
Today, we bring you William Howard Taft by the Two Gentlemen Band, along with a twitter user who uses twitter for neither good or evil but for AWESOME. All of his twits are written as telegrams. The one I wish to bring to your attention is:
DEAR FEET STOP I FEAR I SHALL NEVER SEE EITHER OF YOU AGAIN STOP WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT STOP
So, I have returned my Palm Pre and am now equipped with an iPhone. There were a few reasons for this, which I’ll get into later.
Before the cut, though, does anyone use Google Latitude? I’ve just signed up. Not sure if it’s useful or not, but almost certainly not if I’m the only one using it.
A few of us went out to Shaker Cinema to catch the GI Joe movie, which was highly watchable as long as you do not have a problem with any of the following:
* the idea of the big dumb action movie
* walking through a burned out economic wasteland of a city to spend twelve bucks and two hours watching several million dollars of special effects and drinking a 72 Oz soft drink
* hilarious pseudo-”science”
* blatant chauvinism
GI Joe reacted with my expectations roughly as follows:
* exceeded my general low-bar prediction of “better than Wolverine”
* more send-ups to its roots than the zero I expected
* villains even more 007 than I’d hoped; could not have been more so without a hairless cat to stroke; seriously I think there might have been sharks with frickin laser beams
* action sequences on par with expectation: though sword-fight cinematography is pretty stale these days, the accelerator suits in the trailer lived up to their promise
This is a solid popcorn movie, and I actually look forward to the sequel.
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