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Re: The Cake Is A Lie - DAMMIT, I’m eating so badly this week. Those fish...

smoogren — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:24:43 -0000

Look! Comments!

Thanks, G!

Re: A Day in the Life - Entensity.net wtf.

smoogren — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 23:47:13 -0000

edit: What I posted before was obvious. Perhaps too obvious. The more I look at this photo, the more ominous and sinister it looks.

Re: A Day in the Life - Old wedding photos found near a garbage can in an...

smoogren — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:51:46 -0000

Man, that's a lot of wood. Can't say I know exactly where this is, but the minister looks familiar.

LBC Represent.

Re: A Day in the Life - Entensity.net wtf.

smoogren — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:49:14 -0000

Screw that noise--I want to be inside that guy's head for five minutes.

..but a hi-res image would be sweet, too. I would totally tape it to my Trapper-Keeper.

Re: A Day in the Life - Top 10 Conversation Hacks

smoogren — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:52:46 -0000

Three or four of those are on the Top 10 list of Ways to Get Me To Punch You In The Apple-Bag.

Re: A Day in the Life - Top 10 Conversation Hacks

smoogren — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:03:11 -0000

Joint manipulations should be in that top 10, like if all else fails and you can't feign sincerity, you could always break the other guy's shoulder.

Re: A Day in the Life - Joss Whedon’s Batman Movie that Never Was

smoogren — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:38:14 -0000

That's awesome. I had no idea he pitched a Batman movie. If you haven't checked them out yet, you should get some of the stuff he did for the X-Men comic. It's great, great stuff--it really reminded me of why I loved X-Men in the first place.

Have you read All-Star Superman? I LOVE that series. It's a 12-issue miniseries that takes place outside of the regular DC continuum, and they start by telling you that Superman is dying. The rest of the books has Superman tying up loose ends, tidying up his accounts, and trying to make sure the world will be alright without him.

There's another book that I would love to see as a movie, and it comes highly recommended if you don't have it yet--Superman:Birthright. It's really what Superman Returns should have been (and I actually liked that movie), and it's got a page right at the beginning that would be perfect for an origin story--as the capsule that holds baby Kal-El rockets toward earth, its life support systems failing as it enters our atmosphere, the next panel is a speeding bullet in the present, and the next four or five panels alternate between the bullet and the capsule and ends with Clark catching the bullet.

Re: A Day in the Life - Joss Whedon’s Batman Movie that Never Was

smoogren — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:29:06 -0000

For what it's worth, there are some later (late 80's/early 90's) John Byrne books over at Amazon. You can get the Dark Phoenix Saga for sure, and I think they have Uncanny X-men Omnibus. I think that's sort of an answer to the Essential Uncanny X-men, which collects the Kirby/Lee era.

Also, they just ended the Scud: The Disposable Assassin series. They just (I think last week) put out the Scud Omnibus, so you can read the entire series in one gigantic book.

Re: A Day in the Life - I’m not real familiar with the series but this has...

smoogren — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:13:47 -0000

I'm about 90% certain that I've driven through that neighborhood.

Funny story about when Dateline shot this in Long Beach--My cousin works for the city in whatever department oversees parking enforcement. For a few days after they packed up the cameras, she had to deal with these rooms full of angry wives who had to come pick up their husbands' cars.

Re: A Day in the Life - New HBO Series: True Blood I stumbled across a...

smoogren — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:51:53 -0000

I caught that episode, too--It totally felt unfinished (I mean, aside from the *actual* unfinished parts), so I, too, will keep an open mind until it airs for real. You know what this sort of reminded me of? Those Necroscope books that you turned me on to a few years back. The vampires weren't out in the open like they are here, but this first episode did something equally interesting with the genre, without making it silly. I always thought HBO would have been a great place to do a Hellblazer series or something like Angel, but I think this will do nicely. With some editing, of course.

Re: The Mechapixel Podcast Fiasco

smoogren — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:54:55 -0000

Here's the feed for IDYP:
http://idyp.libsyn.com/rss

and the one for the MPF:
http://mechapixel.libsyn.co...

drop that shit in your iTunes, son.

Re: A Day in the Life - New HBO Series: True Blood I stumbled across a...

smoogren — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:20:28 -0000

Well, from the looks of the first episode, it almost seems like humans get more screentime than the vampires, which is an interesting take. I don't know where this whole psychic thing ("I'M NOT PSYCHIC!") is going, but whatever. I agree with your take on what seems like a paper-thin third act. I didn't buy that whole exchange between Sookie and Bill toward the end. I get that he's supposed to be kind of a stock post-Stoker Vampire--you know. Pale, mysterious, misunderstood. Maybe not completely evil. It's just that he doesn't seem to be putting a whole lot of stock in making anyone feel better about his heritage (despite that whole bit about acutally caring about what people think about him).

I also didn't buy that bit at the end--Sam comes out and offers to stick around while Sookie waits for Bill. I thought he was getting into a car, but it turns out he lives right behind the diner. Now, you know what happens. The thing that bothers me is this: He lives in a mobile home behind his diner. That's A). B) It's obvious he cares a great deal about his friend and employee, who is about to meet with a vampire, and C) Sam clearly doesn't trust Bill. Now if B is true, and C is true, I would think he'd at least be keeping an eye out, at least to make sure she's okay. I would think that most normal people would keep watch just to see what's going to happen anyway. My issue is with A. He's right nearby, and he doesn't hear what's going on? He just went into his home, which is out in the middle of nowhere, by a dirt road. I live in a large city right on a major street, near the intersection of another major street. In the middle of the night, you can still hear a great deal. For example--at night, I can hear foghorns at the port, which is a pretty significant distance away from where I am. I can also sometimes hear the bell when a train pulls into the nearest Metro station, which is about half a mile away or better. I've heard someone actually getting beaten up about 3/4 of a block away, so I'm very surprised that Sam didn't seem to hear anything.

I don't know--the next episode might actually begin with Sam coming out to see what the ruckus is, just in time to save Sookie from her attackers. So I might be completely out of order. You know what would be awesome? If they kept that opening sequence.

Re: A Day in the Life - Listen to Brian Wilson's new album in its entirety

smoogren — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:53:26 -0000

I do not expect this to top Smile. I think that would be well nigh impossible. However, I fully expect to enjoy the hell out of this one.

Re: The Cake Is A Lie - This clip made me laugh like Robert DeNiro in the...

smoogren — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:39:51 -0000

You know, I had something of a rebuttal ready, but then I watched it a few times more and it looks like you might be right.

I also thought I had something clever and/or funny to say, but it's early and I'm not quite at my operating temperature yet.

Something something something clever funny something.

Re: A Day in the Life - The Honey Bees: You Need Us

smoogren — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:25:15 -0000

You know, I've always been a Mary Ann guy, but Mrs. Howell is kind of hot in this episode.

Re: A Day in the Life - Anti-Obama sign, check. Confederate flag, check....

smoogren — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:03:03 -0000

I do have to agree with their anti-socialest stand. I mean, who wants to be THE MOST SOCIAL?!? No thank you, sir. I'm gonna stand in the corner giving everybody dirty looks.

Re: A Day in the Life

smoogren — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:08:38 -0000

I love this photo so much.

Re: A Day in the Life

smoogren — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:18:47 -0000

Yeah. I wanna have like, a million babies with this photo.

Re: A Day in the Life

smoogren — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:03:15 -0000

Of course. I should have gotten that the first time.

Re: A Day in the Life - Lehman CEO Fuld tries to justify his 500 Million...

smoogren — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:23:20 -0000

I hope that there's a chance--as slim as that might be--that someone has security video footage of Fuld getting knocked the fuck out in the corporate gym.

Re: A Day in the Life - Lehman CEO Fuld tries to justify his 500 Million...

smoogren — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:23:18 -0000

I don't begrudge the guy his money, if he did his job and did what was best
for his investors and shareholders. I would expect similar compensation if
I had a job where, if I failed, it could potentially help destroy the US
economy (further). Thing is, he failed and he should be homeless.

The Japanese have at least one thing right--I don't know if you've seen any
of it, but there's some footage somewhere of at least one CEO of a Japanese
investment firm weeping in shame at a shareholder's meeting, where he has to
break the news that the company's going under, and that he takes full
responsibility. I think that's the attitude guys like Fuld need to adopt,
at least a little.

Re: A Day in the Life - Lehman CEO Fuld tries to justify his 500 Million...

smoogren — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:39:18 -0000

Well, handling that much money is a huge responsibility. You don't get to
smirk like you got caught TP'ing Billy Henderson's house. He should be
worried about getting straight-up murdered.

Re: A Day in the Life - Tom Green battles Xzibit in Freestyle Rap. The...

smoogren — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:53:03 -0000

I don't doubt it was spontaneous. I was a big fan of Organized Rhyme back before MTV gave him his own show--they used to show a video every now and then back in the early 90's on MuchMusic. They were pretty good, even by my current tastes. I mean, they're not Wu-Tang or anything, but pretty good for a Canadian rap group.

Re: A Day in the Life - Tom Green battles Xzibit in Freestyle Rap. The...

smoogren — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:29:11 -0000

Check the O.R.:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: A Day in the Life - Worst Line Reading, Ever. omogomogomogomogomog!

smoogren — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:57:17 -0000

My favorite clip from Troll 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...