Spider-Pig
“Can he swing from a web? No he can’t, he’s a pig.”
July 2007
This is a list of archived entries published in July 2007.
D’oh Hard
This makes my third Die Hard-referencing post title in less than a month. Also, to be fair, I stole it from ToyFare.
Anyway…let’s see if I can recall everything that went on this weekend…
Friday night, DottyGale (DG) and I just hung around the apartment. It was her first full day of vacation (she’s off all this [...]
Fanboy nirvana
In celebration of the San Diego Comic Con, USA Today has an amusing article examining the so-called “fanboy” phenomenon. (One thing I’ve never understood–why are those people who paint their bare stomachs at ballgames and name their kids after football players just “fans,” while anyone who owns a Star Wars toy is a “fanboy“? Not [...]
Huh?
This is a church down the street from me…they’ve got some odd slogans.
Andy
My friend Andy is in the hospital with a serious (and seriously odd) medical condition. Now that’s he’s written a blog post about it, I’d like to wish him all the luck in the world and ask everyone to keep him in their thoughts. Get better soon, Andy!
A couple short films
A few years ago, I attended the San Diego Comic Con and was fortunate enough to see a short film called Walkentalk, about a guy introducing his fiance to his younger brother, who happens to be completely obsessed with Christopher Walken–to the point where he speaks only in Walken quotes.
When I saw Walkentalk I had [...]
CSI:M Rerun Recap
Watched on: 7/19
Episode Title: “Blood Brothers”
A fashion model gets run over by a Ferrari and (deep breath) it turns out the killer is the diplomatically immune son of the dictator of a fictional Latin American country who is helping the US military prevent another 9/11 by torturing terrorist suspects while keeping the US’s hands clean [...]
Another one dusts the bytes
My friend Tom’s Xbox 360 died last week. More specifically, the external hard drive of his Xbox 360 crashed, which meant he lost all his saved game data. All the progress he’d made on any game–gone. Fortunately, one’s Achievements are archived on Microsoft’s server, so his gamerscore is safe.
But that did get me thinking–why doesn’t [...]
“I can’t believe…” (puts on sunglasses) “…I’m watching CSI Miami.”
It all started with The Soup, the most recent iteration of E!’s Talk Soup. For those who have never seen it, The Soup is a half-hour show that makes fun of everything that happened on television and pop culture that week. Host Joel McHale pokes fun at clips from reality shows, “news” shows like The [...]
Hellboy sweetness
Sometimes to get a comic shop to order a lot of copies of a particular comic, a publisher will offer a “retailer incentive.” This is often some sort of poster or super-rare variant cover or even a collectible like an action figure, and the comic shop gets one if it orders enough copies of [...]