Disney buys Marvel
Monday, August 31, 2009
In the unlikely event that you haven't already heard the news (and heard it about 600 times today), Disney has purchased Marvel Comics.
Read more...Sci-fi, Horror and All Things Geek
In the unlikely event that you haven't already heard the news (and heard it about 600 times today), Disney has purchased Marvel Comics.
Read more...“I did set out [to] tell a five-season storyline,” the exec maintains. “Quite frankly, I never expected [the show] to make it to five years. But now that we’re in our fifth year, I have every intention of ending the story with a bang and not drawing it out or watering it down.”
Relax, Supe Nazis. Here’s that catch I promised you…“That having been said,” Kripke continues, “I’m looking at this season as the last chapter in this particular story. That doesn’t mean there can’t be a new story. Buffy did it. The X-Files did it. You close a chapter on a big mythology storyline and then you begin a new one.
Back in the '70s, NBC tried to launch a live-action comedy series based on DC comics' most famous superhero characters. (Well, most of DC's most famous characters; Superman was busy being in movies and Wonder Woman was occupied with her own hit TV show.) Legends of the Superheroes was a debacle, but it's since acquired a pretty devoted cult following. The second episode followed a "celebrity roast" format - hosted by Ed McMahon! - and featured the following sequence in which Brad Sanders (as "Ghetto Man") does a stand-up routine that maybe slightly less embarrassing than his part as Batty Boy in Hollywood Shuffle.
Yet another clip stolen from the folks at Cartoon Brew, this time featuring a look at the animation process for Dr. Facilier, the magician villain in Disney's upcoming return to hand-drawn cartoons, The Princess and the Frog. Too soon to say if the film itself will be any good, but this is a bad guy with style.
Zombieland looks like some really fun horror-comedy trash, with Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson as two of the last men on Earth after an outbreak of zombieism. Listen in as Eisenberg walks us through a few of the 47 rules of survival in a world overrun with the undead. You might wanna take notes, this is info that could come in very handy if the dead ever do start crawling from their graves in search of tasty human brains.
Send That's My Face two photos of a single human head - one shot from the front, one from the side - and they will make an astonishingly cool yet also slightly horrifying 3D, full-color replica of it. It could be your own head. It could be a celebrity's head. It could be the head of Loretta, the girl who swore she would love you forever, but then broke your heart on that terrible night in November of 2003. You still see her face, every time you close your eyes. You reach out in the darkness to feel the warmth and softness of her skin, but all your fingertips find is shadows and sorrow. Now she can be yours again, in colored resin form.
That's My Face has plenty of clever suggestions for things you can do with your second head. You can hang it on the wall! You can make a mask of your own face! You can scale it down and make an action figure with your own head! You can get one with a hollow top and use it for a pencil mug that will make your grandma weep and cross herself like an old gypsy lady in a wolfman movie!
And of course, you can attach your Loretta face to a lifelike mannequin you buy off of Ebay. Then you can dress up your new Loretta in modest but flattering outfits and spend long evenings telling her all of your hopes and dreams.
This Loretta will never criticize you, or laugh at you, or leave you. This Loretta is yours to keep. And if you love her long enough, if you believe hard enough, perhaps one day she will actually speak to you. You will hear Loretta's voice, telling you she loves you. And then, everything will at last be right again.
Today I was startled to see that Google Adsense was running charity ads on this blog again. Bloggers don't get paid anything when readers click on the charity ads, and Adsense only runs them if you've posted "objectionable" content. In the past they flagged me for the post about animated f*tish *rotica for the deaf, which I found rather extreme. But this time I couldn't think of what the heck Adsense had tagged as p*rn. I hadn't written anything even slightly naughty lately!
Finally I figured it out. I removed the words cr*ss-dr*ssing and *ss from that last Kids in the Hall story, and that did the trick, the charity ads were quickly replaced with ads for commercial products. How pathetic is that? The cr*ss-dr*ssing reference was a direct quote from an article in Toronto's Globe and Mail (not exactly Penthouse or anything) and *ss was used in the context of "this will get your *ss fired." There was absolutely nothing *bscene in that story!
I find censoring *ss to be really silly, but I tend to doubt that was really the offending word. I suspect Google Adsense flags the phrase cr*ss-dr*ssing as p*rn, which is actually kind of creepy. Why is all cr*ss-dr*ssing automatically flagged as p*rn by Google Adsense? Was Some Like It Hot a p*rn movie? I'm sure there are many cr*ss-dr*ssers out there who would object to their harmless little hobby being added to George Carlin's list of the seven words you can't say on television.
Anyway, now we've got our real ads back, and you can resume clicking on them and making me a few nickles per day. G*d d*mn, I gotta find something better than Adsense. Between the censorship and the paltry revenue, Adsense kinda s*cks *ss.
Just in case you're worried that the Kids have lost their comic edge now that they're middle-aged and pudgy, check out this short film they made last year. It's as sick and funny as anything they ever did, and it's super mega not safe for work, times three. Seriously, this thing will get you fired.
I don't have a lot of nostalgia for old video games. (I tend to think of them as "that crud we had to play while we waited for game graphics to improve.) But that being said, even I cannot deny the avalanche of awesome that is 8-Bit Trip. It's even worth sitting through the yucky Eurodisco for.
During a visit to a local diner he stumbles upon a mysterious alien artefact that leads him on a mission to rescue Rivesh Mantilax from the threat of the Viperox and the clutches of the American military.
Joining David Tennant will be Georgia Moffett (Doctor Who, Spooks) in the role of Cassie Rice – the Doctor's new animated companion.
David Warner (Wallander, Hogfather) also stars as the leader of the ruthless Viperox.
Ladies, have you ever wanted to transform your butt into a horrifying cat-monster that constantly winks at passerby? How about adorning your ass with two duck heads that constantly snap their beaks? Or maybe you longed to slap a big, crazy owl head across your posterior? Well, thanks to Winkers, your dreams have come true!
Via Metafilter, where this link has apparently been posted a number of times, only to then be deleted because the mods think people are posting this to laugh at heavyset ladies. I think that's totally missing the point. Seeing this clip, I sure ain't laughing at what the Black Eyed Peas would refer to as "all that ass inside them jeans." But I am in hysterics about the jeans themselves, because they are quite possibly the most wonderfully stupid thing there ever was.
First, there's the Avatar trailer. I think I am officially getting old. The entire Internet is in a swoon over how awesome this thing is, and to me it just looks like yet another noisy sci-fi action movie with fakey CGI. You kids go have your fun.
And then we got the Wolfman trailer. I'm not sure if it looks fun in its own right, or if it just looks fun compared to that Avatar business.
Lucy McRae is an artist who does fantastic, horrible things with the human body. With her camera, a handful of supplies you could find at the local Rite-Aid (paper, balloons, a box of Q-Tips) and a naked person or two, she can create a small army of beautiful monsters. With almost every one of her pieces, you have the same three-stage reaction, occurring in a fraction of an instant:
1. Oh! How amazing!
2. Oh! Now I see how she did it. It's really just a bunch of thumbtacks/toothpicks/whatever.
3. Oh! How amazing!
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And speaking of furry folk... I now present to you a French Orangina soda ad that will quite probably be the most disturbing thing you have ever seen. An argument could be made that footage of war atrocities or open-heart surgeries would be more disturbing than this footage. But it's not an argument I'd be willing to make. When I die and go to hell, they'll escort me into a little room and show me an endless loop of the part with the octopus lady.
(While it's not actually explicit, this is still something you maybe don't wanna watch at the office... Or anywhere else, for that matter.)
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