Grok The Vote: Yes We Can, but No I Can't
Oct 31While not quite as cool as getting a call from Optimus Prime or Samuel L Jackson, I am quite excited by this new technology that allows us to see a week forward into the future. Once they fine tune the bit where we can tune in to this reality frequency, instead of ones where I’m not a Canadian, and thus ineligible to vote. If your preferred candidate doesn’t win next week, it’s not my fault.
Halloween 3. Stupid? Or Advanced?
Oct 21Getting home late last night, I find Halloween 3 is playing on Space (the Canadian answer to the Sci-Fi Channel). Always happy to have something mindless to watch before bed, I watched. It didn’t take long for it to break bad. Here, watch the trailer:
Crap, that’s no help. OK, I’ll summarize – After two go-rounds with Michael Myers, arguably THE movie monster of the second half of the 20th century, the makers of Halloween 3 had a radical idea… make a sequel and NOT have Myers in it. Buh? And then after realizing they greenlit a sequel without the star monster, execs panicked and insisted that the movie have some sort of monster. With the flip of a coin, they agreed on robots. I shit you not.
Well, that's just about perfect
Sep 26Steeped in the hip hop of the 80s, me and rap have slowly parted ways over the years, only occasionally agreeing on a track. And while I can appreciate a Young Jeezy track, I consider guys like this home. The video is fun, but the kicker starts at 2:10
Extra! Extra! Alert Nerdian for May-June '08!
Sep 25
Download: Alert Nerdian broadside PDF – May-June 2008
Download: Alert Nerdian broadside PNG – May-June 2008
Download: Alert Nerdian broadside GIF – May-June 2008
Like Sargent Rock, we refuse to go down! But, there will be much whining – it will sound a lot like, “Maaan, these broadsides are haaard.” They are not, in fact, hard, but they do take some amount of time and time has been tight of late – but they’re still here! We can take no credit for the concept – this is Warren Ellis’ brainchild and if his madness and alcohol consumption (it’s not slander if someone Twitters about it all the time, is it?) doesn’t interfere with his prolific production of prose, then py polly pe’ll peep paking these proadsides. Sleep be damned.
Nonsense alliteration is awesome.
Here is the fifth issue of the Alert Nerdian broadside, representing May and June of 2008. Expect another for July and August, and then we’ll be back to singles (and a Halloween issue! Fun!) As always, we encourage you to print a copy or two (or ten) out and share with the world. Leave them in the pooper or someplace equally cool. It’s up to you!
The plan will be to formally publish a year’s bushel of broadsides along with our upcoming Alert Nerd quarterly ‘zine – which is looking for clever people, it should be said.
Until next month… LOOK OUT! NERDS!
Speaking of Simon Pegg
Aug 22While we wait for Simon to help reignite the Star Trek franchise, he continues to bid his time in tiny romantic comedies – a Simon Pegg comedy tends to appeal to both halves of the gender demographic, which gives it a unique strength.
Run Fatboy Run was not only a solid bit of Peggian hilarity, it was a genuinely sweet romance story as well. And hey, anything that continues to help introduce Dylan Moran to the world, can’t be a bad thing.
And now comes Simon’s follow-up lead in the Toby Young bio-pic, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. I hated the poster, but if you add Jeff Bridges to the equation, I’m forced to reconsider. Add Gillian Anderson (yes, she’s in there – watch closely), and I’m sold. SOLD!
