Found Lost Again
May 26I’ve been pretty iffy on Lost this season, for the simple reason that I started to feel like the show was yanking my chain.
NOTE TO READERS: Do NOT yank my chain, people. I do not LIKE it. It is not, as the kids say, “kewl.”
But of course, being an obsessive nerd who loves TV, I haven’t had the cajones yet to stop actually WATCHING the show, so we did catch the Lost finale. And I must admit, I think they finally yanked my chain in an attractive-enough way to bring me back in the fold…at least, a little bit.
52 Or Shatner: Week 3
May 25It seems every other blogger in the comics blogosphereoverse dimension has taken up the charge to create a weekly review of DC’s new series 52, which will run one issue every Wednesday for the next year.
Which made me wonder: Should I, a modest blogger of little regard, attempt this massive feat? Would I get bored by week 12 and just let the concept fade away? Would I even be able to create anything interesting or worth reading out of the concept?
Then it hit me: I need an out. Now I have one.
Each week, I will provide either a review of the latest issue of 52, or a random photo of William Shatner. If I’m in the mood or have some thoughts to offer, I’ll type my ass off. If not, I’ll just give you the gift that keeps on giving–SHAT.
52 review, or random Shatner–which will it be this week?! Click on to find out!
Message Boards=GENIUS.
May 25Every once in a while, there’s something I read on teh intarwheb that just plants itself in my brain and won’t leave. I think of it every couple hours, and just chuckle to myself. Thankfully, I don’t chuckle to my wife, my cow-orkers, or strangers on the street–they would think I was a weirdo.
Courtesy of the very great Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin (I’ve got it bookmarked–why don’t you?!?!), this gem from the DC Comics message boards:
“Bill Clinton, Lex Luthor, and Adolph Hitler”
Which do you think was a better leader?
I think Lex would be the best, followed by Hitler, and then Clinton taking up the rear.
It’s just one of those sublime things–a handful of words so elegantly designed to be stupid, divisive, insulting, satiric, brilliant, and hilarious, all at the EXACT SAME TIME.
Got a digital camera? Like panoramas?
May 25Have I got an image processing application for you. AutoStitch was made by a couple of UBC academics and it’ll take any selection of photos you give it (of a scene) and stitch them together for you. If you’ve ever tried to do it manually, you’ll know how tough it is.
Go here for the utility. And if you’d like, go here to check out my first experiment.
Triple Threat – Ghost Rider trailer
May 24
And here you thought you’d have to wait until Friday, at X-Men 3, to see the Ghostrider trailer – not so! Apple has it available now. Interesting point – the High Definition trailer and the low definition trailers aren’t the same. Similar, but with a couple of shots different, and a different layout.
Chris – I liked it right up until the gun made out of chains. Shades of Constantine. A guy made of flame, who can drive his motorcycle – also made out of flame – anywhere… and he needs a gun. Bah. I asked, when they first announced it, how do you make a comic book movie where the actor doesn’t get to show his face in super hero-mode – what actor will agree to that? When they announced it would be Nick Cage, I said, “Oh, ok – Cage is one of us. He’ll play the game.” Now, it looks like maybe not, or at least they’re bending the rules – I’ll bet anyone a Happy Meal that the scene with the gun of chains, is a big, dramatic moment in the film, and so they wanted Cage’s face involved.
Matt – I think I’m down. I’m not a drooling Ghost Rider fanboy, but the visuals have sold me big-time. Then again, I didn’t bother to see Daredevil when it was at the show (for you non-midwestern types, “show” is our hunky-dory term for “movies”) so maybe this one will come and go without my involvement. I think Nicholas Cage looks cool, I think the FX kick my ass, I think Donal Logue is perfectly cast, as always. But more than anything else, ANYTHING, I will see this movie for the great Sam Elliott. I hope he asks Ghost Rider where he can get himself some good sasparilla.
Sarah – The flaming skull-head effect is pretty darn cool — ever since the project was announced, I’ve been doubtful that they could pull that off without being 100% Gouda-licious. They did and it works. So half the battle won there, but to be honest, I don’t like Nic much when he’s super, SUPER serious. I do LOVE Donal Logue no matter what he’s doing, though. I guess I’m semi-intrigued, but this isn’t quite X-Men/Superman-level for me.
