Re: It’s The End of the World As We Know It

I’ve been down for the past five days with a nasty sinus infection so I’ve had the opportunity to watch repeated trailers for the disaster flick “2012″ while on serious antibiotics. The idea that the world will end in 2012 due to a Mayan prophecy wasn’t as unbelieveable as the idea that the government will [...]

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Re: Bringin’ the Awesome!

A summer of field work can turn grad students and student workers into zombies and here to prove this are the good folks at the Toolik Lake Research Station on the North Slope of Alaska doing their tribute to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. Those are mosquito head nets that they are wearing, by the way. Note [...]

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Re: Watering Holes in the Great Waste Land

Winter time, not just sick time, tends to be my television watching time. Not having tuned in for awhile, I was shocked at some of the changes that have taken place in Telly World.
For starters, since when is every other show on the tube a knockoff of either “Law and Order” or “CSI”? I mean, [...]

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Re: It’s a Crime

Fan-made Oscar poster by JoshMC.
The more I watch the “Dark Knight”, the more impressed I am. This not simply a good Batman movie or even a superlative Heath Ledger vehicle–it is a new classic. And it’s a shame that it has been shut out of contention for “Best Picture”.
“Batman: The Dark Knight” is, at its [...]

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Re: Diseased Thoughts

So I just spent the past week lying on the sofa suffering through the worst sinus infection known to man and, as a result, watched way, way too much daytime television. Commercials included. After seeing the trailer for “Friday the 13th, Part 23″ again for the fiftieth time, I had to wonder: is a hockey-masked, [...]

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Re: Coulda Been Worse

No matter how bad the last eight years have been, folks, it’s always important to remember that it might have been worse. YouTube user TheNegativeDude remixed “Dark Knight” footage in order to make this trailer for Oliver W. Stone’s “W” movie. Watch for who he casts as Karl Rove. I was [...]

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Re: And the Joker is Wild

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah, some call me the gangster of love ….. “The Joker”, Steve Miller

Okay, the words “Batman” and “franchise” tend to leave me cold so I paid very little attention to the release of “Batman: The Dark Knight” last year. Frankly, I’m getting tired of film producers re-making the [...]

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