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Bank People Kids In The Hall Sketch…amusing Milli Vanilli act saves ‘Aida’ – Yahoo! News Milli Vanilli is a cultural reference to lip-syncing….so in other words they pulled an Ashlee Simpson 😉
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists by Gideon Defoe
If you’re looking for a book about Charles Darwin, piratical absurd-ism and radioactive elephants, then you’ve come to the right place. If you’ve come looking for a serious adventure starring pirates (does such a thing even exist?) then go pick up something else. A tantalizing romp around the Atlantic Ocean and merry old London, nothing is sacred in this nautical adventure. Pirates disguised as scientists fit right in at a meteorological ball…The Holy Ghost will be wrestled by a manpanzee….a pirate will attack Big Ben….and much more in this delightful tale of villainy and ham.
Sweeney Todd – Ahmanson Theatre
It’s closed now so you missed it, but it was definitely an interesting experience. It was REALLY nice to see the musical again after the movie since there were bits and pieces that I missed in the movie that are SO delicious on stage (mostly the main chorus – “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd”). It was a very interesting performance because they make 2 major departures from the traditional presentation of it: 1) The play is more symbolic than realistic, taking place in a mental ward, allowing for each of the actors to extend their character into a psychological condition. Also there’s far less actual violence than in the original. For every death, a bucket of “blood” is transfered for another bucket and that character puts on a bloodied doctor’s coat for the remainder of the show. Also the “chair” which is a really cool part of the non-symbolic … Continue reading →
Photoshop CS4, Home Cell Signal Boosters and Daily Comics
20080402_tightpencils_face.jpg (JPEG Image, 800×874 pixels) Danielle Corsetto of Girls With Slingshots shares a pencil drawing she did… Daring Fireball: The $64,000 Question Adobe Photoshop CS4 is in beta…how do they keep finding things to improve?!?! Cell Boosters Coming for the Home: Financial News – Yahoo! Finance Too bad AT&T isn’t among the companies exploring this option…I hope they do soon…..
April Fools Fun and Comics
MySpaceTV Videos: IGN.com – Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer Premiere by IGN VIDEO Amusing trailer…. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja A delightful false ending for April Fool’s Day Penny Arcade! – Nested Ironies Tycho decries the need to identify a gun that shoots life as a weapon. Then he shares an amusing picture… Europa Universalis: Rome: I’m sorry, Marcus Then he points the way to this delightful story. So I don’t know how many people noticed, but Laura and I switched our profile coding for April Fools Day. We managed to confound at least one person, but it was still fun! If only Myspace hadn’t been a [bad word] the night before when I was trying to update my profile. It was INCREDIBLY frustrating. Gosh darn you MySpace! GRRRR!
Daily Comics and More Deaths….
VG Cats – Comics – Updated Monday OMG! This if freaking brilliant! xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe It’s funnier because I actually learned about this in the obtainment of my degree in Information and Computer Science…not that I remember about it anymore…I just learned about it 😉 Penny Arcade! – Bedrock Concepts Tycho ponders why the iPhone isn’t the best music player compared to the Zune…..interesting read. E! News – Oscar-Winning Director Minghella Dead at 54 Found via Piled Higher and Deeper‘s blog entry. 🙁 Have we hit the prescribed three deaths to make the famous people start dying for a while? With Dave Stevens and the Black Lagoon creature obit I think we have…unless he doesn’t count in favor of Heath Ledger…sigh
The Searchers
The Searchers Mose (Hank Worden) was in Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. “Smokin’ up a new batch Mason?” Lorrie’s father (Mr. Jorgensen – John Qualen) was in Casablanca. He’s in the resistance and contacts Victor Laszlo in Cafe American. “My name is Berger”. WTF is up with John Wayne? His character flips 180 degrees at the end of the movie. So does Natalie Wood’s character! I mean sure you can try and explain it with character choices, but it’s still very awkward at first blush. According to the commentary, the book has a much darker ending which they couldn’t use in the movie….but it makes things somewhat awkward….. But it’s still really funny, ya chunkhead. Is The Missing (2003) an updated version of this story? It’s based on a book after all… How odd! Both movies seem similar at first glance and they’re both based on books, but they’re … Continue reading →
The Last Days by Joel Rosenberg
Even though I read The Ezekiel Option (Book 3) before reading The Last Jihad (Book 1) and now The Last Days (Book 2), I really wish I hadn’t because now I have to read book 3 all over again….sigh. The Wikipedia spoiler highlights just aren’t good enough! Rosenberg has the talent as a writer to suck a reader in with characters and political/military excitement like you wouldn’t believe. I read this book in a week and usually I take at least a month to read a book. I don’t really have much else to say except how incredibly enjoyable and engaging Rosenberg is as an author. Oh and he continues his prophetic streak. The book begins with a terrorist attack in Gaza (don’t worry it’s not a one-trick pony) that kills Yasser Arafat and attacks a U.S. diplomatic convoy. “Two weeks before The Last Days was published, a U.S. diplomatic … Continue reading →
P/A Theme Song Explanation, Spontaneous Musicals and David Mamet Rants Against Liberalism
Tycho & Gabe Deconstruct the Front The Penny Arcade theme song gets explained quite verbosely by the real life Gabe (Mike Krahulik) and Tycho (Jerry Holkins). Food Court Musical on Vimeo Hilarious spontaneous musical… Vista SP1 Available Through Windows Update – News and Analysis by PC Magazine We’ll see how it lives up to the hype…. village voice > news > David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’ by David Mamet Absolutely brilliant.
Death….
The Authorized Dave Stevens Web Site Dave Stevens – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rocketeer (comics) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia tragedy! i didn’t even know I loved Dave Stevens, but he just died! he was a classic pinup artist and creator of THE ROCKETEER! 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 The Creature from the Black Lagoon | Economist.com Touching obit (found via this guy -> ColinStewart)