can he?
Here’s the first scene from his upcoming movie “Postal”, based on an over-the-top violent and crazy first-person-shooter video game.
Is it just me or is that hilarious? I’m thinking that there was no script, those two actors are great improvisors, and the rest of the movie will be as terrible as all of Boll’s other films.
But… maybe not?
It feels like I’m taking crazy pills!
Apple’s new iPhone is coming out soon, and I find myself caring very little about it. It’s a pretty big change from a few years back when Nokia announced their nGage and I was instantly filled with desire. Thankfully I didn’t get an nGage because they turned out to be an incredible flop.
Now? Well, the iPhone is certainly impressive. It’s beautiful and classy, and does a ton of things that makes gadget geeks like me drool.
So why don’t I care?
Because all I really want my cell phone to do is be a phone, and the reviews on that portion of its capabilities have been lukewarm. I have a Motorola Razr. It’s got a camera built in, but it doesn’t compare to my digital camera. I think I’ve taken two pictures in the two years I’ve owned it that I kept or used anywhere. It has other capabilities too, but I don’t use any of those either. I use it to talk to other people and it does that just fine.
Music? I have an iPod and it holds WAY more than the iPhone does.
Video? Do I really need portable video that badly? Or *that* portable? If I’m travelling I’ll have my notebook with me and its screen is heaps better than the iPhone’s, and it also holds far more information.
Another reason is that a large amount of what the iPhone does requires data transfer from your provider, and the rates on that are outrageous. Not just “expensive” but “sickeningly expensive”. I can browse the web through my Razr, but Rogers charges me $.15 per kilobyte. Yes, KILOBYTE. Download 100 kb and they charge you $15.00! I can’t imagine the cost of using the iPhone at those extortionist rates. Yes, I’m sure there are plans with cheaper data, but I wouldn’t use it enough to justify an increased regular fee. I’m annoyed enough as it is with what I’m paying for cellular service, and that’s just to talk to people.
While I’m ranting here, hey Rogers, thanks for charging me extra for call display. I’m sure it actually costs you more to DISABLE that display for people who don’t want to pay for it.
So yeah, drool away over the iPhone. It’s slick, it’s just not worth it in the real world.
“Militant Atheists” are very vocal about their beliefs.
“Militant Christians” blow up Oklahoma government buildings and kill abortion doctors.
Hey, go vote Chris Woods’ artwork as a 10/10, would you? He’s highly ranked, but not #1 yet, and there isn’t much time left in the voting.
I love The Venture Bros., but not being a writer I’m afraid I couldn’t satisfactorily express why in words. So how about I show you this instead?
Now do you understand?
Just got finished watching the latest Doctor Who episode, “Blink”, and as soon as I saw “by Steven Moffat” I knew it would be good. His previous Doctor Who Episodes are all excellent – ”The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances” and “The Girl In The Fireplace” — and oh boy this one did not dissappoint!
It was a very non-standard Doctor episode — it actually had very little Doctor to it, and the menace was subtle and utterly creepy. It also feels like it would be a great episode for anyone who had never really seen Doctor Who before. It really stands on its own as an great time-traveller and monsters story, Doctor or no.
Definitely the best episode this season!
We know Chilliwack is the buckle on the BC Bible Belt so “faith” is pretty easy to find there. But usually it’s faith in a supreme being, not faith that the lights they saw in the sky were aliens and not anything more rational or likely. The ridiculous statements in this article by the people who saw something demand a tearing apart.
“I really think it was a UFO,” says Francis, a local deejay. “I don’t really care if anybody else believes me … it was the craziest thing I ever saw.”
Firstly, of course it was a UFO — you just don’t know what that means. UFO is an acronym for “Unidentified Flying Object”, and this was certainly that. Of course what Francis really meant was “I really think it was alien visitors from another planet” which when you put it that way is at best ridiculously hopeful. His statement that he doesn’t care if anybody else believes him shows that it’s not a rational belief but a hope.
The problem is that “alien visitors” is just as likely as a nearly infinite number of “out-there” explanations: faeries, the spirit of ancient flying dinosaurs, flying redneck monster-trucks from the future, or a magical illusion created by the world’s secret Archmage… I could go on all day.
But instead of these nearly-impossible (and utterly unprovable) explanations our story’s heroes are offered a more rational explanation:
UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews doesn’t dismiss what all three Chilliwack residents saw, but he believes that city lights reflecting off the bellies of a flock of birds is a more “reasonable” explanation.
He says flocks of birds do take off at night, and the light reflecting off their bellies can give the appearance of a single translucent object.
Perfectly reasonable, and explains the shape and quality in the sky, right? But no, it’s not good enough for our intrepid believers!
“It wasn’t birds,” McDonald says flatly. When the triangular-shaped object came closer, she says, “it broke apart into 20 or more of these little spheres … birds don’t dive-bomb in at each other.”
…
What?
It wasn’t birds because when it got closer it broke apart? Is he even listening to what he’s saying?
Seriously McDonald, try saying this: “It wasn’t a triangular flock of, oh about 20 birds that appeared at a distance as a single object BECAUSE when it got closer I saw about 20 different objects making it up.” That’s your argument? Are you HIGH?
Oh wait, Chilliwack. They probably are.
“Whatever it was, they were moving from place to place as a unit,” he says, and then “just faded away” in the skies over the Promontory area.
For those not in the know, Promonotory is a less urban area up on a mountain. Less urban, less lights to reflect off of bird bellies.
But no, no, no, IT WAS ALIENS.
Mel (aka “The Wife”) and I went to see “Knocked Up” today, and it was excellent. After a slew of mediocre/bad/stupid sequels this spring movie season (Spider-man 3 was bad, 28 Weeks Later was stupid and Pirates 3 was mediocre) it was refreshing to see a movie that wasn’t overly long or relied on brainless action without much supporting plot.
But setting aside the “it’s not a blockbuster” bonus, the movie is smart, hilarious and sometimes (but not too often) poignant. It’s written and directed by Judd Apatow, who last brought us the greatness that was “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and this movie is excellent in many of the same ways.
Seth Rogen (above, right) is fantastic and I hope to see more from him. I’m sold on seeing “Superbad” which he co-wrote and plays a supporting role in, and should be released August 17th of this year.
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