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At the San Diego (which Ron Burgundy taught me is German for whale vagina) Comic-Con the studio announced that the voice of Optimus Prime in the new Transformers movie will be none other than the voice of Optimus Prime from the TV series, or at least according to this article it is. It's not like I was actually at the Comic-Con my own self.

But it looks like not everything is going to stay the same. According to this blog post it appears that Ironhide is going to be 1 ton Chevy Silverado in the film and not a red Nissan Mini-Van as he used to be, which personally I'm okay with. Monster trucks are way cooler than mini-vans any day.

Apparently they are planning to update other Transformers to more current automobiles as well. According to this Bumblebee (formerly a VW Beetle) will be a 5th Generation Concept Camaro and Brawl (formerly a tank) will be a Mustang. Looks like the two will be pitted against each other in the film and the Camaro vs Mustang battle has reached a whole new level and I for one know that once again the mighty Bowtie will crush the flimsy Blue Oval.

It seems that the San Diego Comic Con was the place to be for people like me, and not only because of these sweet costumes that some of attendees were wearing (if you liked that gallery check out the rest of RetroCrush's pics here - FYI Elvira is looking as good as ever, Gord bless makeup, hair dye and plastic surgery), they also ran a sneek peek clip deal from Spiderman 3 and Raimi confirmed that Bruce Campbell (Hail to the King, baby) will appear in the film. The buzz on the geek wire is that he'll be playing Mysterio.

That is great news as far as I am concerned (I recently had a discussion how Mysterio would make for a cool Spiderman movie villain), but shit how many villains are they going to pile into this one? Here's a promo-shot of Venom (to be played by Topher Grace aka Red's son Dumbass from that 70's Show) from the film.

To keep the movie geek flava flowing here's the poster they've released for the upcoming Trek flick and all I have to say is wow they really went all out with this one. Let's hope they were too busy cranking up the rock and turning down teh suck for the new movie to put an time at all in to designing a promo poster.

Well I think that's all for now.

Move over Winnipeg - here comes Edmonton!

Looks like Canada has a new murder capital, or at least according to this article we do. Wanna know what makes this fact even more amazing? Our killiest city is still less killy than the US' 3rd least killy city, Colorado Springs at 4.8/100,000.

Would you like to know why there's fewer murders in Winnipeg? It's because they are all too busy stealing cars. From January 1 to June 30 there have been 7000 cars stolen in Winnipeg. A 25% increase from last year. June 29 was an especially bad day with 32 cars stolen.

Queue up the Weakerthans "One Great City". If you don't know the band or the song, the band's from Winnipeg and the song does a pretty good job of summing Winnipeg in a couple minutes. Although it does leave out the City's love for auto theft, murders, arson and Slurpees (Winnipeg is also the Slurpee Capitol of Canada and Manitoba the Slurpee Capitol of the World - scroll down a bit for that one).

Enough about Winnipeg onto something more important, like the DVD release of the early 80's Dungeons & Dragons cartoon to DVD. Hmmm I might have to make room on my shelf for that . . . or just DL a few episodes to see if it's still as cool as I remember it was when I was a kid. Damn you Pink Popcorn, damn you to hell for letting me down.


Oh what a mate we have in Jesus!

When we were in Australia I noticed, and I think pointed out, a sheet of paper on the notice board in the Church of the wedding we went to with that written on it. Well it turns out some bloke has translated the Bible from English to Australian, and it's selling like the the pies at Harry's Cafe de Wheels at pub close. I might have to pick up a copy my own self.

I'm sure by now everyone with geek-ish tendencies has heard that plans for a stand alone Wolverine movie is in the works, well here's the trailer for the film showing Logan's life before his time with the X-Men and believe you me it was faaaaaaaaaaabulous!

Speaking of the geek set, I think I know these guys . . . and sometimes the truth hurts.

"Mercy? You want mercy? But I'm chaotic nuetral!" (Sadly I get that and think/thought it was funny.)


And some more movie info for you - apparently there's talks about a Blackadder movie in the works. You can read about it here. Personally I thought the show was fantastic and hope that this one comes through. If you never watched it here's the official BBC website for the show and go track the series down on DVD or re-runs somewhere. Trust me if you laugh at the same things that I do you'll love the show.


Breaking away from the geek/entertainment scene for a minute . . . you know how everyone complains about the state of the roads in their area, well check out these pics of a Bolivian road. All of a sudden that stretch of Front Street in front of the Bomb's house looks great.


And finally for the perv set - check out the vish-ass formerly known as the Mystery Booty, Keyra is back in this homemade college tape. It's nearly five minutes of best ass you'll oggle on the interweb today, definitely worth the click.

Happy 60th Birthday Cheech!

On this day (July 13th to be exact) in 1946 Cheech Marin was born. Interesting facts - his real name is Richard and he's actually Iranian.


Uh-oh! I think I might be in trouble.

According to this article high doses of Tylenol have been linked to liver damage (or not depending on which study you look at). But we all knew that already. Now I'm sure I could save my liver tons of wear and tear if I could only get my hands on some of these fantastic old timey medicines of yester-year, cause I could totally go for some Shmeckler's Brain Tonic right about now.

And to think now if you gave your baby morpheine you'd be called a bad parent. Oh how the times they are a changing.

In case you want some more proof of that check out this health class film, from the fine people at McGraw-Hill, about the various differences between the sexes. Did I mention it was made in 1964? Well it was. Think you could run this one in the class room today?

Well that's all for now.

Where was Chuck when the lights went out?

In the dark of course . . . well not quite I was in my car somewhere between the parking lot at work and the RONA store. As you can tell I've survived the power outage that went from say 4:45 to 12:30 yesterday.

Here's a cool video clip that shows you that your brain will only let you see things that make sense to it and nothing else. We're such strange animals, eh? Speaking of strange animals here's a link to an 80's music video archive . . . sadly the site is Gowan free at last check.

Beer Cheese Soup

I like beer, cheese and soup, so this should be good right? Here's a soup recipe I stumbled across on line. What do you think?

Be sure to open your beer and let it stand while dealing with the vegetables. You want the beer to be a bit flat.

6 slices lean bacon
1 medium onion, diced
2 medium carrots, finely chopped
2 medium celery ribs, finely chopped
1 1/3 cups chicken broth (we used 1 1/2 teaspoons better than bouillon chicken base and 1 1/3 cups water)
12 ounces flat beer, divided
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 cup half-and-half
3 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese
2 teaspoons sugar
Salt and fresh-ground black pepper, to taste
4 teaspoons fine-chopped red bell pepper, for garnish

In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium-high heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain. When cool, crumble and set aside.

Reserve 2 tablespoons bacon fat in skillet and saute onions, carrots and celery over medium-high heat about 3 minutes or until soft.

Add chicken broth and all but ¼ cup beer.

Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 1 minute.

In a small bowl, whisk together flour and remaining ¼ cup beer.

Gradually whisk beer mixture into vegetable mixture, stirring constantly until thickened.

Stir in half-and-half and cheese, continuing to stir until cheese melts.

Stir in bacon and sugar.

Season with salt and pepper.

Serve garnished with chopped sweet red peppers.

Makes 8 servings.

If you try this recipe you'll have to let me know how it is.


That's it for now

Up, up and away!

I saw the new Superman movie last week and because I know everyone is dying to hear it, here are my thoughts on the movie . . . this should be spoiler free but if it's not too bad.

I didn't think the movie got good until until about the last 25-30 minutes or so when they decided that they should try add some decent writing to the mix.

If you were a fan of the old superman films I don't think you'll be disapointed - there's at least one scene with Lex Luthor in a brown corduroy suit and the superman in a three piece suit (that includes the stylish late 70's/early 80's vest) running down road ripping open the shirt to reveal the mighty S . . . sadly no phone booth scene though.

I have to say it was kinda creepy at times because sometimes the new superman looked a whole lot like Chris Reeves, and other times he looked a whole lot like the kid from Rushmore.

Of course this was just my two cents worth, but I may be biased as I think superman is lame.

In flavour of this here's 40 things you didn't know about Superman, I didn't read them all, but I am sure they left out the fact that he's lame.

Since we're on the topic how about this leaked trailer for Supergirl . . . . okay it's not Supergirl it's SuperBecca and I'd hate to think why it was made . . . too late I already thought of one, and it ain't pretty. But I can't blame the dude. Damn.

This does lead to me to ask, why can't I find a girl who'll dress up as a super hero for me? Because the only thing that would be geek hotter than that would be her dressing up in the old school original Trek Uniform and being chased up that slanted rock from the Californian desert. That cat in Free Enterprise knew how to live. The geeks know exactly what I'm talking about.

To keep the sci-fi geek flavour going turns out that Billie Piper will leaving Dr. Who (to spend more quality time with me, fingers crossed) and the Doctor will be getting a new travelling companion. Read about her here and here. The second link has a decent picture of her, I'll wait to see her in action to pass judgement.

First kick at the cat

So here goes. A few links and some witty reparte to start things off.
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You can't read that!
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Looking for some subversive reading? If so then check it out "The Forbidden Library" here. It's a website that has compiled a list of some books banned, or that were tried to be banned, somewhere along with a brief write up why.
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Personally I'm a little disappointed in me, I've only read about 14 of the books on that list, and Catcher in the Rye and Hamlet are two that I haven't read.

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Great Granny's Spatula - Animated Dragonlance movie in the works
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Did I mention it will be chock full of Lucy Lawless goodness? No? Well it is, read about it here.

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Too bad that Forgotten Realms is a billion times cooler than Dragonlance . . . let's just hope they don't fuck this up like they did with the D&D movie with the Wayan brother in it . . . cross your fingers, break out your d20 and hope this movie makes its saving throw versus suck. Geeks of the world, set down your action figures, grab your ass-mar inhalers and leave your basements and camp out now to get the good tickets for the premiere.

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Let's Paint Billy Ray Cyrus
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Go here and give 'er. Share your artwork with the world, when I get mine down I'll be sure to post that shizzle.
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Want to touch the Hiney

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If you're bent that way here's a link to a good quality GIF of Jessica Alba from that movie where was swimming.
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Enjoy pervs.
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America, Fuck Yeah!

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Someone has taken a a video clip and put the song America, Fuck Yeah from Team America: World Police over top of it. If you want to check it out, here's the link.
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In case you haven't figured it out or aren't familiar with the movie or song in question it's got some cursing in it, so use your judgment folks.
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Not sure what to buy me?
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If you're stuck for a gift idea for me and have an extra $50K lying around here's the perfect thing.
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And I promise that if you put on your Robin, Catwoman, Batgirl or Joker costume you can ride shotgun.
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I'm sure there will be more to come in the future so stop back in sometime.