Good news, everyone:

According to this article there's a new Futurama movie being released on November 27. The show will return on November 27th as a full-length high-def film sold on DVD. It will be followed by three additional films, and each film will be divided into four episodes each to be aired on Comedy Central. So, that's 4 DVD movies or 16 new episodes depending on how you look at it.

Apparently no other big revelations came out of the SDCC panel, but they did say that the first DVD - Bender's Big Score - centers around some nudist aliens and the secret to time travel which is somehow attached to Fry's buttock.

Since we're rocking the entertainment world, how about this article where Ed Norton says he rewrote the "Incredible Hulk" script to better link to other Marvel Comics franchises; apparently Norton was a "Marvel kid", his words not mine. I still haven't seen the last Incredible Hulk movie directed by Ang Lee, but I haven't heard anything good about it so I don't think I'm missing out on anything . . . and from what I've read/heard the studios are going to pretend that movie never happened when making this one.

Damn there's all kinds of great news that comes out of the San Diego Comic-Con . . . like yesterday someone had YouTubed a screening of footage from/the trailer for the upcoming Iron Man movie, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Ironman, from the SDCC and I watched it last night, but when I went to check to see if the link was still good this morning, it wasn't. You can check it yourself here if you like.

But don't fret the official Dark Knight teaser trailer is still up and running on YouTube so go give it a butcher's, it's a real tease but you know you wanna.

Well I should get going, but I'd like to leave you with a little history reminder it was on this day in 1938 that in his Dearborn, Michigan office Henry Ford proudly accepts a Nazi medal on his 75th birthday. The Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle is the highest award the Reich can bestow on foreigners. The medal arrives with a note of personal greetings from Adolf Hitler. A rabid anti-semite, Ford paid for copies of the racist hoax Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to be deposited in major U.S. libraries. Think about that next time you're proud of your Ford tough F-150's history.

Until next blog.

Peace, Love & Rock 'n' Roll

It was today in 1999 that the Woodstock '99 festival ended in looting and rioting that left 12 trailers burned, towers toppled, and several women raped during the course of the show. About 500 state troopers were needed to quell the mass uprising of peace and love, apparently triggered by overpriced vendors and commercialization.

After I saw the concert footage, news coverage and read articles about what a disaster the show turned into I was glad that I didn't go to the show, and a friend of mine and I were planning to go, the thing that kept us from actually going was not being able to find a good price for plane tickets.

Enough history; time for some almost current events. Anyone familiar with Winnipeg knows that its residents love to steal stuff, especially cars, but this one takes the case. According to this article from the CBC the Winnipeg Police are investigating a "stolen" house. Turns out that a Winnipeg man has been charged with theft after a home in the city's West End area disappeared into a pile of rubble. Seems he was going to buy the building but he had it knocked down prior to actually doing so and since the actual owner didn't live in the city it went off without a hitch.

Talk about brass balls eh?

In other recent events a Nova Scotia man has been charged for pissing out his apartment window onto the people below who were watching the town of Pictou's annual Lobster Carnival parade. Speaking from experience when situated in such a position it is awfully hard and sometimes impossible to resist raining down on the people on the street with various whatevers . . . although I can swear that I never peed out an apartment window onto anyone.

And just for some general trivia how's about checking out this list of the 50 most populous countries in the world. Good to see that Canada is on the list at number 36 with 33,390,141 people. According to this list China is the world's most populated country with close to 40 times Canada's population. The United States comes in third in population, behind still way behind India, with just over nine times Canada's population. Don't you just love numbers?

And since we're talking trivia how about this list of 20 things you didn't know about Galileo from Discover Magazine and how about the debunking the pirate myth/legend of 'Arrrrrr'. Personally I'm a bigger fan of "Yaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" But that's me.

Who knows the information you just picked up might become handy in your next game of Trivial Pursuit or the next episode of Jeopardy you watch.

Anyway I think it's time to go, later days.

Drew Carey, come on down . . .

. . . you're the next host on The Price is Right! Or at least that's what this news release from CBS says. Drew Carey could be a good host of the show but Bob Barker has been on there for so long it will get really hard to get used to . . . not that I'm a TPIR watcher, especially since I have a day job. But the biggest question is will Carey continue the tradition and use Bob Barker's signature skinny stick mic?

Since we're talking TV changes here's one for the Corrie fans, Liz Dawn, who plays Vera Duckworth in Britain's longest-running soap opera "Coronation Street," is to leave the show due to ill health according to this article. I haven't been a life long Corrie watcher, but I have been watching for a few years now and have been noticing that the newer actors on the show are getting a whole lot better looking than the older ones.

All I know is I want to move there, there's so much going on and it's all on one short little street. Don't you think I'd make for another good illegitimate son for Fred Elliott?

That's enough TV for now, last Friday I saw the Deftones rock the shit out of the Burton Cummings Theatre, formerly know as the Walker Theatre. Another great Deftones show for sure, the opener, Die Mannequin Toronto based sleaze rockers, were pretty good as well, but the second act, From Beginning to End or Start to Finish or Sucky McSuckerson and the Sucktones, sucked all the ass. Good show overall and it was hot hot hot - the Walker smelled like an arm pit at the end of the night. Before the show we went to La Fiesta Cafecito for some central American style eats and man was it good. Everything I had (combo plate #3) was awesome, when you do make sure you try out their pupusas and the chicken chipotle soup is deadly.

Anyway I gotta get going, gotta catch a plane, so until next time and remember help control the pet population, have your pets spayed or neutered.

Barbarella Come & Save Me From My Misery

Well according to this article now Halle Berry is going to play Barbarella in the to be made someday remake of the 1968 cult classic starring Jane Fonda in the title role. Personally I was more excited about this when Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale were rumoured to be playing the lead in this remake, but no matter I'll go see it anyway . . . if and when it gets released and or appears at my local theatre.

And since we're talking new movies apparently there's another sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (remember their Bogus Journey?) in the works, but according to this article from Contact News it will happen without Keanu Reeves or Alex Winter (who apparently has done something besides the Bill & Ted movies and The Lost Boys), Reeves because his agent thinks it would be bad for his career. Personally I can see not calling on these two to reprise the roles, but what I do I know for making movies.

And one last bit of movie news, Kevin Smith has announced a new movie Zack & Miri Make a Porno. You can read about it here if you like; me I'm just hoping it's good. So far the only Kevin Smith movies that I've enjoyed (at least if i knew the movies with Smith films) have been the New Jersey Chronicles - although I have to admit that when I saw Chasing Amy I only liked the first half of it.

In case you're a big a fan of Smiths' New jersey movies here's a website that gives you the addresses of many of the real locations that he used in these movies. Stalk away you crazy fan boys.

Well that's enough movies talk for now, let's move onto TV game shows. Unfortunately this link is about a month and a half old, but someone auctioned off the set from Family Feud on eBay. I gotta wonder what are you going to do with this guy who bought it? I guess you could redecorate your living room with it like Kosmo Kramer did on the one episode of Seinfeld . . . or make game night down at the local boozer a lot more big budget.

And here the good folks at Retro Crush have compiled their list of the Top 30 Game Show Hosts and really it's hard to argue with their choices, even their choice for the number one slot. Rayburn and Match Game was so many kinds of awesome, but I don't think the either would have been as good without the other. The show really needed it's on air drinking, chain smoking, B-List Celebrity panel, Mr. Rayburn, cheeky flirting and that great 70's attitude (and penchant for brown plaid suits) to really make it classic and worthwhile. But that's just my opinion.

You can catch re-runs of Match Game on the Game Show Network if you're so inclined.

And today I will leave you with this link to purchase your very own replica Airwolf Helmet, although unfortunately they won't be making any more of them until late this year. Book mark the site because I can think of a few people who would defo love to have one of these on their shelf . . . or head. I remember thinking that the show Airwolf was just bad ass when it was on the air . . . I wonder if it's still watchable? and I wonder what Jan-Michael Vincent is up to these days?

Anyway that's her for now, I am outta here!

All American Superstar

Today is the 13th anniversary of the suicide of Miss Shannon Michelle Wilsey aka porn starlet Savannah. After a night of partying Savannah put her 'Vette into a fence (or pole depending on what you read) and after that she went home and shot herself in her garage with a pistol, but not before calling her manager to come over and help her. Sounds like a really stable bird eh?

From porn to Aussie beer, it looks like the Foster's brewing company is lowering the alcohol content of their Victoria Bitter (loving known as VB down undah) by 0.1% in order to save a metric assload of money in taxes. You can read all about it here if you like. I can honestly recommend VB but only if it's out of the tap or a can; i tried a couple bottles when I was on holiday in Oz and boy did they taste like ass . . . but maybe they were sitting around for a long time, I was given the impression that not too many people were VB drinkers in some of the areas I was in.

Unfortunately the LCBO or Brewer's Retail in Ontario don't seem to carry VB, but here's the official Brewer's Retail aka 'The Beer Store' info page for my local Beer Store and check out all the different product they carry.

For the comic book geeks according to this article the San Diego Comic Con (which looks completely bad ass, I'd love to check it out some day - I might just have to settle for the Manitoba Comicon which seems to be on the weekend I'm flying to Malaysia - damn, might not be able to do it) to preview a new movie based on the Superman/Doomsday story, which includes Doomsday killing Superman and some replacement Supermen popping up in his absence. Now that is a Superman movie that I could really be excited to see . . . I'll be cheering for Doomsday and will likely proclaim when it's over "You know what would have made that movie better? If Batman were in it."

Here's the official movie site just in case you're interested in checking it out, because I know I'm not the only growed up here who still likes to watch superhero cartoons.

Here's an interesting article for the alco-snobs out there; after doing a (probably not very scientific) test vodka drinkers could not necessarily tell their preferred brand of premium from others and without labels to influence them sometimes picked other or even cheaper brands. I don't like vodka myself but I have heard that if run cheaper vodka through a Brita filter a few times it really helps to mellow and smooth it out. But I'm not going to go out and buy a Brita and a jug of Vodka to test that out.

And today I'll sign off with a reality check of sorts; the baby who appeared on Nirvana's Nevermind album cover is now 17 years old (for some reason it never occurred to me that the baby was out the somewhere aging, people are funny aminals, eh?), check it out yo!

And get off my lawn.

May the Force be with you

Admittedly I am a big geek, but I don't think that I come close to the levels required to be labelled a Star Wars geek, I've liked watching some of the movies and have some of the toys, but I don't live and die by the 'saga' by any means, in fact I don't think very highly of George Lucas' film making in general, but then again according to this article all about why Star Wars fans hate Star Wars that fact alone is one of the symptoms of being a Star Wars fan.

This write up fits in nicely with the previous article, I mean after all who but a die hard Star Wars fan would take the time to let the world know all about the implausibility of the Death Star's trash compactor? I gotta say if that is the one that won't let you suspend your disbelief while watching that movie you got some problems man. In fact you might be surprised how many hits you get if you Google Death Star trash compactor.

In case you are a Star Wars fan with an extra $20k kicking around maybe you'd be interested in purchasing a life sized C3PO and life sized R2-D2 statue? And after you're done racking up your MasterCharge with those maybe you'd like to take this quiz and see if you can correctly identify whether something is a Star Wars Name, Baseball Player or Thai food dish.

And one last bit of Star Wars news, according to this article Chewie is being charged with sexually assaulting Marilyn Monroe in front of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood for taking her hand and putting it on his wookie junk. I guess Chewbacca doesn't mind the BO and IBS, eh? This is something that I should have linked to yesterday with the link to the breaking news article about Marilyn, but here are some exclusive (their term not mine) photos of her from the good people over at Pravda. They might not exactly be exclusive, but they aren't the ones that you always see, so enjoy. And I don't think I have to say it but since the pics are of Marilyn they may contain boobies.

If you're ever wondering who you should believe when it comes to movie reviews you should one always take my opinion very seriously and two go to this website to find out which of the major movie critics most closely matching your taste in film. My movie critic compatability stacks up like this:

• Rotten Tomatoes : 85%
• James Berardinelli : 82%
• Peter Travers : 81%
• Roger Ebert : 75%

I was hoping for the Filthy Critic actually, but hey like Mick said, you can't always get what you want, right?

Finally in some un-Star Wars related news how about this concert? I know I sent the link to some via email already, but I had to make sure it got out to everyone . . . I know I for one would love to be at Rocklahoma . . . do you think a week is enough time to grow in a sweet mullet?

Since we're talking aging rockers, after seeing these pictures here I have to wonder, is Ozzy getting a lot more attractive or is Demi Moore getting a lot less attractive? I mean when you look at those two pictures they could almost be twins separated at birth.

From aging rockers to washed up Pop Princesses, apparently the Spice Girls have decided to reunite, or at least they have for this picture. I'll let you make your own comments about it, all I can say my how've they all changed . . . Ginger Spice aka Geri Halliwell was always my favourite and not just because she did some nudie modelling prior to being a Spice Girl, but I'm sure that helped some.

And I'll sign off today with the last item; ever wonder how much your corpse would be worth? Well wonder no longer, head on over to the Cadaver Calculator and have at 'er. Apparently my dead body is worth $3665.

Gooooooooooooooooooooooo me! How much is your corpse worth?

Until next blog

Oh Canada we something something for thee . . .

I was a little surprised to learn from reading this article that half of Canadians don't know enough about their own country to pass the test for citizenship that immigrants have to write. This concerned me and I had to know how I would fare on such a test so after a quick trip to Google I turned up this test here.

I did the 120 question test option and got 11 wrong, 3 of those were about current BC government specifically so that's got to be good enough to live here, right? How did you fair on the test?

Would you like to take all the sexy out of Marilyn Monroe? If so read this article here that talks about how she was a slob, wasn't into bathing and suffered from irritable bowel syndrome . . . apparently that's why Clark Gable never actually had the affair with her that he was rumoured to have had on the set of The Misfits. Admit it, you'd still tap the ass of an unwashed, flatulent Marilyn.

Big ups for bleaching her pubic hair and never wearing underpants though.

Recently the anniversary of Jim Morrison's death passed, see recent blog entry, and well here's an article that adds a new twist to the tale. In the article former friend and club owner claims that Morrison OD'd in the bathroom at his club and the guys who he bought the heroin from carried him back to his apartment and put him in the bath and how anyone who was involved or knew anything was sworn to secrecy.

I'll sign off for today with this last link, now this is a proper obituary. I'd love to have one written about me like this one, well without the homosexuality and heroin addiction that is.

And with that I'm off to Kas.

This is the end . . .

Not of this blog, although posts have been hit and miss lately, but today is the 36th anniversary of Jim Morrison's, of The Doors, apparent death by heart attack in his Paris apartment. I say apparent because of the controversy/myth around his death and Morrison's claims prior to his dying of going and hiding out somewhere and sending letters to friends to let him know he was okay; well I don't know about you but I haven't received any letters from Mr. Mojo Rising.

All sorts of fans & pilgrims make the trek to Jim Morrison's grave in Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetery, although apparently the cemetery is full of misdirecting graffiti leading other would be visitors astray.

Enough history for today, how's about a current event? If you're the kind of person who enjoys a nice wank after eating a pizza and you live in Winnipeg you're in luck; there's a new River City business called Porno Pizza that will deliver pizza to your door with pages of porn under the pizza where the cardboard normally would be. You can read about it here if you're so inclined. Also big ups tot he owner Corey Wildeman for using a Simpsons quote in his interview with the Winnipeg Sun. Man what can't you get in Osborne Village?

The Chris Benoit saga is ongoing and now the Sun is reporting that authorities now believe that he killed his son with one of his finishers, The Crippler Crossface. You can read about it here if you like, but I don't think this one is going to die down anytime soon. There will be all kinds of media attention on the deaths and of course steroid and other drug use by pro wrestlers. It's nothing new and I think everyone is well aware of the side effects of the job/lifestyle . . . just ask Curt Hennig, Road Warrior Hawk, Rick Rude, Davey Boy Smith, Brian Pillman, the Von Erich Family . . . hell the list could go on and on.

And from the realms of science read here about how babies are natural born liars. Interesting article but I guess it's something we all knew already, eh? I mean everyone has heard a baby cry just for attention and I guess we weren't cynical enough to call it lying . . . maybe that's why I'm uncomfortable around the wee ones?

And I will end with a direct cut and paste from the meanest bit of spam email I've received in recent memory, "Your penis is too small even for a Barbie doll. With Penis Enlarge Patch it will be big enough fo" Ouch eh? And yes it was cut off like that in the email.

Until next time.