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Archive for April, 2009
Timeline from a Galaxy Far Far Away…
01016 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
Here goes my first attempt at an actual column. I know I had a previous post but that was just filler and introduction. This here’s the meat and potatoes or more accurately, nerf steak and potatoes. So what are we covering today? Well I thought I would put together a little history lesson. A history of the expanded universe that is.
Harper’s Island – Episode 3
01017 days
by kilian
in Television
So I will say this, yet again, before I really get started. If you haven’t seen the 3rd episode and plan on watching it, stop reading. I don’t want anyone blaming me for spoiling the show…
Ok, so after the third episode I’m still feeling confident in my assertion that Jimmy Mance is the murderer. Points to consider, from episode three, that I believe back up this position.
Very, very, very late Kilian B-day!
31020 days
Greetings to all faithful Normalinauts old and new!
I’m sure that our vast entourage (all six of you) have noticed some new faces around here, or at least new names and voices, their “faces” will be coming soon. And unfortunately, as with everything else in my life this will have to wait just a bit longer until our move finally takes place this coming Monday (O_O)!
Harper’s Island – Episode 2
01024 days
by kilian
in Television
So it occurred to me last night, as I was watching the second episode of Harper’s Island (which, if you want to watch both episodes 1 and 2 in their entirety, you can can do so here), that while I’m not totally insane crazy about this show I’m interested enough after two episodes to invest another 11 hours of my life to find out who the crazy SOB is that’s offing people like it’s going out of style.
That being the case, I have decreed that I will now write a weekly “wrap up” of each episode until the curtain falls on the series.
I bow down to the genius that is Sacha Baron Cohen
01028 days
by kilian
in General Nerdom
As much as I love that review being at the top of the blog (I think it’s well written…so what if I wrote it) I had to share this…it’s just too damn awesome, and anyway, I only have a few minutes left before I go back to the mining of books.
So it appears that Sacha Baron Cohen, as Bruno, was able to lure Ron Paul into a radio studio that had been made to look like a bedroom, at which point Cohen pulled his pants down. There’s audio at the link. The most telling moment comes as Paul grudgingly admits “But, if he makes a lot of money, I have to permit the market to do this.”
That’s the best.
Sometimes You Take Your Medicine and Enjoy It, or A Review of “City of Thieves”
1So the bookmines have embarked on a new project wherein all of the “miners” are supposed to hand sell specific titles to customers. Every store has a weekly quota for each title, etc… My general attitude can be concisely summed up with one syllable: meh. I sell shit I haven’t read all damn day…whatever.
But a recent title caught my eye and I thought I might as well read at least one of these damn things. So two days ago I finished City of Thieves by David Benioff.
The book opens with a quick intro about a grandson traveling to Florida to spend some time with his grandparents. The author realizes that, though everyone in his family knows that grand dad stabbed two Nazi’s in WWII, he doesn’t know any of the specifics. So he sits for a week listening to grandfather tell the story. The intro ends with:
On a scale of one to “9”
71029 days
by Stoker
in General Nerdom
Stoker here folks. So I was reading Kilian’s article on “Krod Mandoon” and “Harper’s Island” when his comment about the last film he saw struck home. Kilian made mention of the fact that the last movie he saw was “Monsters vs. Aliens” and that he would likely see “Up” next. This is all fine and dandy, I have absolutely no problem with taking the family out to see a kid friendly cartoon but I am a bit concerned that things have gotten a bit too friendly in the past years.
When I was a wee child, I remember going to cartoon movies and seeing things that kept me up at night sweating in terror. How many of us cowered in fear at the thought of characters like Maleficent, Scar or Jafar? These were characters of true terror; murderers, thieves and schemers. It now seems, though, that all of the villains in cartoons have to be incredibly over the top, they no longer posses that evil which so permeated the cartoons of the past. A look at the winner for the Academy Award in animation this year proves my point. The villain in “Wall.E” was nothing more than a castrated version of HAL. I think that the time has come to bring the fear back to children.