IN CASE YOU WEREN'T ALREADY EXCITED ENOUGH...

...about THE DARK KNIGHT, IESB.net has a great Q&A with the cast and crew, 12 different film clips and over 30 new stills from the film.

OLD MAN, TAKE A LOOK AT MY LIFE...

...I'm a lot like yooooooooou were....

So. I'm 29 today. Yes, almost 30. Yes, almost dead. No, I don't mind. In fact, I feel much older, easily 33 or so. (ha!)

But, even though I get more backaches now and am more out of shape than I've ever been, deep down I'm still a lil' kid. I like toys and cartoons. Take, for example, Molly's gift to me (and Lex) for my birthday present:



I can see the face you're making, and I don't care. I'm excited to go home tonight and play with that with my son! Molly's parents bought me a Sony Cybershot camera since I broke mine out in Six Flags, (damn you roller coasters!!!) so I also got my "typical young male electronics fetish" filled as well.

If any of you have time-traveling abilities and want to get me any of these awesome things that'll be coming out in the coming months, feel free...

De Blob! (video game for Wii)


Gotham Knight (DVD)


Little Big Planet (PS3 video game that is going to be game of the year!!!)



Resident Evil 5 (PS3 video game)

I'M A SUCKER FOR VH1...

...and their never-ending "I LOVE..." seriesesesseseses.

All this week is I LOVE THE NEW MILLENNIUM and so far, it's fucking awesome.

Except it also makes me feel very, very old. Was the iPod first released in 2001? Really?!

Memento came out almost 8 years ago?! God dammit!

But, at least it gives us something to watch on TV instead of shit like Wipeout, which look to be nothing more than MXC rip-offs. But oh well, Molly wants to watch it and I'm sure it'll give Lex all sorts of wacky new ideas to do with our garden hose! (plus it's hosted by John Henson from Talk Soup...so it could be worse...)

GEORGE CARLIN 1937-2008

This is easily my favorite Carlin bit. I came across it around the same year I was taking a class on Mythology in high school and studying a lot of old religions. I had really been struggling to figure out what the hell I wanted to believe in. (I was raised Baptist, but my mother had died a few years prior and I was starting to question things that didn't seem to make any damn sense.) He raised so many awesome questions AND made the whole thing hillarious. A rare breed in comedy, and in life, he'll be missed.

SORRY FOR NOT POSTING VERY OFTEN...

I assure you it's not because of anything you've done. In fact, I've actually been keeping pretty busy, both with my comics and my reviews!

I try and post my comics weekly over at Comic Stripjoint, but feel free to be my friend over at Flickr where you never know what craziness I might end up posting?!

And I'm sure I've mentioned it here before, but aside from my weekly, albeit smaller, Foxymoron strip being in the Thursday Preview section of The Kansas City Star, I also do an entire page of comics and whatnot for INK and write music and movie reviews for them as well!

Some recent samples:

The Happening
The Strangers

Grand Theft Auto IV

Scarlett Johannson * Anywhere I Lay My Head
Foxboro Hot Tubs * Stop Drop And Roll!!!
The Roots * Rising Down

MTV MOVIE AWARDS

...I usually ask myself why I still bother to watch this shit, but then last night, this clip aired and I seriously started coughing because I was laughing so hard!



On a side note, I'm really, really thrilled that Robert Downey Jr. is having the time of his life now. He's always been such a terrific actor and I'm happy to see he's finally getting some appreciation.

THE TERRORISTS ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL!!!

File this under, "What happens when people allow themselves to get carried away by their own worst fears."

This headline appeared on thisislondon.co.uk yesterday.

Al-Qaeda's terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack!

Then had this "computer generated artwork" that appeared on "terror forums" which showed their plans for nuking Washington...



Not bad...although who knew terroists had access to Photoshop?! Well, it turns out, they don't. That artwork is actually concept art for a new video game called Fallout 3. D'oh!

So here's my questions.

#1: Why don't they release which "terror forums" the terrorist hang out in? If it's anything like the forums I visit from time to time, the "trolls" and "spammers" will fuck that place up in no time and the terrorists will give up after their topics switch from "Death to America" to "Can Captain Kirk Defeat Darth Vader?!"

#2: Please be on the lookout for this terrorist. Last seen, hurling turtle shells at oncoming vehicles...

THIS JUST IN...

The Commies have absolutely no sense of irony.

They're asking for a boycott of the the new Indiana Jones movie for treating depicting them as murderous thugs and then following that up with nice threats of destroying us all...

Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday "it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."

Holy crap, Spielberg and Lucas have started another Cold War?! I always figured it was going to be M Night Shyamalan's bombs that killed us all.

I SUPPOSE THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL "THE KITCHEN SINK"

First Hillary in her own words. (yes, she made these comments in front of a camera!)



Then, almost instantly, (as if she was preparing this all along) she offered this written "apology."


"I was discussing the Democratic primary history and in the course of that discussion mentioned the campaigns of both my husband and Senator (Robert) Kennedy waged in California in June in 1992 and 1968 and I was referencing those to make the point that we have had nomination primary contests that go into June. That's a historic fact.

The Kennedys have been much on my mind the last days because of Senator Kennedy. I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.

My view is that we have to look to the past to our leaders who have inspired us, give us a lot to live up to, and I'm honored to hold Senator Kennedy's seat in the United States Senate from the state of New York and have the highest regard for the Kennedy family."

Now, here's Keith Olbermann's Special Comment, which nails every single reason why she needs to drop out now and offer Obama and the NATION a sincere apology. You don't see things this remarkably well spoken on TV very often. Olbermann is at the top of his game here.

WELL, FUCK...

It turns out a malignant cancerous brain tumor is what caused Edward Kennedy's seizure over the weekend. This is the very same situation my Dad went through a couple years ago. He just woke up one morning with his arm twitching and days later found out it was tumors in his brain causing it. Gives me another reason to toss up this awesome cross stitch pattern Molly made for me...