Sporks

Sometimes, combining things work out well. Reese's cups (Peanut Butter & Milk Chocolate) worked out well. Then there are other combos that never seemed to pan out well...like sporks.

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Sporks

There are many inventions that are completely useless. However probably one of the worst of the bunch has to be the spork.

While feeding my dog, I noticed the contents from can dog food was a mushy solid and fork would have not done justice to scooping out half a can, so I grabbed a spoon or at least I thought it was spoon. I realized I picked up a spork. I rose it up to my eye level and thought, “This has to be the stupidest invention ever.”

Someone in the grand stupidity of things thought, “I know people have a hard time switching from a fork to a spoon. Let's combine a spoon and fork, and that can save people 1.2 seconds between switching between the two.” This inventor has to be a C student.

Fork+Spoon=Spork=profit

And, when you think about it, a spork is jack of all trades and a master of none. Sporks are the Red Mages of kitchen utensils. I mean you can't hold down meat really well while you cut it, and it doesn't handle soup too well. What about ice cream or fried rice?

I guess it is for people that don't want to pay for spoons and forks.

To my total surprise, there is a website devoted the spork, check it out.

random things (Rave party!)

Glow lights and laser beams make a rave right?

Random Things

~While walking along the streets of Louisville at night, I heard a woman yelling as loud as she could. She kept saying, “G-damn it!” every few seconds. She crossed the street and kept yelling the same thing repeatedly. I tried my best to distance myself from this crazy woman just in case God felt like punishing her; I didn’t want to become collateral damage. Just in case…hey I’m agnostic.

~Here's funny spoof on Myspace and Dane Cook: It's like Tom from Myspace tries to convince this guy into logging into myspace again. Tila Tequila even shows up. As a planet, we have come to this.

~This is the first Strong Bad email I watch and I was hooked. It was the techno email from Silent J. I always make fun of techno and this video pretty much sums up how I feel about it. Here's a DDR remixed, and I like it. Who knew you could remix this to DBZ? BTW, the system is down!

~Speaking of techno, there is only one Techno song that rules today! Flawless victory! I feel like yelling out Mortal Kombat in a crowded mall.

The Dark Knight (Part 2 of 3)

The Joker enjoys watching 10 Things I Hate About You for the 27^th time in his jail cell.
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I like that they chose Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent. Eckhart just brings an honorable drive to character of the DA of Gotham. While there are some problems toward the end with Two-Face, I enjoyed the Harvey Dent as the hero both Gordon and Batman want to become.

So if you look closely at the movie, you will discover that Aaron Eckhart is the main star of the movie. I personally would have gone is a slightly different direction with Two-Face, but I like how he became the character and Harvey Dent is just a cool character. And there is a shocker that surprised me involving Two-Face’s origins and it’s a nice twist in the plot.

The character of Rachel Dawes had to be recast when Katie Holmes left over a ‘scheduling conflict’. And, I’m glad that brought in Maggie Gyllenhaal, because she improved upon the role and actually has acting chops, thus making the character stronger. Holmes went on to make Mad Money and nothing else.

There is about a one-minute scene that I won’t give away that Gyllenhaal really plays well and it is a touching moment. However, some of her scenes are a bit boring and slow down the movie. I’m generally not a fan of this character, but she works in the overall plot of the movie. They should have never put Holmes in the role in the first place.

Gary Oldman, who at one point didn’t have much on his acting plate until the Harry Potter films, finds himself in an expanded role. While Gordon does trust Batman, there is some tension between Harvey Dent and him. I really enjoyed how Oldman plays this character this time around. Gordon knows some of his cops are corrupt, but he needs them to fight his bigger war on crime, and that creates a riff between Dent and his department.

Angry Goat Vs. Little Kid

Angry Goat Vs. Little Kid

Yeah, I know it's a little mean to watch a goat just go into a fast break and knock down a little kid, but I got a chuckle out of this one. You can tell the kid wasn't hurt, just a bruised ego.

As the guy in the comment section stated, it looks like the male goat attacked another goat and caught the kid by accident. I think the goat was angry with the other goat for hogging all the food.

The Dark Knight (Part 1 of 3)

The Dark Knight Part 1 of 3

Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You hammered them. And in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

That pretty much sums up this movie.

I was a big fan of Batman Begins. So, I had faith going into this movie that director Christopher Nolan wouldn’t turn the follow up into another self-indulgent film like Tim Burton did with Batman Returns. Instead of repeating the missteps of Burton and his ego, Nolan created a sequel that improves upon the stronger elements of the first film and goes further. Nolan takes us deeper into what happens when you take someone good and an idealist twist it upon itself.

The Dark Knight is a darker movie, but it doesn’t have the dark cynical tone of Tim Burton’s second film. Goyer and the Nolan brothers have written an amazing script that only changes the Batman mythology enough to fit into our current time. Nolan takes the theme of Batman being a symbol of hope and order and gives us another symbol. And that symbol is chaos in the form of the Joker.

I should just come out and say it. Yes, Heath Ledger’s version of the Joker is chilling and compelling at the same time. Believe the hype, this is Ledger’s best performance ever. (Forget Brokeback, actually I’m trying to.) Ledger’s every movement and mannerism fits within Nolan’s world. It’s a shame Heath Ledger died, because we would have seen some good things from him after this.

The Joker is no longer an acid accident victim, but a guy with scars on both sides of his face and he wears clown makeup instead. While some stupid comic book guys might have a problem with this change, I don’t. Plus, he makes him such a mean SOB that you don’t need a real origin story for this Joker. (The Joker mentions two unrelated stories as to how he got his face that way. Both contradict each other.)

This version of the Joker is twisted, but he has a bigger goal, which is to create chaos and watch as the city destroys itself out of fear. The Joker for the first time in the movies feels like a terrorist, which Harvey Dent mentions in the film.

However, don’t let the marketing trick you. This movie is about Harvey Dent and he’s the star of the film.

Remember, Jokers are wild.

The Baby that ruined The Dark Knight...

Yeah, I saw The Dark Knight and really enjoyed it, under some of the worst moving-going experiences ever.

This isn’t a review of the movie; I have to watch it again because some dumbass pretty much ruined my night. I’m so pissed off that I almost went to the counter and asked for my money back

And, it should have been a good time too.

I was able to get a ticket into a digital projector theater and found a good seat. Well, the theater was packed. And for the most part, the audience behaved themselves. Except for two, a mother and her baby, the baby proceeded to cry throughout the entire 2 hrs and 30 mins of the film.

She took a crying baby into a very harsh PG-13 movie at 9:30 PM on a Saturday night! That baby didn’t want to be there and he made sure everyone else in the theater felt the same way.

The mother only took her child outside only once! Then she brought the baby back in, where he continued to cry.

I was surprised no one got up and said something to the mother. But, there were rumbles throughout the theater each time a quiet moment happened in the film and that baby cried. Folks, this was one of the worst times I’ve had in the theater.

She must have really wanted to see the film badly, so badly that it pretty much ruined the movie for me. Are people that oblivious to the amount of disruption coming from their children?

So now there is a new rule.

Rule: If you can’t keep your child or baby quiet, don’t bring them to a theater or restaurant. I don’t have children and I didn’t pay to have your bad parenting skills thrown on me. Please get a babysitter.

Pizza guy Serves a beatdown with that delivery

Pink-shirt Pizza guy beats the toppings off would-be robber.

I hate to say this, but sometimes life really is stranger than fiction. This story starts as a simple robbery in a Pizza joint and then becomes a twisted family affair. But, let’s backtrack a bit.

The guy comes into the store dressed in a wig and glasses showing a fake gun. (Something tells me people aren’t going to take you seriously when your gun has Ages 2 and Up on the side.) He slaps Pink-shirt guy and Pink-shirt guy goes off on him. He beats him so hard that you will notice that the metal table in the video is bent. And the robber’s limp body slides off the table, out cold.

As his disguise falls off, a female co-worker discovers that the getting the crap beat out of him is her father! Her father came in to her place of work and was going to rob it. WTF?

Well, he wakes up from his beatdown and runs for his get-away truck, where the female co-worker’s mother and husband were waiting for her father. So, her whole family was involved in the robbery. Some people followed the truck and the cops arrested all three.

Rudy Sandoval you are a true hero not only because you beat the crap out of a loser, but because you wore a pink shirt while doing it.

Read The full story here.

Here's a video interview.

You all, Everybody (Really creepy version)

You all, Everybody (Really creepy version)

Yeah, that wasn’t Dominic Monaghan’s voice. This strange clip comes from the Lost videogame Via Domus.

The writers have said the game doesn’t fit into the normal continuity of the show, but it does foreshadow the time travel aspects of the fourth season.

Here are few more clips

What happens when you enter 77

The Ending to videogame with the time travel ending.

Not Pushing the Button

The Smoke Monster!

The Smoke Monster chasing you

Six Reasons Why I Hate Drillbit Taylor

Six Reasons Why I Hate Drillbit Taylor

I like Owen Wilson, sure he plays the same role in every movie, but he does a good job with that role. Who else are you going to get to play the burnt out slacker? Matthew McConaughey can't play every slacker role by himself.

However, Drillbit Taylor simply isn’t a good movie and his hippie character is wearing a bit thin in this overly long comedy. Instead of writing a regular review, I decided to give you six reasons I hated the movie.

(Yeah, I know Owen has had a tough year, but this movie is bad.)

6. Owen Wilson playing Dupree again: It’s the same character from You, Me and Dupree. Except now, he just manipulates some kids instead of his best friend. I mean they should have just named the character Dupree and made it a sequel to that movie. Let’s call it Dupree and The Kids.

5. Superbad II just PG-13: The folks over at The Movie Blog made a good point about the movie being a copy of Superbad, and I started to notice it as I watched the movie. Seth Rogen didn’t even try to hide it either. Maybe this was an early draft for Superbad.

4. The Kids Aren’t That Interesting: I really didn’t care if these kids got their butts kicked. I didn’t even know their names. I called one the fat kid and another one tiny kid and the middle kid.

3. The Bullies Are Too Evil: The bullies attempt to kill the kids on numinous occasions. Are bullies really like that? In this movie, they beat the living shit out of the main stars and even take a few swings at Owen Wilson. There seems to be no motivation into the way the bullies go after the kids.

2. The Plot is Unfocused: The movie doesn’t know what it wants to be and shifts from Owen Wilson to the kids and even to a collection of bums. Owen is the kids' bodyguard and he also pretends to be a teacher too, then you throw in a half-baked love story and you have a mess. The movie needed a better focus.

1. Drillbit Taylor: Just saying it aloud makes you realize how stupid the name is.

Grade: C-

Andy Dick in Jail?

Sure, he's on something in this picture.

Dear World,

Can we keep Andy Dick in jail for good? I mean what has he done for society?

Andy Dick was arrested at a parking for doing some nasty things, yet the news is very vague as to what happened though. Did he grope a man or woman in the parking lot? WTF happen? Then again, this is Andy Dick and do you really want to know what happen?

((The comedian Andy Dick was arrested early this morning in Murrieta on suspicion of drug possession and misdemeanor sexual battery, authorities said. ))

I mean the guy isn't really funny and he simply can't keep himself clean. Plus, he keeps having relapses and causing damage. I think he needs to show up on Dr. Drew's reality show.

Anyway, check out his mugshot will ya.

He certainly needs to stop making movies.

Update: It appears he allegedly grabbed a girl, who happen to be 17 years old, and showed her boobs at the restaurant! Uh, that's certainly not on the menu at Buffalo Wild Wings.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (part 2 of 2) review

Hellboy II

In this sequel, the action is more complex with a lot of Kung Fu and wire effects, which work and fit into Hellboy’s world. The editing is snappier with only a few slow moments here and there.

Sci-fi man Ron Perlman is born to play Hellboy. I’m not sure where the character ends and the actor begins. Hellboy is a blue-collar character that will beat the crap out of someone because they don’t give him the right answer, but loves cats and protects babies. Selma Blair and Perlman make an interesting couple too.

Luke Goss totally kicks major ass with his Martial Arts. Goss plays the main bad guy Prince Nuada, and I think he does a great job. The guy is evil, but he does it because he sees the fantasy world being taken over by the Human world and he wants to use the Golden Army to destroy it. He even tries to convince Hellboy to join his cause.

And, the Golden Army is amazing. It’s probably some of the best CGI work in the film. The scene with Hellboy and his team fighting the army is just a cool fanboy moment. You also get to see why this army is so badass too.

Overall, Hellboy II is more of an action fantasy movie than a comic book movie. It is certainly 85% more of a Guillermo del Toro vision than Mike Mignola’s vision of Hellboy. Some say this movie is a lot like a Pan's Labyrinth sequel than a Hellboy movie, and I think that’s okay. Even though there are a few missteps in the plot department and the dialogue is bad in some places, this is still a fun movie.

Grade: B+

Spree Time

Remember Driving around on one of these?

I'm kid from the 80's and I grew up in an interesting time. Mayren did a throwback post about those crazy but cool Trapper Keeper folder holders. It's strange when items seem to thrust us back to our childhood and teenager days. We seem to look back at how simpler it was.

Well, I decided to recall my own throwback thing. It's called the Spree Scooters. Back in the 80's in my end of town, all the cool kids that could afford a scooter, got a lot of tail. The Spree Scooters had a slick appearance to them, hell they almost look like a cousin to the Knight Rider car.

(Of course not to be confused with the candy Spree.)

Looking at them today, I can't help but think that they look rather ugly. I remember the girls would drive around on the pink ones.

Today, all the cool people that rode on the scooters have been replaced with skinny emo guys with tight pants and bad haircuts. If you're real lucky, you'll catch that the really fat fanboy/comic book guy riding around on something that is too small for him too.

It's kind of strange to see a different group of people driving them today.

By the way, it looks like someone is selling one of those Sprees from 1986.

Me being a lame kid, I never got one, but I still fondly remember these things. It's probably a good thing I didn't, because something tells me I would have messed something up riding that thing.

I just had a damn brown Huffy bike and a Trapper Keeper with Garbage Pale Kids stickers.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (part 1 of 2) review

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (part 1 of 2)

This Hellboy is visually stunning, bright and a lot of fun. It is certainly more entertaining than the first movie.

Director Guillermo del Toro has a colorful imagination. Hellboy II takes everything that was strange about the first movie and turns it up about 10 points. Most of the more religious background stuff is swept away for a more fantasy story. (Not everything about the fate of Hellboy from the first movie is disregarded. There is a bit of dark foreshadowing about a Hellboy III.)

The world the director creates is on a different level than the real world. It is bright, colorful, and filled with interesting characters and creatures. The movie really starts to pick up when Hellboy encounters this world, which is one of the best things in the film. It feels like the rich areas of Star Wars and the mood that George Lucas attempted to convey in the prequels but failed.

The action seems to build upon itself more and more up to the climax of this scene where a giant plant creature attacks the city.

The opening ‘flashback’ to the actual story behind the Golden Army is done in such a unique manner that I wanted to see more of it. It sums up the terrible nature of The Golden Army and the divide between the Human world and Magical world. It rather reminds me of the beginning of Kung Fu Panda, in that it has a different style from the rest of the movie.

I wasn’t really a fan of the young Hellboy stuff though. They could have done the Golden Army and elf stuff as a flashback within itself and not as told as a story to the young Hellboy.

Now, this is what I call gun control.

Heroes (season one) (2 of 3)

Well, at least she did not take sexually comprising pictures of herself like a certain other cheerleader...

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Heroes Season 1

The Story

What I found interesting about the story was the way the writers were able to carry all the diverse storylines and keep it all entertaining. In many ways, the idea of these humans with super powers is a lot like the X-Men and the mutants. We get to see what happens to these people as they discover and handle their superpowers.

The story had such a good build up that the ending never could live up it. And that’s probably where the story faltered for me. We get to see most of the superheroes all together, but it feels a bit rushed with the confrontation with Sylar.

I would also like to add that the Sylar storyline ended up getting increasingly fascinating as the story went along. He was truly a badass comic book character.

The payoff could have been handled better, and the direction they went with the second season didn’t help matters either. (I’m only into the second season by 3-4 episodes so far.)

The Special Effects

I thought most of the special effects were good for a TV show. The standout stuff was certainly the healing and damage Claire Bennet took throughout the season. The special effects they used to show her healing up were neat. Sometimes, they were bit too real and gruesome.

The flying scenes are done well too. I really can’t complain too much, the FX is very good for a TV budget, especially when you look at shows like Mutant X and other shows from the earlier days of the 90s and 2000s.

Random Things: It's Complicated

Random Things

~I guess people didn't even want to 'Meet Dave'. It only made 5 million and the budget was around 55 million. Someone over at FOX is going to get fired over this, in the same manner as the Love Guru. The movie was so bad that Eddie Murphy didn't even bother showing up for the premiere of his own freaking movie. I will give FOX credit for actually admitting the movie is a bomb. Paramount refuses to even talk about The Love Guru, except for overseas markets where the movie has been just released. Actually, this movie has a chance of doing far worst than the Love Guru.

~Corey Haim: I think it's time for Haim to take time off from being on that reality show and make trip to rehab. Man, he looks terrible in that clip. Is Lost Boys II really a comeback for him?

~I watched a few episodes that horrible reality show "Denise Richards: It's Complicated" and it is a bad show. She comes across as too self-centered and can't get over her divorce with Charlie Sheen. She's not a nice person, but she is good looking. But she does get some points for taking in her dad after her mother died.

~Lamest videogame endings ever: I have to agree with the choices.

Sexual moments in videogames: Seeing a bomb creature 'attack' from behind Mario is just wrong. Why is that creature making noises too? Did Mario just get rapped in that clip? If Link is getting this much sex from NPC, why even bother to attempt to rescue Zelda.

~Mariah Carey green screened into a chicken commercial? Chicken or Mariah Carey, choices.

Strip Club vs. White Castle

I was caught in the rain while walking through the city. The rain and wind was so strong that it broke my small umbrella. I needed to take cover and I needed to do it quickly because the lightening was coming down strong.

I had two choices to take refuge. A White Castle and a strip club. While I would have been completely happy with drying off in the strip club, my wallet would have hurt because of it. So, I went for the White Castle, sadly there were no naked chicks with dollar bills shoved up their underwear to be seen.

What I got instead was a bald homeless man that stunk to high heaven. I mean this was Hobo Power to the 20s. I got some chicken rings and I didn’t want to eat them after smelling his funk. Damn, I’m still pissed about that. (It’s the kind of funk that makes you angry and ruins your day.)

What was funny was that the Homeless man thought the lady at the counter cheated him out of 3 cents. He started arguing with the woman, whom was about to cuss him out, and he started to raise his voice. I came very close to stepping in, but I didn’t want him in my face, so I took a few steps back. (When you’re homeless, I guess every cent counts.)

I thought, Dude, you smell like super-ass, you got her back if she stiffed you. Really, you’ve punished us all.

I should have ducked into the strip club instead. Naked strippers always trump funky angry bums.

Damn it…

Just for reference, this would have been the strip club I would have dived into.