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I hated Spelling Bees This sums up my experiences in school. I remember being in a class spelling bee and being none too pleased about being up front in the class. Nn the first word I was asked to spell, I purposely misspelled the word wrong. I happily sat back down in my sit first. I was never that super-nerd. I was more of that depressed geek that slept through most of school, because he hated the social structure of school.

Psych mentions Shaq-Fu I was flipping through the channels and came across a reference to the excellently bad game Shaq-Fu on the show Psych. Here's the quote, ((Shawn: I’ve been through all seven levels of Shaq-fu on Nintendo, and Gus can attest to that.)) Given how “inside” that reference is, I have to give the writers major points for that. I'm not even sure Shaq is still aware he has a fighting videogame. I've watched Psych a few times and loved all their pop culture references. However, the Shaq-Fu one is just great, given how much I like reading about the game .

Chris Brown and Rihanna Tweeting their love... When it involves Twitter, you know something bad is coming out of it. One thing I've always felt strongly about is domestic violence. And, the Brown/Rihanna story puts a spotlight onto the problems of not treating it correctly. From E-Online, (( The Twitter mystery (brought to our attention by  Nicky Geezy   from Power 106) started when Breezy  posted , "Love U more than u know!" Two minutes later, Ri-Ri  responded   with, "I'll always love you #1love." )) If you remember, back in 2009, Chris Brown beat the living crap out of Rihanna. He beat her so bad that it was hard to tell it was her. The swelling and bruising made me really hate Chris Brown. Brown is an awful human being for doing what he did to her. It is also the actions of Chris Brown after the incident that has me troubled. Brown gets extremely angry and violent whenever someone mentions the attack. Plus, he behaves as if ...

Katy Perry and Russel Brand getting divorced From Reuters , (( British comedian and actor Russell Brand called it quits on his 14-month marriage to "Teenage Dream" singer Katy Perry on Friday, filing for divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. )) What is this? Is this the year of divorces? I'm a little jealous because I can't cash in my divorce card.   I guess Russel Brand and Zooey Deschanel can now offiacally hook up. I never thought these two would last anyway, because they seemed so different from each other. Earlier this year, I didn't know much about Perry. However, I do find her very attractive because of her big eyes and curves. And, after looking at the picture below, wouldn't you at least try to keep the marriage working?

While watching the very funny video review of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked , I did some digging and discovered that David Cross didn't like making the third film in the Chipmunk saga. In the Pop Watch story, Cross called it an unpleasant experience. Well, he wasn't the only one, because RT has it at 13% with the Box Office being lower than the last two. From Pop Watch , ((  “ the most unpleasant experience I’ve ever had in my professional life.”, )) I like David Cross, but why is he now distancing himself from the Chipmunk franchise ? It looks like now that his contract is up, he's okay with bashing some elements of the movie. From Indie Wire.com, ((   "I’m contractually done," he said during press rounds for his television show " The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret ." "I was contractually obligated to do three, which is kinda standard." But now his outlook on the work is considerably less positive. )) ...

Ocean Marketing How do you ruin a reputation?  You do it by attacking your clients’ user base.  N-Control has a product coming out called the Avenger Controller.  The Avenger is an adapter that goes over your buttons and speeds up your response time in gaming. The Avenger actually is getting some good reviews overall ...then Ocean Marketing hit the fan. A customer sent E-mail to Ocean Marketing asking about the Avenger controller delivery date.    The response he got back from OM was less than professional. After a few replies, things started to get unprofessional fast. From the Penny Arcade (They have all the e-mails) ((Things happen in manufacturing if your unhappy you have 7 days from the day your item ships for a refund. You placed a pre order just like any software title the gets a date moved due to the tweaks and bugs not being worked out and GameStop or any other place holds your cash and im sure you don’t complain to activisi...

  Worst Comedians of all times? Complex.com, a pretty good site I might add , did a list of the worst comedians of our lifetime. Some of the folks on the list I completely agree with. Here are a few I wanted to comment on.  14. Andrew Dice Clay:  I would have rated him higher on the list.  He might have worked during the 80s and 90s, but now it come across as an earlier version of the Cable Guy act.  Do you remember when he had that awful reality show that got cancelled?  13.  Margaret Cho:  MC mentioned that she seems to keep bringing up her horrible time on her sitcom show All American Girl and hasn’t let it go.  She has slowly moved away from being funny to being downright annoying.  12. Sinbad:  Well, he just disappeared from everything.  At one point, he was hot.  He had specials and movies everywhere.  Plus, he wore those strange and ugly pants.  What was up with that?  He even had a tal...

Batman Returns Since the Agony Booth did a review on Batman Returns, I figured I'd add more of my thoughts on this depressing film .   Ah, this is Tim Burton’s art movie with Batman having a cameo in it.  It is so dark and dreary without a strong plot.  Burton has always been weak on plot.  He is style over substance.  Why does Catwoman have cat powers?  She was just a normal cat burglar in the comics and the cartoon show.   I just wished Burton would have left out Batman altogether and made his freaky little gothic movie, but this isn’t a Batman movie.  Batman Forever is more of a Batman movie than this dreary piece of film.  To be fair, Elfman’s score for “Returns” is very good.  

Blogging Love I was checking my stats via Blogger and noticed I was getting a lot of hits from Reddit . It was my post about the two Vivian actors from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air . The page has gotten around 2,432 pageviews. Within the Fresh Prince reunion photo comment section, someone left a link to my story. That's pretty cool. The second blogging love I received was through Cracked.com. I got a link shout out on their Worst Action Figures From Iconic Toy Lines pos t. It was the William The Refrigerator Perry post I wrote earlier this year . I was really thrilled with the little shoutout from Cracked, because I really like that site. And, since we're wrapping up (warp?) another, I like to think to thank everyone for reading my blog. I hope to have more entertaining content next year.  

Sinead O'Connor Divorces husband after 16 days From Reuters, ((   Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has ended her fourth marriage after just 16 days, blaming pressure and disapproval from the family and friends of her new husband Barry Herridge. )) Talk about a fast marriage, even Kim Kardashian's marriage lasted longer than this one. If you will remember, O'Connor put out an online appeal for sex, because she was very horny. Barry answered the call and took one for the team. I guess that was enough for them to get married. From Reuters , ((She added that she had decided to end the marriage, and said the couple had made a mistake "rushing into getting married" without being prepared for the consequences on his life. )) Did I mention that this will be O'Connor's fourth marriage? Something tells me you probably should quit while you're still ahead. Yes, there is something wrong with his head.  It looks like an alien from the ...

Philips CD-I Infomercial Holy, crap this is both bad and good.  I never came across this infomercial back in the 90s, but I would have loved it.  The games look really horrible, but I can see what they were going for.  I love how the commercial keeps using the word (Interactive).  Looking at the Wiki page, Sony even developed CD-IS called Green Book.  It was a CD format used on the CDs in the CD-I.   Plus, Philips had the rights to Nintendo characters after they attempted to develop a CD add-on to the S NES called the SNES-CD . The games were leftover rights from that scrapped deal between Philips and Nintendo.  Sony’s Playstation would also emerge out of this twisted history too.  The Biggest problem with the CD-I was the price tag.  It went for 700 at launch.  Plus, the Sega CD add-on sold better than the CD-I.  And, that’s saying a lot.  I vaguely remember reading about this game system back in the da...

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag What in the hell were they thinking? I re-watched this stupid movie again on HBO for no reason other than I was bored. I would like to see the pitch-meeting. “You see there is this mob guy that loses a duffel bag full of heads, and it turns out to be funny.” Plus, it is kind of sad seeing David Spade trying to save every scene with riffing. It just comes across as needing. ~I guess I was supposed to laugh when Joe Pesci threw a old woman over a cliff. I didn't laugh. ~Wouldn't the heads start to really go bad at this point? ~The only funny thing about the movie is the creepy scene where the heads from the bag begin to sing a version of “Sandman”. Yes, it makes no since with the rest of the film, but it is just strange. ~The movie only earned 4 million. ~A few years after this, Pesci started a rap/singing career and retired from acting. I'm not making this up. Like Pesci's singing, avoid this m...

Where are the parents? While I was standing in line to buy a ticket for Mission Impossible 4 at my local theater, I witnessed a strange incident.  There were two little girls about 7 to 9 years old standing in front of the ticket window.  They both had these confused expressions on their faces.  Keep in mind this is Christmas Eve at 8:55 at night, and I saw no parent in sight. “My I help who is next?” the ticket lady said through the speaker.  The two little girls stepped up with money in hand.  “Can we get two tickets for Young Adult ?” “Uh, do you have a parent around, that movie is Rated-R?” the ticket lady asked. They didn’t answer and stood back away from the window.  Where exactly where they’re parents and why were they trying to get into a R-Rated movie?  This is a late Saturday on Christmas Eve, no place for little kids.  I just found it odd.  I looked up Young Adult .  Young Adult is written by Diablo Cody, a...

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol MI4 is a very entertaining follow up to the third film and fits in nicely with that film.   With complex action set pieces, the film moves along at a break-neck speed.  MI4 is a sharp action movie that I enjoyed immensely.  It has a lot of energy and humor.  Brad Bird stepped up to the plate, as this is his first live action film.  Bird came from the animation field, but really showed that he has the potential to be a great action director.  Because this is his first live film, his distinct style isn’t really present.  His movie style clearly is set in the same technique as producer J.J. Abrams ’ stuff.  I don’t have a problem with that either, because Abrams is a good director to follow.  Bird does a good job keeping the camera still and showing us the action.  Many seasoned directors could learn a thing or two from him.  He keeps things moving without that many dull scenes....

The Dark Knight Soundtrack OST- 8 Like A Dog Chasing Cars This track is probably my favorite track from the Dark Knight soundtrack.  I like it because of the “hero” theme played proudly at the 2:11 mark.  It is probably one of Zimmer’s themes of recent years.  I also like the “Joker” theme added at the end of the track.  

Knock down folks for a pair of Air Jordans? Enjoy the Holidays.  For a $200 pair of shoes named after Michael Jordan, was it really worth it?  I’m glad to see the Christmas Spirit (Holiday Spirit, take that) is alive and well as the people at the door step on the people on the floor.  As I kid and a teenager, I never bothered with buy the expensive Nike shoes, because I didn’t see the point.  I thought it was scam to trick kids into buying a pair of shoes over 200 bucks, yet these same kids barely have enough to buy a lunch at school. In a day and age where we have devices that can do a hundred things out of the box, why are people getting this excited about a pair of shoes?  Basically, Nike has been hyping this retro Air Concords up for a while.  They’re the same design as the ones from 1995.  I liked the actual brand of Michael Jordan, minus Space Jam, but I just never got around to his shoes. Maybe, I am too old for this shit....

  Prometheus Trailer I guess I am having a geek moment, because the trailer looks amazing.  This is a Ridley Scott joint with write Damon Lindelof.  The trailer looks amazing, if a little short.  But, I love the fact it only hints at what the story is about, thus giving us a guessing game as to the story elements. This movie actually started out as a direct prequel to Alien, but Scott changed his mind. The wiki page states that this story will play within the universe of Alien, but will be standalone. I'm not sure I buy that because the “Space Jockey” from the first movie clearly makes an appearance. F rom Wiki , (( The film will focus on a mythology within the Alien   universe. Set in the late-21st century, Prometheus   will explore the advanced civilization of an extraterrestrial race   responsible for the  origins   of  modern humans   on Earth, [3]   as well as the background of the  Alien crea...

Mr. Plinkett's next review trailer...IJ4 Coming soon Explain why I really like this trailer? I will never look at Follow That Bird the same way again. I want to know who that girl is in the video though. Anyway, I think I am going to love Red Letter Media ripping into Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I let IJ4 off the hook with my review and I would probably review the movie more harshly now. There are way too many George Lucas flaws in the script to give it pass today, because clearly the movie doesn't hold up like the last three movies. I remember Lucas coming out and warning people that the movie wouldn't be as good as the last movies.  

Michael Jackson: Stranger in Moscow/Sonic 3 This is probably the best remix of the two songs I've heard. If you will remember the Sonic End Title song is almost a complete match to MJ's song Stranger in Moscow. There have been many remixes/mashups between the two songs, but I think DJ Yuzoboy pulled off the best version of the song. From Wiki , (( James Hansen, of Sonic Stuff Research Group, retorts that Cirocco (credited as "Scirocco" in Sonic 3) still has possession of presumably a demo version of fabled soundtrack. "I actually have "ALL" of the tracks...," he writes, "from the original humming of Michael calling in the middle of the night leaving messages, to his ideas at Record One with Matt and Bruce. - BUT, I don't think I can let any of that out to the public without permission )) Someday, I hope those demo tapes of MJ singing the tunes from the Sonic 3 will be released to the public. But given the control the Jackson f...

Because I am doing nothing but double shifting, the blog has seen less play at this time.  That is because I am getting around 3-4 hours a sleep each day. But I should be back in swing this weekend.

Kim Jong-il:  Dead at 69 or 70 He died on an Mfing train...not a boat.  From Reuters , ((North Korea's official KCNA news agency said the elder Kim died at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday (6:30 p.m. EST on Friday) after "an advanced acute myocardial infarction, complicated with a serious heart shock." Kim had suffered a stroke in 2008, but had appeared to have recovered from that ailment. )) Kim Jong was a strange fellow that I was fascinated with because of the Cult of Personality surrounding his rule.  He was the son of the Great Leader, his father, yet had this strange mystery about him.  There are many stories about him and even his birth date might be conflicting with what is recorded.  He was a stanch supporter of Communism, yet had no problem collecting capitalism products such as expensive cars and American movies.  His entire country is under total lockdown, yet he receives outside material things.  For me, it is interesting to see his fas...

Random Things ~ Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters : Yes, this show actually existed. It took its title in spirit to Teenage Mutant Turtles and Power Rangers. It makes Power Rangers look amazing compared to this show. My biggest problem with the show is that DiC Entertainment produced the show. This was the same company that ran the GI Franchise into the ground. The show only lasted one season with 40 episodes running 30 minutes each. I remember watching this show years ago. ~ Damn you Eiffel 65 ...: At work, someone starting singing “Move Your Body” and subconsciously I started to sing the song too without realizing why it popped in my head. I realized it was because he was singing the song and I simply got caught up into this Eiffel groove. I'm just glad he didn't sing “I DJ with the fire. ” Just remember to move your body, everybody-everybody. ~ Britney Spears is engaged...again : I would think someone would have talked her out of marrying again. G...

Wow, The Joker watches Lost That was clearly the writers of Batman Arkham City enjoy taking a jab at the ending of Lost.   

Star Trek as the A-Team Brilliant, that is all.

 Space Jam Website (since 96/97?) Did you know that the old Space Jam movie website is still up and running?  While poking around Cracked.com, I came across a mention of the damn SJ site still running as if the 90s are still around.  And, t his story passed me by , and everyone in the blog sphere has already talked about it.  But, I wanted to add my two cents to it.  If you don't believe, check out the site for yourself. Back in the day, most promotional sites looked exactly like this. It is a little piece of 90s fluff for us to marvel and make fun of. For a 90’s website, it is pretty extensive with the various.  The Behind Jam notes a re an interesting read.  They mention Disney and Who Framed Roger Rabbit in their story.  I find this interesting given the fact Disney and WB were and are long time rivals. A lot of work went into the site to a sup-par movie, but today it just looks so cute and tiny. I guess someone at WB just...