Here’s the hotly anticipated trailer for the Crouching Tiger-style mystery, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (starring Andy Lau with art direction and fight choreography by Sammo Hung) which is just so goddamn gorgeous, if it weren’t already spoken for I’d marry it. Beautiful cinematography, amazing CG, ass-kicking martial artistry, and I’m […]
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Posted inTheater & Performance
Spock… Wearing a Bib?!?
Here is a picture of Jesse Graff (who plays Spock in Trek in the Park’s current offering “Mirror, Mirror”) eating pizza and wearing a bib. Oh! That reminds me! Trek in the Park (in which I get to play a goddamn hippie peacenik alien) is in its FINAL TWO WEEKENDS. And if you’re smart, you […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Big-Ass Sandwiches Introduces “Harry Plopper and the Chamber of Meats”
With apologies to our tender-hearted vegan/vegetarian readers, this is pretty funny. But… you can’t kill him if he’s wearing people clothes! (Do glasses count?)
Posted inTheater & Performance
Somebody Buy Me a Ticket to New York City
Based on this clip from The Late Show with David Letterman, I have to go see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before it shuts down. It looks painful and gaudy and dumb, all at the same time:
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Hey, Geniuses: Mensa Is Coming to Town! Sharpen Those No. 2 Pencils! (And, No, I Don’t Mean Pencils Made Out of Poop!)
So, um, who’s a smarty-pants? Mensa is having its annual convention, or “gathering,” in Portland this weekend. (Don’t know what Mensa is? It’s “an organization for anyone who scores in the top two percent of the general population on an accepted, standardized intelligence test.”) If you think you’re part of that brainy little club, admission […]
Posted inMusic
Rush at the Sleep Country Amphitheater
While other music fans were at the Britney Spears spectacle at the Rose Garden or the My Morning Jacket shred-fest at Edgefield, I trekked north—to Clark County, in pursuit of a rare glimpse of Canadian power trio Rush. And as should be expected from anyone except the most dickish of music snobs or anyone attached […]
Posted inPolitics
Do You Know More about My Little Pony than Former President Bill Clinton?
Listen to the following clip and see! (Oh, you might need a little set up: So former prez Bill Clinton goes on NPR’s quiz show Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me and on the segment “Not My Job” [where the person answers questions about a topic they should know nothing about], Clinton’s challenge was to field […]
Posted inTV
Today in Unnecessary Sci-Fi Commercials
Remember back when science and technology was supposed to be the saving hope for all mankind? HAR!! WOTTA LOAD OF BALONEY!! Anyway, advertising people jumped all over sci-fi tropes to sell their products, and Blastr has put together a great post featuring “17 cheesy TV ads that went all sci-fi (but really shouldn’t have).” Here’s […]
Posted inVideo Games
Read This Thing: PC Gamer’s Saturday Crapshoot
Sierra, PC Gamer Police Quest Videogames haven’t been in existence long enough to validate “gaming historian” as a real gig, but the moment universities and museums start hiring people to plumb the lineage of Dig Dug, Richard Cobbett deserves tenure. Of late Mr. Cobbett has been writing a weekly column for PC Gamer dubbed the […]
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Wonder Woman Clip, Anyone?
While it’s rude to celebrate the failure of others, here’s a clip from the failed David E. Kelley Wonder Woman series that the networks (so far!) have snubbed with a great big “PASS.” (I can see why some execs might think this would be too expensive to produce—look at all those steroids!) via The Daily […]
Posted inBooks
Heeeerrrrreeeee’s Bilbo
Entertainment Weekly has the first official image of the perfectly cast Martin Freeman (The Office, Sherlock) as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit movies. In related news, I just let out a truly humiliating and remarkably girlish squeal of excitement. Via “You’ve gotta be fuckin’ kidding me, Verizon! And Bombur, don’t you act all […]
Posted inEvents
Harder, Brawlier, Faster, Stronger: The Tournament
Get ready, gamers. Best Bout Gaming, located in SE Portland, is hosting a monthly Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament– the first of which ensued this weekend and culminated in a bloody, though heroic, poking fight between bl00diRav3nXX and b0dy0dor420 over what I assumed used to be a Gamecube controller. Joking. But in all honesty, the […]