Marvel Minimates are crazy mad sweet. Like always. Anyhow, let's see what we have here, from left to right back row first... Nova (awesome) Dagger, Cloak, Gamora, War Machine (that's the dude that Terrance Howard was in Iron Man) and Spymaster... The second War Machine is a James Rhodes variant. I'm not sure what that means at this point. More to follow. Prolly not.

    If you click on that up there you'll get taken to this letter that Greggot from The Dharma Initiative inviting him to come to Comic-Con for a recruitment drive. Lucky Greg. Maybe he'll get some inside dope by joining up. Maybe he'll get shot by some creep and pitched into a trench. Let's vote. Should Greg join the Dharma team?

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    Sorry about the janky pic. It was the best that I could find. For some reason my cat Polk who is a total grumpy dick is sitting on my lap so I'm having difficulty typing this out. OK, I pushed her off. She's a nice cat. Anyhow, that fig up there is a San Diego Con exclusive. I guess you figured that out. It's AWE-SOME. Dude, I have waited my whole life for a Cobra Commander in a suit. Ya, I don't really have the most extravagant dreams.

    What's the point in wishing for stuff that never happens. Me, I want a Cobra Commander in a suit and BAM! I get it. See, my dreams come true. Your dreams of a good job and family or whatever, that shits NEVER gonna be a reality. Who's the loser now?

    If you buy all of the Indiana Jones figs that they got out right now. All of the 3 and 3/4 inch ones anyhow and send in your proofs of purchase then YOU have earned the right to get that bad boy up there sent to you. Great huh? Buy like 12 figs and you'll get a spindly ass crystal alien. That's kind of a spoiler and I'm sorry but the movie is out and all right?

    Here is some more info if you happen to have actually bought all the dudes.. HASBRO OFFER

  

  Of all the Indiana Jones movie this is prolly like the third best. It's better then the one with Sean Connery but not as good as Raiders or Temple Of Doom. Temple scores points just with that awesome name. The Temple Of DOOM! what a awful name for a place but also appropriate in a way. Not for Indie and them but there must have been literally tons of dead kids coming out of there on a weekly basis. Ugh. That's gross. They were doomed from the womb.

    Anyhow this was a fun movie. It gets a bit talky in the middle. Zelly got bored and started looking around at the people sitting behind us. I turned her back around and the action picked up and all was good in the hood. There is a lot of CGI and I'm not really a fan of that stuff but it's a sign of the times so no point in railing against progress, again.

    The deal is that there are these crystal skulls and they are all mysterious and whatever. The Russians want them for some kind of mind control deal or it was like the key to eternal knowledge. Some such deal. I don't want to give too much away by examining it closely.

    I had fun. It was cool man. A good Indiana Jones flick. It had stunts and caves and spiders and snakes. All that stuff. It's a lot like Rocky Balboa, the Rocky flick that came out last year, in that it revisits old characters and old themes and kind of puts a cap on the story in a satisfying way. You'll leave happy. I did. I think everyone did. Prolly not everyone but most everyone, I guess.



    Cate Blanchett is pretty rad. I guess she's pretty rad overall but in this one she's extra rad. She rocks this groovy little haircut and looks all creepy with her big blue eyes. There's one part where her and Shai Lebouf are standing up in cars next to each other. The cars are moving BTW and the two of them are fighting. Well, she's just smacking the crap out of him with these awesome Karate style moves. Chops and whatever. it's funny. She takes his greaser ass to school on the real. I like Kate. She was cool in that Wes Anderson movie with Bill Murray.

    Outside of that I don't really know what to say. It was good. See it if you want. If it's not your thing then go and see something else. There are a lot of good flicks out right now. Take a chance on one of them. Go see Narnia or whatever. That might not be the right movie for someone who doesn't like Indiana Jones. Try Dave Mamet's Jiu-Jitsu movie, Redbelt. Me and my man Greg went to see it. It was alright. He liked it a lot more then I did but I thought that it was pretty good.

    Here's some pics of Cate. She's 39 and pretty good looking. I've always been a fan.

    The mighty Hobgoblin has fallen. My least favorite human being of all time Keith Jardine is no more. That might be true. He may be dead. Watch the video. It's heinous. It's awful to think that one person could do this to another one. It's even worse to think that I payed to watch it in HD and invited a bunch of geeks over to my house to watch it.

    It was awesome though. Silva like knocked his dick in the dirt and held him down on the ground by his neck and pounded him into chum. I think that his bones were shattered to where he is just a sack of flesh with juice inside. He might have been that from the start really. He defies description.

    Oh, see where it says Keith Jardine up there? The link that I typed, i think I have dog crap on my shoe.. Hold on. I do. Great. Anyway, see that link? Click it. It's vile. Here it is again... VILENESS!!!!!!

    I went to the Jardine website a second ago and in the comment section I wrote something like "Hey, good job last night. You really upset my family with that beating you took" and signed it Greg Poloynis. I should have put Greg's address. Jardine could have wheeled himself over there Hawkins style and cursed Greg out with his little robot voice thing...

    Yep, that's Greg. Anyway when we was at Wondercon a little while back he got that pic taken at some Comic book booth. The deal was that he was entered into a contest and if he won he would get to appear in this rag called AGE OF INSECTS. Sounds like the future. Anyway as a member in good standing of the Ichiban Gumi Greg must be supported. He's in first right now. Let's keep it that way huh?
 
    Follow this link right HERE and go over to the site and place a vote for the kid. Listen, he really needs this in his life right about now. Things aren't so great for good old Greg.  He's recently been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease. Not really but pretend he did and give him a sympathy, Make A Wish Foundation type vote....

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Awesome. I NEED these. I love Bucky and I love the Old School Toro. That was the Human Torch looking dude there. Sweet. Here is another pic. It's bad ass how Cap's shield fits on his back like that. That's for when he's like parachuting down behind enemy lines or some shit.



    I love Namor. The pack is exclusive to the San Diego Comic Con. That's great. I'll get to pay out the ass to score me a set. I'm totally into that triangular shield that Silver Age Cap has. That's so rad. When you buy the mates you get some extra shields to make different configs of the team.

    Cool Batgirl. Here's a secret. I actually like Batgirl more then Batman. I think the man is kind of a douche. I know that some bad stuff went down in his life but I think that he should get some therapy as opposed to what he actually did.

    Thinking about that do you think that anyone got young Bruce into see some Doctors when he was younger or do you think he was just supposed to suck it up and be a man? Also, how is that he was left in custody of a family employee as opposed to a relative or even the state? That prolly had something to do with him turning into such a loon. All he had to do as a kid was wander that creepy mansion with only a weird old butler as his companion. That would SUCK.

    Anyhow, Batgirl up there is a Toys R Us exclusive. It's a two pack deal. She comes packed with Azrael. He was another nut job that Batman hung out with. He actually took up the mantle of The Bat while Bruce was recovering from the broken back that Bane dropped on him. Come to think of it Batgirl might have been the only normal-ish person that ever spent any time down in the cave.

    She was a librarian, college student, daughter of the Police Commissioner, Judo champ. Not like entirely normal but compared to Batman she's a peach. Compared to just about anyone she's a peach actually. Those are some pretty nice little interests up there..

   

    Wow, they were almost like real soldiers at first. I think Grunt might have been my dad judging by some of his old army pics. What I mean to say is that Grunt totally looks like a grunt. A soldier. Some dude with a M16.

    For the original lineup only three characters had original head molds. Stalker, Snake Eyes and Scarlett. The others shared a grill. That's why Grunt looks so typical. There are a gang of other cats that all look Exactly the same. Maybe it's like in Saving Private Ryan in that the original Joe squad was a mess of brothers. No I misread the deal, they had three heads that all the other dudes shared. Duh, Rock And Roll has a Beard. They could still be brothers though. They are very similar.

    The commercial is pretty dope. It's so bad that it's rad. Very low quality. I remember it though and I remember running my ass down to Ben Franklin's to see if they had any. That's when BF's was a five and dime. It was like a craft supply store the last I recall. Anyway there is a gym where the store used to be. Oh, they didn't have any. Eventually they did and I bought like Grunt and Zap. I had Snake Eyes too. I found him at the bottom of Spring lake during one of my family's many weekend trips there. His thumbs where broken off so I pretended that Cobra tortured him for information and that he had sworn a bloody revenge.

    It's true. You will be able to see that image in lovely 3-D. Awesome. I mean that, AWESOME. I can't imagine anything that is something that could actually happen that would be cooler. Maybe as cool but not cooler. Dawn Of The Dead in 3-D is maxed out. 10 on the cool meter.
 
    Here's a blurb from The Hollywood Reporter.

    Here's some more about the Disemsionalization <<<<MORE ABOUT IT>>>  I guess the main deal is that it can convert a normal 2-D image into 3-D one that doesn't cause the eye strain typically expected with a 3-D movie. Don't ask me how. Read the link. I did and didn't really leave understanding it. I guess it's kind of secret.

    They expect to have the movie out by the end of the year. I don't imagine that they'll play it here in Santa Rosa. Prolly have to head to SF to check it out. That's one of the advantages to living in the city. You have more variety of theaters.  Beer serving ones, ones with couches, ones that play Dawn Of The Dead in 3D.

    Dig this.... Conversion of legacy material using the process starts at about $50,000 per minute and can reach more than $100,000, depending on the complexity of the imagery in terms of visual effects and other elements.

    Yoiks, that's quite a bit. If I had that kind of coin laying around I wonder if I'd spend it on converting Dawn Of The Dead into 3-D. What am I saying? Of course I would. It might actually be the first thing I did if these guys didn't already do it...

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    Prince Caspian is a good movie. The lion looked kind of fake and Liam as the voice was sort of typical but overall I felt like I was once again transported to a dreamworld of magic. It really is you know. Narnia makes me feel like a kid again. In a good way. A real good way. I totally had a good time.

    Me and Maritza brought along these two kids who is friends with Zelly. Luis and Sebastian. They were alright but both of them totally DUG the flick. Luis was like karate chopping in his seat during the epic battles and whatever. He was pretty physically involved. I half expected him to pop his brother in the grill by mistake but it never happened. That's a good thing but it would have been pretty funny if he did. Kind of funny really. Sebastian is kind of small. That lowers the comedy.

    Here's the deal. The kids from the first movie return to Narnia a few years after they left but in Narnia it's been like forever and the cool government that the Narnians had enplaced has fallen to evil the Tamaranians. Isn't that what Starfire of the Teen Titans was? Like wasn't she from Tamaran? I think so. Maybe that wasn't what the villains in this movie were called... Telmarines, that's what they are. I wasn't even close. Good thing I checked. Anyway they've taken over and driven Narnians into extinction. Genocide. They didn't though and with the help of a bunch of human kids the exotic Narnian animal creatures regain control of their homeland.

    It's kind of like the first movie. A bunch of animals get helped by these kids and fight a big assed battle. That's cool though. I liked it the first time and it's pretty cool here too.

    There are like all sorts of kooky beasts. Dwarves, Griffins, Centaurs and Minotaurs which are totally cool. I think Minotaurs are totally bad ass. Dude they'd mess you up in a battle. Not even Kimbo Slice could last one round with a minotaur. You'd get gored out of the box so quick it wouldn't even be funny. A little funny.



    Do you think that it would be gay to ride a Centaur? I do. A little. I mean what if you had to put your arms around his chest like you're riding a motorcycle? You might. He doesn't have a saddle like a normal horse. Also it's kind of weird that they have abs on their humanoid chest as well as on their equine torso isn't it? Centaurs are all messed up.

    Narnia was cool though. I recomend it. I'd see it again. Good stuff. Good story, freaked out beasts. Evil, good and all that. For sure a thumbs up. A big one up in the air. I can't wait for the third movie to come out. I might go and reread the books. At least the Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. That's what's up next. Here's a little breakdown of what we can expect from that bad boy....It's coming out 05/07/10

    Upon returning to Narnia to join Prince Caspian for a voyage on the majestic royal vessel known as The Dawn Treader, Lucy, Edmund, and their cousin Eustace encounter merfolk, dragons, dwarves, and a wandering band of lost warriors. As the edge of the world draws near, their remarkable adventure at sea sails toward an exciting, yet uncertain, conclusion.
~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

    What? That's like either the best or worst movie poster of all time. I haven't made up my mind yet. It's prolly the worst. It could be the best though. Hard to say. Here's the scoop though..

     "Red Dawn," John Milius' 1984 tale of a group of American rebels fighting Soviet forces, is a candidate for a remake, studio toppers Harry Sloan and Mary Parent revealed Saturday at the American Pavilion in Cannes.

    It might be a canidate? That's like movie talk for they are for sure going to do it right? I sure hope so. I can't live another day without a remake of Red Dawn. They can dedicate it to Patrick Swayze. That's what they'd do if they were classy.

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    This comes from my boy Galen over at the liberry. It's a bunch of awesome Mp3s available for download. Each one is an overview of all the dope hip hop cuts that came out during that particular year. All blended together.

    I'm listening to 1990 right now. This is my shit. I was such a hip hop head at this time. I was all up in it. Let me give you a little example of what I'm talking about. Here's the first 15 cuts of the one that I'm playing right now as we speak..


    Killer right? I guess if you like that sort of thig then you're gonna love this. If not give it a peek anyway. I know you won't though but this way I at least feel like I did A little something to spread the word on something I appreciate....

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    Look at that black dude freaking out in the upper left corner of pic number 10. He's buggin' for the shot.

    What do you think he did there? Drove his fist into the ground from a kneeling position or is he diving down and like dropping his hand into the earth? it doesn't really matter. The poster's pretty neat. Kind of typical though. It's really just a snapshot of Hellboy doing something right?