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May 23rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Hey, look, it’s Pogo the Clown! I saw him in the Gacy’s Day Parade.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
We’ve been talking about Heath Ledger’s Joker at Highbrid Nation. I’m usually a traditionalist but I think I like the direction they are going in.
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Personally I like the “Dark Knight” cartoon version of joker the best. It’s written with a maniacal humor that captures what I think make the joker an awesome villain…humor taken too far.
Mark
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Mark is right on. Not only is The Joker in the animated series written very well, but he’s voiced by Mark Hamill, who is an incredible voice actor. Jack Nicholson did an excellent job as The Joker, but I think Hamill’s portrayal is more consistent with someone who is violently, criminally insane. Jack Nicholson’s Joker was just basically Jack Nicholson with facepaint acting eccentric and seeking revenge. Hamill’s Joker is fucking crazy.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
I agree with mark on this as well, that is a great cartoon and Mark Hamill did a helluva job. I also agree with Chris on this version of the Joker looking like Pogo the clown. Geez how many more of my favorite characters is hollywood gonna ruin. Long Live Jack as the Joker!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 24th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Sci-Fi Guys music correspondent Mouser
Saturday, Dave and I went up to the first annual Rock On The Range Festival at the Crew Stadium in Columbus, OH. Well worth the price of admission and drive. Got there early and did a little tailgating before heading in to the show. We lucked out and got the bracelets, so we were able to get on the turf for the main stage.
Afterwards we heading over to the 2nd stage and caught the end of Black Stone Cherry and stuck around for Puddle Of Mudd. While still lacking much of a stage show, Puddle of Mudd sounded good and put on a good show. It also helped that the crowd seemed to become part strip club, as apparently all the flashers were holding out for these guys. One woman pointed out to me that one girl's were fake, then added she knew I didn't really care. She was right. Their opening song was a bit plodding, but then went into "Control" and had the crowd into it. Not a huge Puddle fan, but the short set hit pretty much the songs I like, and "Drift & Die" sounded really good. Beer + some good songs + boobies = good set!!
Up next came Papa Roach. They actually made me take back some of the shit I have given Dave for a couple of years about them. The sound is more rock oriented now and some of the newer stuff was pretty good. Plus, I will give them credit for being into the show and working the crowd. The singer was all over the stage and even out in the crowd so they also got point for that. Definitely a pleasant surprise from what I was expecting.
Then came the disappointment of the evening for me. Velvet Revolver was just bland and boring. "Fall To Pieces" sounded great, and the cover of G'N'R's "It's So Easy" was good as well, but the rest just seemed to be a STP wannabe type band. Gone was the blues influence obvious in Guns from Slash. However, Evanescence which followed them was even worse, so at least they weren't the complete low point of the show for me.
To close the night ZZ Top came out and showed all the young kids how it was done. Sounded as tight as ever, and delivered a great set with the hits you would expect with a few gems in there for the more seasoned fan. Opened with "Thunderbird," and also threw in gems like "Brown Sugar" and "BBQ." "Pincushion" was still in the set as well, which is a favorite of mine, so was pleased to see it didn't get taken out due to the shorter set. "Gimme Me All Your Lovin," which is the one song I have to hear them play every time I see them, kicked ass as usual. Still am amazed at how will the three of them have the timing down and always a treat to see Billy Gibbons in the flesh.
Until next time…
May 25th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
I’m iffy about seeing Pirates this weekend. On the one hand, I’m certain its gonna suck and make me even more bitter about movies in general. So certain that I don’t think there’s any realistic chance in hell its going to be a good movie, so I don’t want to waste my money. On the other hand, its got Keith Richards in it, and even if it sucks, ITS GOT KEITH FUCKING RICHARDS IN IT. That’s worth the price of the ticket alone. Also if its really bad, I’ll write a sarcastic ass review and you guys will get a laugh.
So I’ll let you decide. Do I see this movie this weekend or not? You make the call.
May 26th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Chris
I could use a good laugh.
May 27th, 2007 at 8:34 am
I say you see it because I won’t and your reviews are the only way I learn about new way over hyped movies anymore.
May 31st, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Sweet Jesus, this site gets a lot of spam. I’ve been away for 5 days, and I’ve just spent half an hour cleaning it all up.
I did nothing at all on Monday. I didn’t even leave the house. I barely got out of bed. It was wonderful. And to make up for it, the last two days have been two of the busiest days of my life. I’ve toured eight houses (most of which were complete wastes of my time; house-hunting SUCKS), opened my parents’ pool for the year, which involved me walking through crotch-deep forty degree water, and helping Q move, which was probably the hottest, most humid move I’ve ever been involved with. I’m fucking exhausted. And I didn’t see Pirates.
Had I been online even once in the last five days, I would have checked the site, cleaned up all that spam before it got out of hand, seen Adam and Mrs. X encourage me to go to Pirates, and I probably would have. But, with the exception of my sloth Monday when I was just too lazy to do so, I’ve been too damn busy to even check in with the site since I left the office Friday night. Which is a good thing, really, because I probably would have seen Pirates instead of the movie I did see, which would have been a real shame.
I have been reluctant to check this movie out since I heard it was CGI. Like I said, I’m tired of being disappointed by movies, especially ones based on special effects. They’ve let me down once too often, and I’m jaded with them. So you can’t imagine my joy to finally see a movie that was such a surprisingly good story, such a fun, smart, engrossing adventure to watch, with honest to god amazing looking CGI, and such genuinely likable characters that, despite all the shit I had going on, I made time to get to the theatre and see it twice. It didn’t just live up to its hype, it exceeded it. I’ll write you a review as soon as time permits, but for now let me leave it at this: excluding movies like V For Vendetta and 300, which were based on finite series or graphic novels as opposed to ongoing comic franchises, this is easily the best comic book movie since Batman Begins was released almost two years ago.
A review is on the way. Cowabunga, dudes!
June 1st, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Bill over at VeggieMacabre pointed out this poster parody, and I just had to do a side-by-side. This is too funny. The Breakfast Club Chainsaw Massacre; that would be an excellent name for a movie, band, album, or mixed drink. Click the pic for the full posters.
June 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Interesting…
June 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Stolen directly from Dark Horizons:
“Transformers” has been moved up a day, it will now open July 3rd – a day before the original July 4th release date. Dreamworks has given the “provisional go-ahead” for two sequels.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Hey, peeps. I originally posted this pic over on my Spidey Super Tech Mega Bloks article. This recipe sounds really good, but it confuses me. Read it again; its either unfinished or very poorly edited. Step 2 is the problem; do you combine the mushrooms, eggs and breadcrumbs together and use it as a crust for the sausage loaf, or do you combine all that stuff with the sausage and then form the whole mess into a loaf? MARY MOTHER OF GOD, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME!
Unless you plan on making your own sausage, this recipe is very inexpensive and simple, and would be great to work on with kids who are of the helping age. The most labor intensive part of the job was dicing the mushrooms, which didn't really take that long considering I was doing it left handed with the wrong kind of knife on a paper plate on an over-crowded counter top while trying to take pictures with the other hand. I'm not a professional, folks.
Once I got the 'shrooms ready, I cooked 'em. I'd never bought fresh mushrooms before, let alone diced and sautéed them. Holy shit, these things smelled so good! I almost didn't have Hungarian Sausage Loaf because I was very sincerely tempted to just sauté a bunch of mushrooms for dinner. I knew when I was cooking these I was going to like the final product, just because they smelled so fantastic.
I have to report that Szélső Fa was wrong… and right. I told you, she's crafty. The point is, there are WAY too many bread crumbs to form a crust. It just wouldn't work, no matter how hard I tried. It was gonna have to be a loaf, and even then putting this many breadcrumbs into this amount of meat took a lot of kneading. A LOT. There were several times I was certain that there was no way it was all going to come together, but determination, true grit, and my manly piledrivin’ fists of steel eventually pummeled the mass into a cohesive whole which I was able to shape into a loaf. I don't have pics of any of this because my hands were covered with smooshed up pork and raw eggs, and I thought it best not to touch my camera.
Ain't that purty? One teaspoon of paprika doesn't sound like a lot, but for a loaf this size its a ton. I thought about leaving some out, but I decided I follow the recipe to the letter and see how it turned out. Turns out its not too much after all; baking it really mellows the paprika and gives it a sort of smoky flavor, which was very nice.
If this were a kosher recipe, this would be the place where I would make an ill-advised Holocaust joke in poor taste. Guess I'll have to save it for my Hanukkah article.
You'll notice that I don't have any pictures of the final cooked loaf. That's because by the time it was done baking it smelled so good and I was so hungry that I looked at the loaf, thought about this article, and said "Fuck it" out loud to the empty kitchen. Hungarian Sausage Loaf is damn tasty, folks. The next time I make it I will experiment by upping the mushroom content to 1½ cups sautéed in 3 tablespoons of butter along with a quarter cup of finely diced onions and a half teaspoon of cracked black pepper, but really the recipe is just fine as is.
Hungarian Sausage Loaf is dense. I don't know who Cutco was planning on feeding back in 1961, but this makes WAY more than four servings. Since pork sausage is mainly considered a breakfast food here in the States, and since I had plenty left over, I decided to make a breakfast out of it the next morning. I fried two eggs, a hash brown patty, and used the rest of the mushrooms to cover the slice of nuked loaf. Serve with a tall glass of OJ and a pat of salted butter melted over the loaf. Phenomenal.
I also made a second loaf, only instead of pork sausage I used goetta. For you poor, poor pitiful people who don't know what goetta is, its a very mild German sausage made with pork, beef, oats, sunshine, baby smiles, the laughter of children, and the love and blessings of all the holiest of holy people whom have ever lived, all mashed up in a solid gold meat grinder, and packaged by the highest choir of angels, who seal each and every roll with a divine kiss. It is quite simply the best meat product ever made by human beings, and it is very popular here in the greater Cincinnati area. I thought, being the food of whatever god or gods you might believe in, it would be almost guaranteed to bring the loaf to new heights, but no. The flavor of the goetta is too delicate, and it gets lost in the flavor of the breadcrumbs and buttered mushrooms. You're better off sticking with the stronger flavor of pork sausage. Its good eats.
June 6th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Chris,
Your site rocks!
Bill
June 6th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thanks, Bill. I’ve tried to visit VeggieMacabre several times with no success. Its not you, its me. Try as I might, I can’t get around this goddamned LiveJournal/MySpace block here at work, and I don’t have an internet connection at home, because I’m Amish.
The name VeggieMacabre is an AWESOME name though; I picture a whole website devoted to mocking those made-for-toddlers CGI religious cartoon vegetables. You know, the carrots and zucchinis with giant eyeballs who trick little kids into not believing in the true power of The Dark Prince Of Hell? I can picture an old Victorian manor full of those vegetable guys, all gothed out, sitting around looking morose with white facepaint and black lipstick, each trying to out-vampire the other while talking about the banality of life and the meaninglessness of existence. I don’t know if your page is anything like that, but if it is, you, sir, have a fan for life.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
My cousin H-Bomb and I went out last night and got plowed on syrupy girl drinks and Cuervo shots. Still too much poison in my bloodstream for me to think straight. We’re going out tonight to do it again. I’m too old to drink like she does. I can’t afford the lost brain cells. I’ll be mentally retarded after this girl is through with me.
What a night, though. Finally met H-Bomb’s friend Heather, who is easily one of the ten sexiest women I have ever met in my life. Seriously, my dick woke me up this morning to talk about her, and even after our long, heartfelt man-to-hand discussion, we’re both still obsessed. Before the night was through I’d seen her panties at least three times, felt her tits and ass so many times I can’t remember, played with her gorgeous nipples, and had a blast hanging out with her boyfriend, who made me promise I’d party with them again after we did a double shot of some god awful scotch that burned so bad on the way down I thought maybe I’d accidentally swallowed a lit caution flare. It was that kind of night. God knows what’s in store for this evening. I’ll try to have a new article for you on Monday if I’m still alive.
See you on the other side, Ray.
June 9th, 2007 at 7:47 am
That Night Train’s a mean wine.
June 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I’d better get bright fast. We got a show to do.
June 13th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Hey, folks, just wanted to let you know there’s a reason I’ve been quiet. You see all those links way up there in the menu bar on the right hand side of the page? Those have been horribly neglected by myself, so I’m doing a little clean up and a lot of updating to make the site more navigable. The new article I promised you is still on the way, but it probably won’t be today. Check back soon for the article or use the links to check out some of our older stuff you might have missed.