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Ahh, so here we go.

Anyone that's listened to us knows how much we despise multiple title summer blockbuster ccrossovers with life changing consequences and solutions that will eventually be washed away at the end only to start all over again in about 3 months time.

So how could I ever find a story that contains all of that and actually enjoy it? Can't right? Until recently...

This has been one of my favorite online comics and OMG they actually did the same exact thing with other online comics, just better. And it was free.

This is brought by the guys of LeastICouldDo.Com and LFGComic.com. I've talked about these guys to other people before and I have successfully converted them to reading it daily and also reading the writer's blogs.

Enjoy!

Ultimate Final Civil War Invasion Crisis Thing

And this deserves a notice. 

Dollhouse. Oh my god! They finally pulled in the big number, Alan Tudyk. If you don't know who he is it's this debonair mother fucker

 

He comes in as a paranoid environmental pothead engineer, which becomes funny how well he plays the role. And the second half of the show this guy gets way more lines and becomes vital to the episode, and just fucking shines

This show really needed a chance given to it than what it got. The characters and story telling is completely different that Joss Whedon's Buffy and Firefly. Which has been a down side for some people. Which kinda made me think, "You know what, this is the same type of thought people went into the Spirit with". And I would just ask people to give this show another try. The twists aren't cliched and change every episodes, they end and the characters have to live with their decisions. And it comes back to bite them in the ass.

It's too bad that we won't be able to see the episode that stars Felicia Day, ready?

Her ~~~>

really I could have posted any picture, but why not her with a lightsaber? *SWOON*

Guess I'll have to see that episode when the DVD get's released.

I won't be covering any news about Star Trek, cause we're all going to have our opinions. Word to your mother.

Collaborating and listening,

Johann "The Johann Joseph" Joseph

Buy a movie ticket.... Help save the environment!

This week going to the movies you can help the environment.   Disneynature is The Walt Disney Company's independent film arm, and premiering this week in the US is it's first film, Earth.  Disneynature primarily features documentary styled nature films.  Earth follows the adventures of three animal families in the wild.
 If you buy a ticket the opening week of the film Earth, The Disney Company will plant a tree for every ticket sold.  You get to see a great film and help the planet at the same time, everyone wins!  So get out there with your friends and family and enjoy!

Here is a list of future Disneynature fils

The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingoes  released worldwide December 2008

Oceans  released domestically 2010

Orangutans: One Minute to Midnight  released worldwide 2010

Big Cats  released worldwide 2011

Naked Beauty: A Love Story that feeds the Earth  released worldwide 2011

Chimpanzee  released worldwide 2012

Disney is doing it's part, now it's our turn, don't forget to Recycle, Reuse, and Conserve!

Geek Out!

Ned Cato Jr,

Lost Zombies

I was checking my many emails and different accounts on different social sites, when I got a notification from Twitter from an interesting group with an interesting site, Lost Zombies.  Lost Zombies is a San Francisco based zombie themed social network creating the first ever crowd sourced zombie documentary. You can join Lost Zombies and create your own profile page, view photos, take part in discussions, chat and submit content to be used in the documentary. 

The people have created a basic story/timeline and and ask people who join the site and add their own unique stories to the main storyline.  How do you do this? On the site once you join, is a grid of required stories.  When you visit the grid, it provides a list of the specific videos, photos and writings that they need to complete the documentary.

  These guys are starting to get noticed, Having won at SXSW and were winners of the Community and People's Choice Awards.  The site also has a store where you can buy clothing and products, with the Lost Zombie logos and taglines.  This is a growing community that seems to be exploding in size.  Take a look and maybe join up and be a part of a crowd sourced documentary.

connect with Lost Zombies, here.

Geek Out!

Ned's Favorite things Part Three

I was watching the Sundance Channel the other morning after work, and I stumbled across a sweet little film from South Korea, starring South Korean sensation, Rain.  Some of you might recognize him from the movie, Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch.  The name of this wonderful movie is, I'm a Cyborg, but that's Ok.  This film takes place in a sanitarium and in the minds of the co-stars.  Rain plays  Park Il Soon, a patient in the sanitarium who wears masks and believes he steals peoples souls through their personality traits.  Su-jeong Lim plays, Cha Young-goon Park's love interest who believes she is a combat cyborg.

  

A story develops as Park Il-soon seeks to overcome his anti-social tendencies by helping other patients with their problems. In the process he steals one patient's apologetic attitude, another's singing voice, and Young-goon's sympathy (a sin for a cyborg) so she can kill the "white 'uns" who took her granny away. We discover that the "white 'uns" are hospital doctors and nurses.

As the movie progresses we get to delve into the mental state of a number of the patients. A girl who can yodel Alpine songs, but can only view the world through a hand mirror. Another who can fly while lying prone and rubbing her magic socks together. A man who walks backward so no one can sneak up on him. Park Il-soon also steals Young-goon's sympathy so she can kill the "white 'uns." With ll-soon's help she has a successful hallucination of killing off the entire hospital staff.

In reality she has stopped eating for fear food will gum up her inner (cyborg) workings. Park ll-soon figures this out and fits her with a rice-megatron so she can convert food to electricity. Having fitted her with this device he successfully gets her to start eating again to the delight of staff and patient population. Park Il-soon has his own issues, thinking he'll shrink into a dot unless he constantly brushes his teeth. The teeth, you see, are the last thing to go.

Toward the end Park Il-soon has helped a number of other patients with his ability to steal personality traits.

At the conclusion he and Young-goon interpret a vision she's had of her granny telling her the meaning of Young-goon's existence. Since Young-goon could not actually hear granny she and Park ll-sun figure out the message via lip reading. Young-goon's purpose, it is determined, is to explode (she's a nuclear bomb), but she requires a billion volts to pull this off. The two of them figure out that lighting is the best way to accomplish this.

 This movie was directed by Chan-wook Park of The OldBoy Trilogy fame.I won't spoil the end of the movie but is a wonderfully surreal piece of eye candy, think Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets The Science of Sleep via South Korea.  I will be in San francisco  for WonderCon and I will be on the hunt for this movie.  Special prize for anyone who brings me a copy of this film to the GRT panel that weekend.  With Valentine's Day coming up this is the perfect movie to watch with that special someone.  Enjoy!  Oh, and I am now a Rain fan,

Geek Out!

Ned Cato Jr,

Ned's Favorite things Part Two

I have a really cool favorite thing this week.  Colma the  Musical.
This is one of the freshest indie films I have seen in years.  It is a movie about three teenagers (Rodel, Maribel, and Billy) who live in the city of Colma, California, a small town near San Francisco, who have just graduated high school and are facing the future.  All the drama and angst is there, but set to music.  It is a movie set in a time of life the we all have been at or will go through.

 The movie is creation H.P. Mendoza, who wrote all the music, and Richard Wong, for whom whose this was his directorial debut.  This movie is a movie for people who really don't like musicals, done in a style where the music is appropriate where it feels the cast are addressing you the audience person to person.

If you want to watch a DVD that is a different fare from everyone else, get this one.  Grab your friends and sit down and watch these friends you will not be sorry. Ditch Gossip Girls, forget about the City, High School Musicial?  No. Colma the Musical.

  Visit the Colma the musical Website and tell them what you think.  Go to your local video store or go to Amazon and get this DVD.

The Most Awesomest Thing Ever

There are no words in the english language that can properly express just how frakking awesome this video is.  Whoever made it is a mad genius, and we are forever in his debt to creating its glory so that we may bask and revel in it.

- Patrick Roach

I thought this was worthy of getting some attention

I have no idea where it came from, but good golly is it worth some attention

Out Gooftroopin'

J Dash D

My Guiltiest Pleasures....

Recently on the Halloween show, during the Old School Review, many of the members of the panel made mean fun of my pick of Geek movie.  Mind you I wasn't hurt, it made me think about why I picked the movie.  Mad Monster Party?.  It is not the best stop motion animated movie, but it is part of my two guiltiest pleasures, Rankin & Bass and Sid & Marty Kroft.  I don't think I would be the person I am today without the influence of those 4 men.  You could say those men are responsible for my geekdom.

Rankin and Bass.  Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Last Unicorn, Frosty the Snowman, The Daydreamer, Mad Monster Party?, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, A Year Without Santa Claus, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, Jack Frost, A Flight of Dragons(The late Actor John Ritter's only animated feature)to name a few.  Christmas is not Christmas without a Rankin & Bass show in my household.  Some of my fondest holiday memories include a watching of a R&B show.  They are also responsible for my entry into the world of Tolkien with the 3 television movies the produced.  One incredible fact was that in less than 90 minutes each, these features were able to economically tell the stories effectively.  Wonderful translation to an animated features are what Rankin & Bass are great  at, Incredible storytellers.

Sid and Marty Kroft.  The Bugaloos, H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monster, Land of the Lost ( currently in post-production for a 2009 release, starring Will Ferrell.), Donny and Marie, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, The Kroft Super Show, Pink Lady and Jeff, Pryor's Place( a surprisingly well done children's show). Known for an almost psychedelic style, Kroft show were surprisingly harmless.  Many of my contemporaries hold their shows in high esteem,( in the same esteem as another one of my guilty pleasures, School House Rock).  My early childhood memories are filled with their wonderfully wacky characters.  All their shows seemed to possess that same almost psychedelic , wacky sense of whimsy.  I can't imagine my childhood without these incredibly sweet and fun shows.  And I bet if you ask anyone my age, they would tell you the same.

You have just been given a glimpse into what  makes me tick.  What makes my geek engine run, so to speak.  Everyone has a few geek guilty pleasures.i have shown you mine, now it's you turn my friends, tell of some of your geek guilty pleasures.  Go back into your childhoods and tell me what makes your geek engine run.  I bet we have a few of the same.

Geek Out!

Ned Cato Jr, 

  

The Waldo Ultimatum

This week I found a viral video that is one of the best parodies I have ever seen, comedy shows should sit up and take notes (hint,hint SNL...).  The Waldo Ultimatum is a parody created by the Canadian comedy group, The Imponderables of the children's book Where's Waldo and The Bourne Ultimatum.  It is the perfect combination of both that left me curled up from the cramps I got from laughing so hard.  It is on Youtube and Myspace, so it should not be hard to find, enjoy.

Ned Cato Jr.

P.S. also check out Scary Mary...

Welcome to the Age of the Geek

Freak. Spaz. Nerd. Geek.  We have all heard those names before, mean spirited taunting by immature idiots. But now, I would like to be the first to welcome all to the Age of the Geek!  We no longer have to be ashamed of our love of all things geek, we are now in style.  We have our own music,(Gnarls Barkley),  We Have our own Nerd Vegas (Comic-Con), heck the richest man in America was a geek,(Bill Gates).  We are everywhere .We are, a part of the consciousness of America, and we are not going anywhere.  Let this be the first page of our Manifesto, Viva La Geek!!!

Ned Cato Jr.