Archive for April, 2008

April 30th, 2008

Ghostbusters Game Keeping Ray Parker, Jr.

The developers of the upcoming Ghostbusters game thought about getting a new band to redo Ray Parker, Jr.’s theme song.

“We got booed out of the place,” Goss said. “People were really against it, going, ‘You can’t do that, there’s only one song for Ghostbusters!’ It was incredible. So we were like, okay, we won’t mess with the Ray Parker Jr. song then.”

April 22nd, 2008

The Department of Defense Wants to Regrow Body Parts

The Department of Defense has established an institute to figure out how to regrow body parts. Rad.

An NES in an NES cartridge


This NES cartridge is actually a functioning NES.

Priest Attached to Balloons Vanishes in Brazil

A Roman Catholic priest who floated off under hundreds of helium party balloons was missing today off the southern coast of Brazil.

via The Morning News

The Next Cartoon President

Political cartoonists try the candidates on for size.

via The Morning News

April 21st, 2008

TV Weather Forecasts

Seven-day weather forecasts are bullshit.

Nobama or Lying Narcisist Bitch

Scenes from the lively, healthy debate in the Democratic party. From Wonkette:

April 18th, 2008

Godzilla In Name Only

Zilla is Toho Studios’s official name for the star of the 1998 TriStar Pictures film Godzilla.

Created from a French nuclear test, Zilla is a mutated iguana. Before Toho officially dubbed the creature Zilla, many fans, who did not care for the reimagining of Godzilla for the Centropolis film, developed several nicknames to differentiate its title character from the “original” Godzilla. These nicknames included American Godzilla, Fraudzilla, Deanzilla (because of writer/producer Dean Devlin), Trizilla (because of TriStar Pictures), and most popularly “GINO” or Gino, an acronym for Godzilla In Name Only.

Environmental Time Cover Offends Veterans

From Wonkette:

“It’s an absolute disgrace,” [Iwo Jima veteran Donald] Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”

Better Late Than Never: Harold And Maude

To someone who writes about movies for a living, this is horrifying news, akin to having spoken the English language for a lifetime without knowing the word “as” was available for use. So if you’d like, please retroactively insert a Harold And Maude reference into about half of the independent or pseudo-independent films I’ve written about for the past 10 years.

Scott Tobias finally gets around to seeing Harold & Maude.