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Oh, what the fandom can do with the next Doctor…

by Aaron Williams on July 16, 2017 at 7:26 PM
Posted In: It's got Robots and Lasers, The Idiot Box

In case you hadn’t heard, the 13th Doctor on Doctor Who will be played by Jodie Whittaker, of Broadchurch fame:

For those who haven’t seen Broadchurch, it’s a highly acclaimed murder-mystery-thriller starring Whittaker and David Tennant. The following is a recap of the first season of the show, and it’s pretty disturbing, so if you’re only a first-regeneration Time Lord, you might want to skip it: Here you go.

Now, if we assume that all actors who play Time Lords are their characters first and foremost, then that makes Broadchurch an ongoing “paradox” series where a Time Lord tries to help their future selves solve the mystery of what happened to the child they had on Earth. 🙂

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Spoooooon!

by Aaron Williams on July 14, 2017 at 11:44 AM
Posted In: The Idiot Box

I’m still a huge fan of the animated series from my sort-of-childhood, but this Amazon version of The Tick looks promising:

The higher quality uniforms make it even funnier, somehow.

I hope it’s as quotable as the cartoon. I still find myself looking for opportunities to say, “If you’re so evil, eat this kitten!“

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They’ve given us the noise, now we just need the monster to go with it.

by Aaron Williams on July 12, 2017 at 7:40 PM
Posted In: The Internetonomicon

Of course, this could be a misleading title. The “malfunctioning tornado siren” could just be covering for the beast we can’t see, right?

I suppose it could also just be the effect of the Eldrich Horrors passing through the neighborhood. It’s why you should always have your computer on a surge suppressor.

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Slight correction…

by Aaron Williams on July 11, 2017 at 2:14 AM
Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness

Today is 7-11 day, as mentioned in the previous post.

As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’ve never been good with dates. Of any kind.

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Slurpees and links to other, less frozen and liquid things.

by Aaron Williams on July 10, 2017 at 3:15 PM
Posted In: It Came from the Internet, It's got Robots and Lasers, Om Nom Nom!, Science ahoy!, Video Gaming, You call that noise "music?"

• Today is “7-11 Day,” so at participating 7-11 convenience stores, you can get a free small Slurpee. There’s apparently a deal where if you buy 8 more drinks over “Slurpee week” via the 7-11 app, you get 11 more, so if that’s your thing, go nuts.

• A certain famous arts-and-crafts store is in hot water over smuggling over 5,500 ancient artifacts out of Iraq. No word has reached us if a man with a fedora and bullwhip were involved in the uncovering of the plot.

• Amazon is selling a product called Uranium Ore. Now, one of the reviewers says it’s fake and not producing any Geiger counter readings higher than background radiation, but that’s not the reason for it appearing here. A warning for the usual uncensored language one finds on the internet goes with the hilarious questions about the product and the comedic gold ore found in the reviews.

• A bit of gaming history from the age of LAN parties and CRT monitors has been clarified recently: It’s the story behind the famous photo of a gamer duct-taped to a ceiling.

• If your argument about Star Wars vs. Star Trek leads to assault charges, then maybe it’s best to realize that Babylon-5 beats them both. 🙂

• You can visit this next link to listen to the soundtrack from the Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief musical. In other news, there’s a Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief musical.

• A Unity-engine browser game rounds out this linkdump with Catpocalypse Now. Hold down the left mouse button to turn on your laser pointer, and guide the cat into destroying the various objects throughout the room before the timer runs out.

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For the American Independence Day, here’s the Best of Independence Day (via Rifftrax)

by Aaron Williams on July 4, 2017 at 10:59 AM
Posted In: It Came from the Internet, Mystery Clip Theater

I’m sure ID4 is being shown today on multiple cable channels today, so perhaps this will inspire some to play the Rifftrax riffing track along with the broadcast (though a Blu-Ray is probably easier to sync up):

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The 2017 weird fireworks post.

by Aaron Williams on July 3, 2017 at 10:18 PM
Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness, The Basement Storage Bin

Most every year, I find myself traveling on Missouri’s highways and byways, passing red-and-white striped tents with patriotic bunting and sometimes large, inflatable animals wearing Uncle Sam hats. When I do, I try to snap some pictures of the strange (“borrowed”) graphics and rather unique names given to the means by which we in the U.S. celebrate the 4th of July. The fireworks industry seems to be a place where poor language translation, culturally crossed wires, and Google Image Search often collide, giving us unintentional surrealist art.

There’s ten images, so I put ’em behind the jump. Let’s see what one roadside tent had for us:
↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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A little Animaniacs for your weekend!

by Aaron Williams on July 1, 2017 at 9:48 AM
Posted In: Nostalgia!, The Idiot Box, You call that noise "music?"

Some mad genius has re-created the “Yakko’s World” song from Animaniacs using movie clips. I admire their dedication and commitment (to whatever therapeutic institution was required afterwards):

Perhaps we’ll see some of these celebrities when the show is rebooted by Amblin Entertainment?

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Podcasts I kinda like.

by Aaron Williams on June 28, 2017 at 2:42 AM
Posted In: From the Mouth of Madness, It Came from the Internet, The Basement Storage Bin

I’ve been adding podcasts to my “stuff to listen to while doing work-type stuff,” and I thought I had enough to share. A warning on a lot of these for sweary language, since the FCC isn’t involved with such things. With that in mind, here’s some stuff you might find interesting:

• Movie Sign With The Mads: Trace “Dr. Forrester” Beaulieu, Frank T.”V’s Frank” Coniff, and Carolina Hidalgo review a movie (some new, some classic) for an hour, though the conversation often veers off into other movies. If they say to watch a movie if you’re trapped on an airplane flight, then it’s probably not terribly good.

• I Don’t Even Own A Television: J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision read bad books and make fun of them. Another warning, as a fellow nerd. They do count Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Snow Crash as “bad,” so if you’re a fan of those novels, you might want to skip those episodes. 🙂

• Lore: Aaron Mahnke is your young Rod Serling for this show, recounting folk tales of the supernatural, the legendary, and the creepy.

• Criminal: If true crimes of all kinds are your thing, this might be of interest. I was turned on to this one by a relative who recounted an episode about a policeman who donned a special diving suit to try and retrieve evidence from the La Brea Tar Pits, like you do…

• How Did This Get Made?: A podcast dedicated not only to sending up bad movies, but attempting to delve into just why things went wrong. I found this one way back in their 20th episode where Patton Oswalt helped the director of Punisher: War Zone, Lexi Alexander about how a pretty spot-on Punisher adaptation was made and still didn’t work out in theaters.

I’m hoping to add more as I exhaust the episodes of the ones above, and I figured it was finally pass on the names of the ones I dig, in accordance with the pleas of the hosts at the ends of most of their shows. 🙂

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Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a linkdump.

by Aaron Williams on June 22, 2017 at 11:56 PM
Posted In: Cineplexia, Nostalgia!, Om Nom Nom!, Science ahoy!, Video Gaming

Nothing in this post is about Fallout New Vegas, but I thought the first item about the heat in Arizona warranted the reference. Anyway:

• It’s been too hot to fly airplanes in Phoenix this week, as the air is too hot (and therefore less dense) to generate enough lift. Over in Mesa, Arizona, it got so hot that a plastic mailbox post melted, and some residents of the state are driving with oven mitts or finding scorpions in their pools, trying to cool off.

• The British library has a cookbook from the 14th century that includes (with illustrations) a recipe for roast unicorn. I especially like that it begins with “Taketh one unicorne”.

• The Steam Summer Sale is on, and Ars Technica lists what they think are the better deals. As I understand it, all the on-sale games are on sale already, as they removed flash sales and community voting on sale items.

• The upcoming untitled Han Solo movie lost its two directors over creative differences, so Ron Howard is taking over trying to fix the hyperdrive. Nobody tell him the odds.

• The original voice cast from the cartoon show Rocko’s Modern Life is reuniting for a TV movie in 2018.

• Because we haven’t had enough zombies in video games, here’s a time-waster called Zombie Survival Game. Use your arrow keys or WASD to move, your mouse to shoot, and that’s about it. The cute cube-ish graphics are a nice touch.

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