connery’s back! (sort of)

month old news, but so what. this is a screen shot from the upcoming video game from russia with love. and not only does it look like sean connery, he’s also doing the voice overs.

CHUD writes: connery has signed on with EA to do a swinging 60s take on his old classic character. connery has recorded some voice over for the demo at may’s E3…

this is seriously sweet. I’ve been wishing connery would come back for one last bond film but I quess I can make do with this. if they can bring back N64 goldeneye gameplay I may juat have to buy a used game console on ebay (I’m currently sportin’ gameboy and playstation 1).

read the rest of the blurb here.

on being a pop culture reference

ok, so maybe it doesn’t count as being a pop culture reference. but you know how sometimes when you work in retail as your main job you get slow during the part of the year that isn’t christmas? and sometimes it’s so slow you have to look for ways to keep from killing yourself? and so during that slow time you show your coworkers the website of the sketch show you did in college? me too.

well, we’re a little on the short staffed side at work right now, so we get to “borrow” employees from other stores. in this case we borrowed luke from the store up in loveland. as it turns out, the loveland staff spends as much time surfing the web as we do, and it appears they’ve been watching the 15 minute show.

so when we got this drum kit from UPS as a “gift” from the loveland staff, I was pleased to see a quote from the show made it right onto the cymbal. and if memory serves me this one was written by skowron, who should be pleased as well.

if you’re reading this and you haven’t seen it (and thus who are you and why are you reading this?) head over to this page and scroll down to episode 3 – “eat shit perry mason.”

I almost got wet!

Against the better judgement of my black toe (which is still very black), we went up to Loveland yesterday for another round on the mountain. This was time number two for me on a board and so far it seems to be working out just fine. Loveland is a little closer than Keystone so it attracts the locals out for daytrips. At keystone it was like everyone was on vacation and just wanted to party. Of course, we were on vaction too so that might have had something to do with my perception.

I only crashed a few times, though I did catch some unintentional air that landed me on the other side of the safety marker. The snow I landed in broke free revealing a gushing creek a few feet below. I almost got wet! that, my friends is some serious shiznit. Wetness sucks.

more star wars

ok, so I saw the trailer tonight and I have to say it looks pretty kickass. certainly a ton of cgi but some very cool moments. 3po in gold, chewy blowing in the wind, vader big time chillin’.

return of the hype

well there it is and here we are. this is the official poster for revenge of the sith. I like the old school look of it but I doubt the movie itself will feel nearly as nostalgic. regardless, I’ll be there opening day swinging my lightsaber and building the hype like the dork I am. the last time a star wars movie came out I was in amsterdam. I don’t think this time around will be so exotic but it seems fitting. I’m a little more subdued in life these days and of course there is a fair amount of apathy toward the franchise based on episodes 1 and 2. and the thing is, I like those movies. I enjoy all the saber swinging – army marching – laser shooting goodness of it all. but the new films don’t do anything on an emotional level the way the original trilogy does. it’s all blowing things up in cgi. the humor is forced or nonexistent. and there is something on a viseral level that tells me what I’m watching is all a cartoon.

in the end I know that lucas could put a big pile of steaming turd on the screen and I’d show up and pay my 8.50… several times. I’d even buy the official turd action figure and act out the turd battle scenes at home. but still, I’m looking forward to the last installment. just one last chance to see my favorite playground on the big screen is enough for me. I may even buy a few toys.

the full length trailer premieres tonight on the o.c.

batman’s greatest boner

matt over at redshirt scanned a bunch of frames from the 1951 comic “batman’s greatest boner.” the story is a battle of boners, and as you’d expect there are plenty of boner jokes. my favorite part is when the commissioner says to batman, “I’m worried about the boner he’s readying for you.”

the rest of his site is just as fun, covering the stranger side of computers, toys, comics and cartoons. his list of the top ten worst he-man toys is simply awesome.

enemy: h. huang

I got this in the mail yesterday after bidding on a “slightly-used” ipod remote that may have some “cosmetic scratches.” now, a few scratches I can live with, but this piece of shit is a little too much. you can view the listing for the next 90 days here. I’ve generally had pretty good luck with ebay and I’ve purchased plenty of electronics stuff used, from the low end (game boy) to the high end (projector). I feel like I’ve saved some money and collected a few nice toys in the process. so after several years of good ebay luck it was all I could do to use restraint in my compliant to seller h. huang, po box 1722, apex, nc 27502-2722, also known as “ipod-accessories-deals.” maybe it was something about the sheer volume of business they do, but somehow I missed the 20 negative feedbacks in the last month alone. I included a comparison photo of the remote they listed and the one they sent. huang “offered” to replace it after I send this one back to him. I’m glad he’s “offering” to exchange it, but why can’t you just list it like it is huang? asshole.

in other news, I got an ipod last week and it f’n rules.

those crazy brits!

it seems the british city of carlisle has had just enough flooding, disease and job loss to take things into their own hands by… destroying a $19,000 statue in the center of town. this statue, known as “the cursing stone,” is believed to be the source of their misfortune. I would think that building run-off trenches and fixing up the apparent sanitation issue would solve at least a few of the issues. and aren’t factories everywhere shutting down? sorry, carlisle. I think you’ll have to try harder than that. although if this story gets big enough those cursed statue fragments will do well on ebay…

the whole story here.