Category Archives: Blog

Sometimes we get tired of complaining in audio and video format. This is where we come to post our finger rants.

Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: Valkyrie (2008)

Awesome:

  • Yay! Real WWII airplanes! No CGI cartoons flying around (I think there may have been couple cartoons, but most planes were real).
  • Very hard to fuck up costumes when you’re dealing with Nazis. Those guys had “malevolent chic” down like noboby’s business.
  • Kenneth Branagh blows his own head off with a hand grenade. Continue reading Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: Valkyrie (2008)

Shatnerquake!

shatnerquake_bookMarvel at the (genius, terror, dumbness?) of a book about William Shatner fighting all his (beloved, reviled, begrudgingly acknowledged?) characters at a convention being held in honor of…William Shatner. Plus, Bruce Campbell is thrown in for good measure. Sounds like the perfect thing to download to your Kindle, along with paid subscriptions to newspapers and blogs you can get for free on the actual internet. But what do you care? You just paid almost $400 for a Kindle. Continue reading Shatnerquake!

Vampire Argument By Real Scientists Makes Our Zombie Debate Look Amatuerish

Not to discount our zombie debate, but these guys used math and stuff:

Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).

The best part is this argument has been going on since at least 1982 in the form of various scientific papers. See Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist at io9 for the entire article.