As a former purveyor of small-market TV commercials, I occasionally find myself more entertained by the ads than by the programming itself (especially during ‘shows like ‘Pawn Stars,’ one of my kid’s fave-raves). As such, my brain is often full of snippets of commercial dialogue and songs, and I might have harbored a secret crush on the girl who sold Pine-Sol. (Also, Lenny Kravitz’ drummer, but that’s not important right now.) When it comes to retention of your commercial message, they say there’s nothing like a good jingle, which in turn begs a query… The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”)…
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They say that love makes the world go ’round, love lifts up where we belong, all you need is love. But, for every Ollie and Dinah in the world, there’s a Juggernaut and She-Hulk, a Joey and Rachel, a Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl. The bad pairings (while admittedly in the eye of the beholder) seem to outnumber the good ones, and sometimes, as Mal and Inara proved, the good pairings actually ARE the bad ones. Given the depth of my pop culture experience, it’s natural to wonder whether Captain Kirk’s love of strangely hued ladies wouldn’t make Mystique his…
While visiting the Mootlands, enjoy your stay at the magnificent House of Cloud. Check out the knickknacks, and enjoy a night of interesting dreams.
Recent discussion of the maybe-maybe-not-because-Princess-Amidala-said-so female solo Marvel hero movie have had me talking a lot about my favorite Marvel heroes, including the wondrous Wasp. Regardless of how interesting I find Janet Van Dyne’s character arc (rich princess to distressed damsel to hero to Avengers Chairperson), I always shudder a little bit at her choice of alias. Admittedly, my severe allergies to the venom of her namesake have something to do with it, but I find wasps (or, to be honest, anything with the thorax-down helicopter locomotion of a wasp) to be among the most terror-inducing members of the natural…
Zach gets in the ring with Robert DeNiro and Martin Scorsese as he takes a poke at 1980’s Raging Bull.
This week’s ‘Zach On Film’ assignment was one that kind of shocked me. Even having seen a lot of movies and taking television and film classes, I had never seen even a few brief seconds of ‘Raging Bull,’ and I found the warts-and-all portrayal of a pretty terrible person to be riveting and affecting. This was NOT, however, a universal response of our panel, making me wonder if I’m the weird one. Given the performances and technical proficiency evident in the film, I wasn’t bothered by the central character being abusive, selfish, sexist, homophobic and brutish (but it should be…
Sexy-time fun takes center stage as Suzanne discovers the joys of sex and how to stop time in Sex Criminals #1.
Sometimes, I get bored. That’s really my only excuse. And because I get bored, I like to think about silly things, most of which deal with semi-obscure super-types from around the various worlds. For some reason, last night’s thought process involved assembling my own five-color Super Sentai-inspired team, featuring: Commander Montgomery Scott (Red) River Tam (Blue) The Beak (Yellow) She-Hulk (Green) Pleather bikini Saturn Girl (Pink) Because I am a giving soul, I started to wonder how many ridiculously innovative and cool variations might occur if other people were playing along with me (keeping in mind that we’re talking about…
IT’S NEW COMIC BOOK DAY! Major Spoilers runs down the comics we are looking forward to, and recommending, this week.
This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast: Transform and roll out Spoilerites, as your hosts talk Marvel, Movies, Paula Deen, Executive Assistant: Assassins, Smallworld and more!
Last week, we asked you to put two little children in the ring and let them battle it out to see who had the bigger brain. We’re doing it again this week, pitting last week’s winner, Dexter, against one Phineas Flynn. VOTE! [poll id=”303″]
Munchkin is a dedicated deck card game by Steve Jackson Games, written by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic, that has a humorous take on role-playing games. This week on Munchkin Land, Rob brings his entire collection of Munchkin Booty over and we get to play with Rob’ Big Booty… eeewww… that didn’t come out right at all… Jump the Shark . . . or you’re fish food! Return to the high seas for more Munchkin Booty action. Fight the Hammerhead Shark – and the Phillips-Head Shark, too. And greatest of all is the terrible Moby Duck! So kill…
While watching ‘Blue Harvest’ (The Family Guy ‘Star Wars’ parody episode), I was impressed with how much The Widget caught in terms of the references to the original film. (She also laughed out loud at Doctor Who and Asteroids jokes, but that’s clearly my influence showing through.) Afterwards, we talked about how Vader is Luke’s father, and how Ben Kenobi stole him away as a baby to keep him safe from his father. The child then asked me a question that didn’t occur to ME until 1989 or so: “How come Darth Vader didn’t just come get him? Isn’t Tatooine…
Boy oh boy what a week it has been! It’s been so… quiet… Though the rumors of who will be in Star Wars and who will marry who is always fun, the quiet week that was only means something big is coming…